Would be more impressive if birds were real.
bird based storage
Submitted 2 months ago by nave@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, if anything, this just proves they’re trancieving digital data. Not a good look for things that supposedly are not government surveillance drones. Imagine the mental gymnastics of someone still calling them animals afrer uploadung a digital file to something that looks like it’s covered in patchwork taxidermy from mammal and reptile parts and that spends all day flying, watching people, marking targets with paint and making jerky mechanical movements. I guess it takes all kinds to make a world, but still.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What if all songbirds today are just singing encoded messages from a long dead civilization, passed down through generations of birds, and we just haven’t realised it yet
devilish666@lemmy.world 2 months ago
WereCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But the reason there is nothing obvious on the spectrogram is because it’s compressed data
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
*hits bong*
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coupled with IP-over-avian-carrier, this would potentially make for an interesting concept.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
you could call it starlink
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Starlingk*
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And also make for a giant network of bird-dropping cataclysms weaving through the most populous areas.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Why is Idaho’s Internet infrastructure in the shape of a shitting llama?
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I literally just finished watching the video and open Lemmy to find this as the first post. That’s kinda crazy. It’s a great video. Just in case it hasn’t been posted yet here it is
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I love this dude’s work. He’s so chaotic, and it makes me happy to see someone thriving by leaning in their ADHD
warbond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Definitely chaotic good energy. Big fan of his videos.
hex@programming.dev 2 months ago
You know he makes music? It’s The Flashbulb :)
gabbath@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s great. Reminds me of Folding Ideas.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I love unhinged data storage methods. My favorite is storing data in internet server pings to australia: Harder Drive
A close runner up goes to Can you store a Pokemon silver save INSIDE of Pokemon Emerald? Adef made his own video on it in I Turned Pokemon Emerald into a Flash Drive
Anyone have more? This is like my favorite genre of internet nonsense
sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There was this perdon who encoded their data in video and uploaded it to YouTube.
hex@programming.dev 2 months ago
I liked this one a lot
makyo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can starlings teach their friends songs? It’d be neat if the PNG bird song was pass down through the generations for future interplanetary visitors to discover
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The analog distortion would be fun to watch propagate from bird to bird.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’d make for a great element in a modern remake of the movie, The Birds.
Researchers trying to reduce the distortion are tracking the patterns. They can’t figure it out until a main character, a blind audiologist who lost his vision in the first attack many decades ago, has an epiphany and suggests assembling the images in sequence to form a video. It shows a bird flying and flapping its wings. The researchers keep gathering data, making the video longer and more complex.The bird now also does loops and spins. The researchers set up remote microphones all over the world and network them with their computer so it can compile in real time.
We learn that blind main character has now trained himself to “see” the images that he hears. Main character and love interest colleague walk through the park discussing their work as a flimsy pretext to spend time together. All of a sudden, the birdsong changes. “Run, love interest!” says main character, but love interest won’t leave main character behind. The camera pans over to the computer screen in their laboratory, which overlooks the park. The video now shows another scene at the end, an enormous eagle shredding a person with its talons and beak.
That’s all I’ve got so far.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Birds are memes propagators into the future. Human civilization ends, but the starlings keep the memes alive… interesting idea for a story.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OOooh, what if we are spectrographing bird calls and suddenly we see a picture develop out of it. Or, you could use birds to store data and no one would ever know, like a spy thing.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…well, now it’s an animated .gif but each frame is a separate bird.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, but can Doom be played via birdsong?
elvith@feddit.org 2 months ago
Throlkim@lemmy.throlk.im 2 months ago
Here’s the video this is referencing, for those interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo Love his channel - he really does just spend months at a time following some ridiculous audio-based whim and he puts so much effort into it.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know him, and the video was really great.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
I love it too, I really enjoyed the 7 levels of concerning audio surveillance (or whatever it was called) as well. First vid I saw from them.
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Messenger carrier pigeons are back baby! Quick, toss your 401k into Big Bird Co.
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine trying to catch random birds one day in the not so distant future to see if it “contains” an image.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a concept in the Dune book series where the fremen use bats and birds who’s speech they can modify in a way that encoded any secret message they want and then they send the bird out and someone else can then catch the bird and decode it’s speech to get the message. That’s why in the Dune 2 movie there’s a bird menagerie inside the fremen caves
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds based. Imagine getting Rick rolled by a bird 🤣
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine finding that a bird “stored” a nude
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Damn I didn’t see you said this, I just posted the QR elsewhere in the comments when someone asked for an iPhone killcode
hex@programming.dev 2 months ago
They should have credited Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb, as the one who came up with this idea. Link to the video:
CuteLuciii@feddit.org 2 months ago
Revival of the carrier pigeon
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
you have heard about IP over avian carrier
now get ready for:
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Hate to be that guy, but PNG is a lossless format… Not sure bird based storage is lossless lol
askat@programming.dev 2 months ago
Can save a ZIP-bomb to a bird?
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s that weird symbol combination that kills iPhones if you text them to someone? I have a bird.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How many birds do I need for about 4 hours at 15 Mbps? I want to watch The Return of the King in 4k.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You might need a murder of crows for that one.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, that would be perfect! Our local avian rescue has had three unhomed crows for a while. I think they got another one recently, so it would be four good caws.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One standard murmur.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How many starlings do I need to store and play Doom?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dunno, but here’s an example of Doom over audio spectrography to help get you started. Sorry in advance for the devil link:
Doom spectrogram via the most wretched hive of scum and villainy that starts with the letter ‘R’
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Oh. You just play them the sound and they sing it?
pulls USB drive from backside of a pigeon
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh my God, you’re right! I think I just found one of their contractors:
www.thedronebird.com/products/
Quick! Get the word out! I probably don’t have much ti
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Time to update the video on hard drives no one wants.
medem@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
Reminds me of IP over avian carriers ☺
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
wolfrasin@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Local mocking birds still sing that car alarm that hasn’t been popular in at least a decade. They love it and they’re the only ones
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
why not .jxl?
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The starling won’t accept JPEG-XL until somebody else builds a high quality decoder in a memory-safe language like Rust
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months ago
Had this in my Watch Later. Nice spoiler.
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I saw this elsewhere and thought it was bs earlier, but this time I decided to check it out.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s in the first minute of the video.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Your starling enthusiast is named Sterling?
Spesknight@lemmy.world 2 months ago
X account is called Sterling, talking about a Starling, if you didn’t notice…
jackeroni@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Humanities backup
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IPoAC is going to get so much faster!
Glifted@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The video is rad if you haven’t seen it
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Benn Jordan is one of my favorite musicians, YouTubers, and people in the world. Highly recommended
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same, started following him about 6 months to a year ago and quickly became a fan
madthumbs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was nice, but a good test for the megabytes being claimed would be to reproduce a color photo with far more definition. PNG is a lossless format, and I’m pretty sure birds and spectrograms aren’t reproducing what they can do. (There’s a reason there’s only one example)
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I haven’t yet watched the video, but from the posted images, it looks like they converted the image itself to a frequency spectrum, so no image format encoding was involved before it reached the point of being audio.