YouTube is not a place you expect your data will persist. It can disappear, unavailable for any period of time. But if you don’t care if your data is available, why bother with this thing?
This is one of those seemingly “smart” but actually dumb idea.
> This is one of those seemingly “smart” but actually dumb idea.
Your comment seems very sad to me. If you want your data to be safe, you could use physical storage though, and save the data there, on redundant physical hard disks in distributed locations, in various encodings.
You could also try to add even more redundancy by using an audio track with the bit sequences as spoken words combined with a video track that is resilient to low-bandwidth encoding, for example a news show where every segment takes place in front of an info graphic representing one or two bytes per segment. Could be a giant pie chart for variable-precision floating point numbers or a giant still frame of an alphabumeric character to represent raw bytes.
Add some enganging current events to the coverage to make sure the videos stay relevant.
Use large fonts to keep them resilient to video compression.
Combine YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo and at least two disk storage arrays to get five-nines enterprise-grade reliability.
The overhead for encoding and decoding is easily outweighed by the cost-neutral added redundancy.
moritzwarhier|14 days ago
Your comment seems very sad to me. If you want your data to be safe, you could use physical storage though, and save the data there, on redundant physical hard disks in distributed locations, in various encodings.
You could also try to add even more redundancy by using an audio track with the bit sequences as spoken words combined with a video track that is resilient to low-bandwidth encoding, for example a news show where every segment takes place in front of an info graphic representing one or two bytes per segment. Could be a giant pie chart for variable-precision floating point numbers or a giant still frame of an alphabumeric character to represent raw bytes.
Add some enganging current events to the coverage to make sure the videos stay relevant.
Use large fonts to keep them resilient to video compression.
Combine YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo and at least two disk storage arrays to get five-nines enterprise-grade reliability.
The overhead for encoding and decoding is easily outweighed by the cost-neutral added redundancy.