decayfmt - A file format which corrupts a little every time you open it. (Please don't ask why)
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A file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it. Every open permanently damages the file on disk, by an amount baked into the filename, before it is ever shown to you. There is no recovery from the file alone. The file is the only copy that matters, and every read destroys a litt…
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- 2026-08-21 14:01 · r/ClaudeAI
decayfmt - A file format which corrupts a little every time you open it. (Please don't ask why)