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

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 37 points 10 months ago

What about a hard drive made of network pings?

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

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 29 points 10 months ago

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

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

"Harder Drive"

Store the data in pings that constantly get resent to keep the data in the internet

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I was looking for this comment. I knew someone from Lemmy would have seen that

[–] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

!beatmetoit@lemm.ee

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago

GmailFS was a thing

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know if it was this one but it might’ve been this one https://github.com/qntm/base65536

[–] Typewar 1 points 10 months ago

Yep, that looks like it!