Show HN: Rssfs – An RSS reader written as a file system

  •   macOS and other non-Windows machines
      sudo ./rssfs
    
    Just what I always wanted; an RSS reader running as root. /s

    Why are you using sudo here? FUSE filesystems shouldn't require special privileges unless they're accessing privileged stuff like block devices owned by root.

  • (This is my first try to play with FUSE. I hope it's still OK.)

    Windows support will follow later this year. Maybe. I’d really prefer to have two not-too-diverging code bases here. Need to experiment a bit...

  • I started to think there is a wheel-of-fuse somewhere and people are rolling it to match random things to build as FS.

  • What's the benefit of offering this via FUSE rather than having a program just fetch the same material and store it in the usual filesystem with the same folder and filenames? I assume there is one and I'm missing it. (Alternatively if this is for learning/experimenting, that's OK! :-))