#file-system — Public Fediverse posts
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
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sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem
#HackerNews #TildeRun #AgentSandbox #Filesystem #Technology #Innovation
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I don't remember if I posted about it originally, but the #FTRFS (Fault-Tolerant Radiation-Robust Filesystem) repo was updated with a direct link to the paper and more extensive documentation. #FileSystem
Do I have a use for this? No. I just think it's a neat idea, and possibly a good way to learn how a FS module works on linux.
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CVE Alert: CVE-2026-7400 - geekgod382 - filesystem-mcp-server - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2026-7400-geekgod382-filesystem-mcp-server/
#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2026-7400 #geekgod382 #filesystem-mcp-server
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Have pushed 0.9.5-dev branch to codeberg of foxing ( https://codeberg.org/aenertia/foxing/src/branch/0.9.5-dev ) in preparation for release tagging. A LOT of features and a couple of bug-fixes now the packet/file processing engine has stabilized ; including Semantic Routing to Parsers for Metadata Extraction and in-path Binary analysis using local ORT/BERT models ; letting you get semantic search powers for free when you copy something with foxingd/fxcp #linux #filesystem #bert #vectordb #postgres #xfs #stratis #blake3 #localllm
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Open-source replacement for the Amiga's CD file system: ODFileSystem 0.4
Stefan Reinauer has created a modern open-source replacement for the Amiga CD file system.
Since version 0.2, targeted bug fixes have been implemented to improve AmigaDOS compatibility when opening files via "assigns". In addition, issues with the AmigaOS 3.2 CD image that occurred during booting and when using the utilities have been resolved.
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Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-tar/
#HackerNews #WebAssembly #tar #archives #filesystem #tech #innovation #programming
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www.both.org?p=2915
#Linux #/proc #Filesystem #KernelTuning
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Tuxera released NTFS-3G on April 21, first stable release in four years, with a heap buffer overflow fix and accumulated maintenance. One week earlier, April 17, Namjae Jeon's kernel-level NTFS driver merged into Linux 7.1. NTFS-3G carried read-write NTFS in user space for 15+ years via FUSE. Second in-kernel NTFS write driver in Linux, alongside Paragon's NTFS3. Tuxera's timing is the tell: this release is the long-term-support bridge, not a roadmap.
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I'm in love with Linux.
It just decompressed a 2GB zip file in 2 seconds.
The same file in Windows is still decompressing 🤣
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Open-source replacement for the Amiga's CD file system: ODFileSystem 0.2
Stefan Reinauer has created a modern open-source replacement for the Amiga CD file system with support for ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, Joliet, UDF, HFS, HFS+, and virtual CDDA audio tracks. The most important changes in version 0.2:
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The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-New-NTFS-Driver
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🎉🎊 Breaking news, folks! Healthchecks.io has bravely decided to self-host their object storage like it's some kind of revolutionary act in 2026. 🚀 Good thing, too—in a world where everyone wants to hand over their data to the cloud, it's heartwarming to see someone reinstalling their hipster credentials with a #Btrfs #filesystem. 🙄✨
https://blog.healthchecks.io/2026/04/healthchecks-io-now-uses-self-hosted-object-storage/ #HealthchecksIO #SelfHosting #DataPrivacy #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
FTRS - is a Fault-Tolerant Radiation-Robust #Filesystem for #linux designed for use in #Space
Not happy with world domination alone, Linux is set out to conquer the universe!
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Oh, heck :(
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New article: Btrfs 🌳
The Linux filesystem that never overwrites data. Every write goes to a new location.
Snapshots, RAID, per-block checksums with auto-repair on RAID, atomic transactions, all built into the filesystem.