Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
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Wow. TIL the purpose of the guide rail tiles in pavements. Makes absolute sense once you see them being used.
Very much hoping i've not been causing blind folks problems in the years i didn't know what they were for.
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A UK man was acquitted of terrorism charges after delivering his own closing argument:
The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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@dick_turpin hmm, not just me having the same feeling, clients seemingly vanished the last month.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117202983989699195
Quietly happy that I’m using Xubuntu, not whatever the hell this Oligarchy Linux is or whatever it’s called, and I’m using pass, the standard Unix password manager, and not one of the “trust us with your passwords: here’s loads of ui you don’t want” Valley services. A bit clunky and awkward? Yup. Am I fine with it for the sense of security and unchanging comfort it provides? Also yup.
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PGDay UK 2026 is next Tuesday, 8 September, in the west end of London. Two parallel tracks this year.
Single-day PostgreSQL conferences are the best value on the community calendar. No travel week, and the hallway track is the actual product.
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FOSDEM PGDay will in 2027 expand to 2 days and be held on Jan 28-29 in Brussels, Belgium, ahead of the weekend #FOSDEM event. Further details and updated website to follow soon.
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PGDay UK is coming to London this September.
A full day of PostgreSQL talks and community.
Get your ticket here: https://2026.pgday.uk/
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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
@gsuberland it is the same order as cp and mv: src dst
At least that helps me remember it.
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In the end the Water industry crisis & scandal is a perfect memorial for Thatcherism:
A falsified bill of goods, sold on the promise of an answer to the UK's economic problems but delivering a major opportunity for financial services to rob normal people whilst wrecking the environment. And unwinding over a sufficiently long period that those who've robbed the country have either fled or died, handing on their ill-gotten gains to others who now deny any knowledge or responsibility!
@bkuhn @cwebber @Floppy @richardfontana
I don't speak in any capacity for the rails fork (but I do hope them success), nor do I have a project with a sufficient user base.
But I would love to see a LAGPL variant. I think that would be very useful in many situations. As a pragmatic argument against the 'open core' style licences.
As an outsider, a fork adopting the fully AGPL I think is likely to hamper that fork, rather than boost it.
@bkuhn @Floppy @richardfontana
Would that mean that people using (ie consuming the libraries) the fork would also fall under the terms of the AGPL and need to publish their code?
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Staying in Utrecht a little longer? We've compiled a list of things-to-do in this beautiful city: https://2026.pgday.nl/things-to-do/
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It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity
https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/gaslight-years-166761233
https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/to-end-part-two-166818254
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@jonty no access to a computer rn but I'm on Three with single SIM, no airplane mode. Got two alerts. Other family members on Three also report two alerts yesterday evening.
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LB: this is *fucking nuts*.
on certain AMD CPUs you can just poke a random MMIO address from ring 0 and change the memory controller's scrambling pattern, on a live system, which completely jumbles the mapping between physical addresses and DRAM IC coordinates. since all memory protection features (IOMMU, SMM boundaries, etc.) are based on physical addresses, it bypasses *all of them*. you can read AND WRITE the SMM, fTPM, and even the C6 microcode save regions. wild.
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My small British company was bought by Americans. I have just been formally reprimanded for sarcasm and sardonic commentary. I told the disciplinary panel I was grateful for the opportunity to reflect on my attitude going forward and would be certain to bear it in mind in future.
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Authenticity Problem
Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
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