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.
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
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Quick, someone teach it the soundtrack to Doom
The Trent Reznor version please.
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Hear me out! Bird factor authentication!
Please honk your seagull to unlock your ed25519-sk ssh key
I've been honking my seagull all morning, until my wife came in and caught me...
Now what do I do?
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good to see there are new developments in the IP Over Avian Carrier space
Though this proprietary implementation of cloud storage for IPoAC is very innovative, it's really only useful for enthusiasts of the protocol and it comes with some security concerns. Writing data to the storage is inconsistent and requires a lot of effort on the uploader's part. And if you do manage to get the data to write properly, there's no guarantee retrieving the data will be lossless.
The most worrying part for me, however, is that there's no guarantee that the data can be removed from the cloud without obliterating the server it's stored on or waiting for the device to degrade over time. Until these are addressed I don't think we'll see widespread adaptation.
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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
Is it a subscription though? Investors like that
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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.
Me, everytime I see a bird:
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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.
While it sounds great in practice, I find it suspicious that they never mention the the final bill.
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Do not what the bird?
Complement?
Conflagrate?
Carry in a cute baby stroller?
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While it sounds great in practice, I find it suspicious that they never mention the the final bill.
not that kind of bird
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Me, everytime I see a bird:
better than me:
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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
Humans are worse: the original statement stands.
