User:Woozle/linkdump/2019

January

• https://www.waveapps.com/ - alternative to PayPal
• https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works#semantic - apparently there is good integration between apps
• https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/usa/first/adult/canada -- applying for UK passport from overseas
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/every-successful-relationship-is-successful-for-the-same-exact-reasons
• https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/marie-kondos-tidying-up-shows-how-bad-we-are-with-money.html - I am skeptical

February

• https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-flawless-compilation - "but it compiles!": how even a "programmer" can totally not understand what they're doing
• https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html - abusive behavior and wealth
• https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/how-can-i-control-my-spending-and-save-money-in-2019.html - compulsive spending
• https://www.networkworld.com/article/3337516/linux/the-linux-command-line-cheat-sheet.html
• https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-47064773 - online socializing vs. normal people
• https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article226226240.html - Sage & Swift / Watts Grocery filing for bankruptcy
  • http://archive.fo/XfM1r
• https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/6/18214046/flickr-free-storage-ends-digital-photo-archive-history
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v129rsjYGeI - a guy speaks/raps eloquently about how body-image affects female people
• autistic/disbled blogger Amanda Baggs https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/about-2/
• https://www.pluralpride.com/playbook
• https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133?hl=en&authuser=0 - Google+ going away 2019-04-02
• https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612974/once-hailed-as-unhackable-blockchains-are-now-getting-hacked/
• https://www.wirefly.com/content/phone-plans -- place to search for cellphone plans
• https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1100254079089930240 - ADHD
  • my cargo train metaphor -- it takes a long time for the train to get up to speed. Once it gets up to speed, it can go anywhere -- but every interruption means starting over from a dead stop, and that takes more fuel, and sometimes I just run out before getting anywhere at all.

March

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/style/modern-love-talking-to-my-fiance-about-my-new-girlfriend.html - polyamory, marriage
• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21
• https://medium.com/@wilw/my-name-is-wil-wheaton-i-live-with-chronic-depression-and-generalized-anxiety-i-am-not-ashamed-8f693f9c0af1
• https://www.theautisticadvocate.com/2018/05/an-autistic-burnout.html
• https://www.non-compete.com/its-time-to-leave-facebook-for-mastodon/
• https://themighty.com/2017/07/childhood-emotional-abuse-adult/?fbclid=IwAR3zzU1S-PkK_x6LMJOueqIUR_SXVTYWAhfQK3YPd_0IZ5tzh3Uhx200GSE
• https://ktn.fyi/blog/posts/20190208-mastodon-is-not-just-a-server
• http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Flawless-Compilation (in case I hadn't already stashed this): some people who supposedly are qualified at coding totally don't understand what they're doing
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/love-after-life-nobel-winning-physicist-richard-feynman-s-extraordinary-letter-to-his-departed-wife - grief, and how love doesn't die when the beloved does
• https://medium.com/@markweinstein/google-plus-users-find-a-new-digital-home-at-mewe-d05f8365e574
• https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted - list of self-hosted FOSS software packages
• Taiga (project management)
  • https://taiga.io/
  • http://taigaio.github.io/taiga-doc/dist/setup-production.html#_introduction
• https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/iridium-aireon-satellites-gave-faa-key-data-in-737-max-investigation.html
• https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger
• for mapping mouse buttons:
  • xinput
    • xinput get-button-map [device]
    • xinput set-button-map [device] [list of all button targets, in order]
    • xev
      • see help text to filter for button events only
    • buttons 1 and 3 are usually L/R; use xev (button events only) to see what other buttons map to
• https://www.visible.com/plan - unlimited data, hotspot enabled, Verizon network, $40/month
• https://www.ofa.us/ - Obama-sponsored activism org
• http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1944.html - explains wave-particle duality but I am skeptical of the claim that "It was essentially impossible to explain the photoelectric effect any other way - in particular, if light was a wave it wouldn't work that way."
• Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development
• https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/a-little-poly-story-by-danielle-corsetto/ -- polyamory
• https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/942360
• https://prismaticspeech.com/telepractice/ - trans voice training in Greensboro, with remote option
• https://www.quora.com/What-are-narcissists-weaknesses#ans93408337 - narcissism
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/upshot/women-with-male-twins-are-more-likely-to-face-penalties-at-school-and-work.html
• https://youme.social/home?group=0 - like MeWe? Can't tell if it's proprietary or an instance of some open-source package
• https://hub.toot.cat/display/b64.ZGYxODFlYTAyY2FiMDEzNzAzN2EwMDUwNTYyNjQ4MzU -- CSS for multicolumn streams in numerous social platforms
• https://artsandculture.google.com/theme/eAJS4WcKh7UBIQ - history of the WWW
• https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#installation - improved grep
• https://i.imgur.com/csi4PcD.mp4 - animation: US population density by county by year
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6848127/Estrogen-therapy-boosts-transgender-womens-brains.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/health/woman-pain-anxiety.html
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sea-was-never-blue
• https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/28/rare-condition-makes-woman-grow-huge-beard-get-mistaken-man-8951414/ - another example of biological gender diversity
• https://medium.com/@devonprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180412132835/http://accidentalscientist.com/2005/08/the-sudafed-test-for-adhd.html

