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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by epistasis on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:41PM (#23664509)
I wonder what a better term for disk storage would be. Block storage, in the way that cloud services refer to it? Just plain "storage"?
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by gumby on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:37PM (#23664879)
In the old Multics papers it was just long term storage as there was no difference between segments in memory and on disk. Which we are finally starting to catch up with 50 years later.
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by jbverschoor on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:03PM (#23664670)
Non Volatile Memory

Volatile Memory gets “erased” when powered off

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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by saagarjha on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:20PM (#23664781)
Wait until people confuse that with NVRAM.
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by epistasis on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:10PM (#23664706)
Accurate, and in usage in technical circles already. But I've always found it awkward, and names based on what something is not are always unsettling to me.
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by jbverschoor on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:18PM (#23664769)
Then just Memory. That’s what elderly and nontechies usually call it. And it’s correct. Even more correct with always-on-computing and automatic state saving
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by trasz on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:44PM (#23665274)
"Stable storage", perhaps; I seem to remember the SMTP RFC uses that name.
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by bdcravens on Saturday June 27, 2020 @10:32PM (#23666383)
"Drive" is probably the best option
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