27 points | by mig4ng 4 hours ago
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Reminds me of that AWS hard drive truck thing where your data is sent with quite the latency
Alas, Snowmobile has been retired:
<https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/amazon_snowmobile_del...> (2024).
> One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per packet.
:D
Horse heads have also been used historically to send messages of a certain nature.
With guaranteed receipt. Or at least, they cannot be refused.
> Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries
> Avian Carriers MAY eat the NATs.
There's always something I've not spotted / forgotten before with these
Bird Internet?
Bird Internets aren't real.
Disappointed there still isn't a protocol for sending messages in a bottle.
There ain't an RFC for morse code, either.
Send a raven to Pyongyang.
or you can just like, email them. Their overseas news agencies have email addresses
Reminds me of that AWS hard drive truck thing where your data is sent with quite the latency
Alas, Snowmobile has been retired:
<https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/amazon_snowmobile_del...> (2024).
> One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per packet.
:D
Horse heads have also been used historically to send messages of a certain nature.
With guaranteed receipt. Or at least, they cannot be refused.
> Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries
> Avian Carriers MAY eat the NATs.
There's always something I've not spotted / forgotten before with these
Bird Internet?
Bird Internets aren't real.
Disappointed there still isn't a protocol for sending messages in a bottle.
There ain't an RFC for morse code, either.
Send a raven to Pyongyang.
or you can just like, email them. Their overseas news agencies have email addresses