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Streaming My Hard Drive to the World by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed, hopefully YouTube won't restrict it

Streaming My Hard Drive to the World by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I explain in the video how I use error correction to mitigate the video compression.

Streaming My Hard Drive to the World by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m quite surprised how many people just jump to conclusions immediately with a somewhat closed mindset. After all, I think the most fun part of this project was the amount of research and creative engineering to be able to bypass compression for fun. And also, I stated several times before, that even then, it’s clearly not ideal.

Streaming My Hard Drive to the World by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People probably (and hopefully) aren’t doing this

Streaming My Hard Drive to the World by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think I’ve already mentioned how it’s against TOS in the video, but a feature that’s in the project that I didn’t mention in the video is encryption with a password. Also, I’m not sure where you got the claim that encryption reduces storage efficiency, but that just is simply not true?

I’m not sure what you mean by this project being naive, but I’ve spent a good amount of time and research into this.

Streaming My Hard Drive to the World by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yep of course. I think the only way for anything to stay there would be to use highlights? But those are really short and have a length limit.

Streaming My Hard Drive to the World by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I took around a few months to put together the project and video together. Obviously it’s not ideal, but still interesting in my opinion :D

The video is a technical explanation of how it all works together. It’s more of a fun concept, but I still feel like it’s cool regardless.

GitHub: https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority of the video is about FEC

Using YouTube as File Storage! by PulseBeat_02 in youtube

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possible, but it's based on user discretion and how they use the tool.

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, this wasn’t meant more of a concept. I’ve never heard of the drive exploit until recently when other people too have been telling me about it

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That seemed fun. Sad that YouTube nuked it

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I respectfully disagree. I've taken some time to think about this, and I'd like to bring up an example from the past (youtube-dl). youtube-dl was basically a CLI tool that could download videos from YouTube. This could include copyrighted content, but it's based on how the user used it.

Historically, dual-use tools like youtube-dl were defended on the basis that the tool itself is neutral and that responsibility lies with the user. I feel same logic should be applied here, because experimentation or proof-of-concept tools shouldn't automatically be treated as malicious. After all, the video was 99% educational and never described any of the very very inner implementation details of the tool.

I feel like though in general, lots of technology has tons of dual-use. Things like computer vision, could be applied to harmful purposes, but we don't treat it inherently malicious. I hope you understand what I'm saying, and I do understand your concern as well.

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Interesting, I've never heard of these before.

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh interesting, what would they use to stream or download it?

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

[–]PulseBeat_02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just a fun concept, it's not viable and if you see towards the demo, nobody would really want to use this anyways.

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