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You are literally commenting on the thread for a blog post describing the mess that occurs when a drive is incorrectly erased. JFC

> This is not remotely accurate At least Ext4 repeats the complete superblock at the beginning of every block group, so yes, it is not only remotely accurate, but entirely accurate…

GPT along with most filesystems store a bunch of stuff at random places around the disk, for many filesystems it's even configurable. The most usual problem with your approach is r…

> But right now we're just trying to make a device appear functionally empty so that we can re-install an OS without remnants of any previous installation getting in the way The on…

It is still bad advice, zero filling an SSD is not nearly the same as erasing it due to the presence of large (up to 10% or more of the drive) overprovisioning areas present in all…

This option is horrendously inefficient on most modern drives. For many SSDs, issuing a secure erase request is an almost instantaneous process as it only requires the drive to gen…

The worst experience I had with this involved 4 customer service representatives simply hanging up (after a 30+ minute wait) after exhausting their script. I simply recorded the fi…

Substantively, this is a battle between a US media powerhouse and a sovereign nation over control of its local media. This isn't "ideological flamewar", it is an inescapable realit…

Because it is at odds with the grand idea of a beautiful open network and free flow of information^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W US-centric media machine governed by US law and exclusively celeb…

I like the idea of flipping DIMMs to get capacity and processing improvements, and also the thought that mass-produced memory with this tech could potentially significantly reduce …

Thanks (obligatory scihub reference)

Dubious energy savings claims, but sounds like potentially awesome tech. Looking forward to their slides/paper next week

We can conveniently nitpick whether or not we treat Apple products as an integrated hardware-software product, the reality is thousands of these units have shipped and from those s…

Love this! Please make landing screen a teeny bit prettier and you could definitely start recommending this to regular 'retail' folk. I'd consider putting the about text below the …

That's perhaps unsurprising.. it certainly would be far from the first industry to suffer from institutional blindness to any inconvenient metric that might challenge a self-stated…

In paragraph 27, after spending paragraphs 3-26 documenting the public reaction to a dramatic half-truth revealed in paragraph 2. This is called storytelling. You're likely aware a…

I got the screenshot from one of the deposed mods, who has been around since 2012 (I'm one of the earliest sub members FWIW, but never a mod), he was part of the last cohort of "go…

> many screenshots, a Discord discussion, a discussion in a moderators-only group These all refer to exactly the same thing. How do you suppose the article's tone would change had …

As usual the times is great at telling a story, but in this case one built entirely on a cropped screenshot. See https://i.imgur.com/KZGwIw9.png for the reality of the naked profit…

Nothing close to 120 gigawatt/sec (going by one estimate)

The inverse of effeminate by definition is butch, I purposefully avoided using it as it invokes yet more popular and inaccurate gay stereotypes that in no way capture the folk I wa…

> effeminate male > gay son This is a dangerous stereotype that is equally harmful to people of any sexuality, I'd encourage you to correct it. Most of the gay folk I know personal…

I'll be gone from Reddit completely the day they turn off old.reddit.com, which surely must be fast approaching. Meanwhile, limited to subreddits of only a few K users still captur…

If you think you can beat the system you have the option of a voluntary self-assessment for under 100k, over 100k you have to file one anyway and it offers plenty of wiggle room. S…