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
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Trump says he speaks 'for the UK more than Prince Harry'
What on earth are you bleating about you senile fool? You don't even speak for the majority of your own country.
Go back to your play room, the one with the golden toilet and try putting the different shape wooden blocks into the correct holes for a while.
Moron!
@bigcalm looks very yummy, enjoy.
So, PGConf.DE 2026 is over, after a quick turn around, on the train upto Manchester for @oggcamp 2026.
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Not hallucinating, not hitting a token limit. Only uncontrolled expense is coffee.
Are "#AI layoffs" coming?
@dick_turpin if the Labour party don't do something to rescue the whole situation I think they're sunk for decades.
@dick_turpin yeh indeed, he's always got an excuse as to why it's someone else fault and they should get sacked.
It's utterly pathetic given he campaigned on being whiter-than-white and was going to fix things up.
He's wasted a big majority and parliamentary time, arresting OAPs for the terrorism offence of holding up a placard.
It seems mr integrity doesn't really have any.
@dick_turpin it also feels like he running out of people to blame of it all too.
Can't wait for one of the people he's fires to turn around and stab him in the back.k
@dick_turpin either way Starmer should go. He's either lied or completely incompetent.
I struggle to buy that an FCO civil-servant would make such a decision with out being pressured in advance, or consulting via an undocumented back channel.
And then after it all blew up. You'd have thought the PM might actually go and find out the details. To which it seems he trusted 'a process'. The guy really have no political sense.
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Zarah Sultana MP entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026. Today it remains illegal for UK media to report on this. It can only be published in Hansard or the Parliament's own video service.
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@dick_turpin you mean to say if that had happened we wouldn't have had Thatcher?
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More on the UK's retrial of six already-acquitted activists from Palestine Action
They were acquitted in February following over a year in prison.
If convicted on retrial, they & 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms.
The jury is not allowed to know this. The UK is prohibiting crucial trial information from both the jury & the media.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Palestine #PalestineAction #CorruptTrial #ElbitFactory #IsraeliArms .
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away & prevented from giving 1st aid
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Maybe the B in JSONB stands for Beast? Boriss Mejias, @tchorix, (EDB) covers schema-design pitfalls, index strategies & TOAST tables for JSON/JSONB in PostgreSQL.
Join us for Livestream 1 to watch Boriss's talk on Tue 16 Jun https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/json-in-postgresql-evil-data-type-or-just-needs-to-be-tamed/
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Tomorrow, the London PostgreSQL Meetup Group will be presenting “Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room: Zero-downtime Major PG Upgrades in Practice” with Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov. This is an in-person event and the waitlist has been activated!
https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/313848775/?eventOrigin=network_page
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Gentle reminder that May 5 our #CfP closes. Get your proposals in for 45, 25 and 5 minute talks on anything #PostgreSQL (community): https://2026.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/
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let's stop UK being part of Trump's war...
Please sign, and publicise.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994
#UKPolitics
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.
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