Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
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Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#2It looks like we'll have a FlickrFS Fuse implementation shortly.
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#3Couldn't help but plug this on The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com/flickr-store/
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#4... bonus points for whomever gets an HTTP server running on flickr. Maybe I can store my music there too and stream from a webapp that plays these PNG files.
edit: sorry I must be on the wrong message board. Thought this would interest people. Guess I'll take my idea elsewhere.
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#5This is kind of a dick move to use IMHO. Clearly they are not giving you the space to store arbitrary stuff. It's a neat hack and props to the author but if enough people use this it will not only cause Yahoo! to have to build countermeasures but will also set an ugly precedent for Yahoo! product managers to consider before doing nice things like they did today.
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#6I remember something similar popping up within days of gmail offering 1GB free :) Good times.
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#7I was wondering just how long it would take for this to pop up...
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#8Doesn't this already exist? Multiple times?
Oh well, obvious 'exploit'. Wondering how Y! will react. They must've forseen this, right?
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#9... bonus points for whomever gets an HTTP server running on flickr. Maybe I can store my music there too and stream from a webapp that plays these PNG files. edit: sorry I must be on the wrong message board. Thought this would interest people. Guess I'll take my idea elsewhere.
You'd probably need a VPS to do that. What you could do is have it pull files based off a database on the server, stick them in a cache, then convert them to what they really are (I assume the utility in the OP just adds a PNG header, so the VPS could just strip that) and then stream it.
Maybe you could hack it together with owncloud or something? I'm sorta tempted to try doing something like this but I don't want to screw flickr over.
Re: Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
#10... bonus points for whomever gets an HTTP server running on flickr. Maybe I can store my music there too and stream from a webapp that plays these PNG files. edit: sorry I must be on the wrong message board. Thought this would interest people. Guess I'll take my idea elsewhere.
That ruins the service for the rest of us. The phrase "this is why we can't have anything nice" applies perfectly to this post and comment.