Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by munk-a on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:09PM (#31158570)

Unfortunately they'll only have access to the old style disk Netflix and those envelopes will come with a hell of a postage cost on them. /s

More seriously, I don't know why you assume Netflix would be accessible or a priority for settling on Mars - or that Youtube wouldn't be.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by motoboi on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:26PM (#31159476)

Netflix is served from a Netflix openconnect appliance inside your ISP datacenter, not from the cloud.

They just send one to Mars and it’s good to go.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by memetomancer on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:16PM (#31158651)

because Netflix data is measure in GB / week, while Youtube is measure in TB / second.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by munk-a on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:25PM (#31158767)

I assume that the primary conveyance of data would just be a hard drive (or other storage method) actually sent to mars with the mission. Just like the bundle of wikipedia you could order on a CD, curate stuff of particularly high quality and send it with the crew.

For live transmission I think signal issues will cause everything to need to be pre-buffered basically to completion so streaming is not a realistic thing to consider. For instance, twitch is probably just flat out unless we have some pretty insane developments in general data transmission reliability (probably including FTL data transmission which, who knows, might some day be possible through entanglement).

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