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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
Edited 1 month ago
I created a shitty Python script in 2011 for indexing my photos and it has stuck intact since.
Since I'm finding myself using the same script I created a new C version with:
- xxhash32 hashing. Previous had md5, which was not great choice. I dropped the support.
- For JPEG content hashing instead of opaque file hashing.
- For CR2 still file hashing but I will change this soon.
- cp alike semantics and behaviour. Skips on collision (instead of overwriting).
- I created Debian packaging files but no energy to move this forward.
- Neither sys_read nor sys_write calls ;-)
Not actually proud of the last bullet.
There's this weird "tape drive cult" still going on strong in the user space.
Now the torch has been taken by the agents and they carry worst of the 70s to the future generations and onward.
Future plans in less than five years:
1. Fix content hashing for CR2.
2. smb:// (with libsmbclient)
3. ssh:// (with libssh)
I'll put out my old backup tool adhoc-backup also out again. It was originally in bash but out of curiosity wrote the new version with Zig. It's not great but I use it all the time and release it soon'ish :-)
Since I'm finding myself using the same script I created a new C version with:
- xxhash32 hashing. Previous had md5, which was not great choice. I dropped the support.
- For JPEG content hashing instead of opaque file hashing.
- For CR2 still file hashing but I will change this soon.
- cp alike semantics and behaviour. Skips on collision (instead of overwriting).
- I created Debian packaging files but no energy to move this forward.
- Neither sys_read nor sys_write calls ;-)
Not actually proud of the last bullet.
There's this weird "tape drive cult" still going on strong in the user space.
Now the torch has been taken by the agents and they carry worst of the 70s to the future generations and onward.
Future plans in less than five years:
1. Fix content hashing for CR2.
2. smb:// (with libsmbclient)
3. ssh:// (with libssh)
I'll put out my old backup tool adhoc-backup also out again. It was originally in bash but out of curiosity wrote the new version with Zig. It's not great but I use it all the time and release it soon'ish :-)
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