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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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SPAM/116603250749392292
You gotta love this guy.
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The Burnham/Brexit thing is terrarium of Labour's failure: by not confronting lies in the past, and not being willing to call them out now, they both deprive themselves of real arguments about inequality and come off as triangulating, rather than honest.
This isn't hard; e.g.: "Farage lies about who is making us poorer because dividing people that work is how those who don't escape paying their fair share. He lied then, and it's hurt us for a decade. And he's lying now to cover his tracks."
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📢 CFP for talks at Community Events Day at #PGConfEU 2026 is now open!
Community events will take place on Friday, October 23 in Valencia 🇪🇸
🗓️ Submission deadline: 1 June 2026
https://2026.pgconf.eu/community-day/
#PostgreSQL #pgconfeu
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The Badger Badger Badger video is in the British Film Institute's archive of significant British films. 😳 https://replay.bfi.org.uk/video/fe55f1ff-bd71-5f02-8f89-6d6829c75d0d
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still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"
@dick_turpin I think Reeves would be a useless as Starmer.
At least Raynor actually stands for something and can communicate that.
@dick_turpin Starmer could always make him a Lord to speed things up, lol.
I think that demonstrates a bigger problem, a lack of any decent candidates in a party of over 400 MPs.
Not that I think there is that much talent across all the parties these days.
@dick_turpin yeh, agree, he turned out to not have enough integrity to actually stand for anything. It's impossible to know what his own position is on anything.
He made some good positive appointments early on, then nothing ever seemed to come from them.
No doubt we're going to blunder through this crisis without doing anything about the root cause again and just crank up inflation.
Part of me thinks this is happening in the open due to Labour party processes which seem unsuitable.
@dick_turpin Wish he would just do the honourable thing and resign. His lack of vision and communication ability is mostly what got us into this mess.
Let alone his inability to listen or take accountability for the consistent u-turns, resets and failings.
@jessie I'd be more than happy to do a guest session on databases / SQL tricks to make application developer's lives easier. If that is of any interest.
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the developments at gitlab feel unsettling. we have all our sources in a self hosted gitlab since a long time, and migrating to i.e. forgejo would be a big undertaking, with the tons of deeplinks from our docs into the repositories, a bunch of tricked-out CI yamls etc. and we're under a lot of pressure to ship hardware atm, so i can't pick that battle right now :/
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The quid pro quo of a Starmer leadership was that - fine - we weren't getting a storyteller or a charisma powerhouse, but we'd at least get serious, competent leadership committed to delivery. In fact we got neither.
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PgQ brings lockless queuing to Postgres. Alexander Kukushkin (Microsoft), the Patroni guy, shows how at POSETTE 2026, a free & virtual developer event.
Mark your calendar for POSETTE Livestream 2 on Wed 17 Jun & join us for Alexander's talk
https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/postgresql-queues-done-right-with-pgq/
#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #OpenSource #Microsoft #Developer
Those kinda devices typically have custom kernel builds and some of those features might have been striped out to reduce flash storage needed.
A hopefully saving grace at least.
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An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
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In April 24, Trudi Warner, a retired social worker, stood outside Inner London Crown Court holding a sign that read:
"Jurors, you have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience"
She was arrested for "intimidation of a jury" but at trial Mr. Justice Saini ruled in her favour, saying she was only stating the law outside a courthouse, and that can not be illegal
She was arrested again last week for doing exactly the same thing as were many others
@ascherbaum Framework, then Thinkpad.
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