- Amazon’s 80 TB “Snowball” encrypted data-shipping appliance was discussed as a high-bandwidth alternative to internet transfer, priced at $200 per job, though noted to be restricted to Amazon ↔ customer traffic only.  
- Participants observed that Facebook’s frequent “content unavailable” messages for non-logged-in users are likely a deliberate friction tactic rather than a bug, reflecting the platform’s “move fast and break things” deployment culture.  
- The channel’s culture of exhaustive back-referencing was highlighted when a newcomer’s comment about Snowball was met with “someone hasn’t read the backlogs,” underscoring the expectation that members keep up with prior technical discussions.  
- No substantive links to papers, repositories, or new experimental protocols were shared during the logged period; conversation remained meta-level, focusing on platform behavior and logistics rather than novel research.