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

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.

Reducing Benn Jordan down to just “enthusiast” is wild.

We're finally getting tweets back

Quick, someone teach it the soundtrack to Doom

This is a whole new twist over RFC 1149: IP over Avian Carriers

Hear me out! Bird factor authentication!

Please honk your seagull to unlock your ed25519-sk ssh key

Some people will use anything but cloud storage

Well of course NSA's spy device can store information. We've known this for decades

But, birds aren't real.

good to see there are new developments in the IP Over Avian Carrier space

Data on a bird ? This will convince people about birds being drones more now.

Birds are the OG text device. Tie a little note and send them on their way.

One famous example is Cher Ami, a pigeon who delivered a message that saved a group of surrounded American soldiers during WW1.

Edit: WW1 and WW3 /s

Not to be a wet blanket, but every time this comes up I get annoyed by some factual inaccuracies in the articles about this. It is not digital! He drew an image on a computer, but converted it to an analogue spectrogram to store on the bird. That's neat as hell, but it's not digital. The image that he got back was slightly corrupted.

Now I would be fascinated to see a follow-up seeing if you can actually modulate a digital signal and have is survive a round trip through the bird bit-for-bit accurate. I suspect in reality it would be much lower data rate, but definitely not nothing!

Me, everytime I see a bird:

Birds are totally organic organisms. Rightttttt. BIRDS ARENT REAL!!!!

Inb4 Doom can now run on birds.

Only a matter of time before megacorps put ads and a subscription service on bird calls, now. 😫

The video is by Benn Jordan, I wholeheartedly recommend this video and entire channel. Guy is a world treasure.

While it sounds great in practice, I find it suspicious that they never mention the the final bill.

What if I have bird blindness and I try and teach it to a duck?

back to carrier pigeons?

?Fun? fact: In a steampunk world, birds would serve as CPUs. America experimented with using pigeons for bomb guidance. As it turned out, three birds pecking at an image had pretty good accuracy. They ultimately lost out to silicon, due to the size, maintenance, and training time.