Store files inside of YouTube videos

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  • Infinite-Storage-Glitch

    Discontinued ISG lets you use YouTube as cloud storage for ANY files, not just video

  • libcimbar

    Optimized implementation for color-icon-matrix barcodes

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • cfc

    Demo/test android app for libcimbar. Copy files over the cell phone camera! (by sz3)

  • backblaze-personal-wine

  • Cryptomator

    Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

  • where-tube

    location of smoke apparatus (Bitcamp 2018)

    Nice work! I made a much worse variant of this years ago; with a “mosaic” mode[1]: whatever YouTube was doing for compression at the time handled multiple QRs tiled next to each other much better than it did a single large one.

    [1]: https://github.com/woodruffw-hackathons/where-tube

  • DiskCord

    Host files on external sites and use them for streaming, images, or data sharing.

    I wrote something just like this with Discord, and I even got it to host full videos which you can play back in browser. It's a good backup service. [0]

    I want to expand this in into a fully modular service that you write payloads and scripts for various services, so when you upload a file its spread out across many different providers. When you're downloading, you just go down the list check what still exists, and verify the checksum. This should be stable for many years.

    [0] https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • discord-fs

    Discord as a filesystem (by pixelomer)

    The author says another Discord project served as inspiration: https://github.com/pixelomer/discord-fs

  • pingfs

    Stores your data in ICMP ping packets

  • YouTubeDrive

    Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space

    This has been done many many times in the past, one popular tool: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

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