Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

As the FT points out:

'In a matter of days [Trump] has undone trusted global relationships that have taken decades to build. The task of reviving such trust, even after Trump is no longer in office, will be gargantuan — if it is possible at all'.

What will happen when a global hegemon's 'leadership' crumbles. If we are entering an interregnum, will a new hegemon emerge or multipolarity (a series of regional blocs) will become the norm.

As you will know, I think the latter!

#politics

Come see Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) talk about "Fun With UUIDs"!

#PostgreSQL #Conference #PGConfDE #Berlin

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfde2025/sessions/session/6550-fun-with-uuids/

Wanted: a patched phone operating system which instead of having permissions for apps returns them all random data, unless I have allowed them access to the real thing.

Randomly generated address books, location coordinates, WiFi network names, picture folders full of noise, battery levels that fluctuate wildly.

Fucking poison the data gathering well. Make it looks pretty realistic. My phone has enough storage and compute to create realistic looking names and telephone numbers. Let the advertisers think I'm traveling back and forth on the Orient express.

Huge news, we’re launching 6 new products today!

pgFlustered — for understanding Postgres errors
pgCustard — a monitoring and alerting service
pgBusted — repairs corruption
pgDuster — tunes autovacuum
pgRusted — convert functions to PL/Rust
pgKetchup — for replication lag issues

Overton politics

Says it all... Ben Jennings (Guardian)

#politics #poverty #benefits

Just a public service message that sponsoring opportunities for PGDay Lowlands (2000 EUR for Partner, 750 for Supporter) open tomorrow at noon (CET): https://2025.pgday.nl/sponsors

Sometimes one way to say "thank you" just isn't enough, so merci, danke *and* bedankt 🇧🇪

https://boycott-ietf127.org/

Feels quite a lot like Heathrow airport ticked the emphatically hollow resilience tickbox and convinced themselves that was all that was needed.
Oh how wrong they were.
#resilienceTheatre

1/10 🚨 The 🇬🇧UK regulator’s final report is out and it’s clear: Apple’s browser engine ban harms competition.

Forcing all iOS browsers to use WebKit hurts developers, users, and the web itself.

Change is coming. 🧵

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regulators-final-verdict--apples-browser-engine-ban-harms-competition/

What a cool font!

'Atkinson Hyperlegible' by the Braille Institute
is *really* easy to read.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont

Thanks for pointing this out, @gemeinsamhier@norden.social

(https://norden.social/@gemeinsamhier/114060697571783200)

Chris Ellis taking questions after his excellent presention
#postgresql #database #openhagen #Intrbiz

We're happy to announce that the Call for Papers and Call for Sponsors is open for PGDay UK 2025!

https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2025/news/pgday-uk-2025-call-for-papers-and-call-for-sponsors-open-10/

I spent a good chunk of my weekend helping people running tiny, low risk, online services complete paperwork about the UK’s Online Safety Act, for zero discernible benefit.

So it is a bit galling that the main headline on the BBC this morning is about the government wanting to “slash red tape”.

I have spent one heck of a lot of time on the OSA, trying to help others with its burden, and it just seems so utterly unnecessary.

#OnlineSafetyAct

The web is not the sole preserve of global megacorps

But attempting to regulate it as if it were, imposing obligations which can realistically be met only by the well-resourced (be that time, money, education, lawyers, or otherwise), is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

👏 Jimmy Page: "When AI scrapes the vast tapestry of human creativity to generate content, it often does so without consent, attribution, or compensation. This is not innovation; it’s exploitation."
https://blabbermouth.net/news/jimmy-page-pushes-back-against-u-k-governments-artificial-intelligence-copyright-proposal