A file collection is a set of computer files that is deliberately maintained by someone. In today's computing, most non-personal files can be considered temporary: they have been downloaded from somewhere and can always be redownloaded if needed again. The practice of actual file collection is becoming ever more marginal, but it has a place in permacomputing for increasing resilience and reducing network dependency.
Collection (abstract data type)
In computer programming, a collection is an abstract data type that is a grouping of items that can be used in a polymorphic way.
File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity
My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.
Your files. Your account.
AT Storage keeps exact media originals in an owner-only permissioned Space, organizes them into albums. Other file types will be added soon™
Experimental live content collections
Live content collections are a new type of content collection that fetch their data at runtime rather than build time. This allows you to access frequently updated data from CMSs, APIs, databases, or other sources using a unified API, without needing to rebuild your site when the data changes.
Pinata | Autonomous File Storage
Add file uploads and retrieval in minutes so you can focus on your app —because you’ve got better things to code than infrastructure.
Nothing new under the sun: everything is a file
The Unix revolution was built on a key principle: everything is a file. Now, with the rise of AI Agents, LLMs have access to half a century of file-based arcana. The result? Everything is becoming a file again.
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
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Filecoin is a distributed storage network based on a blockchain mechanism. Filecoin miners can elect to provide storage capacity for the network, and thereby earn units of the Filecoin cryptocurrency (FIL) by periodically producing cryptographic proofs that certify that they are providing the capacity specified. In addition, Filecoin enables parties to exchange FIL currency through transactions recorded in a shared ledger on the Filecoin blockchain. Rather than using Nakamoto-style proof of work to maintain consensus on the chain, however, Filecoin uses proof of storage itself: a miner’s power in the consensus protocol is proportional to the amount of storage it provides.
Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives
Over the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…
Filecoin | World's Largest Decentralized Storage Network for Humanity's Data
Preserve humanity's most important information on Filecoin, the decentralized storage network with verifiable integrity, global redundancy, and no centralized control. Build apps, store data securely, or become a storage provider today.
Emerging from being "down in the technical weeds" of #atproto is a little mashup of @semble.so & WayFinder (wayfinders.network) Semble team released "open collections" this week - here we explore the "private & permissioned data" collection, created by @bmann.ca & now with 3 other contributors
Collection of collections: Miscellaneous
Other collections that may eventually be sorted into new collections of collections
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