Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
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"Did any user in the world want a user tracking and ad platform baked directly into their browser? Probably not, but this is Google, and they control Chrome, and this probably still won't make people switch to Firefox."
I stick to #Firefox
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To disable Google Chrome's "advanced" ad tracking, why not give Firefox a try?
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Come see Tomas Vondra (@fuzzycz@twitter.com) talk about "BRIN improvements and new opclasses"!
#postgresql #conference #pgdayuk
https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2023/sessions/session/20-brin-improvements-and-new-opclasses/
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Dave Page: PGDay UK 2023 - Don't forget to register! https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2023/news/pgday-uk-2023-dont-forget-to-register-6/
#postgres #postgresql
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Hello,
It's unusual for me, but I will attend an event without speaking. It means I'll be available without stress to answer all your Postgres questions!
I'll be in London at PGDay UK on the 12th of September!
Grab your ticket here: https://2023.pgday.uk/registration/
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I know this is a losing battle, but:
Business Source License is BUSL, not BSL.
The BSL is the Boost Software License, a perfectly legit, and (importantly) actually open source license.
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@hobu Right. The relative size of the monetary need of OSS against the rake AWS is hauling in is kind of the key factor. Mind you, "it's obscene" is a description that can be applied to situations all over our society. In general, those with the weaker hand are simply condemned to take what's on offer, no more.
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@pwramsey That's just it. Open source happens at the individual level, not the organization one, and organizations like AWS take advantage of that fact.
AWS is wants to say and act like it's just like "any other individual actor", but it's not. It's the toll bridge where the value from a lot of these tools is extracted. Same for GCS/Azure.
And it's all bloviation for what in the end, even as total support to open source by all could vendors in total, is budget dust.
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Buying production services from organizations that lack code-level expertise in the underlying software seems risky, but it's a risk that right now a lot of IT shops are... if not "willing to take", are at least "willing to ignore".
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An open question is how we create incentive structures larger that these huge companies. Some of it might be culture? The same IT culture that doesn't want to spin production software without a "support contract" could refuse to buy services from clouds that don't employ experts.
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But it's a structural problem that can really only be solved by the big companies stepping up and saying, "we recognize we have a unique role to fill here, as the ones extracting the most value from this ecosystem". We cannot MAKE them do it. They have to WANT to do it.
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When the companies that are making billions off open source are contributing less than the companies making millions, or (gulp) the contractors and small businesses making thousands... that's not a legal problem or a licensing problem.
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The "main event", to me, is to what extent AWS (and Azure and Google), who make serious bank by spinning open source, engage with the challenge of keeping the software they spin alive.
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The wailing of VC-backed "open source" companies about AWS, followed by their demonstrating their commitment to open source by ... closing their source. It's all such a sideshow.
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I love the optimism of thinking I'm really going to disable #cookies consents one by one instead of just closing the browser tab. #darkpatterns
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@carnage4life
“average US president charged with 2 felonies” factoid actualy just statistical error. average US president charged with 0 felonies. Felonies Don is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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@intrbiz @tig @dick_turpin openSUSE Aeon is working great for me. Updates do come in large amounts sometimes like today's 1014 packages.
My ArchlinuxARM server running its systemd-nspawn containers for services has now clocked-up over two years of hassle-free service.
Coming from staged-release distributions and VMs to rolling distributions and containers has been a positive experience for me.
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Hey #Postgres people.
Do you use ±infinity in your dates and timestamps? What is your use case? What would you do instead if they weren't available?
Please boost for reach.
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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/
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
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