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I bet somebody's been bored and/or psychotic enough to have done that, booted a Linux machine from it, and played DOOM on it.
I had planned to do some productive work tomorrow, but this is calling to me. I must be strong...
Go on! You know you want to!
Now that we have decided you are going to do it. Share the results of whatever comes out it.
Me? I'm just a simple Mint-user.
No, I meant the people you replied to
There was a brief fascination with gmail-as-a-drive when it came out and offered people 1GB of storage. I remember someone wrote a driver that cut your data up and stored it as email attachments.
Back when I was on reddit, I remember finding some obscure subreddits that only had one approved poster and every post was filled to the brim with nothing but hexadecimal.
In theory, any website that allows you to post things could be used as a storage drive...
Hex is somewhat curiously an extremely poor encoding when you have access to unicode
Maybe reddit's formatting could interfere with using full unicode. Some of it could get interpreted as formatting marks, which could introduce bugs when trying to read it back.
Like, if your binary file translated into unicode happened to have
{1*xF9*uin it, it would then read as {1xF9u when you go to read it back, and now you're missing two bytes from your binary file. But since none of the hexadecimal symbols are used as formatting marks, you're safe when using hex.I'm sure I saw something like that a while ago, but it was mostly a joke project. Can't remember its name or anything though.
For a more exciting FS, there is: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
i prefer this one because it has metadata https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Someone had a filesystem using gmail once
GmailFS provides a filesystem using a Google Gmail account as its storage medium
https://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs/
Reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio
The joy of FUSE is that anyone can make a file system pretty easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio