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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I was thinking about wind talkers becoming bird singers.

A million monkeys on typewriters is old news. Now we're gonna teach a million starlings to play back the entire bee movie.

You could find out which frame of the movie starlings like the best

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

A murmuration could do it

Musician/Wizard/Activist

The breadth of capability this guy has is insane to me. Almost every time I watch one of his videos I find that he's managed to basically gain a new field of expertise. It's really impressive.

Do you need five starlings to sing a pentagram?

The Trent Reznor version please.

But. I mean. The data COULD reach the clouds I mean... Bird....

It’s cloud storage and terrestrial storage. And it’s multi cloud. It’s the ultimate cloud hybrid!

This only seems to support the theory

There are only flying dinosaurs.

Lol ok there might be no real birds left but they definitely exist in the fossil record, it was likely the inventions of trains that drove birds to the next highest dimension (which isn't real, hence birds were real but now they are not).

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.

better than me:

They're just covering up the truth of the time cube

Latency tho....

not that kind of bird

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Ducks? That’s quackery.

What's the deal with the parrot?

Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.

They ultimately lost out to silicon

for now....

There was an amusing short story about a guy who could do actual math in his head (I think it was by Asimov).

Edit: found it, it's "The Feeling Of Power" by Asimov.

They ultimately lost out to silicon

Fuckin computers taking birds' jobs.

Yep, obviously a government funded drone if it only has 2Mb uplink

Pigeon guided missile but instead of pigeon it's a parrot and sings relevant source code in hex and an interpeter assembles it.

(I hate the last 4 words that sentence I made.)

They didn’t have ultrasonic microphones at the dawn of computation

Who on earth is gonna shoot a starling for food?

Have you seen starlings? They can fit in the palm of your hand.

Closest I’ll do is call it Xitter (pronounced zitter)