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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The letter @EclipseFdn @osi and many other #OpenSource organisations signed about #CRA consultation made Techcrunch. The fact they then decided to quote GitHub about it is an ironic echo of the very issue the letter is about.
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🐦 is changing. Swedish public broadcaster quits #twitter joining North American examples.
Not because of labelling but because "audience already has"
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-sweden-public-radio-musk-038a4e4a2555c66f82b6eb960e64e257
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Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. We join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.
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Pay changes since 2010:
Doctors: -7.4%
Nurses: -2.4%
University Staff: - 20%
Environment Agency Staff: - 20%
MPs: +34%
CEOs: +250%
But it's the striking staff who are at fault....
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Very excited to share that I'll be speaking at #PGDay #Chicago 
in less than a week! I'll be announcing the new #PostgreSQL #extension #pg_statviz for time series #analysis and #visualization of #Postgres internal #statistics.
Bonus talk: "Don't Do This" - PostgreSQL bad practices and pitfalls!
👇
https://2023.pgdaychicago.org/
#timeseries #timeseriesdata #opensource #database #databases #stats #performance #event #events
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Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling was born in 1909 in Hampshire. She became an aeronautical engineer & daredevil motorcycle racer.
In 1936, Shilling joined The Royal Aircraft Establishment. 5 yrs later, she led a team that designed a device to prevent Merlin plane engines from stalling during flight, which helped the Allies win WWII.
Shilling was also the 2nd woman to earn a Brooklands Gold Star for lapping the track at >100mph. https://www.wes.org.uk/sites/default/files/u82/Magnificent%20Women%20-%20Beatrice%20Shilling.pdf #HistoryRemix #science #history #women
Can we stop using the phrase 'over Engineered', often we actually mean 'under Engineered'. Engineering is the art of meeting constraints, building simple solutions. Not getting lost in minutiae to build 'perfect' nonsense.
@michristofides @ascherbaum complete opposite I think.
@ascherbaum @michristofides I got 'added' to the EDB marketing list at some point, it seems.
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I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.
@bigcalm Yeh they've been shit all night and day, like a yoyo. Not much comms from them either, very poor, frankly. But then I got no other choice :(.
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PostgreSQL Person of the Week interview with: Katharine Saar (@KatharineSaar)
#PostgreSQL #PostgresFriends
https://postgresql.life/post/katharine_saar/
@dick_turpin @Waxingtonknee I never said it was *all* Brexits fault. But Brexit is a significant reason it has got worse. To say that Brexit is not part of the problem is fallacious.
@dick_turpin @Waxingtonknee Except of the places where French passport control operates in the UK, eg: St Pancras.
The entry / exit stamping takes significantly more time. That is a direct result of Brexit.
There are solutions, but exiting the UK and entering the EU is now slower or more expensive, than it was a few years ago.
Maybe if we'd had a better negotiator, it could have been better. But what is true is this is as a result of Brexit.
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@l_avrot @ascherbaum I'm sure you'll trigger people.
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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