April

• https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18287318/youtube-logan-paul-pewdiepie-demonetization-adpocalypse-premium-influencers-creators
• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet - a bit of AOL history is mentioned
• https://twitter.com/samdylanfinch/status/1112075410697674752 - people-pleasers and abuse
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/google-is-back-meet-the-enterprise-focused-google-currents/
• https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealistic-landscapes-nvidia-research/
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/1077660
• OpenBook (manifesto) - open source
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/12e146a03c8001377c3b005056264835
• https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html
• https://dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-autism - intersection between autism, activism, and rationalism
• https://www.bryanlarsen.com/gallery/ - includes a lot of optimistic-SF-themed work
• https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2019/04/big-rig-no-driver-tusimple-uses-ai-train-self-driving-semis/ - the technology of self-driving long-haul trucks

May

• https://www.inverse.com/article/55149-how-many-glasses-of-water-should-you-drink-a-day
• https://native-land.ca/
  • https://redroo.ml/@extinct/102024797310891554
• https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/30/busting-the-myth-that-depression-doesnt-affect-people-in-poor-countries
• https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead - success and depression
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pInRUiAysWESr4eXLSs2xqBM_4F9lq7VkpGEVNv7IEc/edit - multiple systems glossary
• https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/gendered-artificial-intelligence
• https://twitter.com/SixArmedSweater/status/964123333762670597?s=19 - a bit of fantasy about what is often going on =
• https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/27/is-aba-really-dog-training-for-children-a-professional-dog-trainer-weighs-in/ - ABA is not "dog training for children"
• https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/23/very-grand-emotions/ - how aspergians and neurotypicals experience emotions differently
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/google-is-back-meet-the-enterprise-focused-google-currents/ - the replacement for G+
• https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/ - Google+ exodus
• https://plus.google.com/apps/activities/comments?hl=en - page still shows 9 comments as of 2019-05-09
  • https://toot.cat/@woozle/102065899541327611
• https://research.fb.com/three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation/
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538194/google-duplex-ai-restaurants-experiences-review-robocalls
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/review-opera-once-led-web-browser-innovation-it-has-new-ideas-again-with-reborn-3/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/6-healthy-relationship-habits-most-people-think-are-toxic - rather heteronormative, and should be taken with a grain of salt if you're not neurotypical
• https://www.vention.io/ - on-demand machine printing?
• https://kitty.town/@GinnyMcQueen/100838764080403511 - Peertube/Framasoft and abuse issues
• https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/brzuwa/as_a_mental_health_worker_or_someone_affected_by/eohuqrn/ - how mental health issues are a handicap
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/ - HyperCard
  • https://niu.moe/@ilovecomputers/102163363353236291
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/gab-is-in-full-meltdown-and-founder-andrew-torba-blames-the-deep-state - private social network dedicated to "free speech" not doing so well

