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 yeh, it's rather lazy and obstinate.
Did you offer to sell them a hammer, for use against one of the devices, problem solved...
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Regulators and the tech press are sleeping on the web's power to unlock mobile computing the way it pried open the desktop. What started an oversight is now a crisis for the legitimacy of both institutions:
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
London PostgreSQL Meetup is back for 2026 with: Zero-downtime major upgrades in practice
We're excited to be back and pleased to say this event is being sponsored by pgMustard.
On the talks front, we have Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov from Fresha who will take us through how they recently upgraded their fleet with zero-downtime.
We will then host our first ever debate, on a topic to be determined!
WHERE
Join us at Doggett's Coat and Badge on 14 April from 18:30.
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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
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Sign the petition. Protect VPN use in the UK https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk
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Exactly 4 weeks from this moment we'll all be tucked up in bed ready for a nice early Saturday morning start of OggCamp. Definitely not still in the bar talking nonsense or anything...
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Chris Ellis is teaching us many useful PosrgreSQL tricks!
@dick_turpin figured it was already.
@dick_turpin in your case, would it not be easier to just get a copy of the yellow pages or BT phone book? Seems a quicker than writing everyone's names yourself.
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I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction
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Hello! We are Edinburgh Linux Cafe, joining Mastodon was something we meant to do for a while but never got around to. We are a small but dedicated group helping people to install Linux on their laptops. Our interests are Linux (obviously), repair, reuse, and bicycles. Amazing to see that we have actually been mentioned already (👋 @DoomsdaysCW )!
@neil I think I'd tend to agree with you that any high street revival more needs to be an evolution. Likely smaller and focused on different services.
I think often though, the success of a town high street, is linked to the general success of the area.
Given the costs bared by smaller shops, it's hard to see how they can compete.
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It's more complex than that. They fire workers to reduce operational costs in an attempt to make their P&L look better. Fewer hands mean it's even harder to maintain the revenue, so they look for a force multiplier. And that's where AI comes in with false promises.
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Are you going to @oggcamp this year? April 25-26 in Manchester (the original one in the UK).
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PGDay Lowlands is back! We can't wait to see you all at the "second best PostgreSQL conference in Europe", September 10, at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht: https://2026.pgday.nl/
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I am VERY tempted to write another long post about how the decision in the 1970s not to establish a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund in favour of simply using the oil money to prop up finances at the time, has done more damage to the UK than any other decision in history. LONG THREAD, SORRY.
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We are thrilled to announce that the main stage schedule for OggCamp 2026 is now officially live.
More details here: https://www.oggcamp.org/posts/schedule/
Full main stage schedule here: https://talks.oggcamp.org/oggcamp-2026/schedule/
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Mark your calendars! PGConf.EU 2026 will be held on October 20-23, 2026, in Valencia, Spain.
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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
