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it is a point of no return (europe.pub)
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what internship are you doing?

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[–] 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The thing that I hate about self-hosting is that a lot of apps that could just be a plain offline thing are instead being designed to be super bloated server-docker things. Databases are not reasonably portable data formats.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    An sqlite database is a perfectly fine portable data format.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Or, and apparently this is crazy these days - I can just use a file that's in a format appropriate to what I'm trying to do, compatible with the simpler offline app it was made for, and then just use a more general purpose syncing method whether online or sneakernet if I need to do some kind of data transfer - as opposed to accumulating an ever expanding collection of server stacks that are just redundantly doing the same kind of thing anyway while needlessly adding an insane amount of attack surface.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    SQLite allows for more efficient querying of data than doing it by hand, can enforce constraints on the data, and I can query it from my shell.

    Of course it's not going to replace a commonly-used format for a domain. If no such format exists, it's a perfectly acceptable data format for data that's tabular in nature. And it can by sync'd/backed up the same as any other file.

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