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 agoYou can’t
That’s not what a checksum is
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
True but that isn’t possible with just a checksum and a read only medium
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.
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