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Comment by AkshayGenius

Only tangentially related, but on my MacBook Pro simply running

   cat /dev/random 
causes my terminal to hang and my speakers start emitting a loud buzzing sound until the terminal is force-quit or system is restarted.

I can understand the terminal not being able to handle the amount of data from /dev/random but for the speakers to start emitting sounds as a result of this is certainly very strange. Almost like /dev/random was being piped into /dev/audio or something. Anyone have an explanation?

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