I think the term token had been used in some UI products for quite a while now. The first time I heard it felt a little awkward but it is really quite natural now.

Thanks. That's not my workspace, so it makes sense that I would be unaware of it, my just being a programmer.

More research from Chicagoland on ShotSpotter here too. Hats off to the good folks at MacArthur Justice Center https://endpolicesurveillance.com/

“Cool URI’s Don’t Change” … https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

In the case of any live system, i would say yes. Additional, and different, files could have appeared on the file system in between the times of each rm *.

* is just short hand for a list of files. Calling rm with the same list of files will have the same results if you call it multiple times. That’s idempotent.

Your example is changing the list of files, or arguments to rm between runs. Same as pc85’s example where the timestamp argument changes.

Seems that the bright minds here behind friendica could be helpful in the MIT Solid project being run by Tim Berners Lee. And/or they could be a SOLID app themselves: