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This might count as one of the most extreme stories of data recovery I've seen. I wonder if in another 2000 years we'll have a "first file discovered on discarded hard drive platter".


"Spot robot dumpster dives in landfill and finds 100,000 bitcoins in discarded hard drive"


"We're working hard to figure out what this 'bitcoin' is, exciting times!"


Given the relative volumes of data prevalent today, it's more likely that random files on a hard drive, or fragments thereof, will be from porn or some other video.



Quick aside: I know Chrome has supported the link-to-highlight for years now, but does anyone know where the "#:~:text=" hash format is documented at? Searching for that is really hard.


Here is a reference I found: https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096

It appears that it currently chrome only.



Thanks! This was my main curiosity: "[fragments] are stripped from the URL during loading so that author scripts cannot directly interact with them"




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