zygology

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by zygology 4mo ago
why would i want to take ownership in something that very clearly looks like a scam on paper. this IPO is to pay debts for failing tech.
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by zygology 4mo ago
and it turns out people can be convinced to overpay for hot air and "futurism" does that make it truly valuable?
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by zygology 4mo ago
have you considered the ethical implications of vibe coding while controlling a 2 ton projectile around living humans?
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by zygology 4mo ago
> you're mocking a sizeable proportion of the commenters on this site. some would call this god's work
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by zygology 3y ago
My understanding is that pretty much every modern init system has a service for mounting the devtmpfs, even if it's not in the fstab, and depending on the switch_root binary being used, mounts made in the initramfs may or may not be re
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by zygology 3y ago
It's also easy enough to just add a mount command to your initramfs init, or embed required device nodes in the CPIO.
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by zygology 3y ago
You can't make them on the filesystem itself, gen_init_cpio lets you specify device nodes to be created within the archive, but they are not actually created on the live system and do not require privileges. I made my own CPIO library:
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by zygology 3y ago
You don't actually have to make a device node, you can just create it directly within the CPIO archive.
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by zygology 3y ago
I've had good luck making environments in a qemu user chroot, then you can more or less just copy the whole filesystem to a SD card and boot it, considering the boot partition of course.
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by zygology 3y ago
I've been working on this for the last year or so: https://github.com/desultory/ugrd It's mostly made to work with Gentoo (uses pax-utils for finding dependencies), but should work with any distro. It does mo