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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Zarah Sultana MP entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026. Today it remains illegal for UK media to report on this. It can only be published in Hansard or the Parliament's own video service.
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@dick_turpin you mean to say if that had happened we wouldn't have had Thatcher?
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away & prevented from giving 1st aid
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Maybe the B in JSONB stands for Beast? Boriss Mejias, @tchorix, (EDB) covers schema-design pitfalls, index strategies & TOAST tables for JSON/JSONB in PostgreSQL.
Join us for Livestream 1 to watch Boriss's talk on Tue 16 Jun https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/json-in-postgresql-evil-data-type-or-just-needs-to-be-tamed/
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Tomorrow, the London PostgreSQL Meetup Group will be presenting “Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room: Zero-downtime Major PG Upgrades in Practice” with Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov. This is an in-person event and the waitlist has been activated!
https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/313848775/?eventOrigin=network_page
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Gentle reminder that May 5 our #CfP closes. Get your proposals in for 45, 25 and 5 minute talks on anything #PostgreSQL (community): https://2026.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/
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let's stop UK being part of Trump's war...
Please sign, and publicise.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994
#UKPolitics
WebSerial is cool, I can now program my LED Badges directly from the browser over UDPI. Just need a cheap USB TTL dongle and a signal diode to make a programmer.
Now it would be even better if Firefox added support for WebSerial rather than pissing about with AI crap.
@catherineweird IMHO any sites defaulting to SMS just don't know what they're doing. TOTP approaches are cheaper and better.
The Yubikey stuff took awhile to get good support by the browsers too.
And it seems that Passkeys are the new hotness, but they seem even sillier.
@catherineweird have a look at the MFA setup, they're usually called 'Security Keys'. FIDO U2F might also be mentioned.
@catherineweird Yubikey's are great for the sites which support them.
@dick_turpin yeh, it's rather lazy and obstinate.
Did you offer to sell them a hammer, for use against one of the devices, problem solved...
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Regulators and the tech press are sleeping on the web's power to unlock mobile computing the way it pried open the desktop. What started an oversight is now a crisis for the legitimacy of both institutions:
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
London PostgreSQL Meetup is back for 2026 with: Zero-downtime major upgrades in practice
We're excited to be back and pleased to say this event is being sponsored by pgMustard.
On the talks front, we have Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov from Fresha who will take us through how they recently upgraded their fleet with zero-downtime.
We will then host our first ever debate, on a topic to be determined!
WHERE
Join us at Doggett's Coat and Badge on 14 April from 18:30.
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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
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Sign the petition. Protect VPN use in the UK https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk
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Exactly 4 weeks from this moment we'll all be tucked up in bed ready for a nice early Saturday morning start of OggCamp. Definitely not still in the bar talking nonsense or anything...
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Chris Ellis is teaching us many useful PosrgreSQL tricks!
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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
