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> All this to say that there is a reason for the fox acting the way it is. I will not apologize on Dear's behalf, it knows me better than that, but I hope an increase in transparency as to what all is going on in the family politic will help.
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> It mentioned to me in haste that it forgot to give you the address of the archive. I've attached it below.
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> Visit soon.
Ioan smiled, re-folded the letter, and replaced it within its envelope. It joined the small pile ey kept.
Dear's partner had a good heart, and it was indeed a relief to learn that perhaps some of the fox's erratic behavior was attributable to stress. None of eir own family had uploaded, and, by eir very nature, ey did not create eir own as the Odists had. Ey did not envy it now.
The archive itself was a free-form database stored in the perisystem. It could hold essentially unlimited data in truly unlimited formats. Everything from sensorium text and structured data to full-sensorium recordings. Each blob of data was stored in a node, and nodes could be tagged.
The archive itself was a free-form database stored in the perisystem. It could hold essentially unlimited data in truly unlimited formats. Everything from text and structured data to full-sensorium recordings. Each blob of data was stored in a node, and nodes could be tagged.
Unfashionable and difficult to work with, not to mention expensive to maintain, Ioan wasn't entirely clear why they had been added to the system. Exocortices had been around before the system itself. More personal, easier to interface with. Harder to share, granted. Some remnant from its construction, perhaps.
Unfashionable and difficult to work with, not to mention expensive to maintain, Ioan wasn't entirely clear why they had been added to the system. Exocortices had been around before the system itself. More personal, easier to interface with. Harder to share, granted.
Some remnant from its construction, perhaps?
Luckily, as a historian, ey had some experience working with them, even if that experience was decades old at this point. Ey pulled out a fresh sheet of foolscap and began to write, and by writing, interacted with the archive.
If archives were difficult to work with, this one doubly so. Blobs that weren't tagged, listed publicly, or linked to from other blobs were essentially inaccessible unless one had access to the index. Ey did not. That was something usually kept within an exocortex.
If archives were difficult to work with, this one doubly so. Nodes that weren't tagged, listed publicly, or linked to from other nodes were essentially inaccessible unless one had access to the index. Ey did not. That was something usually kept within an exocortex.
And here, few nodes were listed publicly, fewer still were linked to by others, and none were tagged. While traversing a well-pruned archive might still be akin to rifling through a card catalog to dig out books, this was no more than a file box stuffed full of loose papers.