Post Az7W4JeNQ8YaXwVlRo by hattifattener@wandering.shop
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(DIR) Post #Az7S0UWOeyCbHvhQsi by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-12T02:37:12Z
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I should be able to embed where,when,referring page,etc into the metadata of files I download.
(DIR) Post #Az7S4qYseocOnowEEq by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-12T02:38:03Z
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maybe as an alternative, a way to permanently record my firefox download history, complete with hashes of the downloaded files for content-identification
(DIR) Post #Az7S9tZksWITbAkqYa by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-12T02:39:00Z
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maybe implementing this at the filesystem level would be interesting.like, 0021.png knows what program wrote it, and when. when it got edited, and by what
(DIR) Post #Az7W4JeNQ8YaXwVlRo by hattifattener@wandering.shop
2025-10-12T03:22:41Z
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@foone Macos does/did this. It was part of the quarantine system. An extended attribute held a UUID, and the metadata got written to a sqlite database somewhere. Then the GUI file pickers did stuff with this information later.
(DIR) Post #Az7rrDeKcMs1A8eNcm by fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk
2025-10-12T07:26:52Z
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@foone rather reminds me of VMS, which for all it's faults as an OS had file versioning built in. i don't remember what metadata it stored for each version but it seemed to be a lot at the timeā¦