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What people said

• “I seriously encounter this hand-wringing on HN. You are pointing out a real problem in the world. A problem that, if not solved, will keep most of the people in the world helpless and at the mercy of governments, billionaires and the platforms they control. But I don’t like to ju…”

• “Cherrypicking the most tedious parts, like boilerplate to get up and running, or porting code to other adapters (making mysqlite and postgres adapters for instance) This was done in about 3 hours for instance: You ca…”

• “You can imagine what forms most of the the “pressure” from the government will take, on platforms owned & controlled by large corporations. Hint: it will involve their profit motive. Also it is not just in Europe — digital ID is coming in USA starting January. State by state. Tha…”

• “And what alternatives do you suggest? HN rightly complains about proprietary closed platforms, and enshittification. Here is an open source alternative to Twitter and Facebook:”

• “Maybe check out the one we built in the Qbix Platform. It does tons of stuff including sharding and autogenerating model code for you:”

• “Thanks, that's a great list! Might be worth mentioning our engine there too, for people who want a graph database atop SQLite and other battle-tested relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres. My team and I built it over the years, and it's open source (AGPL). Here is ho…”

• “That could be said about compiling higher-level languages instead of rolling your own assembly and garbage collector. It's just working on a higher level. You're a lot more productive with, say, PHP than you are writing assembly. I architect of it and go through many iterations.…”

• “In the name of “cutting costs”, they can do anything? Divert funds to whatever they want? Explain how taking down open scientific and health data sets is “improving efficiency and transparency”. I kind of liked data.gov as a step in the RIGHT direction for government transparency…”