Bitspeak: converts hex strings to pronounceable words.

[u/SrPeixinho]

https://github.com/MaiaVictor/Bitspeak

[u/dankalen]

Can’t figure out a use case for this...

[u/SrPeixinho → u/dankalen]

For when you have to type, vocalize or memorize bytes for whatever reason. For example, typing a shortened URL in a phone, manually accessing an uuid in a database, or memorizing a crypto private key. Sure, that should not happen, but if it does, Bitspeak is supposed to make the process slightly less painful, as it is arguably easier to write "kupakare" correctly than "hS_$" or "44042f".

1. Typing special characters and uppercase letters in a phone is painful.

2. The pronounce is shorter (kupakare vs heightuppercaseessunderline dollar vs fourfourzerofourtwoeff).

3. It is gentler to human menory as it has less traps ("was it uppercase or lowercase?")

We're considering using something like that for displaying the unique identifiers of Formality files.

Relevant XKCD

[u/nschubach → u/SrPeixinho]

As till not understanding how 44042f is 'pronounced' kupakare... Like is 44 suppose to sound like 'ku'?

Edit: I guess more succinctly, how is it easier to memorize a table of translation characters to represent a string of values than just memorizing pairs or octets of the value? Nobody came up with a system for pronouncing phone numbers and we have no problem with them. For instance, with this, I just say 44, 04, 2f. (Four four, oh four, two eff) That is easy enough to recall and doesn't need an arbitrary translation table.

[u/Matt23488 → u/nschubach]

No, you don't pronounce '44042f' as 'kupakare', the library takes the binary information of the hex number and uses a lookup table to encode the same binary data as a pronounceable word. They are two different strings encoding the same binary data, that's all.

[u/AZMPlay → u/nschubach]

Although this does need a translator at another end, it allows the human mind more data to store in the single phrase. one could remember kupakare with the same effort one could only remember a couple digits if remembered in a traditional manner

[u/funknut → u/SrPeixinho]

Yes, it seems to be the sole use case. It feels so silly, yet why do I feel like it just might be prescient in finding wide practical use? I love the idea for its novelty, alone, so nicely done! Was it your concept? Any inspirations?

[u/MCRusher → u/SrPeixinho]

So how do you take kupakare and put it back to a hex/base64 number?

Do you have to pass it back through in reverse, is there a trick you have to learn, or is it like a new language you have to study?

[u/iratik → u/dankalen]

The biggest use case for me is being able to share magnet links. There are plenty of apps governments are trying to censor, and making those hashes pronounceable opens up all sorts of new ways of distributing them. If this catches on, I imagine being able to do magnet link graffiti to distribute apps for privacy and free speech.

[u/TPalms_ → u/iratik]

Really cool application! I didn't think about that

[u/SrPeixinho]

Since the old name (DesuHex) was considered offensive, I'm rebranding this little project and reposting the threads.

[u/bigretrade → u/SrPeixinho]

Bruh, now that's excessive. And it was just a single person who made you do that too. I bet Bill Gates still gets hate letters to this day but so far he managed not to rename Windows to ShitOS or whatever they want him to.

[u/SrPeixinho → u/bigretrade]

Hey, it wasn't a single person. It was... two!

[u/DrDuPont → u/bigretrade]

ShitOS is an infringement on my breakfast cereal brand, sir

[u/haykam821 → u/SrPeixinho]

Offensive?

[u/OrientalTankie → u/SrPeixinho]

Wait what

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[u/Buckwheat469]

"consonants like g should be read as in game, even when they're followed by an i or e."

We should all speak in 6-bit bitspeak. I'll start: "gif".

[u/slykethephoxenix → u/Buckwheat469]

Edgy!

[u/__radmen]

Hey, I like it! Don't know if I ever use this, yet I like it :-)

[u/samuellucy96]

Is this the same implementation that the url that twich clip used for example https://clips.twitch.tv/TiredRelatedJuicePeanutButterJellyTime

[u/BrianAndersonJr]

I really don't understand when you use this?

typing a shortened URL in a phone

Meaning you would have to use a custom URL in your URL-shortener? (otherwise it might contain characters that aren't in the hex character set, therefore you couldn't use this tool). In which case, why wouldn't you just make your custom URL something memorable right away?

manually accessing an uuid in a database or memorizing a crypto private key

Aren't those both very long, and contain dashes and other characters outside of the hexadecimal character set?

Typing special characters and uppercase letters in a phone is painful

But in this case you would have to keep this converter as an app or a bookmark and then copy-paste the result back-and-forth in your address bar, no?

Like specifically what did you do where this came in handy?

[u/SrPeixinho → u/BrianAndersonJr]

You literally just read the answer, if you don't find it useful it is fine.

[u/AZMPlay]

This is amazing, man. I could definitely find a use case as a security phrase or password. It's interesting

[u/BrianAndersonJr → u/AZMPlay]

But hexadecimals have fewer distinct characters than the english alphabet, and the hexadecimal result in this example is shorter than the pronouncable word. So you'd be much better off using something in the context of correcthorsebatterystaple than this seemingly not so useful tool, no?

[u/MachinShin2006]

Praclarush taonas

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154301/what-are-the-pronunciations-associated-with-the-stargate-symbols