Post B68EuDCK7hWGye5uoi by neauoire@merveilles.town
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 (DIR) Post #B67w3uxcsukQBO8OY4 by neauoire@merveilles.town
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       Andrew Gibson(adventuresin9)'s talk yesterday at #iwp9 about file systems gave me so many ideas, but one thing that struck me was his highlighting BeOS' metadata.It makes it possible to use files as contacts, recipes, playlists, anything really and view these tags in the file manager. IT'S SO COOL, I want to build that for myself now.
       
 (DIR) Post #B67wc5pOzEF3jVaFQ8 by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
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       @neauoire wait a minute...does this mean that the filesystem+file browser is kind of a... spreadsheet app...?
       
 (DIR) Post #B67wc677vKQ6cTsP32 by neauoire@merveilles.town
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       @JamesWidman ya!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6802WN7DgapRse8QK by atax1a@infosec.exchange
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       @neauoire when we used BeOS it was in college and the various instant messengers were still in vogue. there was something called IMKit, which used a Tracker window with a query on your contacts as your buddy list, and the backend component signed in and maintained the metadata on those. it was really quite something.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6802Wc0KKVEC3c1dA by andnull@social.nouveau.community
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       @atax1a @neauoire All I can think about is how I would use this for tagging and tracking assets in a game
       
 (DIR) Post #B6802WpTWFHIrpumcy by slava@mathstodon.xyz
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       @andnull @atax1a @neauoire How about a smalltalk dialect where classes and methods are files and the browser is built on top of filesystem metadata queries
       
 (DIR) Post #B6802Wzku1V9NiizeS by neauoire@merveilles.town
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       @slava @andnull @atax1a that just sounds like a bunch of tsv files but with extra steps ;)
       
 (DIR) Post #B68B2gY8ThlMVh58To by hylst@merveilles.town
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       @neauoire beOS is SO sick, really enjoyed playing with it a while back, such good ideas
       
 (DIR) Post #B68ETwf2z3ZYA00LvU by nakst@merveilles.town
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       @neauoire I have wanted to like this concept for years, but I keep worrying that it's not as useful as it first seems. For example, Windows has done contacts like this since Vista, but nobody ever seemed to use it - to the extent that when Microsoft added a separate contacts app in Windows 8(?) they never added a way to import from the old file format. But if you do build it for yourself, please share the results! I am curious to know how well it works.
       
 (DIR) Post #B68EuDCK7hWGye5uoi by neauoire@merveilles.town
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       @nakst will do!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6lAqYNP6010DNSsRk by pomagarnet@chaos.social
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       @neauoire IT'S AT UVIC?! my uni isn't supposed to be that cool! damn good for them that's so lovelyI'm rotating those lecture rooms in my mind rn
       
 (DIR) Post #B6lAwZmolaySKDDwLQ by neauoire@merveilles.town
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       @pomagarnet UVic is insanely cool, get in touch with @jdd from Kula, he knows what's up