Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Quick update: I've joined EDB as a Principal Program Manager, working on their (#PostgreSQL) community initiatives!

I'm going to business hell for this one

Calling all PostgreSQL enthusiasts!

Join us in the beautiful city of Napoli, Italy, for the first PGDay Napoli on September 25th!

Learn about the most advanced open source database, network with the vibrant PostgreSQL community and explore this amazing city!

More info coming soon.

https://2025.pgdayna.org/

#PGDayNapoli #PostgreSQL #Naples #Italy #OpenSource #PGDay #PGDayNapoli

🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore

They say it's a "safety measure" to protect your #privacy, but in fact it's client-side scanning.

Yet, we all know that client-side scanning is bad: https://tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-scanning

Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps

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/