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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?"
No.
See? That was easy.
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For some fscking reason, this thing actually sounds appealing and coherent to me. Not to mention relaxing and understandable.
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I mean, c'mon, does Stephen Hawking really have time to read all this? And, this has to be the most tedious method of mirroring the kernel sources that I've ever "heard"
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It's still better than at least 90% of what counts as "music" today.
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I like my Autechre just fine, TYVM.
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.
... and then they built the supercollider.
wanting to prove that it's possible to install and run Linux on (nearly) any computer imaginable, but something tells me you're going to need a little more work in the patching, drivers, and other modifications department to get it running on H. sapiens wetware computers...just saying
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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.
lol it's like the begats in the bible.
Actually, around 87-89 in Hungary it wasn't uncommon for radiostations to broadcast homebrew C-64 programs. The C-64 casette-tape only used the audible spectrum by spec anyway.
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).
This just goes to show that this was set up by amateur wannabes. It's pronounced 'splat' or 'times', depending on context.
With no desire to follow TFA to the actual radio which must be slashdotted by now, do they say 'octothorpe' and 'exclamation mark' too?
shebang whacka-bin-whacka-essage
. . . you find Linux source code read by a text to speech synthesizer appealing and relaxing.
I quote: "However, this concept proves once more the advantages of open source over proprietary software..." WTF??? You could have a machine read ANY pointless information into a 'net radio. It's not like this is useful in any way. If Open Source needs to have its source code read over internet radio to demonstrate an advantage over proprietary software, it needs to crawl into a nice quiet corner, lay down, and die. You want real advantages? Get reliability, scalability, security. Those are Open Source (potential) advantages. Reading source code on the net radio station? What a waste of time.
When I started using computers, they used K7 tapes to store programs. You know, they were mostly used for audio, but since they were cheap, it was a perfect media for home computers of that time -- bits were converted to sound, mostly using some sort of frequency modulation. There was no Internet then (I know, how can one imagine a world without the Internet), so the only source of information about computers were magazines and an occasional TV or radio program. Well, there was a weekly radio program where I lived that broadcast computer programs -- the binary files themselves. You just pressed "record" in your tape recorder, hoping the transmission was good enough, and then you could load it in your computer. Sometimes, they broadcast ZX Spectrum, sometimes it was MSX programs. They usually worked well, but sometimes the noise in the transmission would cause a lot of errors. It was a very nice way to distribute the programs
You missed the obvious...
Oh my God... It's full of stars.
Reading code is like reading the dictionary - you have to read half of it before you can go back and understand it.
Access it? I'm pretty sure they wrote most of it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You mean like an MP3?