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
@fuzzychef I run @opensuse Tumbleweed, almost daily updates, breakages very very rare. Typically the lastest Gnome and KDE 24h after upstream release. I don't have to manually reinstall extensions to KDE for it to be usable. If all goes wrong, boot into previous snapshot and snapper rollback. Snapshots are just as viable as OSTree.
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Company: < goes through a twenty-five step process with an hour of downtime to downsize an RDS instance >
Also company: "We like RDS because it makes operations easier."
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This may the most arrogant public statement from a corporation I have ever read.
You know who else relied on "experienced inside experts" instead of regulators to validate the safety of a system? Boeing with the 737-MAX's MCAS.
@bigcalm alcohol free beer then I guess.
@sil one might say that such an analysis exposes ones own bias.
@bigcalm go get drunk?
All the people calling Twitters refusal to pay what they fairly owe a 'comedy of errors' has clearly never been on the receiving end of it. Its not fun, its just shit and Elon is an arsehole of enabling it. Whatever you think of him, these noves are indefensible.
@sil I went to uni in Lancaster, a very wet place. More than once we were given towels walking into pubs, since there had been a bit of a downpour en-route. I always considered it a mark of a good place, being granted a towel if you walked in dripping from head to toe.
@monsieuricon aw, subtle.
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Put on some of your favorite music.
@bigcalm thats not great, say something to one of the organisers on site.
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When companies say things like "if you are not in the office three days a week we will penalize you at performance review time" they are inherently contradicting their own claims that remote work results in reduced productivity.
If remote work were bad, you wouldn't need to add an artificial penalty for working remotely, it would show up IN the performance data.
If you have to threaten people with artificially lowered performance scores for not coming into the office, you are admitting that performance has nothing to do with RTO.
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New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:
👫 PostgreSQL Conference Europe
Date: 2023-12-12 - 2023-12-15
Location: Prague, Czechia
ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/6q60cc7pqb62s6ed9me9jq26co.ics
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New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:
👫 PGDay UK 2023
Date: 2023-09-12
Location: London
ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/j2rolsh6s11a84vclfemmoeec8fsbdapujh8fo6c0u853r7kat82ent8g2.ics
@SimonB Yeh. Offering a short secondment sounds a bit insulting TBH, especially if you applied for the role. A bullet dodged I think.
@SimonB 'Thank you for the offer, however I'm concerned that I won't be able to perform to my full potential in your environment and therefore currently won't be accepting the offer'
I also think that expressing your concerns about the situation is polite enough. In someways our culture of always trying yo be over polite and not expressing the actual issues is ultimately impolite.
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I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:
* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?
And not:
* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?
Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.
It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.
The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.
@bigcalm able to make the LUG dinner tonight?
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