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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Broke: file names have a max character length.

Woke: split b64-encoded data into numbered parts and add .part-1..n suffix to each file name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Browse your own machine as if it's under alt.film.binaries but more so

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

I'd go with a prefix, so it's ls-friendly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

each file is minimum 4kb

(base64.length/max_character) * min_filesize < actual_file_size

For this to pay off