On: Nullfs: A virtual black hole file system that behaves like /dev/null

[bdamm]

However, since you're effectively brute forcing a match on an unknown key, the universe may go cold and dark before your content arises, for any content larger than 128 bits or so.

[contravariant → bdamm]

And at some point it gets more efficient to just wait until the universe randomly starts to repeats itself to recreate the content you wanted.

[wruza → contravariant]

But you’ll restart with it in not-yet-lost-it state and will lose it eventually. There is nothing useful in /dev/random, really, apart from the entropy for crypto. Trillions of trillions of … of trillions unique virtual atoms of no particular value.