Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

WebSerial is cool, I can now program my LED Badges directly from the browser over UDPI. Just need a cheap USB TTL dongle and a signal diode to make a programmer.

Now it would be even better if Firefox added support for WebSerial rather than pissing about with AI crap.

@catherineweird IMHO any sites defaulting to SMS just don't know what they're doing. TOTP approaches are cheaper and better.

The Yubikey stuff took awhile to get good support by the browsers too.

And it seems that Passkeys are the new hotness, but they seem even sillier.

@catherineweird have a look at the MFA setup, they're usually called 'Security Keys'. FIDO U2F might also be mentioned.

@catherineweird Yubikey's are great for the sites which support them.

@dick_turpin yeh, it's rather lazy and obstinate.

@dick_turpin

Did you offer to sell them a hammer, for use against one of the devices, problem solved...

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.

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/313848775/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

@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.