Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t

  That’s not what a checksum is

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can’t argue with that logic.

      I guess I will go back to using dd to hack the Pentagon

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  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They probably mean EC code? That said, you can use checksums to “correct” errors if you have redundant copies of the data (by reading from the other copy if one copy has a bad checksum)

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True but that isn’t possible with just a checksum and a read only medium

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