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   404 Media (404mediaco@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 00:03:39 JST 404 Media

   DOGE "saves" a million dollars by taking critical government archives off of best-in-class, durable tape archives and putting them on hard drives

   https://www.404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-tape-archives-digital-storage/

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 01:20:50 JST mark

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     @markc568 @404mediaco yep. This is passive destruction of history

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     markc568 (markc568@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 01:20:52 JST markc568

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     @404mediaco Destroying it all in a way that makes it impossible to restore is the point.

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     Yakyu Night Owl (yakyunightowl@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 01:21:03 JST Yakyu Night Owl

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     @404mediaco Everyone seems to forget that the only modern archival mediums to survive into the century are transcription discs, vinyl records, magnetic tape, and acid free paper.

     Digital rot is real.