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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 168 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 84 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 82 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Do not what the bird?

Complement?

Conflagrate?

Carry in a cute baby stroller?

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 22 points 1 month ago

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

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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