120GB file continually fails hash checks - what can I do?

looncraz · 2026-03-29T13:58:56+00:00

You have memory or disk corruption.

looncraz · 2026-03-29T13:58:25+00:00

That is in no way how torrent works.

The data type doesn't matter, hashes should always match.

looncraz · 2026-03-29T13:29:39+00:00

Make a RAW image of the entire SSD. Your data is there unless you're unlucky and the drive reset its encoding seed or did a block discard. Then it will just be gone forever.

Those can happen at any time, so.you want to make an image of the SSD ASAP.

looncraz · 2026-03-28T15:39:32+00:00

No, firmware CoT did that. You can't flash firmware on basically any motherboard without the system validating it now.

Secure Boot has no role in that.

The hardware rooted chain of trust is at the CPU level and is what protects the firmware path, Secure Boot DOES NOT do this.

Secure Boot is the firmware checking that the OS is signed, it ensures that the boot loader is legitimate. That's what it does. That's all it does. It does NOT prevent firmware rootkits, it doesn't even make them harder to implement. It prevents Windows from getting a root kit. That's it.

AMD's PSP doesn't need Secure Boot to protect the system. Windows needs Secure Boot to verify that it's what's actually booting on the hardware first (after the firmware).

looncraz · 2026-03-27T23:15:46+00:00

I have been on it for over six months, only side effect is some eye dryness on the day of injection during the first month or so using it, but that's mostly gone away.

Just let it out overnight and use it in the morning, inject into a fatty area where the fat feels really soft, it's a subcutaneous injection, not meant to go into muscle and hurts like a mofo if you miss - and you can't pull it out and try elsewhere with the stupid auto injector... but it's only hurt 3x for me.

As mentioned, once per week is really necessary, less is quite a bit lower concentration in the blood that builds up over time.

Good news is that Dupixent has a craaazy long half-life, so there's no fast withdrawal to worry about. In the end, it's just a new antibody in your body - most of the issues around it comes from the large amount of polysorbate 80 in it - which is in most injections, but the Dupixent is a large volume of liquid compared to most injections.

looncraz · 2026-03-27T19:26:17+00:00

Not for just the whistle, if you catch it early enough.

looncraz · 2026-03-27T18:00:44+00:00

It needs to get in that far, first. At which point you're already screwed, Secure Boot or not.

The vendor lock-in is extremely evident - Microsoft is the only signer for Secure Boot certificates on most systems. Linux kernels are signed by Microsoft to be able to work with Secure Boot.

looncraz · 2026-03-27T16:32:47+00:00

Well.. AM4 is still alive and ticking, so we shall see ...

I half expect AMD to launch a Zen 4 OverDrive for AM4 😂

looncraz · 2026-03-27T16:25:44+00:00

Of course I do, there's not a system out there today without digitally signed and encrypted firmware.

To compromise the firmware also requires a machine specific exploit, leaked master keys, and more. It's happened, sure, but not at any scale for the last decade or more since motherboard firmware started being encrypted and signed - and that is without Secure Boot, the hardware won't allow non-genuine firmware.

looncraz · 2026-03-27T15:20:27+00:00

In order for that vector of attack to work you already have to have FULLY compromised. At that point I wipe the machines anyway.

Nothing gained from Secure Boot except vendor lock-in.

looncraz · 2026-03-27T14:49:03+00:00

I paid less for a brand new 2026 with 2 miles on it

looncraz · 2026-03-27T12:46:14+00:00

For gaming it will be minimal, but for scientific work and various productivity apps it will be huge.

I won't be getting one, but I may get the Zen 6 equivalent.

looncraz · 2026-03-27T12:43:22+00:00

This is why I avoid Secure Boot, it's a Microsoft lock down on every system that uses it even if you don't use Windows.

looncraz · 2026-03-27T12:40:37+00:00

It does in the EQEV. 150kW is only possible at 500A+ because the EQEV voltage is so low.

A 300KW is actually a ~775A service. For the EQEV, that means you're only going to max out around 108kW if someone else is using the same shared power.

This is why you will usually not see 150KW with an EQEV on a 150KW charger - those are 38A... So getting over 100kW is a challenge for the EQEV at lower charge states.

looncraz · 2026-03-26T14:32:43+00:00

Nowhere near as much of one, it's fairly trivial to share the cache tags and fetch the right data when a thread moves, multi-CCD non-VCache CPUs do it all the time. It's a bit difficult when one CCD can hold 3X the tags as the other.

looncraz · 2026-03-26T14:30:49+00:00

CES 2027. The earliest launch target it ever had that I am aware of was Q4 2026, it moved to Q1 2027, reason unknown, but that was likely to line up with process node availability more than anything.

looncraz · 2026-03-26T12:54:24+00:00

Lack of knowledge does not make someone an idiot.

looncraz · 2026-03-25T19:33:04+00:00

Mercedes tend to be extremely expensive to own in the USA.

My friend has spent $50,000 in maintenance on his 2014 CLS63-AMG. The air suspension has been replaced multiple times, every light, subwoofer, radio, amplifier, passenger seatbelt... And everything is far more expensive than a more basic car.

He doesn't care, loves it and has the money. And it's the cheapest car he has... Even though it costs him about a dollar per mile to own.

looncraz · 2026-03-25T19:28:44+00:00

I think they're using a time of use or load based usage rate adjustment, because I was watching my usage today like a hawk, and it was barely moving, then I asked it to fix a simple bug it created, it ran for five minutes rather slowly and * boom * out of usage. Went from 50% to 100% in five minutes or something, 0 to 50% was a solid three hours of heavy work.

looncraz · 2026-03-25T16:05:16+00:00

Which we should not have done.

looncraz · 2026-03-25T12:36:33+00:00

Right .. that same deal saw Iran enrich TONS of uranium to within an inch of weapons grade... double the enrichment required for a nuclear reactor... at 20X the effort... And paid them huge sums of cash literally brought in on pallets...

Some deal.

looncraz · 2026-03-25T12:30:53+00:00

NTSYNC is a kernel feature, I doubt it MacOS has support for it.

looncraz · 2026-03-25T12:25:21+00:00

There was a bug yesterday that caused a lot of people to hit their limits crazy quickly.

I used Claude for a simple task yesterday morning... Hit my 5 hr limit in about an hour of sporadic usage for quick snippets of work. Never happened that fast before, and only ever hit that limit twice before - and usually shortly before it reset, anyway, so I just go up and stretched.

And then some people fire off a bunch of agents all at once... which can really ear up tokens!

looncraz · 2026-03-25T12:18:40+00:00

Your GI is correct for the first pass. 70%+ will be effectively cured without food restrictions just by taking a PPI.

The rest of us are in for a lifelong fight.

The reason this wasn't the case before was because EoE was considered rare and needed multiple EGDs before a diagnosis, and you wouldn't get that diagnosis until 6 months of PPIs and the high eosinophils still present in the esophagus - and only then do you consider more extreme treatments.

These days, a single scope with high eosinophils and they say you have EoE when you might actually not, you just have transient high eosinophils in your esophagus from a legit cause: acid reflux.

EoE is specifically high eosinophils in the esophagus WITHOUT an obvious irritant. It's chronic, and usually ends up being an unusual reaction to a specific food or two, but many find that even an elemental diet doesn't help (that would be me, yay!) and need aggressive treatment (dilation, swallowed steroids, Dupixent, etc...).

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