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Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

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Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

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Post by Justsignedup »

duiker101 wrote: post #86
iKevinShah wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I decided to move everything OUT of Google Have you been successful in it? Any guidelines / tips? How hard is it?

I have been doing it for a long time, the hardest for me is all the registered users I have around the web linked to the email. After a few years of changing each one that mattered I finally get close to zero mail on gmail. Search I moved to ddg, that was the easy one. Android can work fine with just f-droid since I noticed I rarely even use the store any more and I need just a few essential apps. For storage, I tend…

I used shoebox as a great alternative to Google photos. The problem is they just shut down.

Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

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Post by DonHopkins »

userbinator wrote: post #21

Base85 would probably be a better choice for storing binary as text, since it has a ratio of 5:4 instead of 4:3. On the topic of "unusual and free large file hosting", YouTube would probably be the largest, although you'd need to find a resilient way of encoding the data since their re-encoding processes are lossy. I like the "Linux ISO" and "1337 Docs" references ;-)

Just use Unicode for the optimal highest possible base 1,114,112!

Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

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Post by DonHopkins »

mcbits wrote: post #72
m-p-3 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would make sure to not do this in an important Google account.

I've seen a few stories of businesses and their employees all losing their Google accounts, just because the company hired a freelancer who had previously been banned, and Google detected the association. (Pretty sure they got the accounts back after some public outrage.) I wouldn't risk intentionally violating their terms if you're not quite ready to wake up one day 100% Google-free, or very good at hiding your trac…

That gives a new meaning to "google bombing" -- a bad actor could cultivate a terrible google rating, then hire onto a low level freelance gig at a big company they wanted to bomb by association! Let's just say Oracle as a hypothetical example -- Russia, if you're listening...

Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

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Post by sagebird »

DonHopkins wrote: post #76

In 1998, the EFF and John Gilmore published the book about "Deep Crack" called "Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design". But at the time, it would have been illegal to publish the code on a web site, or include a CDROM with the book publishing the "Deep Crack" DES cracker source code and VHDL in digital form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker https://www.foo.be/doc…

It seems like a cute and irrelevant distinction that electronic software would be published in a book. If researchers created a computer that processed information using proteins in plant cells instead of electrons, and such a computer could execute programs on this book directly instead of “scanning” it, would not the textbook be software? When laws say “electronic versions” I don’t think they literally mean to refer electrons, but rather, computer-consumables/executables.

Was this tested before a court and did they accept this sort of obviously subversive behavior? (Not that I personally agree with the laws restricting crypto export.)

Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

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Post by quickthrower2 »

_bxg1 wrote: post #9

I had an (evil; don't do this) idea a while back to create a Dropbox-like program that stores all your data as binary chunks attached to draft emails spread across an arbitrary number of free email accounts.

I had an evil idea to create a key/value storage using HN dead comments.

Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

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Post by quickthrower2 »

purplezooey wrote: post #94

Damn 4:3? That ain't too bad.

Base 64 gives you 6 bits per character. Assuming a character requires 8 bits to store eg in UTF8 then yep that’s 8:6. Might be better with compression getting you closer to 1:1.
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