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Two men exonerated after 30 years in prison by retrocomputing enthusiasts and the Bloop Museum, by extracting data from a damaged floppy disc. (www.patreon.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bad news on your rosy world view, but the real reason for our penitentiary system is to create slave labor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are conversations where the actuality matters, and there are conversations where the criteria matter, and there are also conversations where the dynamic matters. You mixed up this one.

I mean, everybody talking about someone else's rosy worldview or otherwise playing a cynic is usually clueless.