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we sure had quite a year

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caztalia's shitposting space. i follow and reblog from here | Caz | '96 | artblog: @caztalia
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what if i'm better at talking than doing, what if i'm really pete campbell

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we're moving out at the end of this week and i don't wanna pack i hate packing so much why do i have so many stupid little stuffs???

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If I had a nickel for every time in a queer coming of age story, the present-day lesbian daughter shares a scene with the same-age version of her closeted dad (who later committed suicide), I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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halorvic

It's been a long time -- reacquainting myself with the crew of My Jet Now Air 🛫

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weeee

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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic

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anarchopuppy

This is called the "analog loophole" and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that's the whole dang point

The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again

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autumngracy

Back in the day, people also used to share software over the radio with this technology. Because computer programs and files are really just sets of binary code, and that code can be turned into audio tones.

The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it's just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to "decode" back into 0's and 1's, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you'd installed it from a disk.

NPR did a very cool podcast about this.

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