Does anyone remember (and have a link to) that polyglot zig program that was a static that found ld.so and re-executed itself as a dynamic executable in order to load GPU drivers which need libc?

oh god, why did I look at how tty0 is implemented

this is so cursed...

hmm ok so looks like it all revolves around vt.c:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.2.9/source/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c

it has:
- a list of register console drivers (struct con_driver / struct consw) - corresponding to vtcon devices in /sys/class/vtconsole
- a list of virtual consoles, each with an index of a driver that handles it, and each with a buffer of characters and attributes (struct vc_data https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.2.9/source/include/linux/console_struct.h#L120)

it provides, in parallel:
- a vcs{,a,u} driver
- a tty driver for tty1-ttyN
- a console driver

Is there some place that documents the Linux virtual console and things around it? Like, a high level overview of everything between a PCI device or EFI call and a /dev/ttyN?

> try to make space in homedir
> terraform-provider-aws
> 800MiB binary

we must've taken a wrong turn somewhere...

I just realized vibecoded software is incompatible with the Free Software Definition, specifically with Freedom 1 - the freedom to study how the program works.

If someone pushes LLM-generated code that they don't understand (often didn't even read), then how is anyone else supposed to understand it? And if you can't understand it, you're deprived of your freedom to study it.

if Enuma Elish was so good, why was there no Uniona Elish?

Does anyone know of an IMAP client that can delete 1000 messages without its UI hanging for the entire time of the deletion process?