Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed
FogCam publishes one image at a time and discards it. Fog-Bank keeps every frame, using four catchers on three networks to poll every 7–20 seconds, fingerprint each frame with SHA-256, and store it losslessly in JPEG XL. The archive also logs every poll to distinguish FogCam outages from its own failures, and it openly admits that a frame could be lost if all catchers miss it.
FogCam keeps one picture. If its server refuses all four catchers for longer than it keeps a frame up, that frame is gone, and nothing on my side can know it existed.
- pavel_lishin
This is a neat project, but the writing describing it feels very weird and stilted.
Back when I lived in Dallas, there was a live cam of bridge construction, so I did something similar (though much less engineered), and would upload the results to Youtube as well - I don't remember if I automated that part of the process, but I surely must have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CLLiHgLr1I&sttick=0
- sillywalk
My first thought was FOGBANK[0] - a material that was used in some US nuclear weapons that was lost to time, and reverse engineered.
- ethanj8011
slop core