What would be a good strategy for building a home-made, non-standard data archive system? Clearly, you can't just build some 8TB H2-filled drive in your garage, but some sort of home-made contraption to store data seems fascinating to me. For instance, I could imagine a system where a pinhead passes over a metal surface and taps marks into the surface or, in an even more esoteric system, tiny strings could be woven in certain patterns and read using a camera.
Have people built systems like this before? Was there any real-world use for them?
>What would be a good strategy for building a home-made, non-standard data archive system
People used paper and ink for hundreds of years, you can also try sculpting bit per bit into stone.
Shitposting aside, i think you may try to use a strong automated laser on rails to draw on wood planks in a way that is decodable by a camera, kind of like QR codes, i'll leave the implementation to you cause i think the whole idea is pretty retarded.
>inb4 it's unefficient and expensive
then just buy an hard disk
>pic related
It's the opposite, whenever you make OC or use images with an unique hash it's way easier to track you, while if you download the images from public places like imageboards or boorus you are gonna blend yourself with anyone else that shared those images and you are even gonna make the whole system more anonymous, more anons = more difficult to identify an individual.
You can store a lot of immutable data into glass using laser etching. It can have multiple layers and the vessel can be a 3D shape. Good luck writing and reading it without expensive machines though.
If you mean homemade, non-standard and also easy to implement on your own, the printing press was invented a long time ago. Look into storing information efficiently in written format - glyphs, symbols e.t.c.
>>6110 When will you ni/g/gers get over this? You cannot rebuild the last 300 years of technology from scratch out of sticks in your garage. You have to either accept ~300 years of retardation heh technologically, or you need to use things you bought from the store. Once you accept that, there is zero reason not to use some seagate harddrive from bestbuy. Yes the CIA might have some backdoors in it, no they won't use them up on some small fry like you when that would warn Iran and NK and whoever else they actually need to hack.
>>6115 >>pic related
using an image twice is what makes you trackable. If you download an image, then you should only reupload it once. If you are creating images yourself, you have the same condition, except there's the added condition that if two of the images you create are similar (in style, font choice, stock images, whatever) then these can be associated as well.
>>6116 >the printing press was invented a long time ago
You could create a printing press from home with sticks from your backyard. I'm sure you could crush something for the ink. Thing is, the printing press by itself is nearly useless. It's ok for making hundreds of copies of the same thing. It takes forever to typeset a single page though, and you have to throw all that work away when you want to typeset another page (to reuse the letters).
>>6110 Cuneiform writing on baked clay tablets has lasted for several millennia. It requires nothing more than clay, a rigid instrument to serve as a stylus, and an oven. So do that.
Or, maybe you could put some thought into your question and come up with something less retarded. You basic bitch.
Have people built systems like this before? Was there any real-world use for them?