Babel-USB: USB drive with every file

LorenDB 22 points 9 comments June 10, 2026
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OkGoDoIt

The readme explains how to set this up, but it doesn’t really explain what it does. What does this do? I’m guessing it pretends to be a flash drive containing infinite books and then somehow fetches them on the fly from the Internet when the operating system attempts to access them?

naikrovek

I like this. Some binary running on a computer serving these up to a FUSE mount would stop a corporate disk scanner in its tracks (at least whatever thread happens upon the location this is mounted.) I might have a go writing something like this for my Mac.

pixel_popping

It's not really clear to be honest, you might really want to improve the explanation of what it IS.

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