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delecti on April 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and ...

IIRC "The Fucking Article". I think the expletive originally was because people "wouldn't read TFA", but eventually it just kinda became the way to refer to the article linked from a Hacker News thread.

spurgu on April 22, 2021 [–]

Oooh of course! Thanks!

cheschire on April 23, 2021 | [–]

Also can be "the fine article" when used in a non-antagonistic way!

I think it originated with "RTFM" which was an old unix admin way of saying read the fucking manual (or man page).

spurgu on April 23, 2021 | | [–]

Yes RTFM I'm very familiar with, which is why I should've connected the two.

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