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		klysm on April 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes run... Useless pedantry, people say server processes are “running on port XYZ” all the time

dotancohen on April 25, 2023 [–]

I have no problem with that. But the colloquial error-prone is out of place when we are discussing interactions that are more invasive, and have OS-level consequences.

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