Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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Plus lots of (big) companies have got very used to paying large consultancies for poor outcomes, mostly driven by perceived cost savings per head on paper.
Taking a serious look at the internal company transfer visas would not be stupid, people get treated badly for capitalists gains.
As someone in that sector, I think there are a number of key problems, specifically around the educational side. Computer Science is the degree course most people do, yet what people really want is Computer Engineers.
It's very much like trying to have Physics graduates roll into an Electronic Engineering job. They might posses the underlying knowledge in theory, but they lack any of the practical skills.
@azonenberg ahh, guess the net name is doing that.
@azonenberg stupid question, shouldn't pin 1 of U1 be connected to vin (your schematic don't indicate that)?
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Remember what Macquarie did to Thames water in the UK by loading it with debt before offloading it to others?
They are about to get full control of National Gas by buying out the last 20% from National Grid.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/macquarie-acquire-remaining-stake-uks-national-gas-2024-07-26/
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"We are pleased to announce postgres-contrib.org, a new website started in July 2024 by members of the #PostgreSQL #community, highlighting contributions to the project by the amazing people standing behind it. Many contributions to and for the PostgreSQL Project happen outside of writing code..."
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Welcome Redgate as a Benefactor sponsor of PGDay UK 2024 in London! https://2024.pgday.uk/sponsors/ #postgres #pgdayuk #london #opensource #database
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Welcome GITC Pro Limited (@GITCPro) as a Supporter sponsor of PGDay UK 2024 in London! https://2024.pgday.uk/sponsors/ #postgres #pgdayuk #london #opensource #database
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The wait is over - PGconf.EU 2024 schedule is now up https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2024/schedule/
#postgresql #database #opensource #athens
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More on the madness & inhumanity of the DWP's 'management' of carer's allowance....
As I've said before: we should be cherishing & rewarding unpaid carers, not putting them into a position of financial jeopardy.
Here's a change Labour can make right away with few if any fiscal implications.
Just stop the DWP penalising carers, now!
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The schedule for PGDay UK 2024 is published! Did you get your ticket already?
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So, if you ask me what my takeaway from the Crowdstrike issue is, I'd say: boot counting/boot assessment/automatic fallback should really be a MUST for today's systems. *Before* you invoke your first kernel you need have tracking of boot attempts and a logic for falling back to older versions automatically. It's a major shortcoming that this is not default behaviour of today's distros, in particular commercial ones.
Of course systemd has supported this for a long time:
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Let's cut the bullshit and spell out a few things. The IT security industry is about as trustworthy as the food supplement and vitamin industry, but somehow they escaped the same reputation. Their products are overwhelmingly based on flawed ideas, and the quality of their software is exceptionally bad. And while not everyone will agree with the harshness of my words, I'll say this: Essentially everyone in IT security who knows anything in principle knows this.
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Ah yes, let's ship a kernel driver that parses update files that are pushed globally simultaneously to millions of users without progressive staging, and let's write it in a memory unsafe language so it crashes if an update is malformed, and let's have no automated boot recovery mechanism to disable things after a few failed boots. What could possibly go wrong?
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@tomasv haha indeed. Or who needs to target XZ, when you could target security software.
Feels like a good day to be a Linux Desktop user :)
@badlogic as in a device which speaks some prerecorded messages as random?
Anything under 12V its very hard to do any damage, except to your wallet.
Don't get too hung up on component values, most simple electronics is a lot more forgiving than people think. We often only care about being within an order of magnitude, or the rule of thumb.
@badlogic I'd start with an idea, what do you want to make?
Once you have that, it's way easier to make it happen, since you'll want to do it, despite it maybe being hard.
A lot of the same logic from software applies in hardware, the gratification cycle is somewhat slower and longer, with bigger highs and deeper lows, in my experience.
Failing that, pick up a RPi Pico, some basic kits of components, a breadboard and a reel of single core wire. Then give your idea a go.
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