As long as it is somewhat original, a new cat picture will never fail to make me happy. The Internet's quintessential use will always persist. Cat pictures.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Government researcher: we've invented a way to make our research stored redundantly across the country, were now safe from nuclear war destroying our intelligence system!

Wait, why is this full of cat pictures?!

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The real trick is to cryptographically embed important information into cat pictures and disseminate them; if you ever lose all your proper backups, millions of people on the internet will have saved and spread your cat-backups, just need to find the pictures again

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

...until it turns out compression has killed the message

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Gonna need a lot more parity bits than regular old Hamming code

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Ahh, but Kate Monster, what do you think they do AFTER?"

Trekkie Monster.

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Grab your dick and double click!