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
I love this dude’s work. He’s so chaotic, and it makes me happy to see someone thriving by leaning in their ADHD
Definitely chaotic good energy. Big fan of his videos.
You know he makes music? It’s The Flashbulb :)
HES THE FLASHBULB? I LVOE HIS MUSIC AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW
You know he makes music? It’s The Flashbulb :)
Benn Jordan is one of my favorite musicians, YouTubers, and people in the world. Highly recommended
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
*hits bong*
But the reason there is nothing obvious on the spectrogram is because it’s compressed data
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
There was this perdon who encoded their data in video and uploaded it to YouTube.
Would be more impressive if birds were real.
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.
Can we save a ZIP-bomb to a bird?
What’s that weird symbol combination that kills iPhones if you text them to someone? I have a bird.
you have heard about IP over avian carrier
now get ready for:
Imagine trying to catch random birds one day in the not so distant future to see if it “contains” an image.
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
Sounds based. Imagine getting Rick rolled by a bird 🤣
Imagine finding that a bird “stored” a nude
New dystopian achievement unlocked:
Age verification for bird watching.
“You must be 18 years or older to view the following bird: Dickcissel”
Boobies & Tits are both done for as well.
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Revival of the carrier pigeon
Coupled with IP-over-avian-carrier, this would potentially make for an interesting concept.
you could call it starlink
Starlingk*
Storklink
Starkink
If only there were a common bird, that could “carry” this message.
I feel like starlings are pretty common.
Common Starlings are actually not native to North America and all of the wild Starlings in NA are descended from intentionally released European Starlings.
I believe you’re right. There are a few other common birds that are invasive too, including pigeons, if I remember correctly.
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
Why is Idaho’s Internet infrastructure in the shape of a shitting llama?
Why is Idaho’s Internet infrastructure in the shape of a shitting llama?
That’s probably because Idaho’s Internet-using population is in the shape of a shitting llama.
Just Idaho things
Is this solarpunk?
Biopunk.
Ecopunk
Steganography. Smuggling data in migratory bird brains.
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.
Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know him, and the video was really great.
Yes, but can Doom be played via birdsong?
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-5g5bowhy not .jxl?
The starling won’t accept JPEG-XL until somebody else builds a high quality decoder in a memory-safe language like Rust
