i just realized that "payload", as in network packets for example, is composed out of "pay" + "load", i.e. the part of a commercial shipment that you would be paid for
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ do they call it a "data plane" because it planes the headers off the packet like a piece of wood
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