The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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    15 hours ago

    This reminds me of shitty FTP sites with ratios when I was on dial-up. I used to push them files full of null characters with filenames that looked like actual content. The modem would compress the upload as it transmitted it which allowed me to upload the junk files at several times the rate of a normal file.

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      3 hours ago

      that is pretty darn clever

      I use a torrent client that will lie on the upload (x10 or x11, or a myriad of other options) so as to satisfy the upload ratio requirement of many members only torrent communities