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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I saw some references. Its a crazy world!

Also saw: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments which made my day.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did not know this one. There are risks however!

“Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”

[–] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 1 month ago

Never mind all the dropped packets when they come across prey too good to pass up.

[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Imagine sending an http request for brewing coffee over IPoAC and what you get back an hour later is 418: I'm a teapot

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Instead of data loss, you get carrier loss.

[–] 0xDREADBEEF@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

A neat side-effect of GraphQL being transport agnostic is that you can do things like GraphQL over a websocket or avian carrier :)