• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Us internet old timers learned a lot about data extrapolation when we used to download porn on a 56k modem. You’d be surprised how much you could extrapolate from only downloading 10% of an image file. Or 100% of a pixelized image the size of a nickel of a photographed fax copy.

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      4 months ago

      One makes do, like watching the scrambled porn channels of yore.

      “I swear, that off-color and mangled pile of pixels is a tit!”

      [Source: qualified old timey porn enthusiast]