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Re: RedditStorage

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Post by SilasX »

cmdrfred wrote: post #45
dragontamer wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> who would suspect reddit as a command server Everyone who used IRC as a command server from years past. It turns out that things useful for human communication tend to be useful for computer communication. Usenet, Email... hell... I'm sure BBS would have been used if modems were popular enough back in the day.

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.

Re: RedditStorage

#92

Post by ssalenik »

biturd wrote: post #87

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.

It says in the readme he uses wxPython (wxWidgets). You could also use Qt as I believe both use native Cocoa underneath. You can't do everything that is possible if you were coding on Obj-C or Swift, but the stuff you can do looks native. Both have bindings in many languages.

Re: RedditStorage

#93

Post by malkia »

gabemart wrote: post #67
guidopallemans wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.. Much like how gfycat encodes their links eg.: - https://gfycat.com/JaggedIdealFrillneckedlizard - https://gfycat.com/ThirstyAmbitiousBuzzard - https://gfycat.com/AlertSpicyBlueandgoldmackaw

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...

Re: RedditStorage

#94

Post by mdadm »

stephengillie wrote: post #60

Interesting 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-...

Re: RedditStorage

#95

Post by mdadm »

kej wrote: post #26

Presumably something like this is what's happening in /r/A858DE45F56D9BC9/

Possibly. Searching up some of the content on there revealed this[0], so at least some of it is (most likely) data.

[0] http://a858.soulsphere.org/

Edit:[1] shows that this is most likely a false-positive.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Solving_A858/comments/24vml1/mime_t...

Re: RedditStorage

#96

Post by jamesjwang »

biturd wrote: post #87

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.

We used wxpython, which uses native GUI elements based on the OS. There are bindings for other a bunch of other languages too: https://www.wxwidgets.org/

Re: RedditStorage

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Post by [deleted] »

stephengillie wrote: post #60

Interesting 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.)

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Re: RedditStorage

#98

Post by jordigh »

tacone wrote: post #68
empyrical wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal favourite: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

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.

Re: RedditStorage

#99

Post by SilasX »

rndn wrote: post #4

There 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…)

How about just a project that implements an S3-style directory system, with a "fill in the blank" for you to implement the storage backend?

That is, for a given storage medium, all you have to do is implement methods for "write key-value pair" and "read value at key", and you get to piggyback off that medium for your storage.

Re: RedditStorage

#100

Post by Hortinstein »

empyrical wrote: post #16
rndn wrote: post #4

There 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

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 something Durham refers to as "dust" which is a generic, vague term describing anything which can be interpreted to represent information; and therefore, that the only thing that matters is that a mathematical structure be self-consistent and, as such, computable. As long as a mathematical structure is possibly computable, then it is being computed on some dust, though it does not matter what dust actually is, only that there be a possible interpretation where such a computation is taking place somehow. The dust theory implies, as such, that all possible universes exist and are equally real, emerging spontaneously from their own mathematical self-consistency."

Great book!

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