This is great news.

Housing - exactly. In most of Africa, housing is basically free, since they steal the building materials and the electricity, coal or oil. That is the main diff between say Alabama and Nigeria.

Uhuh - they are re-inventing the square wheel again.

The thing is, they can and do live on 50c a day, but you cannot. The whole situation is different there. I'm not saying that living on 50c a day is pleasant, but if you would try to live on that, you would die of starvation within 10 days or so, but they will still be there and be happily making even more babies to live in even worse conditions later.

Poverty is the oldest profession...

For the true Linux version, you need to render each individual photo using ASCII Art.

Got to carve those pics in stone, in Egypt, else nobody will care about them later.

There is also rsbep, which uses Reed Solomon FEC. This is a classic filter, so you can use it together with tar, gzip and gpg to protect archives against NSA snooping and bit rot simultaneously.

Something like:
$ tar -cz indirectory | rsbep | gpg -e > out.tar.gz.rs.gpg

La voila!

I was thinking that bitrot is the computer god's way to protect our descendants...

Man, I can see a few holes in that, and I only read one of Bruce Schneier's books...

I think you missed the whoosh of the joke flying over your head...

So why do they still have pickers? Clearly that is the next level of automation to execute...

Diffie-Hellman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange

The Importance of Metadata:

It is not Who you know, or What you know, or even What you know about Who you know.

It is Where is Who, that provides the targeting for the missile.

So you don't mind the corrupt PFY contractor at the NSA/GCHQ telling the HR manager at that place you applied for work the results of your last STD test do you?