Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

We're here! The PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force is excited to have finally landed on Mastodon! We look forward to interacting with all of you and sharing the work we're doing.

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

When elephants meet. #postgres #mastodon #fosdem

@floord

@fosdem #FOSDEM main track again, bit of history (and future!) of systemd by @pid_eins, my visual summary:

We are save-the-dating for @pgdaylowlands, September 12, in Rotterdam

Calls for sponsors, sessions and shenanigans open soon!

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Paywalls on web pages linked to via the socials have to be one of the worst web UXs.

After nearly drowning in an alphabet soup of anti-spam acronyms whilst trying to explain to a customer why email forwarding doesn't work, Kelduum decided to let off steam on our blog. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/01/29/the-death-of-email-forwarding/

weather report for FOSDEM weekend in Brussels: sunny and dry; high 6°C ; low -1°C

The PGEU Diversity Committee arrived on LinkedIn.
Feel free to follow https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/postgresql-europe-diversity-task-force
#PostgreSQL

I'm off to #FOSDEM2025 at the end of this week to join the #SocialWeb devroom, and talk about @manyfold on Saturday afternoon!

Looking forward to talking to folks about #ActivityPub federation, #3dPrinting, #WebGL... pretty much anything TBH! And looking forward to a trip on the Eurostar, too 🚅

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4181-manyfold-federating-3d-models/

What's interesting about algorithms?

The challenge of doing X with as few resources as possible (memory, etc).

What do OpenAI + friends do? The opposite.

"Lets assume we have unlimited resources & try to build a god."

No wonder they're losing their shit with the DeepSeek thing.

Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI & attempting to build it results in harm: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636.

Don't make this into a "US vs China US has to win on AGI" thing please 🙄

and basically, what the #DeepSeek team did was, since the H800 chips didn’t have the power that the H100s, they had to optimize everything down to the assembled components of the chip.

back in the 1990s that’s how folks first using languages like Java had to code things ―the software language was far more powerful than the retail hardware. so coders like my ex- (who used Java to create abstract expressionist painting on the screen) was doing assembly level coding to achieve that in 1998.

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