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   Björn Hesthamar (hesthamar@tilde.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:49:02 JST Björn Hesthamar

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   • Dan Goodin

   @dangoodin The best analogt i have come to is that state in a computer is like the save game data in a game. The state is everything that has happened since the computer started.

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     Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 08:49:03 JST Dan Goodin

     After 25 years, I still struggle to find an intuitive way to describe computer "state" to non-techies. Such a simple thing and yet I still don't know how to give it a simple description/definition.

     Adrianna Tan repeated this.