Comment on 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

khannie@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And they say physical media is dead!

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The average lifespan of a starling is usually between two and five years.

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This just gave me an idea for a new movie rental service.

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      • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They tried to make this a thing once : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay

        If Disney did this, they’d probably poison the birds so they die faster.

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      • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Is it a subscription though? Investors like that

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• faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A murmuration could do it

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• twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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• wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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