pingfs
Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (by yarrick)
YouTubeDrive
Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space (by dzhang314)
| pingfs | YouTubeDrive | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 17 | |
| 2,971 | 1,889 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| 10 months ago | almost 6 years ago | |
| C | Mathematica | |
| ISC License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pingfs
Posts with mentions or reviews of pingfs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-10.
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How does Linux NAT a ping?
Not exactly what you're looking for, but your comment about abusing pings made me remember pingfs [1]. It brings an entirely new definition of cloud computing!
[1] - https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
- Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
- Store files inside of YouTube videos
- Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second
- When Network is Faster than Cache
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ESXi Host just crashed. That host had our file server on it.
In case you jest: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
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The best way to save your code 👌
PingFS is obviously the only correct answer here.
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Download more RAM (literally)
Leaving this here for anyone with an afternoon to kill: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
- Pingfs - Stores your data in icmp ping packets
YouTubeDrive
Posts with mentions or reviews of YouTubeDrive.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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noise is not wasting enough of reddit's storage (only ~13MB/video). so i uploaded Big Buck Bunny, in 4K
There are even tools that can encode any file into video, so you can use reddit as free storage (kinda). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
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Remember the video about limitless Google Drive storage? I made an App that turns files to Youtube videos
dzhang314
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Rust Strikes Again
Nothing new, or exclusive to rust.
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Store files inside of YouTube videos
This has been done many many times in the past, one popular tool: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive
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Program to store files inside of YouTube videos for infinite cloud storage written entirely in Rust
Nice, I’ve seen similar project some time ago https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive
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Store any file as sound
YouTubeDrive
- Wtf is this? the videos are just a collection of random audios with a scrambled screen. they post like 10 videos a day.
- YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space
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Hacker News top posts: May 25, 2022
YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos\ (283 comments)
- YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pingfs and YouTubeDrive you can also consider the following projects:
vramfs - VRAM based file system for Linux
Infinite-Storage-Glitch - ISG lets you use YouTube as cloud storage for ANY files, not just video
fck-nat - Feasible cost konfigurable NAT: An AWS NAT Instance AMI
BassoonTracker - Webbased old-school Amiga music tracker in plain old javascript - Plays and edits Amiga Mod files and FastTracker XM files
libcimbar - Optimized implementation for color-icon-matrix barcodes
youbit - Host any type of file on YouTube
tmpfs-mysql - Speed up your tests using MySQL server with tmpfs datadir :runner::zap:
pngencoder - Encode arbitrary data on png images.
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
File2PNG - Store any file as PNG image
base131072 - Binary-to-text encoding optimised for Twitter & UTF-32
pingfs vs vramfs
YouTubeDrive vs Infinite-Storage-Glitch
pingfs vs fck-nat
YouTubeDrive vs BassoonTracker
pingfs vs libcimbar
YouTubeDrive vs youbit
pingfs vs tmpfs-mysql
YouTubeDrive vs pngencoder
pingfs vs uptime-kuma
YouTubeDrive vs File2PNG
pingfs vs Infinite-Storage-Glitch
YouTubeDrive vs base131072