Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon.
www.washingtonpost.com
Internet speeds have come a long way since the days of the dial-up modem, but sometimes you can’t beat the millennia-old method of carrier pigeon.

Today’s the day Jeff Geerling makes it to the Washington Post for a decent story about carrier pigeons vs. Ethernet. Very fun to see as both a homelabber and newspaper person.

  • MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The boxes of papers on an airplane seat in The Post come to mind. I’ve also seen encrypted hard drives being mailed to contractors with keys sent out-of-band afterwards.

    There are a lot of good reasons to carry data around.