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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

www.tomshardware.com

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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

www.tomshardware.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The owner was puzzled why a clothes washer would need so much data.
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      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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          This is the same reason why you dont feed farrets string (or thread, etc…) /s

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      SOCKS

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      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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        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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          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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        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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      You wouldn’t download a sock

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

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

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      Modem = Materializer and De-Materializer

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