June

• http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190322-why-prioritising-fun-over-work-will-stop-procrastination
• http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171204-the-compelling-case-for-working-a-lot-less
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cui-bono/201501/good-neutral-and-bad-selfishness - some interesting observations about social manipulation
• Thoughts on Finding Myself Differently Brained By Jane Meyerding
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90360061/youre-probably-answering-these-5-common-interview-questions-wrong
• https://www.mycarfax.com/ - helps track car maintenance
• https://www.thecut.com/amp/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html
  • https://weirder.earth/@verycarapesque/102264184365414279
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-cars-have-a-problem-safer-human-driven-ones-11560571203
  • https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/102286767230110804
• https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/sim-swap-horror-story-ive-lost-decades-of-data-and-google-wont-lift-a-finger/ - why we don't trust Google with more than we have to
  • http://www.loopinsight.com/2019/06/19/sim-swap-horror-story-ive-lost-decades-of-data-and-google-wont-lift-a-finger/
• https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/ - rejection sensitive dysphoria, in case I didn't save this link earlier
• https://interestingengineering.com/googles-quantum-processor-may-achieve-quantum-supremacy-in-months
• https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/want-to-raise-successful-kids-science-says-do-these-5-things-every-day.html -- seems to me strategy #1 should be abandoned under certain circumstances, because it had the opposite effect on me. #3 can also be taken too far.
• https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/18/18677511/lyme-disease-diagnosis-health - Lyme disease is being handled incorrectly
• https://medium.com/@virgo083120/why-i-stopped-wearing-bras-455380ad1b20 - breast mythology
• https://blog.usejournal.com/my-kids-are-spoiled-brats-and-its-totally-my-fault-7bde0e108e20 - repeats the myth about not being friends with your kids
• https://scribit.design/products/scribit - does it have an API, or do you have to use their app?

July

• https://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/
  • https://kitty.town/@GinnyMcQueen/102372623057930767
  • https://kitty.town/@GinnyMcQueen/102372582980485990
• https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jul/04/how-a-video-game-community-filled-my-nephews-final-days-with-happiness-elite-dangerous
  • https://wandering.shop/@iona/102383004786888818
• https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/9hrj9g/30_plus_years_on_hormones_what_effects_did_i/ - real-life experience contradicts canonical beliefs about HRT
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/bhozbi/all_portlanders_be_aware/ - Amazon Flex
• borderline personality disorder and "favorite person":
  • https://themighty.com/2017/09/borderline-personality-disorder-favorite-person-best-friend/
  • https://houseofmisfits.org/blog/bpd-favorite-person
• https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/1132010999161204736 - "post-it notes" instead of "mental spoons"; executive dysfunction
  • https://twitter.com/mekkitymek/status/1143891141147779072
• https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article222355670.html - why Hong Kong Buffet closed
• https://kottke.org/19/07/reading-krazy-kat-in-the-public-domain - Krazy Kat
• https://harpers.org/archive/2019/08/the-last-frontier/ - 21st century homesteading
• https://opensource.com/article/17/3/rss-feed-readers
  • https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss - written in PHP
• C Is Not a Low-level Language; Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.
• http://www.divergentlabs.org/ocatecliffs/ - an autistic-run retreat center in Northern New Mexico.
• https://www.couchtuner.click/watch/star-trek-discovery/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1oYSNPV5k - Star Trek was invented by SJWs
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/science/women-astronauts-nasa.html
  • https://twitter.com/MaryRobinette/status/1152277166996017152
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/buzz-aldrin-is-looking-forward-not-back-and-he-has-a-plan-to-bring-nasa-along/ - Buzz Aldrin and what's wrong with NASA
  • "But within proper aerospace circles, the suggestion of staging deep space missions in low-Earth orbit has become taboo because so many jobs are guaranteed by NASA’s long-term investments in the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. These development programs boast about having suppliers from all 50 states, which ensures widespread support in Congress." -- which is what's wrong with geography-based representation
• https://mastodon.starrevolution.org/@SelfsameSynonym/102474664701698277 - crowd harassment, Gab
• lsblk -- useful command
• https://www.mstbrazil.org/
  • https://sunbeam.city/@socalledunitedstates/102477098394212957
• https://redux.js.org/
  • https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4
• https://www.youme.social/ - another proprietary social network?
• https://www.cake.co/about - and another one: "On most social networks you follow people. On Cake you follow topics that fascinate you. We love our friends and family, but they don’t all share the same interests." (why not allow both, like virtually every other social network in existence except Mastodon?)
• https://www.tipua.com/ - and another (very small)
  • https://www.tipua.com/members/tecnonaut/ - someone I know from G+
• https://medium.com/@devonprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01 - laziness
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEd4UW5f7s4 - the Happiness Experiment
• https://kimchicuddles.com/post/172798231060/rules-agreements-and-boundaries-but-why-the
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/26/8930706/music-labels-twitch-streaming-copyright-strike-monstercat-lost-rings-record-labels
• https://www.newsobserver.com/living/article212325674.html - Satisfaction closed last year
• http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/04/the-curious-tale-of-dennis-the-menace -- Dennis the Menace (both of them)

