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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by smokel on Saturday June 22, 2024 @01:40AM (#40756581)
All information is freely available somewhere in /dev/random. It is worth some value to share the more interesting offsets.

Now I'm not saying that capitalism is the best way to distribute this value, but at least some effort is required in curating all knowledge.

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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by dayjaby on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:53AM (#40757255)
Can you prove your first statement? I assume you cannot as it's nonsense. Lookup how /dev/random is not really random, but relies on interrupts occuring at random timestamps.

That's like saying f(x)=x is a random function, if x is random.

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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by smokel on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:45AM (#40757469)
It is quite similar to the infinite monkey theorem, and as it does require infinite time, it is indeed slightly nonsensical.
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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by joquarky on Saturday June 22, 2024 @11:54AM (#40759936)
Substitute the Library of Babel¹ for /dev/random and the point still stands.

¹ https://libraryofbabel.info/

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