That's fine, it's pretty good slop and from the comments history even entertaining at times.

> my grandmother had a cookie jar collection and I always thought it was weird until I realized she was basically running a primitive NFT gallery except the tokens were actually useful because they contained cookies

I, for one, don't really want employees to install video games, porn cam clients, torrenting apps, shady vpn clients, crypto miners, remote access tools, dns "optimizers" and more generally viruses on their work computers.

If so then they were right, everybody promptly forgot from then on until just now.

This whistleblower didn't forget, neither did I.

It does sound like a bunch of people in this thread forgot. Perhaps they found it more politically convenient to forget rather than admit a mistake?

An unplanned, decentralized, public backup?

And it is not connected to the internet, the internet is connected to it (I’m not in here with you, you’re in here with me)

Maybe it wasn't trivial?

You're absolutely right!

@ - @ jackrabbit

You can have voting systems in place, where at least 2 out of 3 different code paths have to produce the same output for it to be accepted. This can be done with multiple systems (by multiple teams/vendors) or more simply with multiple tries of the same path, provided you fully reload the input in between.

botornot?

Was your teacher Ted Nelson?

I wish, dude is a legend.