• @selfA
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    189 months ago

    yall really are making me want to massively overextend and start that federated search engine project based on human-driven indexing and whichever APIs each instance wants to query and cache. yes, like a fancy web directory

    maybe this is a good idea for a FreeAssembly project once Philthy’s in a good state? it’s a better idea than starting a shitty Wikipedia clone at least

    • Sailor Sega Saturn
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      9 months ago

      Personally: I’d love to, but I have a conflicting non-compete so I’d definitely have to quit my job first and I’m not ready for that level of adulting. The good news is that if I ever do quit I’ll have a lot of relevant skills

    • @froztbyte
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      109 months ago

      (feels quite fucky to type the following without coming across as a naysayer; not quite the intended meaning, but… I guess you’ll see)

      it’d probably be cool if this could exist, but also there’s a couple of extremely hard problems in going for it, along with a couple of (to my current knowledge) entirely unsolved ones

      one of the presently-unsolved things I know of is that we don’t yet have anything like scalable performant homomorphic encryption so there’s no way to do fully-private query operations on a dataset, which thus gives way to the operator snooping space combined with user privacy angles. there are some technical solutions to some aspects of this, and a number of social things that would apply too

      might be interesting either way

      definitely a hell of a big project.

      • @selfA
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        109 months ago

        welcome to TechTakes!

        no, welcome wasn’t the right word now was it