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
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Before we left for preschool this morning, my 4-year-old stopped in front of the table where I left my #FOSDEM stickers. She perused them, picked one up and said "I'm giving this to M" (her best friend).
What did she pick?
"Make art, not billionaires".
You should have seen my smile.
Wishing you all a great day!
P.S.: off I go actually make art - aka a video - promoting the Fediverse and criticizing tech oligarchs
@Edent using the Git hash as a version number, would pretty much follow that.
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@ChrisMayLA6 presumably it's not just me, but this Labour govt exerting so much pressure on quangos, which are meant to have some independence, is not a good thing.
I was disappointed by the head of the CMA going, since they seemed to have finally started tackling the mobile phone duopoly.
I had hoped for so much more from Starmer and co, other than yet more hot air, empty words and 'resets'.
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just... just please stop changing the layouts and menus all the time
please
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A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.
Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.
https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/
As I kind of expected, I'm sad to say todays webinar on the Online Safety Act by OFCOM, was a total waste of time.
It did little to explain thing on top of what was available by reading their documents.
They did little to actually answer anyone's questions.
Rather disappointing.
The other fun one, I've been wondering on is mailing-lists with a web UI.
It seems there are some exceptions for email providers, but I get the impression this is more meant to exempt email sending services.
Yet a mailing list, were people can email other members, which is then also archived online. Seems another edge-case between the gaps.
As a small business, wanting to do the right thing. It's being made very hard by the guidance being produced.
I just want a short list of things I need to implement, rather than 1000s of pages of unclear text to wade through.
My current approach is just to assume we're going to fall into this mess of an act and implement what we need too.
But I honestly can't help but think it's a very poorly written act.
@neil yes! From my (very non-legal) reading of the act and guidance. And especially with Ofcoms guidance that a user == a visitor. It would seem that my client's user could be considered my user. And thus our platform is a user-2-user service regardless of the fact we are only a provider to one set of users.
@neil yes, been trying to wrap my head around the mess of OSA and how it applies to some community site and some of our products. Especially related to multi-tenant apps. We'll see how the webinar goes, but I'm not hopeful.
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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.
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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.
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So me and Nick did a Lightning Talk at FOSDEM PGDay about launching a PostgreSQL Independent Network, we have limited info on: https://pgindy.net/
If you're interested drop us a message or chat to us at FOSDEM.
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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.
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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
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