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I imagine the author has never seeded a torrent or managed backups (edit: author replies)

• lawik 4y ago
  I did not seriously mean to make you think I thought this was an actually good idea. I find the idea delightful and amusing, not good. I've dealt with torrents, large file databases and backups. Well aware of hashing which makes this more amusing, not less, in my eyes.
  • throwawaymaths 4y ago
    If you want a fun romp down computer history, check out BeFS, which had basically databasing filesystem metadata. For mp3, it extracted all of the id2 metadata and then seeded the database; if you made a change it wouldn't affect the file payload.
  • ballenf 4y ago
    I loved the whimsy. Felt a little like the exact opposite of a black mirror episode. Or maybe a world where
  • jrm4 4y ago
    You know, I think in the back of my head I probably thought that, but it still just gave me the heebie-jeebies.