how do you get a Mac OS X GUI around this if it is written in python? Can you do the same with perl, php, and other languages? Interface Builder has always been a stumbling block for me to even begin to learn Obj-C or Swift.
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Re: RedditStorage
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Every time I see an api for sending and receiving any type of file or text, I think botnet/building a secret chat system on top of it.
Every time I see a service offering some resource as "unlimited", I think of using it as a free backend.
me too, I have about 3tb of stuff from the Napster days and I've always wanted to upload it all somewhere so I can stream it on my phone.
Re: RedditStorage
#103Interesting idea... Since image formats already store a huge BLOB, how much more would it take to make ImgurStorage? (Ideally, it would be slightly more elegant than just renaming a zip file.)
This isn't an area that I'm particularly strong in, but I think that the way that imgur compresses images[0] might have a noticeable effect on this. [0] https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201424706-How-does-...
I've run a few photo sites and one of the things I do on all wild incoming JPGs is do a minor compression on them and if that saves more than about 30% on the file size I just use the compressed version. Then anything that's been camouflaged in there gets dropped.
Re: RedditStorage
#104If you had a language model (say, trained on existing comments from Reddit), you could encode the data in the comments in English, and make the abuse a little more subtle.
Reminds me of http://www.spammimic.com/encode.shtml
Re: RedditStorage
#105There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)
To get reliable and free storage, photo hosting is usually the easiest way. Flickr offers 1TB, picasa/g+ offers unlimited storage with some hidden quoats. Everything that allows lossless photos lets you store arbitrary data. Depending on how careful you wanna be you can store hundreds of GBs per account. Email attachments used to be a great way a while ago but nowadays using multiple gdrive/dropbox/onedrive accounts…
The new Google Photos storage is lossy unless you pay for it. That doesn't rule out using the images in a different way though.
Re: RedditStorage
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
That just segfaulted my brain. Everything we may ever write in the future is already there, you just need the address.
The problem is that the address is typically larger than the actual data you want to store.
Luckily, I know of a scheme to compress the address 100%! ;)
Re: RedditStorage
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
To get reliable and free storage, photo hosting is usually the easiest way. Flickr offers 1TB, picasa/g+ offers unlimited storage with some hidden quoats. Everything that allows lossless photos lets you store arbitrary data. Depending on how careful you wanna be you can store hundreds of GBs per account. Email attachments used to be a great way a while ago but nowadays using multiple gdrive/dropbox/onedrive accounts…
The new Google Photos storage is lossy unless you pay for it. That doesn't rule out using the images in a different way though.
I thought it was only lossy if the originals you uploaded were >16MP. I tested uploading some <16MP images and redownloading them, and they didn't seem to have undergone any lossy conversion.
Re: RedditStorage
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
My personal favourite: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
its like the dust theory in Permutation City... ", he became convinced of something he came to call the Dust Theory, which holds that there is no difference, even in principle, between physics and mathematics, and that all mathematically possible structures exist, among them our physics and therefore our spacetime. These structures are being computed, in the manner of a program on a universal Turing machine, using so…
Also massive spoilers for the end of Contact. The novel, not the movie.
Re: RedditStorage
#109There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)
Erasure-coded comments distributed across the huge number of abandoned Wordpress blogs and phpBB forums that are out there. Plenty of storage, pretty readily accessible, low probability that even one fragment will get deleted, and even if one does that's what the erasure coding is for. EDIT: also, Wikipedia never deletes anything. Even if your "edits" get reverted, you can still find them via the history page. Hmmm.
Wikipedia is a bit more vigilant with banning than abandoned blogs are :)
Re: RedditStorage
#110There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)
My personal favourite: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Up next, PiCoin: proof of work is finding the index of the goal data in pi.