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minus-square@Pipoca@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink10•7 months agoIPoAC is a joke about printing actual IP packets, sending them by pigeon, then scanning them. You do the whole usual TCP ACK/SYN thing, but with pigeons. It’s not the same as ‘sneakernet, but strapping microsd cards to a pigeon’. It’s way, way sillier.
minus-square@Senseless@feddit.delinkfedilink-1•7 months agoYou know, explaining jokes doesn’t make them funnier.
minus-square@Saigonauticon@voltage.vnlinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoIt makes them funnier the next time I hear them, in a new context though :)
IPoAC is a joke about printing actual IP packets, sending them by pigeon, then scanning them.
You do the whole usual TCP ACK/SYN thing, but with pigeons.
It’s not the same as ‘sneakernet, but strapping microsd cards to a pigeon’. It’s way, way sillier.
You know, explaining jokes doesn’t make them funnier.
It makes them funnier the next time I hear them, in a new context though :)