• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    You know that hard drives don’t literally store the number 1 or 0 right? We arbitrarily assign a value to a specific configuration of a material or circuit.

    that’s besides the point. hard drives are very commonly used for large scale data storage. that is its intended use, and people are storing legible data on it, in practice. light switches? who the hack stores data on light switches, bit by bit?

    this discussion is not productive. you have already decided that destroying user data is a nothingburger.