August

• https://makers.snips.ai/ - voice-to-text assistants - can't tell if it's open-source
• https://twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013 - capitalist efficiency at work!
• https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/milk-and-other-surprising-ways-to-stay-hydrated/
  • study shows soft drinks hydrate as well as water
  • funded by Coca-Cola however... but at least one peer said it was a well-done study
  • follow-up studies needed
  • The paper: NIH oup.com
  • https://www.coca-colacompany.com/hydration-guidelines - posted by Coca-Cola, but refers to a 2004 NAS study
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3886980/ - another study, but only on coffee
• https://mymodernmet.com/16-psyche-asteroid-nasa/ - asteroid made of metal
• https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/1157322354856472576/photo/1 - authoritarian-parental bad behavior
• https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2 - electricity from fire, portable
• https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-home-guide/how-to-get-rid-of-bed-bugs#monitor - bedbugs
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-physical-law-an-alien-intelligence
• https://walkaway.wiki/
• https://www.sciencealert.com/physics-study-overturns-a-100-year-old-assumption-on-how-brains-work
• https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin - RSS reader
• https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-18-04/
• https://www.sciencealert.com/if-you-thought-quantum-mechanics-was-weird-wait-til-you-check-out-entangled-time
• https://qz.com/1650393/transhumanist-parents-are-turning-their-children-into-cyborgs/
• https://story.californiasunday.com/cosmic-crisp-apple-launch - cosmic crisp apple
• https://runyourown.social/#who-this-guide-is-for - how to run a small social network for your friends
• https://solid.inrupt.com/get-a-solid-pod -- looks like distributed cloud storage? Is it open-source or not??
• https://www.miranda-ng.org/en/ - open-source IM client for Windows
  • https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/tree/master/src/mir_app/src
• https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/guides/ - Scuttlebutt apps
• https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - audio player written in Python, supports large libraries
• https://www.tarheelmediasolutions.com/
• voice feminization videos:
  • 2017-09-01 Female Voice in Two Minutes by Zheanna Erose
  • 2018-01-07 4 Tips For Feminising Your Voice For Trans Women by Amber Evans
• https://www.wired.com/story/shouldnt-we-all-have-seamless-micropayments-by-now/
• https://time.com/5646632/how-much-water-to-drink/ - more on hydration
• https://www.socos.me/mission-areas/neuroprosthetics
• DBT:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJA53l91LSk
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBM6XOYisCw
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJi86n9-Rk
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gPcDRVALVo
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRBw_Iti3Ww
• http://www.danko-nikolic.com/long-standing-problems-solved-by-practopoiesis/
• https://hub.toot.cat/channel/woozle/?f=&mid=a642cf9eb1b49682883c36f89064e0b9115874159c0d2100a5943ad307b74a15@hub.toot.cat - my snark about the demise of G+
• https://www.hedera.com/make-it-yours - this sounds like something I'd be interested in, but what actually is it?
  • https://www.hedera.com/blog/our-contrarian-approach-validated
• https://hub.toot.cat/channel/woozle/?f=&mid=6d87e13ed85dcb739c379b5d9128ffc0a933a1282f62695b66d0528cc48e8844@hub.toot.cat - does Hubzilla have an equivalent to G+ Communities?
• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190617-the-light-triad-that-can-make-you-a-good-person
• 18650 power cells:
  • DIY Rapid Build 18650 PowerWall Module project - design & testing
  • How to Make the Ultimate 18650 Power Bank with Infinitely Expandable Capacity
• https://gizmodo.com/verizon-sells-tumblr-still-no-porn-though-1837181621
• https://www.betterhelp.com/about/
  • https://mhealth.jmir.org/2019/1/e10948/
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research seems to be mostly legit
  • https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/profile/tchiki_davis - seems to be actually a UCB graduate
  • https://www.berkeleywellbeing.com/ - slow but eventually does load
• apology and neurodiversity:
  • https://autisticjoy.tumblr.com/post/186909947571/apology-languages
  • https://candidlyautistic.tumblr.com/post/151969433450/apology-scripts
• https://www.themarysue.com/good-omens-rep-autism-growing-up-anti-vaccine/
• https://www.phpmydirectory.com - proprietary PHP-based easy-site-builder thing
• https://www.bbrfoundation.org/content/large-genome-study-suggests-anorexia-nervosa-metabolic-disorder-well-psychiatric-one

