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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by gus_massa on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:51AM (#28455730)
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.
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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by bbarnett on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:55AM (#28455767)
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.

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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by gus_massa on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:21AM (#28456578)
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.

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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by sgtnoodle on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:55AM (#28458917)
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!
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