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I Stored a Banana image within the Wikipedia edit history

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2 points·by MadAvidCoder·6개월 전·3 comments

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I'm tired of paying for storage, only to wrangle buckets and storage quotas. So I have stored a banana image, using nothing but unlimited public text edits and yellow noise (no accounts to be seen!).

Basically, I encoded the image into a binary bitstream, and then using a carefully designed encoding system (such as checking for the presence of oxford commas, discourse markers, etc.), I could encode these bits into ~200 wikipedia edits. The edit ids (used to retrieve the edited sentences, and hence reconstruct the image), were stored into a playable .WAV file.