Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Sometimes one way to say "thank you" just isn't enough, so merci, danke *and* bedankt 🇧🇪

https://boycott-ietf127.org/

Feels quite a lot like Heathrow airport ticked the emphatically hollow resilience tickbox and convinced themselves that was all that was needed.
Oh how wrong they were.
#resilienceTheatre

1/10 🚨 The 🇬🇧UK regulator’s final report is out and it’s clear: Apple’s browser engine ban harms competition.

Forcing all iOS browsers to use WebKit hurts developers, users, and the web itself.

Change is coming. 🧵

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regulators-final-verdict--apples-browser-engine-ban-harms-competition/

What a cool font!

'Atkinson Hyperlegible' by the Braille Institute
is *really* easy to read.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont

Thanks for pointing this out, @gemeinsamhier@norden.social

(https://norden.social/@gemeinsamhier/114060697571783200)

Chris Ellis taking questions after his excellent presention
#postgresql #database #openhagen #Intrbiz

We're happy to announce that the Call for Papers and Call for Sponsors is open for PGDay UK 2025!

https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2025/news/pgday-uk-2025-call-for-papers-and-call-for-sponsors-open-10/

I spent a good chunk of my weekend helping people running tiny, low risk, online services complete paperwork about the UK’s Online Safety Act, for zero discernible benefit.

So it is a bit galling that the main headline on the BBC this morning is about the government wanting to “slash red tape”.

I have spent one heck of a lot of time on the OSA, trying to help others with its burden, and it just seems so utterly unnecessary.

#OnlineSafetyAct

The web is not the sole preserve of global megacorps

But attempting to regulate it as if it were, imposing obligations which can realistically be met only by the well-resourced (be that time, money, education, lawyers, or otherwise), is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

👏 Jimmy Page: "When AI scrapes the vast tapestry of human creativity to generate content, it often does so without consent, attribution, or compensation. This is not innovation; it’s exploitation."
https://blabbermouth.net/news/jimmy-page-pushes-back-against-u-k-governments-artificial-intelligence-copyright-proposal

More protest artwork in London. #Tesla #TeslaTakedown #Politics #USpol

Did Zelensky shout at anyone during that Oval Office ambush?

I ask because journalists are routinely referring to what happened as a "shouting match" even though the abuse came from Trump and Vance, as far as I can tell.

New blogpost: "It is time to make the Online Safety Act 2023 fit for purpose"

I am concerned that, without rapid, targeted intervention at legislative level, the OSA will have a unwarranted and detrimental effect on the plurality of sites and services available to people in the UK, and impede and put at risk people running sites and services in the UK, for no material impact on the safety of people in the UK.

The government should:

Exempt small, low-risk services from Part 3
Fix an accessibility bug in Part 5

https://decoded.legal/blog/2025/03/it-is-time-to-make-the-online-safety-act-2023-fit-for-purpose/

#OnlineSafetyAct