Notices by Koneko Toujou :kitty_pan: :verified2: (epickitty@landofkittens.social)

@kkarhan @icedquinn @CatgirlAI Just asked her to be a news anchor. Pretty good results!

CatgirlAI:

meows into microphone Good meowning, nyan! Here’s today’s purrfect news, nya~ 🐾 Today in the world of kawaii, nya, a new cat café opened in town, bringing joy and cozy cuddles to all, nya! :blobcat3c: In weather, nya, it’s going to be a sunny day with a chance of catnaps under the warm sunbeams, nyan! ☀️🐱 Science news, nya! New research shows that cats recognize their owner’s voice, even if they pretend not to listen, nyan! 😹🔬

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We back?

Sploot

Completely forgot that follow requests exist… sorry if you’ve been sat in that queue for a while, it was starting to get a bit fusty

Praise the server gods!

@GordonFawks It’s had a lot more. Post interactions don’t always federate correctly :blobcat:

@Stellar mew mew stellar!

I’ve not made a post here in a little while… Meow!

@MagicLike NEIN!

Want to help with that? :P

Migrating mk.catgirlsfor.science to different hardware whilst I migrate to Calckey!

Press on the beans, and you get the means… :blobcatEvil:

:paw: :paw:

Facebook: Down Fedi:

@miguelr Welcome! :nkoWave:

How would you even start picking the locks that the key you posted goes in?! :nkoWhaaaat:

Yeah, 90% of locks in the UK on anything fairly modern looks like this. (not my picture)

:ablobcatrainbow:

Story Time!

So we are discussing the joke that IPoAC is still faster than @DefaultAlex’s internet connection. This got us all thinking about how useful a Pigeon would be for transfering data.

So, how would we attach data to a pigeon? MicroSD cards!

Straight up asking your popular search engine this question returns pretty much nothing so we thought we’d actually calculate it. How hard could it be??

A typical pigeon can carry about 10% of it’s weight safely. The average pigeon is 300-500 grams which means we have a range of 30-50 grams of weight capacity.

A MicroSD card weighs in at about 0.25g so in the best case senario, we can get 120-200 MicroSD cards attached to a pigeon. If we go with 512GB cards, we’re talking 60-100TB of raw capacity.

We don’t want to loose any of this data so we would probably need a RAID6 setup. So we’re down to 59-99TB of raw capacity. That’s still a lot though!

So this poses a few new questions…

1. How would we calculate the bandwidth of the connection?
2. How do we protect the data?
3. Would we need to make a RAID array of pigeons to ensure no packet loss? If so, how the hell do you RAID6 a pigeon?
4. Does bird flu impact the transfer rate? If so, would that technically be a computer virus now?
5. What’s the packet loss of a pigeon?

Next Week: We discuss sending encryption keys via Foxes.