You can "ping -a" nowadays to get beeps for each reply, but it's not quite as cool!

You can still do this with /dev/dsp or similar. Might need sudo these days

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

For a more modern approach, try ffplay: cat /dev/urandom | ffplay -f s16le -

thanks this almost crashed my pc

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

curl $url | bash is probably the only worse culprit.

One of the funnier parameters to encounter in the snoop manpage.