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[–] hcf@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days 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 18 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this about solar rays altering bits type thing?

hawking radiation

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But Hawking was found in ~/epstein.pdf

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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 2 points 2 days ago

I think that's called OCR