I signed for a storage unit this week, and they require me to use an app to access the unit. Of course their servers were down when I first tried using the app. 🤦
So in the spirit of this community and not just to focus on the Reddit... issues... I thought it might be nice to get a topical conversation going in here....
I work on Apache Superset for my day job, it's a BI tool for data exploration and visualization. It's a big project with 100+ committers, so a lot of the challenges are about managing people and communicating effectively.
DJ is a "metrics platform that allows users to define metrics and the data models behind them using SQL, serving as a semantic layer on top of a physical data warehouse." The project is still in its infancy but growing fast.
My favorite project is shillelagh, a Python library that lets you query APIs using SQL, eg:
SELECT *
FROM "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_rN3lm0R_bU3NemO0s9pbFkY5LQPcuy1pscv8ZXPtg8/edit#gid=0"
I've already started seeing a lot of redundant communities being made here that have already existed on other Lemmy instances, and lemmy.ml is at risk of centralization and overload, so now is a great time to raise awareness of other instances....
Back in 1995, my first night using the internet. I remember visiting websites by guessing their URL, since there were no search engines and I didn't know of Yahoo! yet.
I visited the Louvre (louvre.fr was an easy guess), and was amazed by all the photos of art that I could see! I also visited NASA (nasa.gov) and saw some satellite images, something that blew my mind.
It was a new world opening to me. I stayed awake til late, mesmerized by all the internet could offer. In those first years of using the internet I remember some nights that I would log off early because "there was nothing else to see".
I remember daydreaming about the day everyone would have an email address! It seemed so fat-fetched, the concept of meeting someone and exchanging email addresses. I had dial up for many years, and I also dreamed about having a permanent connection. I would think, "Imagine, you receive an email and you get notified in real time that it arrived! No need to dial up and fetch emails via POP3!"
In 1999 my parents got a dedicated connection via cable, so I set up a Linux server on their house. Back then the computer would get a real, unfiltered, IP address, so I started running my own email service. 24 years later and I still have the same domain and run my own mail service, though on the cloud these days.
I'm from Brazil, so we didn't have anything back then... commercial providers only started in 1996, so even if you wanted to use the internet you couldn't. Only universities had very limited access, and later some companies with ties to the government.
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Trying to create a post from another instance.
One has got to admire the optimism of people imagining there will be "future historians"... (lemmy.ml)
What is your boomer opinion
What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years
What open source project(s) are you working on?
So in the spirit of this community and not just to focus on the Reddit... issues... I thought it might be nice to get a topical conversation going in here....
What is your favourite Lemmy community, which is not on lemmy.ml?
I've already started seeing a lot of redundant communities being made here that have already existed on other Lemmy instances, and lemmy.ml is at risk of centralization and overload, so now is a great time to raise awareness of other instances....
What's your favorite Web 1.0 memory?
Prior to the internet condensing into just 5 or so websites, what do you remember fondling about being online?...