Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

The #pgDay Paris Lightning Talks slot is full!
Diversity of #postgreSQL topics we hope you'll enjoy thanks to @clairegiordano, @Soulou, @Karenhjex, @intrbiz, @FulSpoon, @michristofides and @DreesFloor
https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2024/schedule/session/5425-lightning-talks/

What an excellent page full of updates for KDE MegaRelease 6!
I'm looking forward to trying this update to the desktop and applications from the Friendliest Developers on the Internet™️
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
#linux #kde #plasma

The table shows how much of the web is being broken with the release of iOS 17.4.

via https://infrequently.org/2024/02/home-screen-advantage/

A reminder that 10 years ago the U.K. NHS was ranked the best healthcare system in the world. We don’t need a new system. We need a new government that ends the catastrophic staff haemorrhage and remedies the chronic defunding the NHS has endured over the last decade. Tories have been meeting with private healthcare providers over that time and scores of them have shares in private healthcare companies- to them it’s all about making money out of our misery. #ukpolitics #nhs

Was chatting to Jeff Ready (CEO of Scale Computing) earlier in the week, and he noted that a lot of the new devs have only ever worked on cloud-based infrastructure. They've never configured low-level boring stuff like a hypervisor or VLANs or a RAID setup or any one of a dozen other artisan skills I have.

It's like being a blacksmith but for tech.

A must-read article about inefficiency of modern #software

"I’ve been programming for 15 years now. Recently, our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and IT in general."
#IT #endtimes #programming #webdev
https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Goodness me, @ludicity, this is brilliant.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-haymaker-you-if-you-mention-agile-again/

Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) will present "Advantage PostgreSQL" at Nordic PGDay in beautiful Oslo, Norway, on March 12!

https://2024.nordicpgday.org/schedule #postgresql #oslo #conference

It's official

Apple is killing PWAs on iOS for EU users

"To comply with the DMA’s requirements, we had to remove the Home Screen web apps feature in the EU.

－"Very low user adoption of Home Screen web apps"
－"Minimal impact to their functionality"

Time to go ☢️

https://mastodon.social/@owa/111934184525302106

Apple is on course to break all Web Apps in the EU within 20 days ‼️

👇 Read the blog, fill the survey, join the fight!

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/

The UK is doing “Really Well” right now.

“the near-complete desertion of [The Tories] by young Britons is astonishing. […] only one in 10 under-40s will vote Conservative at the next election.”

“The single most important factor is the dramatic breakdown of upward social mobility in the UK, which has hit young Britons much harder than their contemporaries elsewhere in the developed world.”

#AnythingButTheTories

https://www.ft.com/content/165f9aee-1180-4be8-903b-b166dc4e4fa1

“While legal experts expect the EU to challenge Apple's insincere compliance with the DMA, developers should take this opportunity to rethink their native app serfdom. They should push web apps to their limits and then demand further platform improvement.”

“The web doesn't require commission payments, technology fees based on usage, or permission from platform rentseekers. The web can set the iPhone free, even if Apple won't.”

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/apple_europe_ios_analysis/

What browser do you use? Curious what the stats look like on fedi. Boosts for visibility appreciated.

Puppeteer now supports Firefox using the new WebDriver BiDi protocol! This allows writing automation scripts that work across both Chrome and Firefox. Over half of Puppeteer's test suite already passes when using WebDriver BiDi with Firefox. This paves the way for more seamless cross-browser testing. Exciting times ahead as WebDriver BiDi becomes the default protocol for Puppeteer.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/puppeteer-webdriver-bidi-2023?hl=en

It's sad to see Firefox is about to lose the battle.

it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks

(headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says")

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai