Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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@neil I read the same article and had the same reaction. It started off seeming very sensible, then a massive: "ehh what!?!".
Just makes me think of what happened to Alan Turing. I'm not sure this is something any state should be doing.
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@sil ahh, interesting nuance
@sil I don't think that is the case. That is controlled by CORS headers.
I definitely have apps setting a bearer token with fetch.
@sil so why can't you make a fetch request with credentials false and adding and authorization header with your authorisation. Presumably your app is authenticating your user and has the resulting authorisation token.
@sil why do you need to pass Cookies that you don't have access too?
@sil why can't you just set whatever authentication headers or cookies you need on the fetch request? Rather than relying on the browser to do that for you.
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'While Trump still commands the daily news cycle, he no longer commands the West... It is Europe that is becoming the new arsenal of democracy.'
Exceptional, morally urgent and utterly clear sighted column in the Telegraph. Yes, you read that right.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
European rearmament is pushing...
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@vyruss is donating a signed copy of his "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them", and @intrbiz put a special edition "electric elephant" in the prize pool - truly, what's keeping you from testing the beta release?! 😅
@giggls refreshing the collation version will make the warning go away. However you might have index corruption, from the underlying changes to the collation.
If you have any type of indexes on text columns, you should reindex those. To rebuild the index aligned with the new collation rules. Then you can refresh the collation version.
@neil your home range, or somewhere else?
@nixCraft also, nothing screams you're employer is awful, than being happy at finding a good candidate under market rate.
A few times, hiring, I found great people who asked for way less than they deserved. I told the company to offer them what they're worth.
The good places did, and we ended up with a great person who felt valued.
The bad places did not, and we ended up with a great person who ended up feeling cheated.
I wish more companies could understand treating people well is good.
@nixCraft getting a job somewhere else. Has universally been my fastest way to a raise, and what I've tended to advise people to do. Employers rarely demonstrate loyalty these days.
I've seen many employers spend more on recruiting a replacement rather than giving a colleague a raise.
The best I once saw, after 3/4 of the team had quit, got a job offer (for comparable pay) then turned around and demanded a 3x raise or they'd leave, leaving the company with no-one in the team, it worked.
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[Poll]
How many open source projects do you financially support (ie recurring donations of any frequency)?
(If you donate to an umbrella organization with the intent it will support multiple projects on your behalf, I guess probably count that organization as 1 project.)
@andypiper @codepope @hackwimbledon oh :(
Had many nice conversations with him at PostgreSQL events, will be missed.
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PGDay UK returns on September 9, and we’re proud to be a Partner-level sponsor. Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Evangelist at EDB, will take the stage with his talk “Future Postgres Challenges.” Devrim Gunduz, Bilge Ince, and Floor Drees support the event as volunteers: https://2025.pgday.uk/
The night before, we’re also sponsoring the very first Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup at Paddington Central. Miles Richardson will be speaking about the WarehousePG project: https://lu.ma/u042b0vw @postgresuk
@dick_turpin being against things is what the Torry party has done for the last decade.
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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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