Back when I was on reddit, I remember finding some obscure subreddits that only had one approved poster and every post was filled to the brim with nothing but hexadecimal.
In theory, any website that allows you to post things could be used as a storage drive…
Maybe reddit’s formatting could interfere with using full unicode. Some of it could get interpreted as formatting marks, which could introduce bugs when trying to read it back.
Like, if your binary file translated into unicode happened to have {1*xF9*u in it, it would then read as {1xF9u when you go to read it back, and now you’re missing two bytes from your binary file. But since none of the hexadecimal symbols are used as formatting marks, you’re safe when using hex.
Back when I was on reddit, I remember finding some obscure subreddits that only had one approved poster and every post was filled to the brim with nothing but hexadecimal.
In theory, any website that allows you to post things could be used as a storage drive…
Hex is somewhat curiously an extremely poor encoding when you have access to unicode
Maybe reddit’s formatting could interfere with using full unicode. Some of it could get interpreted as formatting marks, which could introduce bugs when trying to read it back.
Like, if your binary file translated into unicode happened to have
{1*xF9*uin it, it would then read as {1xF9u when you go to read it back, and now you’re missing two bytes from your binary file. But since none of the hexadecimal symbols are used as formatting marks, you’re safe when using hex.