Gucci_Minh

@Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well not all encryption, mostly just public key based algorithms. AES-256 should be good for a while yet even in a post quantum computing world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I work for a place that uses discs for archival in addition to tapes and the discs do have specific requirements for storage, like opaque boxes in a temp and humidity controlled room. The discs are also some fancy Japanese brand I’ve never heard of. Probably best not to pickup a pack of CD-R at the walmart and use those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Optical discs like CDs and DVDs last a very long time if stored properly. It’s using them that kills them fast. So in terms of data archival they’re actually pretty good. Regardless, u right, make backups of backups and replace the media its stored on every once in a while.