Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com
by kgeist on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:16AM
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I once had a silly idea of encoding all my data as images (and other possible formats) and storing them on various sites not designed for storing abitrary files such as imgur. For robustness, I'd need to store several copies on different sites, and run a tiny server which would make sure all data is still there and reupload if something was deleted.
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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com
by darumderum on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:21AM
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You could also do this with YouTube Videos btw. There is also a github project doing that iirc
One of my coworkers uploaded all his high resolutions photos to some site (probably Yahoo!Photos ???) and lost the local copy. He was surprised that the site only stored the photos at a lower resolution than the original files.
Heh. Almost like having old style photos, you stored the negatives in grandma's garage, but they got wet and now have mold on them.
You can still make out who's who in them. Sorta.
In a normal photo, after a resolution change and a lossy compression, you still have the photo.
If you encode some binary data in a fake photo, after a resolution change and a lossy compression, you will only get garbage.
It depends on the encoding. If it's sufficiently low frequency and includes error correction, then your data could survive. You won't get very good efficiency though!
I still remember Warez being hidden in JPGs before torrents and general purpose filehosters became popular.
Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com
by filmgirlcw on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:58PM
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Yes! I remember when I figured out how binaries were encoded for Usenet! I’m old enough to remember Usenet but too young to have used it for anything but warez or media.