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
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When companies say things like "if you are not in the office three days a week we will penalize you at performance review time" they are inherently contradicting their own claims that remote work results in reduced productivity.
If remote work were bad, you wouldn't need to add an artificial penalty for working remotely, it would show up IN the performance data.
If you have to threaten people with artificially lowered performance scores for not coming into the office, you are admitting that performance has nothing to do with RTO.
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New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:
👫 PostgreSQL Conference Europe
Date: 2023-12-12 - 2023-12-15
Location: Prague, Czechia
ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/6q60cc7pqb62s6ed9me9jq26co.ics
Chris Ellis
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New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:
👫 PGDay UK 2023
Date: 2023-09-12
Location: London
ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/j2rolsh6s11a84vclfemmoeec8fsbdapujh8fo6c0u853r7kat82ent8g2.ics
@SimonB Yeh. Offering a short secondment sounds a bit insulting TBH, especially if you applied for the role. A bullet dodged I think.
@SimonB 'Thank you for the offer, however I'm concerned that I won't be able to perform to my full potential in your environment and therefore currently won't be accepting the offer'
I also think that expressing your concerns about the situation is polite enough. In someways our culture of always trying yo be over polite and not expressing the actual issues is ultimately impolite.
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I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:
* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?
And not:
* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?
Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.
It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.
The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.
@bigcalm able to make the LUG dinner tonight?
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PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".
It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.
And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.
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I can’t stand ‘TLDR’. Like why apologise for people who don’t want to read what you wrote? If it’s really that long, maybe shorten it?
@geospaz wow, amazing. Thanks for the positive feedback and spotting the typos, I'll get them fixed ASAP.
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@intrbiz Great stuff ! I've missed this kind of tool many times, and thought of rolling something like it using a bit diff toolchain.
Being a db guy it helps when you can keep most of the workflow in-db and do it in sql. Looking forward to kicking the tires more but already added it to my dabble-y databases .
P.S. https://pgvis.org/install
has a couple of typos, at least the lines
curl /latest/pgvis-extension/pgVis.tar.gz > pgVis.tar.gz
and
curl https://pgvis.org/download/script/latest-install.sql | psql
need to be fixed.
@john it's mostly about is it viable for my day to day activities. Screen sharing was working in a meeting. And so far it seems to be going well. Not hit any stumbling blocks for all my common tasks, so will probably stick with Wayland now.
I'm excited to share https://pgvis.org/ a simple PostgreSQL extension for building visualisation dashboards.
It aims to offer an easy way to create visualisation dashboards with SQL and even exportable with just psql.
A little background: https://intrbiz.com/post/postgresql/pgvis-simple-visualisations-for-postgresql
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An update on #Capita "industry standard practice" open S3 bucket. https://www.colchester.gov.uk/info/cbc-article/?catid=latest-news&id=KA-04379
Been a lot of talk here about X and Wayland, so I figured it was time to try Wayland again. Happy to say after a day everything is just working. This is KDE on @opensuse Tumbleweed. So nice and upto date. Fingers crossed it stays working.
@sil thats a good point, I'd not thought about it on those terms. But won't employer's currently using zero hour contracts just use casual work contracts. Surely if there was a balance of power, no one would take a zero hours contract.
@sil but how do you do that and also protect the ability to offer casual work. I just don't see it working in reality. Therefore this is just pointless posturing. I'd prefer a Labour party with charisma and a vision, something which they seem to lack.
@sil my main concern would be that any legislation which removes flexibility in contracts is likely to be very difficult and likely to backfire. Whereas a Labour party which supported unions and improving peoples rights might attract me more.
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