Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Before we left for preschool this morning, my 4-year-old stopped in front of the table where I left my #FOSDEM stickers. She perused them, picked one up and said "I'm giving this to M" (her best friend).

What did she pick?

"Make art, not billionaires".

You should have seen my smile.

Wishing you all a great day!

P.S.: off I go actually make art - aka a video - promoting the Fediverse and criticizing tech oligarchs

⚠️ Time is running out: the UK Data Bill will unleash AI ⚠️

Being stripped back is the right to human review over automated decisions that have life-changing impacts.

Life mustn’t be haunted by the ghost in the machine.

Join over 1.1K people: Sign and share NOW before the Bill returns to Parliament ⬇️

#dataprotection #GDPR #DataBill #DUABill #privacy #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai-says-no-tell-keir-starmer-that-people-not-machines-should-oversee-life-changing-decisions

From the latest Private Eye magazine.

just... just please stop changing the layouts and menus all the time

please

A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.

Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

We're here! The PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force is excited to have finally landed on Mastodon! We look forward to interacting with all of you and sharing the work we're doing.

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

When elephants meet. #postgres #mastodon #fosdem

@floord

@fosdem #FOSDEM main track again, bit of history (and future!) of systemd by @pid_eins, my visual summary:

We are save-the-dating for @pgdaylowlands, September 12, in Rotterdam

Calls for sponsors, sessions and shenanigans open soon!

✅

Paywalls on web pages linked to via the socials have to be one of the worst web UXs.

After nearly drowning in an alphabet soup of anti-spam acronyms whilst trying to explain to a customer why email forwarding doesn't work, Kelduum decided to let off steam on our blog. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/01/29/the-death-of-email-forwarding/

weather report for FOSDEM weekend in Brussels: sunny and dry; high 6°C ; low -1°C

The PGEU Diversity Committee arrived on LinkedIn.
Feel free to follow https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/postgresql-europe-diversity-task-force
#PostgreSQL

I'm off to #FOSDEM2025 at the end of this week to join the #SocialWeb devroom, and talk about @manyfold on Saturday afternoon!

Looking forward to talking to folks about #ActivityPub federation, #3dPrinting, #WebGL... pretty much anything TBH! And looking forward to a trip on the Eurostar, too 🚅

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4181-manyfold-federating-3d-models/

What's interesting about algorithms?

The challenge of doing X with as few resources as possible (memory, etc).

What do OpenAI + friends do? The opposite.

"Lets assume we have unlimited resources & try to build a god."

No wonder they're losing their shit with the DeepSeek thing.

Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI & attempting to build it results in harm: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636.

Don't make this into a "US vs China US has to win on AGI" thing please 🙄