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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/NMS_Ships_Pets_Tools on 2026-07-27 08:05:32+00:00.

So I know what bitrot is; it's when the stored data on physical media like tapes, floppies, CDs, and HDDs degrades overtime from wear, corruption, age, and sometimes very poor encoding/decoding of the data or writing of the data to a storage device. (Or at least thats what I assume, once only recently found out about this so forgive any errors I may have made) And I wanted to know if the effects of bitrot can be intentionally caused and or synthetically induced or reproduced through software applications.

I don't have very high hopes that its possible, but I've enough hope to believe it is. Albeit the likelihood of it being 0 however it's still worth asking for the answers. Anyway any and all help would be nice and much thanks in advance!