Open Invite for Beta Testers - Infinite Data is Going Live
The Shannon Entropy limit gives us a very hard floor on data compression. A file has only so much room to compress before you start losing information. That is a direct result of the Kolmogorov complexity limit... I think that's spelled right... anyway.... that complexity limit also fixes the amount of compression that is possible to a fixed unit. Below that level... it is impossible to compress bytes.
Fine. I accept that. No arguements here.
Regardless of those facts, I am seeking beta testers to help me setup my new server. The server will be hosting something I call Infinite Data. Essentially, you will be allowed to take as many files as you want... 5mb and lower and shrink them down to a tiny stamp... about 200 bytes. You can... at any time, return the stamp and your data will be returned to you.
As neither Shannon nor Kolmogorov actually work for me directly, I will not be asking them why this does not work. In stead, all I will care about is if it does not work for you. Now, one of the biggest concerns is going to be that I'm saving your data somewhere and that I"m lying to you and secretly paying billions of dollars to house all of your data.... LOL. Um... Ok... so?
If that's how I do it... fine. Whatever the trick, you get free storage. At some point, it will be clear that I'm either lying or this actually works... Spoiler. It actually works. I will not be sharing details about how it works or why or what methods I use to do it. All we will ever discuss is... did you get your stamp? Did you get your data back? ... That's it. Honestly.... what else matters? Does your car start? Does it get you to work? Do you understand the mechanics of an internal combustion engine? Which question matters to most humans?
So to participate in the beta test, it's easy. You will simply send me an email here on the DU. I will give you a password that you can use. Your username will be your username@democraticunderground and you can also send a password you'd like to seal your data with. You can do this from the command prompt using CURL or I'm also working on a simple drag and drop web site.
Safety is a major concern. You do not know me and I could be a bad actor. I'm not but still... setting up a virtual machine using virtual box and loading up a tiny linux distro is trivial. You can open a file in a safe environment if there's a doubt about a payload. However, the file I return to you can be verified with a simple hash as well. If you have a file... say "Your+info.doc" and you hash it and then hash the file that I send you, they have to be identical hashes or the data is corrupt, do not open it.
This goes for any website you use... whatever data you send me... assume I'm reading every line and copying it and sending it somewhere terrible... so zip it and encrypt it before sending. I do not have any desire to see your data, read your data, be exposed to anything you have... so before you send me data, it will be zipped and encrypted. You will get back a file that is zipped and encrypted with the password you provided. The program that you run is a simple batch file... a set of instructions already on your computer. You will not download a thing. That batch file will zip and encrypt your data and then call a function called curl. Curl will send your file to me and I will do my magic and send you back a small vlt file that is also encrypted... but not with your password. Only my server can open it and only your password can unlock it. That's as safe as I can make it.
When you want your data back. You will call the same process, curl, with the command decode and the vlt file and it will send me the vlt file and I will send you back the file. Simple. If this fails to return your file, then the vlt file is corrupted. I do not have your file and cannot go and find it anywhere. I has to be conjured, not fetched.
I understand the skepticism of what I am claiming... that's why I posted this in this forum. However, we have a chance to put your skepticism to the test. If you're certain I can't save 10 petabytes of information, then save 10 petabytes of information... I would nest the stamps though as that's a lot of 5 mb files. You can create as many stamps as you want, I honestly don't care. You will have a usage limit, one stamp and one build every 5 minutes so have at it. I was hoping that at some point you may want to think about zipping some photos and chunks of videos... and not waste my electricity for nothing.
I will be releasing the Infinite Hard Drive as well at some point in the future, so the 5mb limit won't be around for long. There's a great deal of infrastructure that has to be built before my rig can handle millions of concurrent users. The method I use.... I call it Quantum Imprint Encoding... I do not expect you to believe it. I don't plan on discussing that here... in fact I will not speak of how I do anything at all. This is a proprietary algorithm and I will be launching a new business around this technology. But the method use is fast and I think I have most of the kinks worked out. I haven't thrown an error in a while so I think it's past the Alpha testing stage and well... welcome to Beta.
One important note... I do not intend to sell to or work with any organization or business who's ethics are misaligned with mine. Sadly, that means I will not be able to sell any services to the United States Government while a convicted rapist and apparent child molestor is at the helm. That goes for any organization. If your public ethics are anathama to mine then I will not sell you Infinite Data. Elon Musk spends $1.2 billion a month on data costs. I can cut that down drastically with this technology. Unfortunately for him, he's a colostomy bag. I will not ever allow my products to be licensed to him or any company he's affiliated with... sorry... consequences suck.
Anyway, you do not have to be techie to use this. If you have a lot of pictures and want to shrink them down... consider this cold storage. I can't imagine this not being a successful service but still, keep copies of everything for now. I can't promise my servers will be around forever to rebuild your stamps. As with any business venture, no matter how great I think the idea... you might not appreciate it or care to use it at all.
You will have a rate limit so I'm not really worried about abuse and as for now, I'm the only way you get onto my servers. I've also taken extreme precautions to ward off hackers. Extreme precautions. Other than that... this is a simple compression scheme... it's unique because it is technically impossible based on all the known laws of computer science. However it is not remotely close to the landaur limit... did I spell that wrong?... anyway... The universe has a completely different level of compression, it's called entropy and that has been the focus of my research. That is how I am able to offer Infinite Data as a service. I know it's impossible to believe... but honestly, if it works, who cares?
I look forward to zipping your porn! 
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