A quotation from Hazlitt, William:

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More undertakings fail for want of spirit than for want of sense. Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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https://wist.info/hazlitt-william/62278/

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A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

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It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is sheer foolishness, because it has suited the majority.
[Il y a à parier que toute idée publique, toute convention reçue, est une sottise, car elle a convenu au plus grand nombre.]
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https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/37787/

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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:

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Of course someone would be that stupid. Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying “End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,” the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.
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https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/60909/

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A quotation from Austen, Jane:

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
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https://wist.info/austen-jane/60891/

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@mattlehrer it's an ascii table generated straight from an SQL query on the terminal. i guess #dolt left-justifies columns regardless of type...

@haxing_ninja The most elegant option would be to fork #gotosocial, vendor #Dolt, and use Dolt’s storage engine directly. I could compile a single binary which would be easy to deploy. I’d need to level up my #GoLang in a major way…

This would also allow me to use Dolt’s decentralization features in addition to #activitypub for node synchronization. That’s beyond the scope of what I’m considering right now though.

https://dolthub.com/blog/2022-05-27-decentralized-database/

@haxing_ninja yup, that’s pretty much what I’d have to do if I use something backed by PostgreSQL. #Dolt supports importing via pg_dump https://docs.dolthub.com/guides/import#postgres

It’s operationally simpler if I can use Dolt’s #MySQL server directly and skip the ETL step. You can also use Dolt as a MySQL replica via binlog.

I want to use #Dolt as the backend for an Fediverse server populated entirely by #bots. The clone/pull semantics will help me keep an analytic copy of the DB.

If it goes well and I can open up the instance, branches will allow people to pull data on their own bots.

The primary goal: experiment with #fedilytics and #GenerativeAI.

Secondary goal: make progress on #Fediverse account portability.

@haxing_ninja

@haxing_ninja I actually want to use #Dolt. It’s an relational database with native #git like version control implemented in #GoLang. It targets the #MySQL dialect for path dependency reasons. Team plans to add #PostgreSQL support, but it’s a big lift.

https://docs.dolthub.com/sql-reference/sql-support

@aral I read through the #Kitten docs. You did a nice job walking through the project and it’s capabilities 👍🏻

Looks like a neat tool. #HTMX and #alpinejs are nice choices to bundle. I’d prefer #SQLite to #JSDB, but I see what you’re going for. I might try it out with #Dolt via Dolthub’s SQL API https://dolthub.com/blog/2020-08-21-dolthub-repository-apis/

Overall it feels like a static site generator, but it’s dynamic! very cool 😸

@laura @smallcircles

@nobodyinperson
Also #dolt is combining #csv #git and #mysql
https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

I like the idea behind #dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
It is a #git-like #database, but that also supports #SQL queries.