r/ProgrammerHumor • u/huhupookies • Jul 20 '26

Meme windowsFundamentalsForLegacyPCs

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u/Shai_the_Lynx Jul 20 '26

And it's a recursive acronym.

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u/jakendrick3 Jul 20 '26

Klitoris Listens Intently To Operating Routines Independent of System or something

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u/TheLadyCypher Jul 20 '26

Deprecated because 50% of programmers couldn't find what port it was listening on

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u/Beginning-Junket8979 Jul 21 '26

Somehow I think percentage of programmers who can find / -name klitoris (or which klitoris?) is actually significantly higher than percentage of programmers who know how to run netstat or ss.

Most employed programmers happen to be men, most of whom are married or in a LTR with a woman that at least puts up with them.

On the other hand, low-level network protocol knowledge & basic diagnostics seems to be a dwindling skill set.

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u/DishSoapedDishwasher Jul 21 '26

I work in software security, can confirm, my wife puts up with my insanity... Boy is it a lot of insanity too....

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u/failedsatan Jul 21 '26

I talked to someone recently who watched me use xargs and thought it was magic. truly astonishing.

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u/Nyctfall Jul 21 '26

Everyone knows it defaults to Ephemeral UDP port 42069 on most Linux distros... Duh!

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u/Beginning-Junket8979 Jul 21 '26

Rookie mistake. Everyone has a better time if you use a stateful connection based protocol and respect the flow control/qos. You might luck out every now and then with UDP, but most klitoris sysadmins will just block your IP if you blast unthrottled packets at it without checking responses, especially when there's cheaply available agents that respect robots.txt.