Colloidal

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 107 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

She spent 11 days detained.

“I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days,” [...] “I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane.” She went on to describe one incident when she and 30 other women were moved in the middle of the night to a facility in Arizona. During the ordeal, she was forced to be “up for 24 hours wrapped in chains.”

From CBC.CA (Eagles is her mother's surname):

Eagles said the detainees at the San Luis facility have no sleeping mats or blankets or windows, and the lights are on all day and night.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 17 hours ago

An organization pivoting hard on their entire software stack because someone didn't like a word in a message somewhere... someone powerful in there didn't arrive by competence alone.

Considering there's no incentive for a developer donating their work for free to add thin-skinned users to the masses demanding features and fixes, I can't say I disavow them. Anyone can just fork their project to change the name, and handle the hassle.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 17 hours ago

If such a thing would happen, all you need to do is fork the previous, copyleft, version of the code and go on with life as if nothing happened. That’s an economic disincentive for maintainers to try such shenanigans.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago

I never quite understood the massive hard-on programmers have for splitting hairs.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago

I can see exactly one use case: context-aware OCR of code.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago

Late 80s. Little kid me got picked up from school but dad still had work to do, so I join him at work. He notices I'm bored. Sits me in front of a terminal to their Unix mainframe, opens up Pico. I type in stuff there, happy as a clam. Good times.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

OnlyOffice is certainly more mature as a hosted app. It was born like this, the desktop version was the port. LibreOffice Online is still beta, I think.

So if your interest is in hosting and online editing, OnlyOffice. Also has an interface that’s very similar to MS Office 365, which can be a pro or con to some. LibreOffice has a more traditional toolbar paradigm.

You can try both before string up a server to see what you prefer. They’re both copyleft so no chance of a rug pull.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s Servo too. So ladybird can crash and burn for all I care.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

So like OnlyOffice and LibreOffice Online?

Edit: to clarify: both of these products can be self hosted. OnlyOffice’s main business model is to sell hosting services, their software is AGPL v3.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I’m not complaining, but why create something from the ground up when they could be improving OnlyOffice or LibreOffice?

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Honestly all the highlights are really cool. The non destructive editing is a game changer.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Yes. And Betterbird reduces the dialing home to the absolute minimum necessary.

 

It's pages and pages of this. Maybe you want to restrict who can log in and create repositories.

 

I’m versed enough in SQL and RDBMS that I can put things in the third normal form with relative ease. But the meta seems to be NoSQL. Backends often don’t even provide a SQL interface.

So, as far as I know, NoSQL is essentially a collection of files, usually JSON, paired with some querying capacity.

  1. What problem is it trying to solve?
  2. What advantages over traditional RDBMS?
  3. Where are its weaknesses?
  4. Can I make queries with complex WHERE clauses?
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