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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)
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[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Well the missing socks have to get sent somewhere... /s

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So much for my fibre connection...

[–] HelloHotel@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is the same reason why you dont feed farrets string (or thread, etc...) /s

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!)

Redundancy!

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

You wouldn't download a sock

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

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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