[Y_Y]

I thought this was something like a FUSE driver that would on-the-fly generate any file you tried to read, with some consistency. Like if you open stories/zombie-party.txt it will have some generative network make it, and cache it. If you later ask for stories/zombie-party.odt it can just do a conversion.

I vibe-coded a demo of such a thing, with the idea of making game assets like textures/outdoor/wall.jpg etc. You can do it easily enough, but you need to be patient, and not particularly discerning.

[raphman]

FWIW, I wrote a small paper on this general topic a few years ago, collecting earlier work and own ideas.

"Files as Directories: Some Thoughts on Accessing Structured Data within Files"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3191697.3214323

[grandslammer]

i think we have some similar thoughts - i am working on a file format that accomplishes something like this

[RetroTechie]

Says "get access" with a "locked" icon.

Is this paper freely available somewhere?

[kurtoid]

Here: https://www.shift-society.org/salon/papers/2018/revised/file...

Link found here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14832107127874645...

[raphman]

Thanks! Sorry - I didn't realize that the paper in the ACM DL is not open-access.

[quesera]

I played with this idea for media servers.

I want iTunes and Audiobookshelf and beets and Jellyfin, etc to all work on the same filesystem and media archive.

There are challenges.