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Discussion on: GitHub: In Case of Apocalypse, Open This Arctic Code Vault after 1000 years in Svalbard + GH Mobile App

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Dian Fay

I was all set to say that the Svalbard bit sounded like an April Fool's joke and, if serious, was the dumbest thing I'd heard in a good while, but then I was informed by a colleague attending a conference that a blockchain CEO just claimed that "the last time anyone put any real work into databases was 45 years ago".

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Shahjada Talukdar

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Dian Fay • Edited

Open-source time capsule: cute! potentially of interest to future software archaeologists!

Open-source time capsule on microfiche in Svalbard: abjectly stupid gimmick.

Open-source time capsule on microfiche in Svalbard in case of societal collapse: hey, future humans, human-adjacent beings, or sentient terrestrial squid, we're thinking about you! Hope everything's groovy in the Xerodrome! We put the Bitcoin codebase in one of the remotest corners of the northern hemisphere on the off-chance you still have tech capable of reading it and want to know what it was we boiled off the oceans to accomplish (sorry about that, not our best idea)!

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Shahjada Talukdar

Haha