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  • In general, this is definitely an area where the best approach is to just find an existing tool for what you need and use that. Especially for text data, compression is a pretty well-studied field and there are plenty of public (and open-source, if that’s a requirement) tools that will do a fantastic job at reducing size. Rolling your own is likely to result in significantly worse compression rates, and if you make an error your data could be irreparably destroyed which you won’t know until you try to access it later.

    If your data is incredibly specific you might be able to do better, but it’s usually best to ignore that sort of optimization until you actually need it.









  • Thank you for the kind words. Not updating is not a decision we have taken lightly. I can’t speak to the specifics because I’m not tech enough to fully understand them, but I believe a major part of the reason for not updating has to do with that migration off Lemmy - that it changes the way data is stored and organized and because of such the migration process (moving comments, threads, etc. to sublinks) would need to be entirely redesigned.
    https://beehaw.org/comment/3796083

    The instance admins have indicated in the post linked above and in several others that there isn’t really any plan to upgrade to the newer Lemmy version given the desire to move to Sublinks.

    Edit: There’s some more discussion about it in this thread posted earlier today. https://beehaw.org/post/15453474







  • I hate Fox News. I think they are a joke masquerading as news and mostly serve to fuel misinformation, fear, and hate. I have no doubt that a significant number of their staff members are incredibly racist, overtly and covertly. I don’t know enough about Kilmeade to know for sure where he sits there, but I definitely think being a Fox host is already a pretty big red flag on the “are you a racist” test.

    But… I have to be honest on this one, I hear him say “college.”