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Of all the people in tech I know as friends or professionals I know of exactly one guy who is diligent about comparing checksums and it's the same guy with a mu
by nexuist 6y ago
Of all the people in tech I know as friends or professionals I know of exactly one guy who is diligent about comparing checksums and it's the same guy with a multi thousand dollar homelab. Absolutely nobody is doing this frequently unless they've automated it or they have an obsession with privacy (to be fair, nothing wrong with that, just that it's exceptionally rare).
- londons_explore 6y agoI guess I'm unusual - I check hashes of manually downloaded files if the domain I'm downloading from isn't the same as the domain with the download link. It only takes 5 seconds, and saves me from partial downloads too (you'd be amazed how many files kinda-almost work but have odd bugs if half downloaded)