<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Just played the demo! It&#39;s wonderful. I definitely plan on playing the full game once I&#39;ve gotten through more of my backlog.</p>

<p>tinkering with yaqwsx&#39;s JLC parametric search tooling today. realised that I can easily improve results by just working on some description data extraction stuff - it&#39;s just a case of spotting where data is commonly missing from parametrics but present in the item description, and writing a regex to do the extraction. so far I&#39;ve done D/L dimensions and ripple current on aluminium caps, and tempco on resistors. simple work but vastly improves the data quality.</p>

<p>pros of working on something while a headmate is watching: you get (oftentimes quite useful) advice</p><p>cons of working on something while a headmate is watching: sometimes i get really irritated at advice, while she gets bored if she doesn&#39;t have anything to do</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Ayn Rand was on to something, but only for women.</p>

<p>only if she shows no regret or remorse <a href="https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/AsmY4pn99Mbpvhh6IK" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.vlhl.dev/notice/AsmY4pn</span><span class="invisible">99Mbpvhh6IK</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://y.diskcat.com/@snep" class="u-url mention">@<span>snep</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox" class="u-url mention">@<span>xssfox</span></a></span> yeah that&#39;s the kind of setup i&#39;ve seen (if they even used DHCP at all), and yeah it&#39;s fragile and cumbersome and no authorization is possible. the cryptoroot is different in that you can&#39;t do it at all without initrd unless you bake all your crypto into the kernel which seems... icky</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox" class="u-url mention">@<span>xssfox</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Hmm, I suppose you could have an iPXE script hand over the IP address, subnet and gateway information it received via kernel arguments to the running kernel, but you&#39;d still be fairly limited or make things more complicated in the options to bring up a simple Linux OS via the net :neocat_think:</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox" class="u-url mention">@<span>xssfox</span></a></span> With authorization?</p><p>But either way, this sounds quite cumbersome in some situations and rather fragile in some others, whereas booting a kernel with initramfs gives you a fully standalone, albeit in memory, OS that runs on the target machine without a constant need for a network connection. And it can run initialization scripts prior to bringing up a connection or connecting to a server!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://y.diskcat.com/@snep" class="u-url mention">@<span>snep</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox" class="u-url mention">@<span>xssfox</span></a></span> i&#39;ve seen netboot with root-on-nfs work without initrd, personally</p>