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Re: RedditStorage

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Post by ratsimihah » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 5:52 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #137

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You missed the joke :(

Re: RedditStorage

#142

Post by LeoPanthera » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:22 AM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #10

Shame an encryption key is REQUIRED, could be a useful way to transfer files between Reddit users. Of course the file has to be encoded, but the encryption should be an optional extra.

Binary files over a 7-bit medium is a very old, long-solved problem.

For example, here's a base64'd tiny jpeg of me: http://pastebin.com/VTLBG3Ji

Re: RedditStorage

#143

Post by lucb1e » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:39 AM UTC

Lol, I've thought of doing this so many times on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and reddit. Seeing the amount of points this gets, I guess I should have done it. I didn't because it seemed so pointless: they'll just block accounts using this.

Re: RedditStorage

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Post by thanatropism » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:53 AM UTC

spydum wrote: post #15

does reddit not have some sort of posting throughput limit?

For very low karma accounts, yes. After a while, not noticeably for human operators (I delete my accounts frequently; it gets annoying.)

Re: RedditStorage

#145

Post by gabemart » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:55 AM UTC

titaniumdecoy wrote: post #126

malkia wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No wonder why this is everywhere: The hungry white ape aches in the ancient canyon. Autumn colors crunch. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%22The+hungry+white+ape+a...

According to the overview on the of hipku website, it uses only monosyllabic words, unlike this haiku.

That's not entirely true - it only uses monosyllabic words for IPv6 addresses because there's no other way to fit enough bits into the right number of syllables.

For IPv4 addresses, there's loads of space, so I can afford to use some longer words.

Re: RedditStorage

#146

Post by yaeger » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 7:06 AM UTC

jakejake wrote: post #18

This is pretty much exactly how binary newsgroups got started. Not to be all "I thought of it first" but I had thought it would be funny to do something similar on Twitter.

Woah, that'd be a lot of tweets. Even reddit with its 10000 char limit per comment has loads of comment trains if you want to store a sizable amount of info that way. With twitters 140 char limit, that would be a huge amount of tweets. You'd probably run the risk of being identified as a spammer if you send that many tweets at once...

Re: RedditStorage

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Post by vladtaltos » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 7:33 AM UTC

that is awesome in its complete disregard of reddit :) and a death sentence to itself if it gains popularity as reddit-admins will have to ban the accounts/discard the content :) so it's not that secure a storage idea...

nice little engineering work though. kudos.

Re: RedditStorage

#148

Post by catmanjan » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 7:41 AM UTC

malkia wrote: post #93

gabemart wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is also how hipku stores ip addresses as haiku demo - http://hipku.gabrielmartin.net explanation - http://gabrielmartin.net/projects/hipku/

No wonder why this is everywhere: The hungry white ape aches in the ancient canyon. Autumn colors crunch. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%22The+hungry+white+ape+a...