Wow, sounds like the plot of @nealstephenson.bsky.social Termination Shock; see his more recent thoughts here
nealstephenson.substack.com/p/geoenginee...

Have you tried S3 Mountpoints? It has some but not all POSIX features. In my testing with seek() and read() was quite positive. Here's the story from AWS and my blog post:
docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/lat...
blog.v-studios.com/2023/10/desp...

You got a shout-out praising the new book at the beginning of yesterday's Sobremesa Podcast:
www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Wow, the sidewalk then was super wide! Was Paral.lel narrower then?

The @ThePSF@fosstodon.org did the right thing by rejecting $1.5M funding that had USA anti-DEI strings attached. You can always raise funding, but you can't regain integrity. Hopefully my contribution will help, and y'all will consider making up the revenue.
www.python.org/psf/donations/

Please check out the horrendous "usability" of their first site:
americabydesign.gov
Note it's totally not accessible.

Check their awful, unreadable, inaccessible
americabydesign.gov
Un-ironic text: "What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong." and "This is President Trump going bigger than President Nixon."
The parody site is actually readable, and fun to read:
americabydesign.fail

OMFG that site makes my eyes bleed