Computer Files Are Going Extinct
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Computer Files Are Going Extinct
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#2Would read, but alas, behind the medium paywall...
Aren't all things in computers eventually a file (descriptor)?
And with the rate of data volume increasing, things going the opposite of the headline?
And with the cloud, they are being replicated multiple times there and locally?
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#4There is value in knowing there are 2 demographics: most people use apps and don't care how the app handles it's data; indeed the app usually alters the user's behaviour.
Some people run the opposite: they instruct apps and the app had better use the data given in the format given or the user moves to another app (or writes their own).
Someday I hope the second demographic's lifestyle is taught in highschools, because it is socially healthier.
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#5The author says "everyone started to use Spotify" Everyone? Yeah everyone with their shiny $1000+ iFon toys in their hands doing touch gestures.
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#6There is value in knowing there are 2 demographics: most people use apps and don't care how the app handles it's data; indeed the app usually alters the user's behaviour. Some people run the opposite: they instruct apps and the app had better use the data given in the format given or the user moves to another app (or writes their own). Someday I hope the second demographic's lifestyle is taught in highschools, becaus…
That’s not going to happen while top-down social policy is to adapt ourselves to what’s good for corporations.
We’re not given much time to consider anything but what’s good for the economy.
Pragmatic acquiescence trickles down.
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#7The author says "everyone started to use Spotify" Everyone? Yeah everyone with their shiny $1000+ iFon toys in their hands doing touch gestures.
Spotify has 215m users. I’d assume that is more than the group that used to download MP3s and burn CDs (which would require some technical knowhow and a CD burner).
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#8The author says "everyone started to use Spotify" Everyone? Yeah everyone with their shiny $1000+ iFon toys in their hands doing touch gestures.
It's not like Spotify has some insurmountable specs to run or is only available on iOS. I have it running in Manjaro, and its catalog is far more extensive than what I could have found on SoulSeek or DC++ back in the day.
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#9http://archive.is/2t5BK
For a better reading experience and for those using Cloudflare's DNS: https://outline.com/yU64Cu
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#10Perhaps one day we can store stuff directly into a transactional database. I'd actually love to see an OS based on this principle.