Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Question: if your community conference has a photo consent option, what exactly is the consent for?

Other attendees might take pics, professional photographer, videos, other options ...?

How do you deal with the consent? And how is it worded?

We would like to better word the consent for #pgconfeu

#PostgreSQL #Conference #Consent

i think a lot about how apparently, someone visiting pink floyd's studio in the mid-70s noticed they had several minimoogs set up with gaffer tape all over them, because when they got a sound they liked, they'd put the tape over the knobs so the settings wouldn't get changed, and invoice the record label for another fresh minimoog. i think this is how you're actually supposed to manage python software installations, just buy a new computer every time you finally get the correct packages set up

Let me tell you the secret of the "Everything App".

It's real, it's not called X, and it's about 33 years old. It's called a Web Browser.

Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.

You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).

The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it's resilient, and it's magical.

#x #Twitter #webdev #tech #web

@dch
The community is not splitting. The #PostgreSQL core team is fighting off a hostile takeover.

This is what AHT is responding to: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/update-on-continued-trademark-actions-against-the-postgresql-community-2673/

The community is also not “shutting down” this conference, it is telling them that they do not have the right to use the name because of their conflicting trademark.

@planetpostgresql There was a post put out on the 11th (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/update-on-continued-trademark-actions-against-the-postgresql-community-2673/) regarding this that explains their issue. If somebody can read this, ignore the points made and still pretend that they are being victimised, then it's no wonder further actions are being taken.
It's just a shame narcissistic persons choose to publish things like this - everybody loses, all for the sake of some attention.

I mean, LLMs would make perfect CEOs

- Confident
- Persuasive
- Well read
- Never admits a mistake, and will degrade you if you point one out to it
- Can make up reasonable sounding bullshit on the spot to explain their every action
- Relies on exploiting the unpaid labor of thousands of people
- Lives in a reality they invent for themselves
- Fundamentally uncreative

The Call for Papers for PGDay UK ends tomorrow! You did submit, right? If not, last chance to do so!

#PostgreSQL #Conference #PGDay #PGDayUK #CfP #CallForPapers #London
https://2023.pgday.uk/

Some news from #Meta releasing LLaMA2 with a license that allows *some* commercial use.

Keyword is **some.**

Don't confuse a limited concession to enter a garden by a gatekeeper with a true common. Open Source has a precise meaning that includes **all** commercial use, don't let that meaning be diluted.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/LICENSE

#Postgres Full Text Search is better than... In which I show how #ElasticSearch, #Solr or another search specific database is probably unnecessary for a lot of #PostgreSQL users

https://admcpr.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-better-than-part1/

#FullTextSearch #FTS

One of my coworkers from the UK was recently describing the notion of overcomplicating software architecture.

He used a phrase I had never encountered before…

state-of-the-arse

For the past week, I have been chuckling to myself at random moments throughout the day.

#pun #software

Working from home is an act of reclamation. I shed not one single tear for the end of the abuse that going to an office enables (paying for each day's travel, constant interruptions, terrible work environments designed by executives who don't feel the pain of these environments, etc.)

Rezone that office space as residential and do something about housing affordability.

#QuoteToot

https://fosstodon.org/@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place/110712456514615065

@krysztophe We have a winner here :). Congrats. The user was a bit surprised.... And will read the documentation better next time.

@gruber GDPR does:
• Require active consent before tracking

GDPR does not:
• require interstitials or popups before viewing a web page

DMA does:
• limit the ability for companies that have a monopoly (or near monopoly) in one market from using that position to unfairly advantage them in another

DMA does not:
• “effectively ban” a social media app

Bad implementations by people who don’t care about users ≠ bad legislation

Remember: CfP deadline for #PGDayUK 2023 is July 21st!

Don't you want to visit London in September?

#PostgreSQL #Conference #CallForPapers #CfP #London @postgresuk

https://2023.pgday.uk/

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

https://popehat.substack.com/p/the-fourth-of-july