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[–] hcf@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

but /dev/null has no mass.

you're thinking of /tmp, which is indeed a slow growing pseudo-void whence nothing escapes.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're more likely to be Hawking bits

it's virtual particles that make it past the event horizon, right? if those are like the teeniest tiniest things there are then yeah i guess

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this about solar rays altering bits type thing?

hawking radiation

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But Hawking was found in ~/epstein.pdf

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the thing about pdf's is that when you cat them, they look like a bunch of gobbledygook. surely there's a command line took out there that lets you cat a pdf, unless it's like literally impossible for some reason

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 week ago

I think that's called OCR