Something I didn't understand for a while is that the process of turning row-oriented data into column-oriented data isn't a totally bespoke, foreign concept...
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
Against SQL
But SQL is the only widely-used implementation of the relational model, and it is:
Why on earth would you publish data as RDF? – Pieter Colpaert
A rebuttal to a blog post of Anne Schuth, I which I argue that RDF will earn its place in real neurosymbolic systems. Its best argument is eventual interoperability across organizations.
Digital Topology & Economic Power
The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, relocating control toward incumbents at each stage. Enclosure succeeds not by offering users less, but by bundling genuine capability gains with topological restructuring, so that the user cannot accept the improvement without accepting the new relationship of power.
DASL: DRISL — Deterministic Representation for Interoperable Structures & Links
DRISL is a serialization format that is deterministic (so that the same data will have the same CID) and that features native support for using CIDs as links. It is based on CBOR, using a narrow profile of CBOR's "Core" featureset called "[[cborc-42]]", specified formally in this IETF document.
Semantic Compression
An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.
SQLite for Everything | JoeCode
Code with distinct characteristics traceable to its author.
Permissioned data is a love triangle - Nick's Blog
Permissioned data is a love triangle between the user, the identities they grant permissions to, and the applications everyone uses to view controlled data. We don't need to change or reinvent the protocol to have it, because ATProtocol already supports it.
Decrypting Matrix – Where Do Rooms Go?
Matrix has been running private rooms on open protocols for a decade, and they ended up inside European governments. This piece is about why happened, and why it does not have to be the result of the various projects for private data and rooms on the open social web too.
Why Futhark?
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
Your files. Your account.
AT Storage keeps exact media originals in an owner-only permissioned Space, organizes them into albums. Other file types will be added soon™
Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks - Nick's Blog
A self-only space is the smallest shape permissioned data can take: one authority, one member, one repo, and private bookmarks that share a record shape and a write path with public ones.
Datacurve | The data engine for frontier AI
Custom data for long-horizon reasoning, software engineering, and data science.
plain_text_files_are_at_risk.md — paste.sr.ht
For better or worse, plain-text files, with their many encodings and layered formats, are the only real universal data interface we have had so far.