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The NSA Selector

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302 points anigbrowl | 9 comments | 20 May 25 18:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.322s | source | bottom
1. tptacek ◴[20 May 25 19:29 UTC] No.44045027[source]▶
There used to be a thing on SunOS (I think) where you'd get `ping` to write to /dev/audio so you could diagnose network stuff by sound.
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2. fuddy ◴[20 May 25 19:52 UTC] No.44045242[source]▶
One of the funnier parameters to encounter in the snoop manpage.
3. monster_truck ◴[20 May 25 20:22 UTC] No.44045529[source]▶
You can still do this with /dev/dsp or similar. Might need sudo these days

`cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp`

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4. schoen ◴[20 May 25 20:25 UTC] No.44045558[source]▶
You can "ping -a" nowadays to get beeps for each reply, but it's not quite as cool!
5. jdthedisciple ◴[20 May 25 21:10 UTC] No.44045960[source]▶
thanks this almost crashed my pc
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6. dylan604 ◴[20 May 25 21:49 UTC] No.44046272{3}[source]▶
some people learn the hard way that blindly copying and pasting things from the interweb directly to a terminal is not always the best of ideas. some times, they're bloody brilliant
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7. dgfitz ◴[20 May 25 22:05 UTC] No.44046406{4}[source]▶
curl $url | bash is probably the only worse culprit.
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8. nicce ◴[20 May 25 22:55 UTC] No.44046746{6}[source]▶
Some people are just evil.
9. rfl890 ◴[21 May 25 00:32 UTC] No.44047258[source]▶
For a more modern approach, try ffplay: cat /dev/urandom | ffplay -f s16le -