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I remember the days when your ISP would give you 5 MB of hosting space. If each of the 1.2 million tweets includes a ~150 KB image, that’s 180 GB of images hos

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• hn23 7y ago
  Free yes but they come with an energy tag on it. (backup and redundant systems etc). I wonder how much energy it would take to store it like this compared a local hard drive and simple PC or Raspi.
• craz8 7y ago
  A while ago, this guy found that you could store files in the DNS servers belonging to other people, and created DNSFs that he documented here: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st... It looks like there might be about 250mb available for all to share across the internet using this system PingFS is even more out there! The internet is full of weird corners to exploit in fun ways