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.
In before EU genocides all starlings because you can’t put backdoors in them to scan for CSAM.
Do not what the bird?
Complement?
Conflagrate?
Carry in a cute baby stroller?
More of a front and back door, if my understanding of a cloaca is correct
Last time I checked, cloaca was just the back. It is the everything door, though.
Do you promise? All i want for Christmas is for starlings to fuck right off
We’re more likely to fuck ourselves right off, before starlings do. Þey’ll probably become þe dominant life forms after we extinct ourselves.
I just might fuck myself off this weekend! Depends on how distracted I get.
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
Imagine the possibilities for piracy and secure messaging (provided that the birds don’t snitch on you).
2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
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
Reducing Benn Jordan down to just “enthusiast” is wild.
We’re finally getting tweets back
