Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

I cannot state this clearly enough: David Heinemeier Hanson can go fuck himself right into the sea.

DHH is the antithesis of everything the Ruby community has always stood for, and I am once again begging for the #Rails team to completely cut ties with this shitstain, via a hard fork if necessary.

I will be the *first* to switch my gemfile over to a fascist-free Rails.

@gerrymcgovern Ah, and since this seems to be making the rounds: it's time for my occasional reminder of one especially unpleasant aspect of the LLM hype storm.

LLMs take advantage of a faulty heuristic many (probably most, but don't have exact stats) people have about human intelligence: namely, someone or something that produces fluent and grammatically coherent text about a wide range of topics, on demand, is "intelligent".

This is a very compelling heuristic and also very wrong.

In the case of LLMs, it's wrong in the way we're all talking about here: it leads people to see thinking or reasoning in the statistical word salad these beasties produce.

But it's even more of a problem when people invert the heuristic and turn it into "someone or something is *not* producing fluent text about a wide range of topics, therefore they are *not* intelligent". This mirror-world version causes enormous social harm to people who for whatever reason (autism, selective mutism, etc.) can't speak the way people expect they would be able to "if they were smart".

Some pictures from the lightning talks round we had after lunch.

Join us for an afternoon with more talks and debates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYEuIpzch4

Pictures by honkingelephant.com

@pgstef #PostgreSQL Person of the Week interview with Stefan Fercot: https://postgresql.life/post/stefan_fercot/

@floord #PostgreSQL Person of the Week interview with Floor Drees: https://postgresql.life/post/floor_drees/

@intrbiz #PostgreSQL Person of the Week interview with Chris Ellis: https://postgresql.life/post/chris_ellis/

Edco Wallet opening the PGDay Lowlands Warmup #Meetup at Lunatech in #Rotterdam

#PostgreSQL #Conference

Floor Drees ( @floord ) doing Social Media at the PGDay Lowlands Warmup #Meetup at Lunatech in #Rotterdam

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Josef Machytka ( @JosefMachytka ) presenting a Lightning Talk at the PGDay Lowlands Warmup #Meetup at Lunatech in #Rotterdam

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Kaarel Moppel presenting a Lightning Talk at the PGDay Lowlands Warmup #Meetup at Lunatech in #Rotterdam

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Jan Karremans presenting a Lightning Talk at the PGDay Lowlands Warmup #Meetup at Lunatech in #Rotterdam

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Stefan Fercot ( @pgstef ) speaking at the PGDay Lowlands Warmup #Meetup at Lunatech in #Rotterdam

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Chris Ellis ( @intrbiz ) speaking at the PGDay Lowlands Warmup #Meetup at Lunatech in #Rotterdam

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New Banksy!
Royal Courts of Justice (1/2)
London

Next week, I'll be speaking at 🇬🇧 @postgresuk about #PostgreSQL Row-Level Security on Tuesday 9th Sept. Don't miss this great event in London, CU there! 🐘🔥

https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2025/schedule/session/174-row-level-security-sucks-can-we-make-it-usable/

#OpenSource #Database #Postgres #PGDayUK

🚀 The program for PGConf.EU 2025 is live!
Featuring big names in PostgreSQL and rising stars you won’t want to miss. 🌟

See you in Riga, 21–24 Oct! 🇱🇻
👉 https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2025/schedule/

#PostgreSQL #PGConfEU2025 #opensource #ITlatvia #Latviaevents

Bahah. Somebody has also FOI'd Ofcom too asking them for their own assessment into how safe it was to tweet links to their own website, which then (with hyperlinks) subsequently links to the 34 porn sites they are investigating. Which do not have age verification.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ofcoms_compliance_with_the_onlin

#OnlineSafetyAct

DocumentDB has a new home now!

https://news.itsfoss.com/documentdb-moves-to-linux-foundation/

#opensource #linuxfoundation

The PostgreSQL User Group NL team is organizing a PGDay Lowlands Warmup Meetup on Thursday, September 11.

Whether you are attending PGDay Lowlands or not (but really you should), this meetup is open to the entire community and is a great opportunity to meet some of the speakers and other attendees.

Join for talks by Chris Ellis, showcasing some Postgres features that make developers’ lives easier, and Stefan Fercot from Data Egret, who will dive into the inner workings of PgBouncer: https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-nl/events/310728717/

i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at https://github.com/schlae/cm5-reveng