Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

The elephant in the room nobody talks about when discussing the #RHEL changes is the reliance of so many applications and users on a "stable" "enterprise" release because they're themselves to under-resourced to do the work to keep up with the actual speed of #OpenSource development.

My problem with the software dev profession in 2023 😱

Everybody should watch this #LedByDonkeys clip: Water Privatisation is a con. A complete, utter con. We should just get rid of all this - nobody benefits but rich investors

#Water #Privatisation #EnoughIsEnough #Commons #Commoning

https://youtu.be/ui90HkEhvs0

PostgreSQL Person of the Week interview with: Stefanie Janine Stölting (@sjstoelting)

#PostgreSQL #PostgresFriends
https://postgresql.life/post/stefanie_janine_stoelting/

This is the first of, probably, many posts about the changes to how Red Hat distributes RHEL sources, RHEL clones in general. Not to mention the past, present, and future of FOSS development and business.

Short version: There's probably something in this post for everybody to disagree with.

#RHEL #CentOS #AlmaLinux #opensource #GPL

https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/06/24/red-hat-and-the-clone-wars/

The call for papers of the #PostgreSQL #PGDay UK is open.
Make sure to submit until July 21th 2023.
https://2023.pgday.uk/call-for-papers/

I've been honoured being a member of the program committee.

So… would now be a good time to remind everyone that @SUSE ALP will have 1:1 matching products available both commercially AND freely available in @opensuse?

This will be in addition to whatever based-on-ALP offerings the @opensuse project builds

#JustSayin #redhat #centos #AlmaLinux #RockyLinux

Today, the BBC has:

- a debate show about Brexit, featuring an audience of only people who voted to leave

- a substantial profile price of a pro-forced-birth American person

- a massive section on 5 missing rich people, feared drowned

- a tiny news article about 30 missing people, feared drowned

W.T.A.F.

Well, that’s the second best possible outcome for the people in that sub.

A very fast way to go. Probably didn’t even have time to notice anything wrong. Vs being barely alive and with rescue essentially impossible by the time you finally see an ROV outside, after days of blackness, terror, cold, piss and shit.

The only better outcome would’ve had to have happened days ago, floating on the surface. Even then you’d have to contend with the bends.

It’s all awful.

rescue 5 rich guys: around the clock media coverage and no expense is too much, because life is utmost concern
rescue countless poor people: rot in jail for 20y you terrorist!!1!
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/node/71822

Company: < goes through a twenty-five step process with an hour of downtime to downsize an RDS instance >

Also company: "We like RDS because it makes operations easier."

This may the most arrogant public statement from a corporation I have ever read.

You know who else relied on "experienced inside experts" instead of regulators to validate the safety of a system? Boeing with the 737-MAX's MCAS.

Put on some of your favorite music.

When companies say things like "if you are not in the office three days a week we will penalize you at performance review time" they are inherently contradicting their own claims that remote work results in reduced productivity.

If remote work were bad, you wouldn't need to add an artificial penalty for working remotely, it would show up IN the performance data.

If you have to threaten people with artificially lowered performance scores for not coming into the office, you are admitting that performance has nothing to do with RTO.

New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:

👫 PostgreSQL Conference Europe

Date: 2023-12-12 - 2023-12-15
Location: Prague, Czechia

ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/6q60cc7pqb62s6ed9me9jq26co.ics

New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:

👫 PGDay UK 2023

Date: 2023-09-12
Location: London

ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/j2rolsh6s11a84vclfemmoeec8fsbdapujh8fo6c0u853r7kat82ent8g2.ics