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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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Billiam@lemmy.world
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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.

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

Redundancy!

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XTL@sopuli.xyz
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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.

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merc@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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