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Blew My Mind Into Orbit

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Hm, I wrote a btrfs tool once that operates on an unmounted btrfs partition (so I can introduce forbidden states).
And I wrote a normal fuse-based emulated fs to fool a game into loading my custom infinite world as a save.

What more do I need to reach dao?

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The troubles between stage 2 and 6 are probably realizing dirs are not files, and seeing that device and driver files are different things from data files. Then stage 6 would be realizing that filesystems themselves just sit on device files. The directories and data files are in the device files. In truth, everything is a device file.

But then, I propose a stage 7. Because when you trace it all back, with mounts pointing to device files sitting in mounted file systems, you see that /dev is a tempfs, mounted in a tempfs, in which device files are "mounted". The fondamental root, /, is underneath the root filesystem a tempfs too. At boot, the kernel makes a tempfs, and later overlays the rootfs mounted from the /dev mounted in the root tempfs.
Everything is a filesystem, ever,thing is mounted. The true files, device files, are mounted too. They are the mounting of a kernel module in the same way a directory - a filesystem - is a mounted kernel module.
The Linux world is a ying and yang between dir structures and mounted kernel modules. In all of this, data files, the "true files", don't even show up. At the end, it's just the kernel talking to itself.

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Or non bendy, like metal. Tube does a curve, straight thing won't fit.
But also this is likely made up. The pee tube does circular contractions just like your throat, moving stuff out very efficiently. Even something bendy shouldn't go in more than you push it and immediately come back.

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Stop Doing Swap Partitions

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btrfs's handling makes sense. The kernel talks to the disk directly, the file is just a pointer for what range it uses, and a placeholder for the filesystem. Something like raid, balancing, cow, all won't work because the kernel doesn't even go through btrfs to change the swap"file".
If you want a proper file as swapfile, with the corresponding overhead, you can make a regular file and mount it via loopback then use it as a swap device.

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I do the same and use ugrd. I think dracut would also work.
You just set the resume kernel parameter to the decrypted memory device with the swapfile offset.
As long as the initrd attempts a resume after it decrypted all volumes it'll work, and the initrd doesn't even need to understand why and what was resumed from

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Skynet is Inevitable

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This sounds so much like an authentic quote, but you wrote it right? I believed it until I just wanted to requote it myself and couldn't find it.
Well done
(I'll requote it anyway ofc, just now know it's yours not the movie's)

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I see the stylisric reason to only apply the effect around the object, but it isn't realistic.
That radiation isn't affected by optics, it'll go right through the lenses that flip and focus the image and the aperture that might be engaged, and will hit the entire sensor equally. The entire image should be that noisy.

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Shirley, you can't be serious

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closer to clones than individual consciousnesses

You know that genetic clones are still individuals with independent brains, right?
Like twins don't have to take on the same profession or have the same personality. They're about as mentally different as any other random person.

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Fucking based

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It's also completely fine under all international law.
Following copyright law is more like a trade agreement, so if you feel wronged enough as a nation it's completely uncontroversial to suspend all or all international copyright law and deal with the consequences (mainly the us being very salty about it).

The EU contingency for a US attack on Greenland for example is among other steps to suspend all US copyrights recognition and starve the US service industry.