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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Reminds me of a project i stumbled upon the other day using various services like Google drive, Dropbox, cloudflare, discord for simultaneous remote storage. The goal was to use whatever service that has data to upload to, to store content there as a Filesystem.

I only remember discord being one of the weird ones where they would use base512 (or higher, I couldn't find the library) to encode the data. The thing with discord, is that you're limited by characters, and so the best way to store data in a compact way is to take advantage of whatever characters that are supported

[–] ChairmanMeow 29 points 1 day ago

I remember a project where someone booted Linux off of Google Drive. Cursed on many levels.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

What about a hard drive made of network pings?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is actually a joke compression algorithm that compresses your data by one byte by appending it to the filename. (and you can execute it as many time as you want)

Too bad I can't remember the name.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] gnutrino 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Obligatory "pi hasn't been proved to be normal"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Pi being irrational and not normal makes it the most relatable number

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

Oh, I guarantee that pi is 100% normal. Just not necessarily in the base you want it to be normal in.

[–] gnutrino 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know of a proof that pi is normal in any base (even non-integer bases) so I'd be interested to see on what basis you can guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

It's somewhere in pi. Wait a moment while I look it up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

we could also use it as a file system

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