One day, an archeologist will find that one thumb drive I lost in 2016 and could never find again
To USB, or not to USB
Submitted 17 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
kameecoding@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
At least you are not the guy who threw away hit bitcoin wallet, are you?
James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, mistakenly threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (worth over £500 million/$900M+ as of 2025) in 2013
BanMe@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Dude’s gone full tilt psychotic as a result and is selling shares to excavate the landfill it’s in (he’ll never find it intact and usable, but his life is forever ruined by his refusal to give up)
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
You found a random usb stick and plugged it in?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
Listen, not all of us are proud of everything we plug our holes with.
bstix@feddit.dk 3 hours ago
I’ll have you know that I put my entire OS installation on a broken USB stick that I found on a parking lot.
The plastic case keeps falling off, but it works fine.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
One of the classic blunders!
… Unless they’re using an airgapped device or carefully sandboxed VM (even still lol) to satisfy that curiosity.
Ugh I admit I’d be curious lol.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
…yes? What did you think it could be? A larval hidden unvaccinated Russian that will activate and drink your blood?
NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
There are tons of ways to exploit a computer via a flash drive like that. Lots of viruses exist that would immediately install themselves upon the drive getting recognized. Famously Iran has a nuclear power plant taken offline by a random flash drive somebody plugged in, but aside Deon state level threats they can also just steal your financial details and personal info
aeiou@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I love mystery flash drives
I once found one near a high school loaded with hilariously terrible naruto x pokemon romantic fanfics
and one that had like $150 in dogecoin
morto@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Indeed, archaeology is created all the time. I just did an archaeological work a couple of days ago, when I decided to tidy my room
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
time to buy a few hundred usb sticks, fill them with zip bombs, and bury them in random place.
FUCK YOU future archeologists
Samsy@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Their triple quantum computers implemented in their brain wants to say fuck you, too.
riskable@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Some day, a lucky archeologist will unearth the one true archive from an innocent-looking tarball.
Rooster326@programming.dev 15 hours ago
(X) Doubt.
He won’t know what to do with a tarball anymore than I do
jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
as long as a paper manual exists…
(tar -xzvf <file> btw, the dash before xzvf is optional)
gustofwind@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I think that’s just finding a usb stick from around a decade ago
zout@fedia.io 15 hours ago
You could get lucky and find gold AKA bitcoin.
Beacon@fedia.io 16 hours ago
At what point does it stop being archaeology and starts becoming computer science?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_archaeology
The computational archaeologists run archaeo.social for Mastodon/Matrix. :) They are a rad group.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 16 hours ago
SHIT! Somebody finally found it! Man, I hope I didn’t have anything on there with my personal info!
kevinsbacon@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Mmmm forbidden chocolate bar.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
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Funny coincidence.