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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 25 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Always keep offline backup copies of your important data regardless of using AI slop to look over it! No, I don't care that "optical media is obsolete and e-waste!", or that "tapes are a 100 year old obsolete technology compared to cheap SSDs from TEMU!".

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Optical media? Is that a viable part of backup strategies? I would expect tapes for sure, sounds like you know more than me.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)
    1. Better than not having an offline copy.
    2. Write-only, ransomware cannot delete/encrypt it.
    3. Drives are still cheap.

    Downside is having techbros talk you about laser rot, how internal drives are obstructing the optimal airflow in GAMING PC cases, and how Gabe Newell is based and stuff.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    A quality disc can last 10 years or more. At a company I used to work at the backups were burned to discs coated with gold. They had 15 year old discs that still worked.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    Dang that's rad, had no idea (about it being used in such a way, I guess I mean, not too hard to imagine discs lasting that long).

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I have 20+ yr old optical media cdr/dvdr and they are still good, the cheap ones like Pine and the ones with no name at all

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    What is this 10 year thing? I've also got CD RWs and CD Rs from 1998 that still work. And DVD Rs from like 2002 that are still fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That was my point, hehe. I also never spent on the "quality name brands" of disks, $10 for 100 cds, deal! $15 for 100 dvds insert fry meme. Maybe we just "took care" of our media better than others did? Personally, they are in spindles on a bookshelf, I just made sure no direct sunlight would hit them where they are, some days get warm before I can turn on the ac.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I definitely agree with you. I feel like I see people talking about optical media rotting all the time and it just doesn't seem like a practical issue for 99% of use cases.

    I seem to remember the conversation in the early 2000s being about how discs would rot in 50+ years and now I see people saying ten or 15.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    the 50yr rot was for printed disks like music/videos/programs, the 10 or 15 was for burned media that uses a different tech. Still have another 25ish years before I can debunk that, I have a little over 100 music cds from different bands that I acquired over the years, but the oldest I have so far is from 1999 or 2k.

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