• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    If you burn a book the information inside it disappears. If you shatter a hard disk the information inside it disappears.

    All data has always been on physical mediums. Anything in the cloud is just someone else’s hard drive.

    Computers aren’t magic, and neither are books for that matter. They are just different ways of encoding information on physical media, one is just significantly more advanced than the other.

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      5 days ago

      Incorrect, Data transferred live across radio waves is not, live TV/radio/live streams(Ram has to be updated constantly it technically counts) all are not stored.