• ‮zcm🍰@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Actually if you have some experience at burning CDs you can tell if the data burned is music or images or video. This is very practical! Unfortunately contrary to what some people might claim, it’s impossible to tell how much data has been written or if a writing session is closed or not. Now you have a full picture.

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      16 hours ago

      Oh yeah you can see the different textures on a CD that has written data, but it’s likely they’re using them as mirrors and I think that’s clever

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        15 hours ago

        It’s impossible to use CDs as mirrors. This is due to bright lasers used for burning. Wait – actually it can be done, but only with pressed CDs, not CD-Rs.