This is a really good idea but I can't help thinking about https://gaia-x.eu/. Does anyone in the EU know of concrete efforts, jobs, grants, money going into this project?
A search engine. It indexes all of my personal notes as well as my entire browsing history. Previously visited pages and notes get blended w/ google results. Makes a big difference when trying to find blogs, docs, notes on things Ive worked on previously or make random connections between notes and current questions. Of course it now needs a bottoms up rewrite in the age of vector dbs and GPT.
your tutorial for locking down windows is super useful, thanks! Any recommendations for remote administration? I would like to set this up for my parents but need to be able to address any issues they might have w/o a transatlantic flight ;-)
My parents have different levels of technical skills but I help both. My Dad is a nerd - I didn’t see it coming but I’m planning on stealing his lunch money the next time I get to see him. My Mom really hates computers and though I know this isn’t technically possible, they seem to hate her back.
Despite their differences, I can use Quick Assist with both. And between my Dad’s sudden turn towards becoming me in high school and my Mom’s innocent transgressions, I’ve never run into anything I couldn’t fix with it.
Worst case scenario, my Dad and I have talked about a volunteer based group of people who help other cats around his age. If your parents are on the same side of the ocean as we are, we can help in a closer timezone. My Dad is a retired police officer (you can trust him) turned nerd (you maybe shouldn’t trust him) and I’ve been drafted into the odd role of his nerd supervisor. If you’re worried about your folks, he’ll give them his phone number.
I don't have a lot of experience with remote administration, but I use Tailscale with RDP/VNC/SSH to access my own machines when I'm away from them.
I like to avoid TeamViewer/AnyDesk/etc... because the GUI makes it too easy for folk to get scammed (watching Kitboga all these years makes me want to avoid them like the plague).
I've been working on https://github.com/projectnessie/nessie for about a year now. Its similar to Dolt in spirit but aimed at big data/data lakes. Would welcome feedback from the community.
Its very exciting to see this field picking up speed. Tons of interesting problems to be solved :-)
I suppose this can be compared to standardising SQL. However that has ended up with a least common denominator of simple operations and dozens of specialised dialects. Better than before the standard but certainly not great and tons of engineering has gone into cross dialect facades.
Granted I haven't thought as long or as hard as the authors but I wonder if there are easier ways to go about this:
a) something akin to slf4j or one of the many unifying facades in java
b) standardising the data structures/formats. eg Arrow has done quite a good job positioning itself as a data lingua franca and has compute primitives.
