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bit lossy, innit?
Well yeah, but this is just in development. In production you would implement a starling with error correction.
First you need approval and a Jira ticket. Then they’re gonna approve you for a pigeon at best.
The compression is a bit rough but the network speed is an improvement over a traditional IPoAC system
Lossy image storage was one of the things that brought the internet to the masses.
and yes… ;)
Was gonna say, birds are lossy as fuck.
The original video about this is from Benn Jordan, and like all his videos, it’s incredible.
I saw him at a festival! He went up onstage to play, then realized all of the equipment was fucked. He then proceeded to play an impromptu improv set and it was one of my favorite sets I’ve ever seen. Liberal use of vocoder. He’s so talented!
I hate that starling are invasive because I love them so much. There’s one near us that always perches on our neighbor’s roof and says WEEEW at me when I leave for work. Naturally I reply in kind.
It thinks y’all are gonna mate
🥵
and it ain’t wrong!
It’s just an animal batman, there’s no laws against… wait there are? Ah shit. handcuffed and sent away
This would be great for an “oh fuck off” plot point in a cyberpunk thriller or something. ‘What do you mean the only copy of the ____ is on the corpo’s pet raven’
Officially stolen for my Cyberpunk Red campaign. Thanks, Satan!
I was pretty enthralled by a lot of the stuff in this video. Kinda wanna try birdnet-pi now!
a very minor nitpick: it’s not a PNG at all, it’s a lot fuzzier than being an actual image format. but I get that he’s gotta dumb down the video title so it’s not really a big deal
The original file was a PNG. It stopped being a PNG when it was encoded as spectrogram of an audio file. Obviously in the bird’s memory the data is neither png nor any other machine-readable file format, but electrochemical signals.
And when recovered, the image resembles a drawing of a bird with quite a bit less detail, but also a somewhat horizontal line through the middle of it.
I’m guessing one could make about 250 drawings that can be reliably distinguished in the bird’s call, storing one byte with decent reliability, which can be boosted at scale with Reed-Solomon. The “hundreds of kilobytes of uncompressed data” claim is ridiculous, I can “make” 4 MB of data by taking a 16MP photo of a 10-byte phone number.
Finally, USBird storage
You wouldn’t download a bird!
Would if they were real.
This joke makes no sense in this context you idiot! Oh it’s me…
Benn Jordan’s videos are great.
I give it 2 weeks before some goofs have made the birds sing the shape of a penis.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549.html
I patiently await the Internet of Birds.
Still more compatible than webp
It would be interesting to know how long these signals can persist in birdsong before the information is lost to the bird telephone game. Could it be possible to encode a secret message into birdsong long term?
What if our memes are just super-intelligent aliens storing a backup of their critical knowledge in the collective consciousness of billions of humans?
raptor on green background, its talon pressed against its chin as it ponders
42 is the answer
But what is the question?
We downloaded a whole country to a bunch of birds!
Tap for spoiler
“I ran” - A Flock of Seagulls
The media-centric broadcast extension to IP-over-avian we’ve all been waiting for.
Can the bird sing the epstein files though?
Sadly the bird killed itself before it could repeat the message.
