Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

As Rachel Reeves seeks to deregulate financial services and return it the more light-touch 'principles-based' regime of the preceded the Global Financial Crisis of 2008... she might heed the worlds of Hector Sants (head of the Financial Services Authority from 2007-2012):

'a principles-based approach does not work with individuals who have no principles'.

And anyone who thinks the leopards in the the City have changed their spots has not been paying attention!

#politics
h/t The New World

@mav The lawsuit is turning into a train wreck for Proven.

Their council asked their own witness if he could open the lock with a shim made out of a tin can - the answer was "Yes".

Oops!

Runkle of the Bailey has been following the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQv9ZZAK3zY

#McNally #provenlocks

Current digital infrastructure is to a large degree built on layers and layers of open source, and yet a substantial part of this open source is built and maintained by enthusiasts or other financially and resource-constrained teams. Funding options like the EU-STF proposal can truly help enforce the ecosystem and offer new paths towards sustainability.

https://eu-stf.openforumeurope.org/

#PostgreSQL Event Calendar, Reminder:

👫 London PostgreSQL Meetup

Date: 2025-07-29T17:30:00Z - 2025-07-29T20:30:00Z
Location: The Stars of kings (Upstairs) 126 York Way Kings Cross N1 0AX, London

ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/3disgbhnk6lq8c6bp1d2sdi5vi.ics

Calling all PostgreSQL enthusiasts in and around London! 🇬🇧🐘

Join us on Tuesday evening, 29 July, for the next London PostgreSQL User Group meet-up!

We’ll be diving into PostgreSQL Schema Migrations & Data Modeling - a great session for anyone looking to sharpen their skills or exchange ideas with fellow Postgres users.

📍 Location: 5min from King’s Cross Station

🍻 Drinks and snacks provided

Please RSVP to help us plan accordingly, we’d love to see you there!

👉 https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/309038256/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

Well, Sameer finally got what he wanted: the end of an actually fast, actually secure counterpoint to Android.

CrOS can't make Android look like shit if CrOS also sucks:

https://www.theverge.com/news/706558/google-android-chromeos-combining-sameer-samat

"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.

Remember, the best way to save water during a drought is to…

T̶u̶r̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶a̶p̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶’̶r̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶u̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶e̶e̶t̶h̶

BRING WATER COMPANIES BACK INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

#GreenParty #ukpol

Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.*

It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still....

(There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.)

Hat tip: Dave Martin

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

@tig

New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:

👫 London PostgreSQL Meetup

Date: 2025-07-29T17:30:00Z - 2025-07-29T20:30:00Z
Location: The Stars of kings (Upstairs) 126 York Way Kings Cross N1 0AX, London

ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/3disgbhnk6lq8c6bp1d2sdi5vi.ics

Its official: The Post Office & Fujitsu have blood on their hands.... and as commentators are already saying; its the management of these firms who should have been prosecuted, not the hapless sub-postmasters.

This very British scandal (in that its about a managerial class shitting from a hight on normal working folk) is going to get a lot worse as the Horizon Inquiry delivers its results (n stages).

#PostOffice #Horizon #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/08/post-office-scandal-inquiry-horizon-it-scandal

Like John Harris in this article, I’m a parent of a special needs child. #ActuallyAutistic

https://www.dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/disability-cuts-educational-rights-special-needs-children-parents

My kid finally has an education, health and care plan (EHCP) after a process taking several years and a huge amount of work and stress. An under-resourced system created several barriers, bottlenecks and huge delays.

The Government is now talking about the possibility of abolishing EHCPs to save more money, and a white paper will be published soon.

Can I just say:

Schedule Published https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2025/news/schedule-published-12/

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As the High Pay Centre observe, as over 70% of profits are returned to investors as dividends (up from around 50% five years ago), its unsurprising that an HPC survey found a misalignment between what people thought corporations should be focussed on & what they thought firms *were* actually focussed on.

While BCorp incorporations continue to grow, the attack on 'social responsible' business behaviour by the Right is also growing (not least from Trump & his fellow travellers).

#business

The painful truth.

As the Lords start debating the Palestine Action proscription, Peter Hain notes that under this sort of suppression of protest, groups from the anti-apartheid campaigners to the Suffragettes would all have been suppressed.

Its a sad day for democracy when we are now hoping that an unelected second chamber will save us from the machinations of our representatives, all of whom bar 26 voted against democracy!

#democracy #PalestineAction #politics

h/t Guardian

As expected, MPs have this evening voted to proscribe Palestine Action, with only 26 MPs voting against this attack on the democratic right to protest.

The state has reserved to itself the power to decide what is 'legitimate' protest & render other (non-violent) protests as 'terrorism'.

This is a grave day from democracy & the right to protest;

normally I don't like talk of a 'slippery slope' or 'a thin end of a wedge' but this feels like a step change in the attack on protest!

#politics