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
Chris Ellis
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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
@gsuberland it is the same order as cp and mv: src dst
At least that helps me remember it.
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In the end the Water industry crisis & scandal is a perfect memorial for Thatcherism:
A falsified bill of goods, sold on the promise of an answer to the UK's economic problems but delivering a major opportunity for financial services to rob normal people whilst wrecking the environment. And unwinding over a sufficiently long period that those who've robbed the country have either fled or died, handing on their ill-gotten gains to others who now deny any knowledge or responsibility!
@bkuhn @cwebber @Floppy @richardfontana
I don't speak in any capacity for the rails fork (but I do hope them success), nor do I have a project with a sufficient user base.
But I would love to see a LAGPL variant. I think that would be very useful in many situations. As a pragmatic argument against the 'open core' style licences.
As an outsider, a fork adopting the fully AGPL I think is likely to hamper that fork, rather than boost it.
@bkuhn @Floppy @richardfontana
Would that mean that people using (ie consuming the libraries) the fork would also fall under the terms of the AGPL and need to publish their code?
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Staying in Utrecht a little longer? We've compiled a list of things-to-do in this beautiful city: https://2026.pgday.nl/things-to-do/
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It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity
https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/gaslight-years-166761233
https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/to-end-part-two-166818254
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@jonty no access to a computer rn but I'm on Three with single SIM, no airplane mode. Got two alerts. Other family members on Three also report two alerts yesterday evening.
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LB: this is *fucking nuts*.
on certain AMD CPUs you can just poke a random MMIO address from ring 0 and change the memory controller's scrambling pattern, on a live system, which completely jumbles the mapping between physical addresses and DRAM IC coordinates. since all memory protection features (IOMMU, SMM boundaries, etc.) are based on physical addresses, it bypasses *all of them*. you can read AND WRITE the SMM, fTPM, and even the C6 microcode save regions. wild.
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My small British company was bought by Americans. I have just been formally reprimanded for sarcasm and sardonic commentary. I told the disciplinary panel I was grateful for the opportunity to reflect on my attitude going forward and would be certain to bear it in mind in future.
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Authenticity Problem
Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus
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@dick_turpin that is still likely more useful than Farage.
@dick_turpin if Binface does win, he'd have to remove the bin to sit in Parliament.
I hope he does, it would be all rather amusing.
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#PGConf.EU 2026 programme is out! 🐘
Five tracks. Three days. Valencia, 20–22 October.
Explore & register: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2026/schedule
#PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL30
The simple case is just a cross join of your A and B groups, eg:
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT e FROM l WHERE e LIKE 'A%') a
CROSS JOIN
(SELECT e FROM l WHERE e LIKE 'B%') b;
For the more complex case I think all approaches you try will run into the output columns need to be known and can't be dynamically materialised, ie with crosstab.
Likely you can do it in a function which computes the groups, builds a dynamic query and returns JSON.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo - I am beyond furious about this bit of news.
The Lovell Telescope has - from day one - been a project that has produced incredible results on a shoestring budget, using whatever Lovell could scrounge to produce an instrument that has reshaped our view of the Universe.
(I was observing OH- masers there the day Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter.)
The budget needed to keep it running is a rounding error when compared to government spend on 'AI'.
Closing it is criminal folly.
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If you’re still using anything made by 37signals, this is the shit you’re supporting. https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d
Right, EMF Camp here we come.
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