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after a year of hiatus, i have release not one, not two, not three, but FOUR new blog posts, all linked together in a series! it does not go where you think it goes.

https://astrid.tech/2026/03/24/0/curl-to-dev-sda/

i put a lot of effort into this and i hope you enjoy!
curl > /dev/sda

How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd`

astrid dot tech
Mar 24 at 10:05amWeb
Show threadagatha  Mar 24
@astrid saving this to read soon!
Show threadspork (pathetic girlfailure)Mar 24
@astrid this is a fun read and a wild set of shenanigans
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@flamingspork hehe thanks! glad you liked it
Show threadmir Mar 24
@[email protected] this was amazing!
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@mir thank youuu!
Show threadVildisMar 24

@astrid awesome series of blog posts, i loved it

though now i need to wait 15 hours and lie in bed thinking if i have the same "unable to mount root fs" issue at work trying to do IPXE boot

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@vildis lmao yea low level os shit is so annoying
Show threadBrie ()Mar 24
@[email protected] this was a really awesome article (series)

I was already excited when you started posting about it initially and it did not disappoint

And now I kinda wanna see if I can get DNS and SSL cert verification inside of the chroot (which is obviously the only flaw in your setup here)
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@brie of course, nothing else is wrong here!

but im glad you liked it! god, this thing was going through editing hell, but the fact that it brings others joy brings me joy