Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic

indigomirage@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, socks can turn into a lot of data really fast, especially if they are multithreaded. Which is why I only use single threaded socks to protect my dataplan.

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  • indigomirage@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So much for my fibre connection…

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• NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SOCKS

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• billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!) I think we can safely assume which socks his washer is transmitting.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!)

    Redundancy!

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    • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I believe that fluids don’t, in general, compress. But maybe the trick is turning them to digital data first and then redundancy makes them very compressible.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The info in each sperm is effectively identical, so it’s still only 27.5 MB of data in the whole thing, just with a lot of redundancy for error detection / correction.

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• A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You wouldn’t download a sock

  I’m too lazy to Photoshop it into a real image

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• Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’re being downloaded to Russia and then sold back to the west to finance the war!

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