synthsalad

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

AI does not require a raise for doing something right either

Well, not yet. Imagine if reward functions evolve into being paid with real money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m curious if anyone dailies Alpine for desktop use. (I don’t.)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple: “If it’s device-bound, it’s not a passkey”:

https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/111188643228872151

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Q-Tips (cotton swabs.) Generics seem universally worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always admired the concept for the video for Stone Sour’s “Through Glass.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what I use, will work with any filesystem (it writes hashes in hidden/dot files) and on any OS as long as Python is available: https://pypi.org/project/chkbit/

It runs ahead of my nightly backup. If it fails, the backup won’t proceed.

Edit: Because the script relies on hashing files, it uses tons of both disk IO and CPU when it runs, but the tradeoff is worthwhile to me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nightly automated runs of the chkbit script is the only thing that alerted me to the fact that either the SSD or storage controller in my Mac Mini had issues and was corrupting data. I was very thankful to have already had the automation in place for that exact scenario.

It theoretically shouldn’t be necessary for filesystems that have built-in checksumming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Excellent, thank you very much!

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