Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?

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[+] 33 points 1 year ago (15 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    What happens when they just cut the underwater cables? Torrent over carrier pigeon for a linux distro would take ages

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sneakernet to the rescue. Some of you are too young to know about walking around with boxes full of disks.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It was trading CD-R's during my high school days.... good times. Napster was just starting to take off by the time we had a CD-R trading network set up, Napster just increased the amount of CD's that got passed around.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pigeon latency is horrible, but the bandwidth is pretty great. You could probably load up an adult pigeon with at least 12TB of media.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

    Just gonna leave this here for whoever wants to read more on the methodology and potential risks.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Over a 30-mile (48 km) distance, a single pigeon may be able to carry tens of gigabytes of data in around an hour, which on an average bandwidth basis compared very favorably to early ADSL standards, even when accounting for lost drives.

    Compared to what I use at home now, this sounds great

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    @Maroon I thought torrent technology to be a godsend for package managers.

    Why none of them use it?

    I mean, damn.

    @AnimalsDream

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