September

• https://wiki.sunbeam.city/doku.php?id=cooperative_building
• https://www.sciencealert.com/in-people-with-autism-no-two-brains-are-alike-new-study-reveals
• https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a28904211/2003-to-2012-forgotten-music-era/
  • Not sure how universal a problem this is.
  • Where did/does one go to find good new music in the digital era, anyway?
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/kids-need-structure-more-than-warmth-from-their-parents-according-to-a-top-child-psychologist -- again, this disagrees with our experience
• https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-to-survive-the-lto-8-tape-shortage/ -- intellectual property law ftw (not)
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/larry-david-and-the-game-theory-of-anonymous-donations
• https://exchangemarketplace.com/?has_offers_aid=1143&has_offers_tid=1020931c27322d400cd398d5dea768 - one place to buy an online business
  • https://www.stylefactoryproductions.com/blog/buy-a-shopify-store
• https://www.dailyxtra.com/im-dating-a-woman-in-a-polyamorous-relationship-and-i-feel-like-her-last-priority-am-i-better-off-alone-161377
• https://jezebel.com/victim-allowed-to-testify-through-the-2-500-personaliti-1837956427 - multiple system
• https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue - Git-based bug tracker (CLI)
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782121
• https://phacility.com/phabricator/ - includes bug tracker; written in PHP
• https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/files_markdown - Markdown editor for Nextcloud
  • https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cms_pico - web site builder for Nextcloud, uses Markdown
• https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cospend - shared budget manager for Nextcloud
• https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/forms - forms creator for Nextcloud
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/wipe-out-when-the-bbc-kept-erasing-its-own-history?utm_source=pocket-newtab
• https://www.manyver.se/ - serverless social network
  • https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/102779306981130995
• https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/videos/power-the-electric-vehicle-revolution-with-digital-isolation - this was from an ad, but it looks interest
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-children-of-donor-h898/2019/09/14/dcc191d8-86da-11e9-a491-25df61c78dc4_story.html - autism
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/pop-pop-pop-she-heard-her-brain-in-action - state of the brain-interface art
• https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gambled-tesla-to-save-solarcity
• https://jezebel.com/the-cheap-old-houses-instagram-account-is-the-only-good-1838096384
• Ceph (software) - distributed filesystem - how can I use this??