• Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Where do you see low bandwidth? Maybe over long distances but if I can give a pigeon a 1TiB USB stick and send it to the next city I bet it will be faster than uploading the data. If it arrives that is

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      5 months ago

      People seem to always forget, that pigeons only know their way home. So you still need to get your pigeon(s) to the person sending the data with the pigeon back to you, in which case you can just pickup the data now that you’re there yourself.

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        5 months ago

        I mean you have to have a monthly pidgin exchange (maybe tie the pidgins to the last pidgin to reset)

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          5 months ago

          At that point, why waste time with the pigeons? You have to meet anyway, just make it a data exchange instead and skip the pigeons completely. That also eliminates risk of packet loss with pigeons never arriving.

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            5 months ago

            When you can meet once every half year why would you meet monthly or once a week? Also, you can secretly tell the meeting point over pidgin.

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              5 months ago

              In a world with safe P2P via VPN and I2P, why would you use a pigeon? Then you never have to leave your house…or perhaps more importantly, you won’t need to feed potentially hundreds of carrier pigeons and clean their cages.

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                  5 months ago

                  It’s completely unenforceable though…

                  But even if it was, just use direct encrypted file transfers. Your ISP can’t detect anything illegal there.