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
@dick_turpin good to see you have two of the best.
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Congratulations to Netenyahu in managing to unite the Express and the Guardian in outrage.
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The IT world has convinced us no new software can be deployed outside of US clouds. We're so sure about this that European governments (including the UK) are handing over vital government functions & data to US controlled servers. In this piece I argue that until recently we somehow could run stuff on locally owned hardware, and that we should urgently relearn that skill, while it is still possible - or end up as digital colony of the US: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/
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This is incredible. The Clorox company is suing their MSP Cognizant for allegedly allowing hackers to gain access to their systems.
The lawsuit claims that Cognizant's staff were grossly negligent and submits what it says are transcripts of the hackers simply asking for password and MFA resets with no ID verification.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26025404-clorox-versus-cognizant-complaint/
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As Rachel Reeves seeks to deregulate financial services and return it the more light-touch 'principles-based' regime of the preceded the Global Financial Crisis of 2008... she might heed the worlds of Hector Sants (head of the Financial Services Authority from 2007-2012):
'a principles-based approach does not work with individuals who have no principles'.
And anyone who thinks the leopards in the the City have changed their spots has not been paying attention!
#politics
h/t The New World
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@mav The lawsuit is turning into a train wreck for Proven.
Their council asked their own witness if he could open the lock with a shim made out of a tin can - the answer was "Yes".
Oops!
Runkle of the Bailey has been following the case.
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Current digital infrastructure is to a large degree built on layers and layers of open source, and yet a substantial part of this open source is built and maintained by enthusiasts or other financially and resource-constrained teams. Funding options like the EU-STF proposal can truly help enforce the ecosystem and offer new paths towards sustainability.
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#PostgreSQL Event Calendar, Reminder:
👫 London PostgreSQL Meetup
Date: 2025-07-29T17:30:00Z - 2025-07-29T20:30:00Z
Location: The Stars of kings (Upstairs) 126 York Way Kings Cross N1 0AX, London
ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/3disgbhnk6lq8c6bp1d2sdi5vi.ics
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Calling all PostgreSQL enthusiasts in and around London! 🇬🇧🐘
Join us on Tuesday evening, 29 July, for the next London PostgreSQL User Group meet-up!
We’ll be diving into PostgreSQL Schema Migrations & Data Modeling - a great session for anyone looking to sharpen their skills or exchange ideas with fellow Postgres users.
📍 Location: 5min from King’s Cross Station
🍻 Drinks and snacks provided
Please RSVP to help us plan accordingly, we’d love to see you there!
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Well, Sameer finally got what he wanted: the end of an actually fast, actually secure counterpoint to Android.
CrOS can't make Android look like shit if CrOS also sucks:
https://www.theverge.com/news/706558/google-android-chromeos-combining-sameer-samat
@ascherbaum the Top Gear most are familiar with is 2002 onwards. So definitely Tatort is more long lived.
@jwildeboer would probably hope it has better tyres and brakes than it looks like it does.
But would probably agree that quadracycles should not really be in bike lanes. Guess it's an area where law needs to keep up, to stop these things fitting in the gaps.
@ascherbaum going back a bit, but Sunday night was Top Gear. Plus usually Dad's Army and Last Of The Summer Wine.
@slightlyoff yes, I agree with that.
@slightlyoff it'll be interesting to see where LLMs will go. I just highly doubt any of the hype will ever transpire.
I can see them having value in some domains.
I doubt that they'll be net positive on highly complex engineering challenges.
@slightlyoff last time saw a colleague try to use copilot, it couldn't translate a JSON file into some Typescript interfaces accurately, and we spent 30 mins debugging what would have taken 5 mins to write if they had bothered.
@slightlyoff I'm rather AI skeptic, but will admit they seem pretty good at contextually scaffolding stuff, part of me thinks that more about where most our frameworks ended up.
But, I'm highly skeptical that LLMs will be good a refactoring. This is usually the most error prone for experienced engineers, so hard to get right. I just don't think that LLMs have enough ability to understand logic to be able to refactor accurately.
That's much harder than genning code based on likely tokens.
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"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.
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Remember, the best way to save water during a drought is to…
T̶u̶r̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶a̶p̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶’̶r̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶u̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶t̶e̶e̶t̶h̶
BRING WATER COMPANIES BACK INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
@lproven @theregister easily done, just thought worth correcting.
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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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