CJ Mallard @duck57@mastodon.social

@natecull My perspective on SQLite is that no matter what, until those apps have standards for their domain they would all have different parsers you'd need to map between.

And at least SQLite documents inline how it's structured.

Though ofcourse this all depends on the particulars of the situation.

The other super annoying thing about databases is that they're not (generally) recursively structured.

Filesystems are recursively structured. Dictionaries and objects (ie, JSON, or all the stuff in RAM inside a C++ or Java program) are recursively structured.

You can't put a (SQL) database table inside another database table. Everything's one flat namespace (maybe three levels: Server, Database and Table) and inside that, everything has to be rigidly the same data shape.

The realisation is that this is why I get so. damn. grumpy. about applications acting like petty little feudal dictators about data... and grumpy about the programming 'best practices' (like databases being so very closely linked to specific applications) that enable this.

It's MY DATA. Get it the HECK out of YOUR application. I want it on MY COMPUTER.

That means I need somewhere to put data that's not application-centric..

And we don't have many places for that. The filesystem and, um...

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@bram It's not, but we can't forbid some usecases (commercial use for example) or it's not Libre software anymore.

At least it's prevent discordisation (taking a shitload of free software and glue it together just to make fully proprietary stuff)

Linux is released under the terms of GPLv2, therefore not protected against tivoisation. For example, locking down hardware to prevent/makr flashing clean ROMs harder is not prohibited by GPLv2 (among other problems)

The former Treasury Secretary of Obama (the cool president) is scamming poor people. So cool! https://splinternews.com/tim-geithner-is-living-his-best-post-obama-life-by-runn-1827285288

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@uranther @ajroach42 @djsundog

"""
A modern computer [...] might imply that I'm completing a thousand tasks at once or one task a thousand times faster. Neither is the case [...]
"""

In fact the user interface of a modern computer is MUCH MORE SLOWER. Thousand-times-faster hardware allowed developers to create programs at a highly-abstracted level with multiple advanced features, which in turn eliminated the improvement of processing speed.

Looks at this comparison.
https://danluu.com/input-lag/

　
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@x0rz hospital security: using so old computers, that a wannacry attack is always possible

@natecull The cubic yard might just be the most esoteric measurement still in use.

Another Norwegian contribution conveniently left out of history is the major contribution of the Norwegian merchant fleet during WWII. You see, even though Norway was occupied, Hitler didn't control the merchant fleet. It was controlled by the Norwegian exile government in London, and played a significant part in the allied efforts. Prior to WWII, Norway was the 4th largest shipping nation, behind the UK, US and Japan. Google Nortraship to learn the whole story.

RE google earth street level appearance, this is what i mean. trees are turned into meaningless geometry. all the buildings are off model, the cars are melted lumps in the road. its so beautifully broken

this smol cloud covered the sun as much as it could.

it's doing it's best!

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@rotatingskull True. And it's a zero sum game. Power relinquished doesn't disappear; it is taken over by others.

Power is real. Pretending that it isn’t is the most liberal of fallacies. Attempting to eliminate it is like attempting to purify your body of food. You can use power for good or for ill, but you can’t simply do without it and continue to exist.

You know what's a real travesty in browser land? iframes cannot automatically resize to the height of their content. The height can only ever be hardcoded. For this reason all embed codes on the web need JavaScript.

@garbados We're already at the point where local communities could run their own power & Internet utilities today. The main barrier is the existing monopoly providers. The fact that ISPs can sue cities to stop them from providing their own Internet is just mindboggling to me.

So there is a movement among activists to pressure Democrat congresspeople to procedurally resist any Trump Supreme Court nominee.

Um, if Democrats don’t already know to do that then just mail them envelopes full of feces because really this should be obvious.