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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because the other comment had a ~~useless~~ counterproductive step in it, namely base64.

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe, but also I think I was looking at the raw 'data bits', not 'binary' data. It's actually almost exactly 4GiB, even when dropping down to minimum error correction (1.7 GiB otherwise).

(1454942×2953)÷1024÷1024÷1024≈4.00

Edit: So if alphanumeric mode could store lowercase letters, base64 would've stored more.