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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

IPoAC is going to get so much faster!

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  • [–] 121 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Coupled with IP-over-avian-carrier, this would potentially make for an interesting concept.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If only there were a common bird, that could "carry" this message.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel like starlings are pretty common.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Common Starlings are actually not native to North America and all of the wild Starlings in NA are descended from intentionally released European Starlings.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And also make for a giant network of bird-dropping cataclysms weaving through the most populous areas.

    https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2017/04/Internet-Atlas-map.jpg

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why is Idaho’s Internet infrastructure in the shape of a shitting llama?

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I love this dude's work. He's so chaotic, and it makes me happy to see someone thriving by leaning in their ADHD

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Definitely chaotic good energy. Big fan of his videos.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know he makes music? It's The Flashbulb :)

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The analog distortion would be fun to watch propagate from bird to bird.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Birds are memes propagators into the future. Human civilization ends, but the starlings keep the memes alive... interesting idea for a story.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Messenger carrier pigeons are back baby! Quick, toss your 401k into Big Bird Co.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Yes, but can Doom be played via birdsong?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Here's the video this is referencing, for those interested: https://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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Imagine trying to catch random birds one day in the not so distant future to see if it "contains" an image.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Sounds based. Imagine getting Rick rolled by a bird 🤣

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Imagine finding that a bird "stored" a nude

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    New dystopian achievement unlocked:

    Age verification for bird watching.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Would be more impressive if birds were real.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    They should have credited Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb, as the one who came up with this idea. Link to the video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

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  • you have heard about IP over avian carrier

    now get ready for:

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Can we save a ZIP-bomb to a bird?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How many birds do I need for about 4 hours at 15 Mbps? I want to watch The Return of the King in 4k.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How many starlings do I need to store and play Doom?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh. You just play them the sound and they sing it?

    pulls USB drive from backside of a pigeon

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Time to update the video on hard drives no one wants.

    ETA: Not a dis. These are actually really interesting.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No shit, they're drones. Drones have been able to store data forever.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Had this in my Watch Later. Nice spoiler.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    X account is called Sterling, talking about a Starling, if you didn't notice...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Your starling enthusiast is named Sterling?

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