2026-08-05 20:31 UTC
@pernia@cum.salon @phnt@fluffytail.org @VD15@pl.valkyrie.world technically you can make your own human operated filesystem with only dd.
dd if=video.mp4 of=/dev/sdb bs=1M seek=1024 count=100
will put the file 1024MB into the drive, then write that down in a notebook or something along with the number of 1M blocks it needs (100 in example)
Then you can "stream" it from the disk later by doing:
dd if=/dev/sdb bs=1M seek=1024 count=100 | mpv -
This is just how people used to operate tape drives back in the day, although they'd typically put it into a .tar before writing it to the medium (Tape ARchive)
As long as you can get a file output to stdout from some application, you can shit it straight to disk using ">", alternatively "| dd" if you want some extra control.
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@gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church 2026-08-05 21:17
@quad@akko.quad.moe @pernia@cum.salon @phnt@fluffytail.org @VD15@pl.valkyrie.world fun trick to hide stuff after the end of a partition