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

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Checksums are redundancy.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Right, but if the checksum is corrupted…

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