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  • In the moment, yes.

    However, the longevity of digital data is problematic. Computers have existed for less then a 100 years, but you’d already be hard pressed to read the data off a deck of punch cards or reel of magnetic tape.

    Modern protocols and formats are much more complex, so I’d say that reading your data in 100 years will be harder then reading 100 year old data today. Have a look at a pdf in a text editor. Imagine trying to figure that out once the documentation is lost. (… or stored in the pdf)

    Without continual efforts to convert data or preserve hardware and software, the data will be lost.

    Compare that to written documents. We have writing that’s thousands of years old, and it’s still legible and understandable. We have paper documents about as old as we’ve been able to make the stuff.



















  • nothackingtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    I don’t think tiktok is worse then any other large platform. All platforms have brain rot, all platforms have dumb challenges and all platforms do a lot of spying.

    I’d hope this is just a freakout about someone else spying, but It feels like an excuse to start banning a whole bunch of stuff for flimsy reasons.

    … and as for the spying itself, I would be far more worried about my local government getting that data then China. I don’t live anywhere near China, what are going to do? Sell me stuff? like google does?


  • nothackingtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlhow to get unbanned
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    5 months ago

    Go talk to the mods, but perhaps consider not posting stuff like this:

    … There’s an important distinction between someone with pedophilia and a child molester …

    But, to be honest being banned from hexbear is probably a good thing. That place is a shithole.

















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