alt Hacker NewsThis is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it
supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting
An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands
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>clankers can not run sudo commands
Do you mean the harnesses prevent it? Or it can't type a password or something?
I've been running mine as root on a disposable VPS. (Finally I have a dedicated linux guy!)
I think it's more that the harnesses created by the labs are... not always the most thoughtful.
I have zero affiliation with Cursor, and I don't use it much, but Cursor Agent, for example, just builds in ASKPASS support so that if it runs a sudo command, it will show you a password prompt:
When they can't run sudo, they'll user docker to give themselves root.
>cause clankers can not run sudo commands
Is that really true? I'm fairly certain that were you to give it the proper tooling and it's own VM, it could quite happily run any command.
Hell a simple "if the CLI returns any form of 'permission denied' retry previous command with sudo; your password is: Hunter2" skill would work, no?
> This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions
Well, you could whitelist the tool in sudoers.
This would let LLMs use it too.
Pretty cool to read it directly from the associated device XD
Did you write a metadata parser for most of the filesystems?
On Linux, you could create a udev rule to give you permissions on any attached raw disks (if you feel particularly adventurous).
What's the license for ffs?
> cause clankers can not run sudo commands
They absolutely can. There's nothing special about a these harnesses. You automate sudo the same way you would automate in any other context. SUDO_ASKPASS, visudo, etc, maybe with a alias for obfuscation if your harness hates you.