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Stuff used to boot off of a floppy disk!

• shereadsthenews 7y ago
  Used to have self-replicating persistent malware hidden inside filed that fit on floppy disks.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
    And now we have compromised NPM packages and Dockerhub accounts. What's your point?
    • shereadsthenews 7y ago
      My point is people used to be able to program computers and now it's all embedded browsers all the way down which is why the recommended way to install ubuntu from macos involves downloading and running (as root!) a 330MB electron app.
• yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  Pretty sure you still can, if you throw out all the drivers and libraries we've invented since then. Like, we waste lots of space, but a lot of it really is going to useful features.
• quickthrower2 7y ago
  And it took ages. What’s your point?