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by binwiederhier 683 days ago
That reminds me of a just for fun plugin I wrote for my (long dead) Dropbox-like file sync solution Syncany that would store the shared files as PNG images on Flickr.

At the time, Flickr and Google Picasa (now Photos) gave you like 1T of image storage for free, so I thought it'd be a dope backend. It worked really really well actually... And it was nice to see your data as images. Though since the files were packed and encrypted, it just looked like static.

Here's the plugin if anyone's interested: https://github.com/syncany/syncany-plugin-flickr/tree/develo...

Wow. That's 10 years old. Time flies.

Edit: This PNG encoder is the meat: https://github.com/syncany/syncany-plugin-flickr/blob/develo...

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Ah Syncany. Good times <3