2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
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Reducing Benn Jordan down to just “enthusiast” is wild.
Imagine the possibilities for piracy and secure messaging (provided that the birds don't snitch on you).

If you take control of enough birdhouses you can launch DDoS attacks.
Quick, someone teach it the soundtrack to Doom
Can you run Doom on it tho?
Asking the REAL question
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" just got a whole lot worse.
Haha, made you say cock
Some people will use anything but cloud storage
Well of course NSA's spy device can store information. We've known this for decades
good to see there are new developments in the IP Over Avian Carrier space
Though this proprietary implementation of cloud storage for IPoAC is very innovative, it's really only useful for enthusiasts of the protocol and it comes with some security concerns. Writing data to the storage is inconsistent and requires a lot of effort on the uploader's part. And if you do manage to get the data to write properly, there's no guarantee retrieving the data will be lossless.
The most worrying part for me, however, is that there's no guarantee that the data can be removed from the cloud without obliterating the server it's stored on or waiting for the device to degrade over time. Until these are addressed I don't think we'll see widespread adaptation.
Data on a bird ? This will convince people about birds being drones more now.
Birds are the OG text device. Tie a little note and send them on their way.
One famous example is Cher Ami, a pigeon who delivered a message that saved a group of surrounded American soldiers during WW1.
Edit: WW1 and WW3 /s
Me, everytime I see a bird:

Birds are totally organic organisms. Rightttttt. BIRDS ARENT REAL!!!!
Inb4 Doom can now run on birds.
Only a matter of time before megacorps put ads and a subscription service on bird calls, now. 😫
The video is by Benn Jordan, I wholeheartedly recommend this video and entire channel. Guy is a world treasure.
But, birds aren't real.
While it sounds great in practice, I find it suspicious that they never mention the the final bill.
What if I have bird blindness and I try and teach it to a duck?
?Fun? fact: In a steampunk world, birds would serve as CPUs. America experimented with using pigeons for bomb guidance. As it turned out, three birds pecking at an image had pretty good accuracy. They ultimately lost out to silicon, due to the size, maintenance, and training time.
There was an amusing short story about a guy who could do actual math in his head (I think it was by Asimov).
Edit: found it, it's "The Feeling Of Power" by Asimov.
Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.
They ultimately lost out to silicon
Fuckin computers taking birds' jobs.
I want this to be the next reveal in a movie or TV series, in the same fashion as the one of the Navajo "backing up" the Smoking Man's magnetic tape in The X-Files.

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