lemmyng

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (13 children)

And get rid of the pornoscanners.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're missing the forest for the tree here.

Given identical client setups, two clones of a git repo are identical. That's duplication, and it's an intentional feature to allow concurrent development.

A CDN works by replicating content in various locations. Anycast is then used to deliver the content from any one of those locations, which couldn't be done reliably without content duplication.

Blockchains work by checking new blocks against previous blocks. In order to fully guarantee the validity of a block you need to guarantee every block, going back to the beginning of the chain. This is why each root node on a chain needs a full local copy of it. Duplication.

My point is that we have a lot of processes that rely on full or partial duplication of data, for several purposes: concurrency, faster content delivery, verification, etc. Duplicated data is a feature, not a bug.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I would argue that duplication of content is a feature, not a bug. It adds resilience, and is explicitly built into systems like CDNs, git, and blockchain (yes I know, blockchains suck at being useful, but nevertheless the point is that duplication of data is intentional and serves a purpose).

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The most likely explanation for requesting a video is to weed out low quality AI-generated "vulnerability" submissions that hallucinate code that doesn't compile or APIs that don't exist. In that context a 1 minute video showing that the report is viable is not much to ask for.