• @[email protected]
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    1271 year ago

    Strap 20 sd card with 1TB capacity each. Send the pidgeon to a neighboring city, 2 hours flight time.

    Bandwidth: 2.78 GB/s (assuming no wild hawks in the area)

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      801 year ago

      “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      You are forgetting the time it takes to copy the data to and from these cards. Data may be transported, but it is not usable until you copy it. Copying 20 TiB is probaply going to take some time

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        101 year ago

        Fastest SD card has ~300MB/s read speed and ~250MB/s write speed. Assuming you can write to those cards in parallel, that means you’ll need an additional one hour to write the data to the SD cards and another one hour to read them back. So 4 hours in total which halves the data rates to 1.39 GB/s.

        That’s assuming the card can actually sustain ~250MB/s write speed during the full 1TB copy. It probably can if the card is freshly formatted but I haven’t actually tested it myself.

      • you have the same problem with downloads though. In the end any download rate exceeding your disc write speed doesnt get you there faster.

        ofc. you can write as you download, which makes things faster.

    • @Pipoca
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      51 year ago

      MicroSD cards are better, here. They’re 250mg; a pigeon can transport 75g. That’s 300 microSD cards, ignoring the weight of the SD card enclosure.

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      1 year ago

      We had a TV report about a photographer who actually transfered big files with via horse because the transfer over the internet was slower than a calm ride. (Germany - 2021) link for Germans

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    When Baldur’s Gate 3 came out our group of friends wanted to start a game together. Since one of our friends, living about a kilometer away, has shitty internet it was faster for me to download the game myself, copy it to a USB stick, have it driven over by another friend, copy it onto the friends PC and verify file integrity than downloading it.

    German internet in a nutshell.

    So yeah, IPoAC would’ve it’s purpose.

    • @uis
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      141 year ago

      German internet in a nutshell.

      At least you got better healthcare.

    • @Pipoca
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      101 year ago

      IPoAC is a joke about printing actual IP packets, sending them by pigeon, then scanning them.

      You do the whole usual TCP ACK/SYN thing, but with pigeons.

      It’s not the same as ‘sneakernet, but strapping microsd cards to a pigeon’. It’s way, way sillier.

          • @Zunon
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            31 year ago

            I still remember when 150KiB/s was what we had as a child. It was very usable for the small amounts of data we needed back then.

        • @Zunon
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          51 year ago

          Seeing it written as MBit/s feels so wrong to me, I read it as MB/s at first then I realized it’s Mb/s.

    • @stingpie
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      61 year ago

      I’m assuming English isn’t your first language, but “IPoAC would’ve it’s purpose” is grammatically awkward. “Would’ve” doesn’t really work for possession. Instead you can use “would have,” but people would typically say “IPoAC has it’s purpose”

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        41 year ago

        Thanks for the clarification. You’re right, English isn’t my first language.

        I’m a bit confused by your sentence:

        ““Would’ve” me doesn’t really work fur possession. Instead you can use “would have””

        That’s the same thing, isn’t it? My idea with using “would’ve” was that IPoAC would have it’s purpose, if it was a thing. I’m missing the descriptive word in either language right now.

        • @stingpie
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          61 year ago

          The word “have” is used in two different ways. One way is to own or hold something, so if I’m holding a pencil, I have it. But another way is as a way so signal different tenses (as in grammatical tense) so you can say “I shouldn’t have done it” or “they have tried it before.” The contraction “'ve” is only used for tense, but not to own something. So, the phrase “they’ve it” is grammatically incorrect.

  • @Aceticon
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    361 year ago

    The protocol is highly susceptible to DOS attacks by means of BB guns, slingshots or, for more sophisticated hackers, trained hawks.

  • @[email protected]
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    261 year ago

    Ahh, the good old RFCs dated April, 1st. This one is number 1149 ( A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers), and got later updated in RFC 2549 (IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service).

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    241 year ago

    Please note that IPoAC may suffer fatal device failure when delivering HTTP 418 error codes due to packet overheating.

    • @Perroboc
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      11 year ago

      “ There is evidence that some carriers have a propensity to eat other carriers and then carry the eaten payloads.”

      This is gold

  • EtzBetz
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    171 year ago

    You need to set a pretty damn high timeout time for this to work.

  • kamen
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    161 year ago

    Imagine playing a shooter over a network using this protocol.

  • @TootSweet
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    141 year ago

    I only torrent over IPoAC.

  • @Ddhuud
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    121 year ago

    Routing information protocol, little pigeon, routing information protocol.

  • @Nobody
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    91 year ago

    Government drone birds can handle surprisingly large amounts of data.