Thanks for the love, I appreciate it.
I don't know how long-term picinfinity will be. I'm going to do as much as I possibly can, but scaling up might run into issues (depends mostly on how hosts take it if/when picinfinity gets larger). We shall see; always new ideas.
As for video, yes. I thought about it very early on. I even thought about offering small size file sharing by encoding the bytes of files into images and then hosting them on picinfinity. But that would be insane as far as bandwidth. There are video hosts out there that are free, but most require accounts or will require them soon. It's currently more expensive so there aren't as many free no-account hosts out there.
Edit: furthermore, things like bitchute and other options are far superior to whatever we could offer using video, unless it was some type of smaller scale or some other niche thing that made it useful and cost-effective.
Very welcome!
Hey I forgot the name, but did you see the deal where you can encode short messages into URLs? The URLs themselves are very short, like bit.ly url short. But when you click the link you get a decent block of text. No accounts or anything.
I worked a project back when and messed around with UUencode / decode. Basically convert binary to text and vice versa. I wonder if that may be a way around some of the issues. A binary encoded to text doesn't violate anything. Can't even use it unless decoded. But is has issues as well. If you don't already know (u prob do) that is how usenet used to work, not sure if still does. Binaries we uuencoded. That's why needed a newsreader to download binary groups so it could uudecode them.
Just popped in my mind so thought I would throw it out there.
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Sorry didn't mean to be cryptic!
I'll explain a little more what I was talking about. I searched but can't find it now, but a few months back I read about a new service where you could send someone a message by only sending them a URL. Example "Hey picman, can you swing by my house and delete browser history and smash my hard drives please? Thanks Bro - chronos" - you type that into a web form and it serves you a url like aa.bb/ccde something very short. Then you just send that url to whoever via whatever means. But the deal was, that message is not stored on a server, it was somehow encoded in the URL.
As I was replying I was reminded of encoding binaries to text, then remembered that service and got me thinking about the video thing. If a video was broken down into a shitload of those URLs (or even an image) then you would not even be technically uploading anything. Just really tiny chunks of binaries in encoded text.
Damn just cannot remember the name of that service.
Is that explanation less cryptic?
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