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Andréa, Canis Lanonbinary @CERESUltra9/30/2023, 12:58 PM

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dante, personally @dante9/30/2023, 6:17 AM

guy who refuses to store things in his closet and instead simply ships them to Alaska every month with a bad address so they get returned to his house in a few weeks. "it's free storage" "the government protects mail trucks" "it's a felony if anyone else opens it so it's completely secure"

#Invent a guy

everest @everest9/30/2023, 6:32 AM

when i was still teaching i'd give this assignment about inventing a speculative internet or fantasy network, and one of my students (https://joshuakery.com/ !) made an absolutely bonkers 50 page softbank style slide deck about an internet where media mail was MUCH cheaper than online storage. he got up in front of the room and pitched an enterprise solution for keeping your files backed up in a circular network of PO boxes. thing of beauty

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade9/30/2023, 6:29 AM

wait this is actually genius lmao

@Ruik9/30/2023, 2:39 PM

…this is how I would store items in World of Warcraft. Just mail them to an alt and then you have like 30 days it sits in your alt’s mail then 30 days it sits in you main’s mail on auto-return.

squircular reasoning @spiders9/30/2023, 4:00 PM

this is like the physical version of harder drive #1, which uses the ping protocol to use all of the publicly addressable internet as a free hard drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

fae of the seelie court @seeliefae10/1/2023, 4:05 AM

This is exactly what I was thinking too! Inventive solutions to problems with somewhat troubling failure rates

sparkleGoat @sparkle-goat10/1/2023, 3:45 PM

this reminds me of the project suckerpinch did where he stored data in the internet -- like within the ping and ping replies.
https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio?si=tHcjkQbeXk3__4kq

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/30/2023, 6:36 AM

I always wondered if NASA could extend the Voyager probes by exploiting the latency as delay line memory for the duration of a memory heavy operation

Aaron Gable @asg9/30/2023, 5:44 PM

This is how you get 17776

dante, personally @dante9/30/2023, 7:03 AM

horrific! i love it

Shy @TheShyWoof9/30/2023, 2:31 PM

That's the most chaotic neutral thing I've ever heard

Daniel Martin @fizbin9/30/2023, 4:01 PM

One year of Google Drive at the 2TB level is ~ $100.

A PO box is less than $60/year. Two 1TB USB drives are $40 if you want to go with the cheapest available.

In actuality, you'd want several of those drives and I don't know how many years/drive you'd realistically have to spread the cost over.

So it doesn't quite work out in this world, yet. However, it might not take much wiggling to get the prices to work out.

JP @vectorpoem9/30/2023, 4:04 PM

it probably still comes out way ahead of bitcoin mining in terms of carbon footprint!

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