Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

We're celebrating being 18 today. We've had an amazing ride and look forward to more in the future. https://news.opensuse.org/2023/08/09/today-os-birthday/

Excited to report that the Wolverhampton LUG is resuming regular meetings once more.

3.5 years ago the first lock down caused us to move to virtual meetings.

It's been a long time since we've been able to talk crap for a few hours over a beer or two.

If anybody is in the region, and fancies joining us tonight: Royal Tiger, Wednesfield, 7.30pm until late.

We might even talk about Linux, but no promises.

I feel the need to AGAIN repeat this, and I hope you’ll share it so everyone in every city sees it, understands it and remembers it…

ALWAYS LET PEOPLE OUT OF THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT TRAIN/BUS, OR THE ELEVATOR, FIRST BEFORE GETTING IN!

It’s not just OBVIOUS etiquette, it’s basic GEOMETRY!

This is Mastodon and this is why it rocks!

The #PostgreSQL Project issued a clarification on an ongoing trademark dispute.

#Trademark #Trademarks #OpenSource
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/setting-the-record-straight-more-updates-on-a-trademark-dispute-2682/

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