Note I'm not saying the relational calculus. That one is fine, perhaps less useful than generally assumed, but fine.

But SQL, the language, was created and propagated by hostile actors, I am convinced.

@J12t It's funny, on one hand I have to agree, all small projects I tried to solve using SQL until now ended up being a time black hole... yet just now I decided to harvest some info from a large Gmail inbox (+500k emails) and to make our persistent I went with Sqlalchemy, and while I could not have done it as quickly without my pior SQL experience it ended up being pretty fast (incl. learning Sqlalchemy) and I didn't event wite a single ddl or dml statement!

@J12t I consider SQL awesome, but it has a few quirks get alway get in my nerves.
This revision is very interesting though: https://prql-lang.org

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and #bluesky. it's PR. #minds has been doing it for years

@J12t i was able to read this post on Threads without having an account there. Already a step up on twitter's offering nowadays. (sorry, X)

@J12t oh hey, you can link to posts now - last I saw the whole site was an ad for the app that looked like it was going to do more data mining than social networking

@J12t is Facebook going to stop having the “marked safe during…” for newsworthy events in Canada?

@J12t But the news ban is Canada's news ban.

Canada can lift the news ban any time Canada wants to, all they have to do it no longer have laws taxing sharing news.

Facebook doesn't want it, they are just doing what Canada asks.

😞 I hate when I have to admit Facebook are in the right.

@J12t because he’s mad people have him blocked

@J12t Owning the libs I suppose

@J12t to do what his Saudi backers want him to do...ruin Twitter. They bought it...to neuter it.

@J12t Both Xitter and Meta are letting journalists down. This should be an ideal time to convince newspapers and publishers to set up their own fediverse presence.

Maybe the way to go is a #journalism oriented #mastodon or #firefish fork with some nice publishing features and a very customisable look.

@J12t The way I think about: I can do better by learning when is the right time to repress and when is the right to encourage. These are wholly abstract terms and are not either good or bad on their own. What are repressing or encouraging - your feelings, someone that is in a more precarious situation than you or the sound of the radio in a shared living room?

@J12t This is horrible news. Wu is one of those people who's mere existence made me assume it wasn't "that bad" there. So much for that.

I hope she's safe.

@J12t This is awful. I really liked watching Naomi's videos, as well as admiring her persistence and bravery. I hope she and her partner find a way out.

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Yeah, I loved her explanations about life in China and cultural wrinkles that us in the west never really think about. And that's besides her fun projects and deeply technical tech videos.

But, she had warned many times something like this could happen to her, because that's how China rolls. Sad to see it. I miss her voice on things.

@J12t well, "tirelessly" might be a little bit of an exaggeration! But thank you.

@J12t So, if I am understanding the link, they have built a commercial product called Rama, that acts as a generic infrastructure tool for dealing with distributed processes.

On top of this they implemented a Mastodon clone (in/using Rama). But surely the impact of this will be very limited, because, from the description, it looks like Rama is going to be a closed source product. Or am I misreading that?

@J12t the Fediverse scaling issues are mostly non-technical IMO. Tech is easy to fix, moderation/financing/governance/… is far more complex.

@J12t unfortunately I am on vacation that week, but I shall definitely be encouraging folks from across the #Fediverse to get involved!

@J12t congrats, nice website! Also fair pricing