u/skyblueyellow

A file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it. Every open permanently damages the file on disk, by an amount baked into the filename, before it is ever shown to you. There is no recovery from the file alone. The file is the only copy that matters, and every read destroys a little more of it.

The same image, encoded at four instability values and opened in step, decaying at four speeds at once

Two file types:

• .idcy<x> for images (example: photo.idcy3)
• .tdcy<x> for text (example: note.tdcy7)

x is a positive integer in the filename, the instability parameter. Higher x means more corruption per open.

Made this because I had an idea about this weeks ago and it did sound very fun. Kinda analog.

The link to repo - https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt

Lots of new words I had to learn, Frank Herbert wrote a really good fiction involving sand and politics, I have not seen the movie but this book excites me though I doubt I will be continuing with the series though, Its kinda 'heavy' for me.