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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.

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 176 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 89 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well, technically it has a built in backdoor...

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 85 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Do not what the bird?

Complement?

Conflagrate?

Carry in a cute baby stroller?

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, technically the beak connects directly to the cloaca.

[–] druidjaidan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Technically your mouth connects directly to your asshole...

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Starlings are cooler than you, though.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 days ago

Humans are worse: the original statement stands.