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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by vfinn »

umvi wrote: post #26

Turns 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"

Reminds me of when I tried to Gmail myself a zip archive, and it was denied because of security reasons iirc. I then tried to base64 it, and it still didn't work, same with base32, until finally base16 did work.

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Post by quickthrower2 »

phtrivier wrote: post #284
quickthrower2 wrote: post #266

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You guys had atoms? When I was a lad, there were only photons.

You guys had ? When I was, we weren't.

You guys will have spacetime and causality? I wont have that when I will be a young lad.

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Post by vanattab »

hnbad wrote: post #289
danachow wrote: post #257

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WinMX was release 21 years ago, and Britney Spears definitely didn’t break out until around 1999 around the same time as Napster. The difference between 1994 and 1999 is quite a bit in show biz/pop culture and an absolutely huge difference in public uptake of the internet.

That's right, 1999 was the release of her first album (Baby One More Time). I think the reason some feel like it must have been the mid-90s is that she went from that to the first major scandals (marriage, divorce and a shift in her musical style) as well as her first Greatest Hits album by 2004. Her next album after that (along with the head shaving incident and being placed under the custody of her manager-dad) was…

I think she also did some kind of Disney kids singing and talent show before that right?

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Post by capableweb »

bradwood wrote: post #276
S-E-P wrote: post #271

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You devil! I'm pretty sure I remember running into a file that looked like that and a quick poke around showed it wasn't anything valid. Funny how these things work since I'm pretty sure I remember running into it around 2008 (i'm a few years younger). I think i just deleted it though since I was suspicious of most strange files back then; I was the nerd who didn't have friends so i used to troll forums for anything…

"running into it"... Yeah. Right. ;)

Not sure how WinMX works, but back in the old DC++ days, you not only searched for things but could navigate directory structures directly from users connected to the same hub. It was uncommon for me to browse through some of the biggest/interesting users and see what they were sharing.

By doing that, I'm sure I stumbled upon my fair share of sketchy stuff unintentionally, so it's not hard to imagine the same for others :)

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Post by Annatar »

ogurechny wrote: post #79
Annatar wrote: post #17

This works on the same principle as the video backup system (VBS) which we used in the 1980's and the early 1990's on our Commodore Amigas: if I remember correctly, one three hour PAL/SECAM VHS tape had a capacity of 130 MB. The entire hardware fit into a DB 25 parallel port connector and was easily made by oneself with a soldering iron and a few cheap parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcBY6PMH0Kg SGI IRIX also…

130 MB for the whole tape is not a lot. It equals to a floppy disk throughput, which is probably not a coincidence. However, basic soldering implies that the rest of the system acts like a big software-defined DAC/ADC. Dedicated controller could pack a lot more data, as in hobo tape storage system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

Dedicated controllers were absolutely out of the question because nobody could afford them, which is why Amigas were so popular: a fully multitasking, multimedia computer for 450 DM. That's 225 EUR! Somebody that cost sensitive won't even consider a dedicated controller; back then wasn't like it's today.

This was at a time when 3.5" floppy disks were expensive (and hard to come by), and hard drives were between 40 - 60 MB, so 130 MB was quite practical. The floppy drive in the Amiga read and wrote at 11 KB / s.

And yes, this was a DAC and an ADC in software, with added Reed-Solomon error correction encoding and CRC32. The goal was to be economical. The end price was everything; it had to be as cheap as possible.

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Post by gcmrtc »

adolph wrote: post #144
LewisVerstappen wrote: post #64

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Lol yeah. It's just recordings of myself when I'm doing deep work. I use OBS to stream my computer screen and a video recording of myself (mostly me muttering to myself). It helps me avoid getting distracted (I feel like I'm being watched lol) and it's also interested to check back if I want to see what I was working on 3 months ago. All the videos are unlisted or private.

Isn't that what Twitch is for?

AFAIK twitch deletes your saved streams after some time.

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Post by Random_Person »

johnvega wrote: post #168
Random_Person wrote: post #128

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I still have my Atari 400 and tape drive!

My family had Atari 400 with a tape drive. I remembered buying a tape with a game. We also use it for basic programming language and the Astroids game using a cartridge.

Yep, I had the BASIC cartridge and used the tape drive almost exclusively for that. Coded up all sorts of little projects on that machine. I hated the membrane keyboard, but it worked!

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Post by patentatt »

kortilla wrote: post #264
patentatt wrote: post #254

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Just as an aside, it's absolutely astounding how much hardware Google must throw at YouTube to achieve this for any video anybody in the world wants to upload. The processing power to reencode to so many versions, and then to store all of those versions, and then make all of those accessible anywhere in the world at a moments notice. Really is such an incredible waste for most YouTube content.

Keep in mind that they can very well predict which videos will have any meaningful amount of views <99% and just encode on demand the ones that won’t.

I didn't know that, and am glad that they do transcode on the fly when appropriate. Very impressive that it's seamless to the end user, I've never sat waiting for a YouTube clip to play even when it's definitely something from the 'back catalog' like a decade old video with a dozen views.
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