• @[email protected]
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    1232 years 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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      792 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years 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

      • 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.

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        102 years 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.

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      42 years 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    342 years ago

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

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    262 years ago

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

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    272 years 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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      “ 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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    192 years ago

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

    • Malgas
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      132 years ago

      That said, the bandwidth of strapping microSD cards to carrier pigeons is actually pretty high.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    102 years ago

    Reminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating

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      122 years ago

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

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        12 years ago

        My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember

  • kamen
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    Imagine playing a shooter over a network using this protocol.

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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.

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      122 years 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.

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      42 years 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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        22 years 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.

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          32 years 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.