Linux Radio

An anonymous reader writes "This might very well be the nerdiest site we'll ever encounter... Linux Radio is an online radio station broadcasting the Linux kernel! Each time someone visit the site, a random source file is selected and read loudly by a virtual speaker materialized through the open source speech synthesizer eSpeak. Will it prove useful to anyone is probably a difficult question to answer, but the excitement provided is worth experiencing at least once. However, this concept proves once more the advantages of open source over proprietary software making such achievements impossible : whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"

Comments

Not nearly nerdy enough

[dangitman]

If it were being broadcast on a shortwave radio band rather than internet radio, it might classify as one of the nerdier things ever. The internet is just so conventional.

Binary?

[digitalPhant0m]

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whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?
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Good thing it's actually reading the source code, and that I have a volume nob.

Final goal

[gmuslera]

Make all kernel developers to give some time to improve eSpeak and/or getting new voices for it. Will give a whole new dimension to that radio if is the Linus Torvalds voice the one reading the kernel source (and probably more interesting, the comments attached to it).

Re:Holy cow !!!

[unity100]

its as if someone is whispering very fundamental, existential information from aeons away, from the back of your head.

Re:Holy cow !!!

[Rogerborg]

Thumbs up. There are emergent patterns with little "comment breaks" overlaid for spice. I genuinely find it comforting and calming. It's like Vulcan poetry.