nifty@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 months agoSacrilege rulelemmy.worldimagemessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1697arrow-down10
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minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoDigital files have checksums. You literally know when something has changed and you lost information. And then you have error-correction on top.
minus-squareZephrC@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoHow do you think that is in any way even remotely relevant to what I said? If the drive your file is on dies and you didn’t copy it to another one a checksum won’t help you.
Digital files have checksums. You literally know when something has changed and you lost information. And then you have error-correction on top.
How do you think that is in any way even remotely relevant to what I said? If the drive your file is on dies and you didn’t copy it to another one a checksum won’t help you.