How much data can you store if you embedded a picture-in-picture file over a 10 minute video? I could totally see content creators who do tutorials embedding project files in this way.
Yeah seems way easier than adding a link in the description
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#102Turns out any site that allows users to submit and retrieve data can be abused in the same way: - FacebookDrive: "Store files as base64 facebook posts" - TwitterDrive: "Store files as base64 tweets" - SoundCloudDrive: "Store files as mp3 audio" - WikipediaDrive: "Store files in wikipedia article histories"
Github repos makes for a pretty good key-value store.
It even has a full CRUD API, no need for using libgit.
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#103I like this. The last wave of Twitter users into the fediverse caused my AWS bill to go up 10 USD a month. Might have to start storing media files on youtube instead ;)
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#104Turns out any site that allows users to submit and retrieve data can be abused in the same way: - FacebookDrive: "Store files as base64 facebook posts" - TwitterDrive: "Store files as base64 tweets" - SoundCloudDrive: "Store files as mp3 audio" - WikipediaDrive: "Store files in wikipedia article histories"
I wrote one of these as a POC when at AWS to store data sharded across all the free namespaces (think Lambda names), with pointers to the next chunk of data. I like to think you could unify all of these into a FUSE filesystem and just mount your transparent multi-cloud remote FS as usual. It's inefficient, but free! So you can have as much space as you want. And it's potentially brittle, but free! So you can replicat…
I was an eng manager on Lambda for a time, and we definitely knew people were doing this, and had plans to cut it out if it ever became a problem. :D
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#105Years ago when Amazon had unlimited photo storage, you could “hide” gigabytes of data behind a 1px gif (literally concatenation together) so that it wouldn’t count against your quota.
They still do if you pay for Prime. I was surprised to see that even RAW files (which are uncompressed and quite large) were uploaded and stored with no issues. Not the same as "hiding" data but might still be possible.
I guess you can store 24 bits of data as the R,G and B components of a pixel of an "image", and store it as a lossless image...
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#106BEWARE: Until they clamp down and delete the files, you lose your data. Good technical experiment though!
Since he's made a ready-to-use software, yeah Google will probably ban this quite quickly...
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#107How will you prevent youtube from re-encoding the video and data getting thrashed?
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#109I remember seeing this first discussed at 4chan /g/ board as a joke wether or not they can abuse Youtube's unlimited file size upload limit, then escalated into a proof of concept shown in the repo :)
This is a tangent. I must have been maybe 15-16 at the time, so somewhere around 20 years ago: One of the first pieces of software I remember building was a POP3 server that served files, that you could download using an email client where they would show up as attachments. Incredibly bizarre idea. I'm not sure who I thought would benefit from this. I guess I got swept up in RFC1939 and needed to build... something.
apparently e-mail is not much reliable for storing/keeping files. there have been cases where an old email with an attachment would not load correctly because the servers just erased the attachment file.
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#110Could youtube-dlp and YouTube Vanced now be hosted on.. YouTube? I wonder how long it'd take for Google to crack down on the system abuse. Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.
It's one of those problems that resolves itself.
The process of creating and using the files is prohibitively unusable and so many better solutions exist that YT doesn't need to worry about it