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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At @pgdayuk i think we can safely assume that @vyruss means #PostgreSQL when he says "Ditch Elasticsearch and use a real database for text search"
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Full text search-ing the #PostgreSQL mailing list with @vyruss, at @pgdayuk (plus useful modules)
Loving this presentation because it shows again all that Postgres can do, no need for other tools.
@dick_turpin you mean, you've not just ordered it from Amazon and charged them tripple?
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@jriou @ascherbaum openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS, have been very reliable for me. Been running Tumbleweed on all my laptops and desktops since around 2015, and not had any significant issues.
The BTRFS based snapshotting and rollback, is super handy and taken a lot of the risks out of a rolling release.
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Just a few days left until PGDay.UK 2024!
PGDay UK is back on September 11 2024, held at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London, UK. Please reserve your seat for next week to join users and developers of PostgreSQL. This is your chance to meet and exchange ideas and knowledge with like-minded database fanatics in London.
Register here: https://2024.pgday.uk/registration/
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Come to @oggcamp in #Manchester on October 12-13 and geek out with the rest of us at this venerable free culture #unconference resurrected after four years.
Tickets on sale now, FINAL DAY for early-bird pricing, from https://oggcamp.org/tickets/
More info at https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/20/return-of-the-oggcamp/
#FreeCulture #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Geek #Hacker #Event #OggCamp
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Join @ehstanton, Software Engineer at @tembo_io, for his high-speed manifesto on why brain health actually matters: https://2024.pgday.nl
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Come see Ryan Booz talk about "Mastering PostgreSQL Partitioning: Supercharge Performance and Simplify Maintenance" at PGDay UK 2024 on September 11th in London!
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Watch @intrbiz talk from #PosetteConf 2024 💥 “Even JSONB In Postgres Needs Schemas” and learn how you can control those unknown unknowns with JSON Schema & CHECK constraints in #PostgreSQL 🐘
https://youtu.be/F6X60ln2VNc
#postgres #databases #OpenSource #community
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Come see Stefan Fercot (@pgstef) talk about "Achieving minimal downtime in PostgreSQL maintenance tasks" at PGDay UK 2024 on September 11th in London!
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Check out the interview with Benefactor sponsor Cybertec just posted at https://2024.pgday.uk/sponsor-interviews/cybertec/
I do think it's unfair to say 'conveniently excluded'. That would imply a lack of effort, which is not the case.
Both local and national govt, do put effort into reminding people, reaching people and making it easy.
Often political parties, schools and other activists groups also remind people.
Short of compulsory national id cards, I don't see there is much more which could be done to get people on the electoral roll.
The UK has a very laxidazical approach to identity.
In many ways each govt department has their own approach to identity and often their own reference numbers.
The concept of a national id scheme was floated under Blair, but was very unpopular, for many reasons.
As such the election system effectively maintains it's own list of people, as does many other govt departments.
No public stats that I know of, some might be possible via FOI requests.
In people are reminded yearly to keep it upto date. It's kind of linked a bit with council tax, so in general it's more the 'head of the household' having to notify of other residents whom are eligible.
It's more akin to having to fill in a census in my view.
I suspect it's often students and multiple occupancy rentals that mostly fall through the cracks.
In many ways our lack of govt. id makes this harder.
People are not required to vote, but are required to register.
In practice the council send a letter to each property asking people to confirm their details to be added to the register. In the past some councils would have people going door to door to ensure the register was upto date.
It's also worth noting the local council collect and count votes, for both local and national polls.
I've never heard of someone being fined.
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PGDay Lowlands invites the community to contribute to the next PostgreSQL major version by giving feedback. We will raffle among all the testers:
🎫 1 free ticket to the event, sponsored by Nexteam Ltd
📖 1 physical copy of the PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook sponsored by EDB
🐘 1 handmade elephant made and donated by @karenhjex
(with more prizes to be added)
To participate: https://2024.pgday.nl/testing-pg/
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We've added the accepted lightning talks to the schedule. Can't wait to hear from Hettie Dombrovskaya, Teresa Lopes, Evan Stanton, Bilge Ince, Michal Nosek and others: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdaynl2024/schedule/
@dick_turpin treating people with care, compassion and helping people deal with their drug abuse problems is exactly the kind of values I think this country does stand for.
Drug abuse is a complex issue, it's clear the current strategy of treating it as a crime problem is not helping anyone. Time for it to be treated as a health issue, like the examples of plenty of other countries.
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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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