Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117202983989699195

Quietly happy that I’m using Xubuntu, not whatever the hell this Oligarchy Linux is or whatever it’s called, and I’m using pass, the standard Unix password manager, and not one of the “trust us with your passwords: here’s loads of ui you don’t want” Valley services. A bit clunky and awkward? Yup. Am I fine with it for the sense of security and unchanging comfort it provides? Also yup.

PGDay UK 2026 is next Tuesday, 8 September, in the west end of London. Two parallel tracks this year.

Single-day PostgreSQL conferences are the best value on the community calendar. No travel week, and the hallway track is the actual product.

https://2026.pgday.uk

https://pgexperts.com

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #PGDayUK

FOSDEM PGDay will in 2027 expand to 2 days and be held on Jan 28-29 in Brussels, Belgium, ahead of the weekend #FOSDEM event. Further details and updated website to follow soon.

#fosdempgday #postgresql #postgres #brussels

PGDay UK is coming to London this September.
A full day of PostgreSQL talks and community.
Get your ticket here: https://2026.pgday.uk/

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs

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!

#politics

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/

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

@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.

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.

https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431

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.

Authenticity Problem

Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

#wealth #value #billionaires #billionairelifestyle #nobillionaires #nobillionairesshouldexist #eatthebillionaires #compostthebillionaires #billionairetax #epsteinparasiteclass

#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

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.

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

Sometimes you read something that tells you what you already know…but you feel as if for the first time.

I read this searing piece through hot tears of rage and renewed determination.

Canada should be using every tool we have - legal, diplomatic, economic - to rein in and isolate this rogue state.

It should be a national scandal that we aren’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/13/israel-prison-torture-death-hussam-abu-safiya-palestine

#canada #palestine #cdnpoli

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and ...

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/jun/20/elbit-four-law-jurors-criminal-damage-terrorism

A British court tried protesters for criminal damage, but then sentenced them for terrorism, a charge that was never presented to the jury. This proceeding contravenes a fundamental principle of law.