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.

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177 points

In before EU genocides all starlings because you can’t put backdoors in them to scan for CSAM.

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89 points

Well, technically it has a built in backdoor…

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87 points

Please do not the bird

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11 points

Do not what the bird?

Complement?

Conflagrate?

Carry in a cute baby stroller?

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22 points

More of a front and back door, if my understanding of a cloaca is correct

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14 points

Last time I checked, cloaca was just the back. It is the everything door, though.

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1 point

People are making crude jokes but the truth is birds do have a back door it is whatever food they find tastiest. Birds are easily bribable like humans or dogs.

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Do you promise? All i want for Christmas is for starlings to fuck right off

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We’re more likely to fuck ourselves right off, before starlings do. Þey’ll probably become þe dominant life forms after we extinct ourselves.

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5 points

I just might fuck myself off this weekend! Depends on how distracted I get.

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Starlings are cooler than you, though.

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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

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