Pingfs – a filesystem where the data is stored only ICMP Echo packets
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#2ICMP delay-line memory.
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#3ICMP delay-line memory.
Randomly accessed memory?
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#4Could do some crazy docker things with this. Imagine bouncing around your entire P2P net on a .bit domain. Makes popcorn time look like a bunch of amateurs.
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#5I think you've just found the first application where high latency is actually desirable!
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#6If we had space probes with ICMP support, you could use this to store data in the interplanetary æther.
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#7I think you've just found the first application where high latency is actually desirable!
Hi bandwidth is desirable too because it's delay * bandwidth. From my location I think the optimal place might be hawaii, the place with the highest delay bandwidth product I mean. It might be optimal for other reasons too.
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#8Could do some crazy docker things with this. Imagine bouncing around your entire P2P net on a .bit domain. Makes popcorn time look like a bunch of amateurs.
Could this be used to make networks of ultra-portable trackers?
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#9In the pre-smtp days, email links were over UUCP, which was often relayed via dial up lines which connected intermittently, on a schedule (e.g. every hour).
You also specified not just the destination, but also the route for the email to take, via a 'bang path': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path
Add in the situation of disk quotas for university students, but not email quotas, and you get the means, motive and opportunity for people to use the email spools of a mail servers around the world as an annex to their home directory...
Re: Pingfs – a filesystem where the data is stored only ICMP Echo packets
#10Can someone please explain what this does? I've read the readme, glanced through the code, and still have no idea.