Yet I like to try to keep everything personal. I've got nearly all my emails. Since the nineties. I still have my DOS source code files.
Same for the more recent stuff.
This is saved in many places.
Yet at times I like to organize some of that mess. There are files I definitely don't give a crap about anymore: files/directories from that old Windows driver for that long gone laptop.
So I wrote my own system which allows me to "tag" files and directories based on their cryptographic hash (I'm using Blake3 for it's very fast). I can, for example, tag a file "for deletion". No matter what, when file with blake3 hash 0c340c79... is found, it can be deleted.
I'm also not happy with hash-based content addressing systems I found so far, so every file that's never ever going to be modified again got part of its hash appended to its filename. So I can also verify that the file isn't corrupted.
And it works as a file deduplication system too.
It's not a big "scratch my own itch" as I'm reusing lots of stuff that already exists but it's lots of fun and works fine.
It's very satisfying.
No more: "but I already deleted that, why do I need to delete it again!?".
Instead I launch my berzerker (that's how I named it) and it goes berzerk.
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Yet I like to try to keep everything personal. I've got nearly all my emails. Since the nineties. I still have my DOS source code files.Same for the more recent stuff.
This is saved in many places.
Yet at times I like to organize some of that mess. There are files I definitely don't give a crap about anymore: files/directories from that old Windows driver for that long gone laptop.
So I wrote my own system which allows me to "tag" files and directories based on their cryptographic hash (I'm using Blake3 for it's very fast). I can, for example, tag a file "for deletion". No matter what, when file with blake3 hash 0c340c79... is found, it can be deleted.
I'm also not happy with hash-based content addressing systems I found so far, so every file that's never ever going to be modified again got part of its hash appended to its filename. So I can also verify that the file isn't corrupted.
And it works as a file deduplication system too.
It's not a big "scratch my own itch" as I'm reusing lots of stuff that already exists but it's lots of fun and works fine.
It's very satisfying.
No more: "but I already deleted that, why do I need to delete it again!?".
Instead I launch my berzerker (that's how I named it) and it goes berzerk.