Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Do you have complex orchestration issues that you'd like to solve with Podman? Quadlets are now native to Podman and they let you do that! Find out how here! https://blog.podman.io/2025/08/level-up-your-container-game-unified-quadlet-management-is-now-natively-in-podman/ #podman #OpenSource

Meta AI, the honest spokesperson for #WhatsApp 🤣

Celebrating 20 Year of the #openSUSE Project Today!!!

An analysis of Github's recent studies on "AI" agents for software development

(Original title: Jussi Pakkanen: Let's properly analyze an AI article for once)

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html

Another superb front cover from Private Eye magazine proving that satire can be more powerful than many newspaper stories.

I don't suppose Ian Hislop will be visiting the USA any time soon, he might have an issue getting through immigration.

#gaza #israel #labour

And now this.

#uk #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ukpolitics

🎤 Our first confirmed speakers for PGConf.EU 2025 are now live!
Check out who’s already on the lineup 👉 https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2025/sessions/

We’re updating the list as more speakers confirm, so keep an eye on it — and once all sessions are locked in, we’ll be publishing the full conference programme.

Exciting things ahead — stay tuned!
#PGConfEU #PostgreSQL #Postgres

There's a lot talk about "ZeroDisk" infrastructure backed by S3. The pitch is "move your data from locally attached NVMe storage to S3 and your applications will scale easier and be more performant!"

Maybe I'm getting too old for this shit, but I swear to dog this is the 4th such cycle in my career:

1. NFS
2. iSCSI / Fibrechannel
3. Hadoop / HDFS
4. ZeroDisk with S3

Am I the only one that's like: "wait, move TBs of data to S3 from NVMe to increase performance? Are you high?"

It doesn't work, so you scale up. Now you're back to local NVMe "cache disks" running instances as expensive as the locally attached NVMe instances when you add those costs to your S3 bill. The performance is worse because of course it is.

It always comes back to the two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. 😂

#zerodisk #s3 #hadoop #cache #datalake #GetOffMyLawn

House prices ticked up in July, so its time to say again:

House price rises are...

NOT a 'return to growth';

NOT a 'bounce back';

NOT the return of a welcome return of 'health' to the housing market...

HOUSE PRICE RISES ARE ASSET PRiCE INFLATION & ARE CONTRIBUTING TO OUR ONGOING HOUSING CRISIS!

Until we get this message we will never approach removing our housing problems (yes, I know there are other issues for rental rights to loose finance that contribute too)

#housing #politics

The best software engineers solve problems, not just write code.

They ask:
- What problem are we actually trying to solve?
- Is this the right problem to solve?
- What's the simplest solution that could work?
- What are the trade-offs?
- How will we know if it's working?

Writing code is the implementation detail. Understanding the problem space, considering alternatives, and thinking through implications—that's where the real value lies.

Code is just the tool. Problem-solving is the skill.

What happened to @till in part shows why billionaires' whims shouldn't control software…
https://ubuntu.social/@till/114932477260801209
Mark Shuttleworth once shouted that “Software Freedom Conservancy is just like Microsoft” & publicly stated I was a “McCarthyist” for enforcing #GPL. Like most billionaires, he says & does whatever he wants & faces no consequences.

You are far from the only employee he has mistreated & most go on to do their greatest work after leaving Shuttleworth's company. I'm sure you will too.

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

... 🧵

Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

I feel this