[dentalperson]

It would be mostly quiet (remember that humans only hear up to ~20 kHz).

Sure, this is a joke today, but if we continue down our current path, we would probably hit ultrasonic rates in the not too distant future.

The video was fun and insightful to watch. Big fan of sonification of computer processes. We can hear such a large and important range of frequencies (more than the 'audible range' because we hear impulses in the subsonic range as events) and it works as a nice complementary in real time for an experience that charts can't convey.

[lynx23]

I talked to a scientist who works on sonificantion over a cofee once. Whats interesting is, that they keep finding applications where sonification is superior to visualisation. it boils down to continuous monitoring being more efficient via an audio channel, because humans are not really able to focus on a monitor without occasional distractions. If you do the sonification right, its also easier to detect subtle changes over time.

[teekert]

So true. Although I often prefer silence, the sounds my devices make can be really nice. For example I open my Nextcloud app on my phone and the drives in my server start rattling. I find it soothing.

Reminds me of Picard lecturing a young engineer on how in the old days they “were trained to detect some warp core misalignment of .2 micron” (or something).

I understand that some astronomers listen to radio telescope outputs and my car mechanic can often hear what’s wrong in a heartbeat.

[stavros]

Back when HDDs were noisy, I could tell when my computer was stressed, or about to crash, or hung, etc just from the drive noise.

Similarly now with when my 3D printer is leveling, or about to finish the print, or which part it's printing.