Computer Files Are Going Extinct

Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by carapace on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:34AM (#21240929)

Files and directories are not a great abstraction. Never have been.

E.g. the insides of git are much better (although the abstractions layered on top are fucking gruesome.)

Something like IPFS is an obvious way forward. https://ipfs.io/

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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by dredmorbius on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:50PM (#21242494)

Problem is that we're not getting a better interoperable metadata-rich relational object storage system. We're getting closed silos in short-lived cloud surveillance services.

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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by carapace on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:43PM (#21261351)

I agree, but then the issue is social/political rather than technical.

I'd love it if the WWW was e.g. Xanadu+Prolog.

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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by jkp56 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:49PM (#21242087)

And ipfs is really just a combo of the two concepts: files and folders wrapped into a git-like tree of hashes; and all that tree-hash-files-folders structure is being synced over a torrent-like protocol.

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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by carapace on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:38PM (#21261294)

From my POV it's more like distributed content-addressable RAM with support for file/directory-structured blobs. You can build alternate abstractions over it.

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