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🔎 If you see an alert for analytics.usips.org, this is a self-hosted system I am running as a test. It is GDPR compliant and collects no invasive information.

Or "etching a USB drive". You burned a CD/DVD because you've been directly attacking the surface of the disk with a laser to burn/etch the data...

It's a metaphor. Same as windows, directories, files, icons, folders, and all the other metaphors we use to describe moving bits in and out of...