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I'd never heard of this either. It really is interesting! I can't other articles on it other than that readme. Does anyone else know where I can learn more abo
by azhenley 6y ago
I'd never heard of this either. It really is interesting!
I can't other articles on it other than that readme. Does anyone else know where I can learn more about it? Someone needs to make a Wikipedia page!
- uhl 6y agoI think the reason is just that it isn't widely used. It's a very niche use-case, anyway. Even link-shorteners don't particularly benefit from something like this, and for all cases where the actual amount of data is concerned, simple base64 is more efficient. But yeah, making a wikipedia entry and adding it to this list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding) could spread it a little further.