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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For those who haven't been following JLR in detail, key chain of events:
1) JLR outsource key IT and infosec functions to TCS, approved by 1x director and 2x NEDs on both JLR and TCS boards
2) JLR transfer staff by TUPE to TCS
3) TCS lay off transferred UK staff, including cyber risk and governance and cyber monitoring
4) record profits for a decade
5) got hacked
6) company stops functioning
7) get government to bail out their key suppliers (in progress)
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Apple asks the EU to repeal the Digital Markets Act (DMA) because it's like really hard for them to comply without giving up a lot of its monopoly and they keep getting caught out trying to circumvent it. The maker of Liquid Glass seem to have a liquid ass. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law
@neil isn't the 'loan' for the small companies whom supply JLR, rather than for JLR.
Seems another instance of big businesses pushing the risk onto their smaller suppliers. Which presumably are sizeable employers in the local area.
IMHO there needs to be more responsibilities on companies to have better IT security, incident containment, response and recovery plans.
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I've moved the #Rails open letter to its own GitHub org just to avoid potential backscatter abuse on my other projects. The old link will still work though.
31 signatures so far. Don't really know what to make of that 🤷
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This is fun… when Charlie Kirk met his match in Cambridge UK
https://youtu.be/9O7y50cNb7c
@ChrisMayLA6 neat.
I assume it's a close up of the rear quarter, grill on the end of the window.
@ChrisMayLA6 the brushed stainless look made me assume it's a Delorean.
@ChrisMayLA6 is it also a time machine?
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#Rails folks, here's an open letter asking the Rails Core to cut ties with DHH and hard fork Rails to a new project with proper governance.
You can sign with a pull request. Let's show that there's demand for this, and that the community won't appease racists.
https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter
(boosts and cross-posts to other places are appreciated!)
@Edent it would basically be an executable with the 'content' embedded in a data section. No different to self-extracting zip file.
There are even techniques to do multi-platform run anywhere binaries, eg: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
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FOSDEM 2026: 31st January and 1st February https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-09-18-fosdem-2026/
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Missed the news? pgEdge is now fully open source! 🐘 🎉
Our high-availability #PostgreSQL platform (incl. Spock replication engine, Snowflake sequences, and LOLOR large object replication) moved from being source-available to being open-source under the PostgreSQL license.
This means true multi-master #Postgres is now OSI-approved open source. Looking for solutions for distributed, fault tolerant, and/or HA #data management? 👀
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"In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to Mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds"...
Realeasd 55 years ago today, 18th September 1970 #BlackSabbath album, "Paranoid"
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Brexiters now complaining about the 'small boats' immigration 'problem' have (wilfully?) forgotten that when we were in the EU this wasn't a problem because the Dublin Convention meant we had automatic returns agreements with all EU members for failed asylum seekers; which acted as the very 'deterrent' the Right are now demanding.
Brexiters are clamouring to solve a 'problem' that their actions actually created...
That said we should be acting better towards asylum seekers anyway!
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One of these was arrested for breaking Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
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OH: "How far down the spectrum do you have to be to be browsing Molex's connector catalogue in bed at midnight?"
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Arwa Mahdawi is right:
'the foreigners we should worry about are not desperate people on small boats, they’re billionaires with rocket ships'!
Elon Musk (and his fellow right wing billionaires) are a real & present danger to our democracy & the sooner our political class stop dismissing this danger (not least because some are on the payroll of the billionaire Right) & get real about joining those defending our rights, the better.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/british-democracy-under-threat-elon-musk
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Andres Freund will join us for Talking Postgres E31 to discuss "What went wrong (and what went right) with AIO" (Asynchronous I/O). Join live on September 17, 2025 @ 10:00am PT in #talkingpostgres on the Microsoft Open Source Discord.
#Open Source
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AI slop
Morning slop: https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109
Closed in minutes. Reporter banned.
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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
