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│ KenAKAFrosty #1 │

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I've always thought steganography was really cool & clever (even if not usually super

practical).

And meanwhile, the LXMF paper/sneakernet-type system seemed like a perfect fit for

it.

In an effort to see "how would this even look in Sideband", I engaged in some hackery,

and wanted to share it here.

1) Clean message history to start

📎 PXL_20260524_192059390.MP.webp (53.1 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

2) Send a paper message the normal way, new dropdown option, "Save in Image"

📎 PXL_20260524_192118479.webp (53.0 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

3) Two modes: one with higher capacity but won't survive compression, and a more robust

but lower capacity one.

📎 PXL_20260524_192137520.MP.webp (71.6 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

4) Pops open the share dialog.

📎 PXL_20260524_192225005.webp (65.7 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

5) For my test I just sent to google photos for an easy and fast way to get the image

down on my laptop, and here you can see the image

📎 PXL_20260524_192405164.webp (111.3 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

6) You can see the downloaded file on my laptop, and my laptop's Sideband with no message

history yet

📎 PXL_20260524_192511144.MP.webp (73.1 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

7) Same flow as other paper messages on the ingest, but now a 'From Image' button option

📎 PXL_20260524_192532653.webp (172.3 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

8) Pick file

📎 PXL_20260524_192545832.webp (121.3 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

9) Confirmation!

📎 PXL_20260524_192557050.webp (148.7 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

📎 PXL_20260524_192608210.webp (105.1 KB) (Preview in Nomad)

My Python is very rough and most of my past work with it was ML-type stuff, so this is

also an invitation to refine on this technique! Note that i'm leaving out the

Sideband-specific stuff since that just uses the existing paper message scaffolding,

should be trivial for anyone to add that in). It's currently just a ~300 line single

python file, and can be seen here:

https://gist.github.com/KenAKAFrosty/d2b98ec07ac2b13f6a804d1571780d71

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