The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
No Internet? No Problem. Well, Maybe a Small Almost Insignificant Hurdle
The Internet is an essential tool for modern life, but not everyone in the United States has ready access to broadband services. The US is one of the world’s most developed countries, so how many of its citizens cannot get online? In 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), estimated that 14.5 million Americans lacked Internet access, however, that number is no where near the truth.
BigGorilla is an open-source data integration and data preparation ecosystem (powered by Python) to enable data scientists to perform integration and analysis of data.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: The Post-Amazon Post-Google Wunderkind: Alon Halevy at Megagon”
In this space two projects that I have my eye on are Substratum (based in Ohio) and Dfinity.
Continue reading “Penguin: Serverless Open Space Projects Against #GoogleGestapo”
dock.io is a decentralized protocol built on the security of blockchain technology.
Please see https://decenternet.com/ and look at the White Paper to get a sense of Sean Kim's whole new internet vision, currency, open source technology and more.
Video and excellent white paper in multiple languages at the link above.
Continue reading “Elisabet Sahtouris: Recommending DeCenterNet and Sean Kim”
Weighing Open Source’s Worth for the Future of Big Data
“If you’re trying to overcome a technology like relational databases, which have been developed over decades and had gestation from every major university in the world that does computer science research, it takes a long time to climb that hill,” Kreps says. “What’s very different for us is there hasn’t really been this incredibly well-developed infrastructure layer in the space we’re entering. We get to kind of make it up as we go along, which is a huge advantage. “
This perhaps is the reason why — despite the availability of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL RDBMs, the advent of modern NoSQL and NewSQL solutions, and scalable Hadoop and object-storage alternatives — proprietary RDBMs continue to drive the lion’s share of enterprise spending in the data management space.
Belgian court orders Facebook to stop collecting data on citizens, threatens fines of up to $125mn
In its ruling, the court determined that Facebook does not adequately inform users that it is collecting information. “Facebook informs us insufficiently about gathering information about us, the kind of data it collects, what it does with that data and how long it stores it,” the court said, determining the social network had broken privacy laws. “It also does not gain our consent to collect and store all this information.”
