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1. Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 19:58:27 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

   Proquints are identifiers that are readable and pronounceable.

   For example, the string "proquints"(7072 6f71 7569 6e74 73) can be encoded as ladof kutod lijin kunoh lasab

   https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/hexadecimal.html

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 19:58:27 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @neauoire I love these encoding schemes. It's particularly attractive that these proquints are a nice and even Base32768.
     
     There's a pronounceable Base256 that D R MacIver borrowed for names in his fiction:
     
     hewo.xedoloh.com/2015/04/base-…
     github.com/DRMacIver/programme…
   • woozong (woozong@post.lurk.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 19:59:22 UTC woozong

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     @neauoire
     I believe urbit has something similar to name their ships & things.

     I like your proquints 👍

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   • woozong (woozong@post.lurk.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 20:16:08 UTC woozong

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     @neauoire
     slightly on a tangent, but that's how my brain works.. ;)
     Maybe also interesting to look at is ULID, a spec for Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers. It basically allows you to generate good UUID's that are ascii-sortable..

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   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 20:16:09 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     • woozong

     @woozong yeah, stars and planets in urbit have a pronounceable form which is <3

   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 20:16:16 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke I saw this one :D But it has these weird cases where they're hard to spell in a sequence, sequences of dt, lr, fn, etc.

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   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 20:33:35 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     • Alexander Cobleigh

     @cblgh kudiz linaj 🖤

   • Alexander Cobleigh (cblgh@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 20:33:35 UTC Alexander Cobleigh

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     @neauoire *in the year 200022, a remnant nomad tribe speaks purely in 4-syllable computational idioms, handed down through time from the oxen language of old"

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   • Alexander Cobleigh (cblgh@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 20:33:36 UTC Alexander Cobleigh

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     @neauoire yup, love me some proquints

   • Raktapadma (raktapadma@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 21:09:09 UTC Raktapadma

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     @neauoire I find really interesting (and even love) this idea of representing data as pronounceable "words" or even as spelling alphabets.

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   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 22:06:12 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke yes! something like qr codes for humans.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 22:06:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Hah, I don't know that, I just exhausted the list of these that l've stumbled over.
     
     I don't know what a sigil encoder is, but given the human-pronounceable schemes we've mentioned and the punch cards etc listed on your page, are you looking for human-reproducible reasonably-high-density visual encodings? QR codes you can draw with a pen?
     
     That sounds super interesting and like nothing I've ever heard of before.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 22:06:14 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Finally in my mental shortlist there's the koremutake Base128 syllable scheme used by the shorl.com URL shortener:
     
     shorl.com/koremutake.php
     
     A Python implementation calls this a MeRS scheme, for Memorable Random String.
     
     github.com/pschork/koremutake
   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 22:06:14 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke you're like way more aware of these things than me, I love all the links you've given me so far, do you know things like this that are graphical? like sigil encoders and that sort of things?
     https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/paper_data_storage.html

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 22:06:15 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Another I have been exposed to in practice is the BIP-39 mnemonic wordlist, which uses certain English words as a Base2048. Not as nice and round as an even-bytes encoding, but I find it interesting how cryptocurrency wallets have their own input method for entering these, which guides you and allows you to enter the words faster than a generic keyboard.
     
     github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/m…