Post 9faLCpANPmli22L0oi by natecull@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9fZXtuUkU3FVInDaqm by natecull@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T22:39:15Z
       
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       << REDACTED is an in-memory database which prioritises performance over everything >>And there in a nutshell is what's wrong with the Internet
       
 (DIR) Post #9fZXtuh9jvApvH1VBo by natecull@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T22:42:02Z
       
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       I mean it's okay to be fast? But how about being correct, safe, extensible, survivable, user-empowering, decentralised, before prioritising letting a few billionaires running huge corporations make massive mistakes blindingly fast at web-scale?
       
 (DIR) Post #9fZZLCrAQKZm1SHfNo by natecull@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T22:59:31Z
       
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       @byllgrim I agree. Simplicity should be top, I think.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fZZlNd6zWguxrBrIu by natecull@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T23:04:15Z
       
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       @byllgrim I agree. Simplicity should be top, I think.Trying to create bubbles of simplicity in a world of constantly shifting over-complexity is one of the hardest but most necessary tasks in computing, imo.
       
 (DIR) Post #9faLCoUXvJJ9wIlbcG by anarchygarden@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T23:11:40Z
       
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       @natecull @byllgrim also the nature of what is important to store changes
       
 (DIR) Post #9faLCoiN5uModBEeAK by natecull@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T23:14:32Z
       
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       @anarchygarden @byllgrim or put another way: the nature of what's important to store *is relative to the user who's storing it*.Unfortunately we've now built an Internet where the people doing the storing are not the users, so the people doing the storing have ideas about what's important that may be very different from the people whose data it is.
       
 (DIR) Post #9faLCowCGVQTK3hgiO by natecull@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T23:18:16Z
       
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       @anarchygarden @byllgrim And this is one of the constant arguments/problems I have with much Web-era technology: most of it is fundamentally architected based on the idea that there are a few designers and lots of users.Where I want a system where I am both the designer and the user and I can just store what I care about and change as I go.So much web tech just.... doesn't even think about this use case.
       
 (DIR) Post #9faLCpANPmli22L0oi by natecull@mastodon.social
       2019-02-06T23:22:31Z
       
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       @anarchygarden @byllgrim Even having to commit to something as simple as a 'database schema' up front, before I've come to understand what data it is I'm looking at, seems misguided. For the kind of stuff I'm doing.Filesystems are flexible enough to store whatever data I want to put into them.Databases... usually aren't. It mostly goes against their very principles to be freeform. to be untyped is a deep violation of their philosophy.I'd like a database that's... like a filesystem?