Maybe they've used the (much probably existing) gov't backdoor, which log activities are directed to /dev/null .

That's why I personally despise a lot of the "clean code" nonsense. Oh, "no comments, your code must be self-explanatory" my ass. You just cannot explain complex concepts in a subroutine or variable name. Comment your code, with good sense. In extreme cases, if it's too long or needs images, you can very well include other documents along with the code in a "doc" folder. But never let yourself or others alone with just code.
And Git commit messages are documentation too. And a pretty good one. When you're doing a "blame", it's just wonderful when the "what, who and why"s are right there in the commit message, no need to scramble around looking for information. I just hate when I stumble in a lasy ass "fix: bug fix" message (no shit Sherlock), specially when the perpetrator is not available anymore.

Well, in recent news, they've found a 52 years old tape containing pretty much the only known copy of Unix v4 and they managed to recover its contents, in an almost artisanal way. The thing is, we still know how to read magnetic tapes, even if the specific format is unknown we could make do.
Also, we still can play those olde gramophone disks, because even like more than a century after we still know about how they works.
So it's safe to assume that in 100 years or so, such media will still be readable, even if the means to do so were lost, if the knowledge to do so is still there, there'll be a way.
In a more dramatic scenario we now know how to read 4000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs thanks to the Rosetta Stone. So along with the media, some kind of "Rosetta Stone" would help a lot. I think a laser-engraved titanium plaque written "hey guys, just use lasers to read these glass slabs here" would do it.

Seems fair, as long as USA let their "content of interest" (i.e. Epstein files) to be hosted abroad.

I like my g'old reliable HDDs, but HDD technologies seems pretty much stagnant since more than a decade. Today's a 2TB HD cost pretty much the same as a 2010's 2TB HD, same speed, same everything.
Meanwhile I heard a lot of promises but none of them did hit the shelves.
Plus, SSDs got more robust and were getting close to same $/TB of HDs, this trend only stopped due to the recent RAM/Flash shortages (thanks AI big techs).
I'd love to see HDDs to make such a comeback, but I'm not holding my breath.

More AI features no one is asking for. This AI bubble is looking more and more like the dotcom bubble.
Please burst already.

This.
And I think Lego was very thoughtful and respectful to their legacy on these SmartBricks.
Any other company would have shoved some sort of IoT/Cloud/Smart/AI bullcrap on it.

That's false. I'm currently on Windows 10, using Chrome to browse slashdot.org, which is using TLS 1.3.

I don't have the same luck. I have a RTX 3060 (NVidia) video card, it doesn't play well with Proton and Bazzite (AFAIK). Also, the games I play the most have anti-cheat software, which again doesn't run on Linux.
I had to accept privacy invasion and log on Windows 10 with a MS account and setup backup, which game me one more year of security updates. Let's see what happens until then, maybe these problems would be solved (go go Wine/Proton devs!) or maybe I dual-boot Win 10 just for gaming these Windows-only games.
I'm not even a Linux guy, as I think Windows is (was, until 10) much more friendly and "just works" than Linux. I played with Linux occasionally, nice and good but hard UI/UX, compatibility issues and Linux nerds (yup, they're hateful) drove me out of it.
But Win 11 is cancer. It sucks so hard it's the first time I'm really considering migrating 100% to Linux, with all it's problems.
I'll resist Win 11 as much as I can. I'd only use it (dual boot for gaming only) if someone make a hacked version of it, with all the BS/spyware/bloat cut-off.

Just did, from what I've read, MWP 1a took around 500 years to happen, 1b took even more. Not as fast as what's happening nowadays, nature had more time to adapt.
But I'd not even compare both events to the global temperature rising which is currently happening, they're different phenomena. Global temperature rise is more troubling, and this rhythm is, AFAIK, unprecedented.

It did happened before, but not on this scale and speed.
And not while knowing why it's happening and what to do to at least to mitigate it.
And not with so many people ignoring the problem and betting on doing nothing.

What an Amazing Irony.

A Schrodinger's Horse? Since it's a quantum stuff it'd be fitting.

The only reason I see it's legitimate to revive this Chernobyl-level disaster of a game is... historical reasons.
Sure there are plenty of videos showing how the game was, but there's this thing with videogames, no video can replace hands-on gaming.
And this game is such an infamous chapter of videogame history I think it's a good thing someone keep it somehow playable.
OTOH, RIP The Crew, a good game that hadn't such fortune.

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