Leonardo Giovanni Scur on Nostr: nprofile1q…dj2mx nprofile1q…95mqj pie in the sky, the cleanest solution would ...

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So the only lossless solution is to actually store this in the file contents, and the blog post does a great evaluation of which file to put it in.