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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Snapping sounds like a real faff.

  Keep them all in a special plastic box that is inside a powerful electromagnet.

  Push button and a field that is strong enough to damage the cards almost instantly and over a short time would generate enough heat to physically damage the cards.

  With enough power and time you could turn them into one hot blob that wouldn’t even be recognisable.

  So near instant data damage and then physical destruction probably before someone can work out what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tintin, Popeye, Hemingway among US copyrights expiring in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I don’t understand about this is why it matters if it’s just the USA.

  Tintin is Belgian. So almost certainly published there first and covered under their copyright law. I’ve no idea what that is but just because it expires in the USA can’t mean it’s just an intentional free-for-all.

  Wouldn’t the work still be covered in Belgium and any reuse anywhere would leave people liable to legal action there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but does anyone call them that? I’d still call that kind of fine cut a paper cut.

  Never heard anyone say “ow I’ve got a cardboard cut”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the cuts from packaging different then?

  Never heard of cardboard cuts…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shame. Although living in that van all those years probably didn’t help.