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    [–] renzev@lemmy.world 3 points 48 minutes ago

    Just fucking putting data into json files in a folder is so much easier than databases. Sure, databases are faster and give you access to powerful SQL queries. But if you're just making something small and simple, you don't need those things. Save yourself the hassle and just use the filesystem.

    Or use minio/s3, which can either be the best or the worst of both worlds depending on your usecase.

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

    Didn't someone actually try making SQL as a filesystem and it ended up being something like 50 times slower than ZFS after they applied a ton of optimizations?

    Not as a serious project, but more like a joke to see what would actually happen.

    [–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    They’re more like blob storage.

    Blob storage usually uses a FS back end so it’s more like blob storage is like a file system

    [–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 18 points 16 hours ago

    You're right! Ill just store all this data as static json files in a directory then

    [–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 25 points 18 hours ago

    git repo is blockchain

    [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    and anuses are vaginas, as long as you treat them as one.

    [–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    the anus isnt self lubricating :(

    https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24784-anus-function

    Muscles, nerves and mucous membranes in your anus

    It is though...

    [–] coacoamelky@lemm.ee 12 points 18 hours ago

    As a man of science I prefer to test every theory.

    [–] TheBat@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    For example, a directory full of spreadsheets.

    Somewhere, a sysadmin is pulling his hair out

    [–] fnrir@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

    or CSV files

    [–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago

    Tbh still preferred to that asshat who rolls out an MS Access "app"

    [–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 33 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

    everything is a file including a filesystem*

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    * including databases

    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If file systems are databases, then does that mean storing a sqlite db on a HDD is database inception?

    [–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 19 hours ago

    That's less the Unix way and more the BeOS way.

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 45 points 1 day ago (6 children)
    [–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    How do you post from mastodon to lemmy?

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

    @mogoh I just mentioned the group and it worked!

    The way it's supposed to be!

    I'm so happy for this omfgrotflolcopter

    @linuxmemes

    [–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    I could not figure out what a rotflol coptor was…

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    @danc4498

    OMFG: Oh My Fucking God
    ROTFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
    ROFLCOPTER:

     ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL  
     \_^\_\_\_  
     L \_\_/ [] \\  
    LOL===\_\_ \\  
     L \\\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_]  
     I I  
     \--------/  
    

    ...

    Zoomers... *cracks open a can of zero sugar monster energy*

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

    @danc4498 Oh, goddammit, the Lemmy thing fucked up the ASCII art. Whatever, google it.

    [–] lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 10 points 23 hours ago

    Oh, that's really cool. I hope there's more linkage between the twitter-like and reddit-like islands of the fediverse in the future; I'm somewhat interested in reading the former but it seems to be complicated to actually get federation with it.

    [–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

    wow, that's simple! Thx!

    [–] vint@mastodon.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    @drq @mogoh

    Do you mean just mentioning the group anywhere in the post finally works? Before, I had to mention it on first line. That's some progress.

    [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 22 hours ago

    Federation.

    Wait till you get a comment from threads. I've only had it happen once and it made me feel dirty.

    @mogoh AFAIK, I should mention @linuxmemes handle to make the comment visible inside the original Lemmy thread.
    @drq

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    @30p87 Okay, looks like we *finally* have *actual* groups in Fedi that are compatible across the board.

    I've been waiting for this for so long, I've almost given up all hope.

    @linuxmemes

    [–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 2 points 17 hours ago

    Wait until you see Pixelfed and Mastodon's intercompatibility

    Nearly all the posts in my Pixelfed global feed literally comes from Mastodon instances as if I'm on Mastodon with Pixelfed ui

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    [–] mugdad1@lemm.ee 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    welcome to lemmy im new also

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] mugdad1@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    wtf how do you mix between lemmy and mastdon i also have account there but i didn't thought that the content will be here also so please explain

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    @mugdad1 I don't mix, I'm on Mastodon. I just mentioned @linuxmemes in op-post et voila! Neat, huh?

    [–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

    Welcome to the lovely world of the Fediverse! Mastodon and Lemmy, among many other kinds of software, both run on ActivityPub. This means that even if the servers aren't both running Lemmy or Mastodon, they still speak the same language and can therefore understand the content of each other's posts (think of it as email, gmail.com can still send and receive mail to outlook.com). Other examples of AcitvityPub software are Misskey, Mbin, Friendica, Pixelfed, Loops, Piefed, PeerTube and many others that I haven't learned about yet. While they theoretically can all fetch and present posts from each other, due to the choices that each developer makes while designing their software, it might not be very possible to get every post from every software. For example, Mastodon is all about following people, and Lemmy about following communities. Even though Mastodon is able to follow Lemmy communities, Lemmy has (as of writing) no function to follow people (yet).

    [–] mugdad1@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

    man i wanna be your frind what an amazing explainition you rock πŸ₯°πŸ₯°πŸ₯° i understood everything thanks also i got pixelfiled and mastodon and lemmy and i saw the connection thanks i posted in mastodon can you please go there and see it @mugdad1@mastodon.social

    [–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    That's what federation is all about.

    [–] mugdad1@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago

    ok tried mentioning my self their it worked i didn"t knew about that yes i wondered how they are mixed sometimes thanks man

    [–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 19 hours ago

    Filesystem-as-a-db is why MongoDB is webscale. You just turn it on and it scales right up.

    [–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    And files are streams. 🎡 Islands in the stream. 🎡

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 22 hours ago

    🎡 That is what we awk 🎡

    [–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    Every Homestuck fan already knows this.

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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    Honestly that's basically what CephFS is

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    [–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

    And the worst FAT32

    [–] foxido@social.cutie.team 7 points 23 hours ago
    [–] Redacted@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

    The list of reasons filesystems are not databases is a database.

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