synthsalad
@synthsalad@mycelial.nexus
- Comment on Any good RSS Feed service for self-hosting? 10 months ago:
I self-host miniflux.app and it has been working great for my needs.
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 10 months ago:
White Christmas, which was written by Irving Berlin, who was Jewish!
I like it because of how intricately the melody is written. It ebbs and flows perfectly against the chord progression and feels much closer to a jazz standard than most other Christmas songs.
- Comment on The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans 11 months ago:
AI does not require a raise for doing something right either
Well, not yet. Imagine if reward functions evolve into being paid with real money.
- Comment on Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts 1 year ago:
From Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple: “If it’s device-bound, it’s not a passkey”:
- Comment on Is bit rot really a threat that I should worry about? 1 year ago:
This is what I use, will work with any filesystem (it writes hashes in hidden/dot files) and on any OS as long as Python is available: pypi.org/project/chkbit/
It runs ahead of my nightly backup. If it fails, the backup won’t proceed.
- Comment on Is bit rot really a threat that I should worry about? 1 year ago:
Nightly automated runs of the chkbit script is the only thing that alerted me to the fact that either the SSD or disk controller in my Mac Mini had issues and was corrupting data. I was very thankful to have already had the automation in place for that exact scenario.
It theoretically shouldn’t be necessary for filesystems that have built-in checksumming.