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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every landline provider seems to be pivoting to VoIP now.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We do have a defined standard to send IP packets with avian carriers. It was even adapted for IPv6.

According to Wikipedia:

IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to operator error), and a response time ranging from 3,000 seconds (50 min) to over 6,000 seconds (100 min). Thus, this technology suffers from extremely high latency.

On 28 April 2001, IPoAC was implemented by the Bergen Linux user group, under the name CPIP (for Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol). They sent nine packets over a distance of approximately 5 km (3 mi), each carried by an individual pigeon and containing one ping (ICMP echo request), and received four responses.
Script started on Sat Apr 28 11:24:09 2001
 $ /sbin/ifconfig tun0
 tun0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:10.0.3.2  P-t-P:10.0.3.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:150  Metric:1
     RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0
     RX bytes:88 (88.0 b)  TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)

$ ping -c 9 -i 900 10.0.3.1
PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms

10.0.3.1 ping statistics

9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms

Script done on Sat Apr 28 14:14:28 2001

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As I recall, that demonstration was non-standard as they did not use the specified duct tape to attach the datagram to the carriers' legs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Error: Communication failed... We can't get the message off the messenger's legs. 😂