• IninewCrow
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    73 days 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.

    • @ummthatguy
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      43 days 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]

  • @cybervseas
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    113 days ago

    “You sure this isn’t a Lore?”

    “Meh, a couple might be Lores.”

  • @gedaliyah
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    83 days ago

    They say there are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data and

    • Suzune
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      43 days ago

      I can only see people who interpolated data (“daytah”) and don’t understand that the other thing is called data (“dahtah”).