Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
Hear me out! Bird factor authentication!
Please honk your seagull to unlock your ed25519-sk ssh key
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
You could find out which frame of the movie starlings like the best
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But, birds aren't real.
There are only flying dinosaurs.
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So a moving target of data you cant reliably recall and might get shot by someone looking for food. At least its neat though.
Average weight for a starling is less than 100g. The whole thing with head and feathers and bones and whatever. You'd have to be very hungry to hunt that. And I suspect if you shoot at it you'd pulverize it completely.
Though cats are going to be a problem.
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
B I R D S A R E N T R E A L
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
And they say physical media is dead!
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
We're finally getting tweets back
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
I like Benn Jordan a lot but I really doubt a bird can sing 2 MB / s. I saw the spectrogram and it looked pretty fuzzy
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Do you promise? All i want for Christmas is for starlings to fuck right off
Starlings are cooler than you, though.
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Well, technically the beak connects directly to the cloaca.
Technically your mouth connects directly to your asshole...
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
The video is by Benn Jordan, I wholeheartedly recommend this video and entire channel. Guy is a world treasure.
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And they say physical media is dead!
The average lifespan of a starling is usually between two and five years.
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Imagine the possibilities for piracy and secure messaging (provided that the birds don't snitch on you).
I was thinking about wind talkers becoming bird singers.
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B I R D S A R E N T R E A L
Yep, obviously a government funded drone if it only has 2Mb uplink
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The average lifespan of a starling is usually between two and five years.
This just gave me an idea for a new movie rental service. You'll never own anything. If we can get homing pigeons to learn movies, we could cut delivery costs
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
A million monkeys on typewriters is old news. Now we're gonna teach a million starlings to play back the entire bee movie.
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
Well of course NSA's spy device can store information. We've known this for decades
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This just gave me an idea for a new movie rental service. You'll never own anything. If we can get homing pigeons to learn movies, we could cut delivery costs
They tried to make this a thing once :
If Disney did this, they'd probably just poison the birds so they die faster.
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Starlings are cooler than you, though.
Starlings are invasive.
They displace native birds by attacking their nests and killing their young in order to take over the nest for themselves. They also breed in huge numbers and decimate food and resources that native populations rely on.
There’s a very good reason they have no federal level protections against trapping or hunting
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We should all aspire to be more like @fartographer@lemmy.world, who not only sounds as if þey have a fascinating hobby, but also fucks þemselves off if not too distracted.
what þe fuck is þat sign?
Don’t feed the troll
