Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Met Police doing a wonderful job with the UK's new authoritarian thought-crime laws to make sure everyone hears about a protest that would probably have gone unseen if ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest

As one can now be arrested for the offence of "being equipped for locking on", the only difference between arresting protestors today, and arresting me every time I go out on my bike, carrying two locks, is whether the police officers around at the time have formed a negative view about my intent.

I just found a company those tech staff "doesn't like transactions," so instead of writing BEGIN and END they put all of the statements into a single huge statement using one CTE for each statement, and I think there should be criminal penalties for this.

How long is it appropriate to wait before the "I told you so"? https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90

#programming #microservices

Just a couple of things:

One
It's weird and interesting that if the fediverse gains 10m users and then loses 1m, that's considered proof of failure. But bsky gains 100k and without any time passing this is considered proof of success.

Two
When people say that signing up for fedi is too complicated, you know they mean they don't know how to navigate the instance admin drama, right? At least in part. People can choose from a menu of apps and servers. They're not idiots. What they can't do is evaluate which server will let them talk to their friends about whatever topics come up for them. And it's because that evaluation is basically impossible.

Here's a fun new feature we are working on in systemd: userspace-only reboot. In order to reduce grey-out times on image-based OS updates to next to nothing we are making a reboot happen where kernel stays as it is, but userspace shuts down as usual, then possibly transitions into a new rootfs, and starts up again with an initial transaction as it would on a classic system boot. During the transition selected services can pass along their fds and listening sockets, to pass "live" resources…

@selfcare just yesterday when I attended and spoke at the brilliant #PGDay #Chicago ♥️
#postgres #postgresql #opensource #database #databases

We know better than anyone that remote work isn’t always sunshines and rainbows.

Here are some strategies people on the Buffer team use for avoiding loneliness. ⬇️

📅 Intentionally scheduling non-work related meetings
🌎 Choosing to explore as a nomad instead of WFH
🚸 Getting out with the kids
🌆 Making plans outside of the house

One thing we all seem to appreciate the most about remote work is that it allows us the flexibility to build our days exactly the way we choose. 💙

That people are taking ChatGPT seriously for coding tells you more about the state of software engineering as a discipline than it does about the state of machine learning as a technology.

The letter @EclipseFdn @osi and many other #OpenSource organisations signed about #CRA consultation made Techcrunch. The fact they then decided to quote GitHub about it is an ironic echo of the very issue the letter is about.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/in-letter-to-european-commission-open-source-bodies-say-cyber-resilience-act-could-have-chilling-effect-on-software-development/

🐦 is changing. Swedish public broadcaster quits #twitter joining North American examples.

Not because of labelling but because "audience already has"

https://apnews.com/article/twitter-sweden-public-radio-musk-038a4e4a2555c66f82b6eb960e64e257

Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. We join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.

Pay changes since 2010:

Doctors: -7.4%
Nurses: -2.4%
University Staff: - 20%
Environment Agency Staff: - 20%

MPs: +34%
CEOs: +250%

But it's the striking staff who are at fault....

#UKpolitics #ToriesOut

Very excited to share that I'll be speaking at #PGDay #Chicago in less than a week! I'll be announcing the new #PostgreSQL #extension #pg_statviz for time series #analysis and #visualization of #Postgres internal #statistics.

Bonus talk: "Don't Do This" - PostgreSQL bad practices and pitfalls!
👇
https://2023.pgdaychicago.org/

#timeseries #timeseriesdata #opensource #database #databases #stats #performance #event #events

Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling was born in 1909 in Hampshire. She became an aeronautical engineer & daredevil motorcycle racer.

In 1936, Shilling joined The Royal Aircraft Establishment. 5 yrs later, she led a team that designed a device to prevent Merlin plane engines from stalling during flight, which helped the Allies win WWII.

Shilling was also the 2nd woman to earn a Brooklands Gold Star for lapping the track at >100mph. https://www.wes.org.uk/sites/default/files/u82/Magnificent%20Women%20-%20Beatrice%20Shilling.pdf #HistoryRemix #science #history #women