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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)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

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

[–] Buffalox 18 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So much for my fibre connection...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

SOCKS

[–] billiam0202 9 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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 3 points 8 months ago

You wouldn't download a sock

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

[–] sharun 2 points 8 months ago

Modem = Materializer and De-Materializer

[–] Plopp 2 points 8 months ago

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