{"id":9365,"date":"2019-10-30T19:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T23:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=1d17fabaea8144f937019a6a23859c65"},"modified":"2019-10-30T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T23:23:28","slug":"computer-files-are-going-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9365","title":{"rendered":"Computer files are going extinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/130834\/computer-files-are-going-extinct\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I started thinking about this (\"removal of user agency by hiding the file abstraction) at least 10 years ago, had some arguments about it ... and I under-estimated the degree to which it would be used coercively.<\/div><p>I love files. I love renaming them, moving them, sorting them, changing how they&rsquo;re displayed in a folder, backing them up, uploading them to the internet, restoring them, copying them, and hey, even defragging them. As a metaphor for a way of storing a piece of information, I think they&rsquo;re great. I like the file as a unit of work. If I need to write an article, it goes in a file. If I need to produce an image, it&rsquo;s in a file.  I&rsquo;ve had a love of files since I first started creating them in Windows 95. But I&rsquo;ve noticed we are starting to move away from the file as a fundamental unit of work. There are forces at work to create as large a distance between the user and her files as possible, because not only do files represent a certain amount of user agency and control, they also represent a massive data mine for companies to profit from.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love files. I love renaming them, moving them, sorting them, changing how they&rsquo;re displayed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}