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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⏰ The countdown begins! 5️⃣ days until the 2025 version of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres begins. Have you saved the date? 🗓️
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Submission deadline for community projects on Tuesday before #PGConfEU is next week! Get your ideas and proposals in!
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I'm starting a car rental business. I take cars that are parked on the street and rent them out.
Asking for consent would kill my business.
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For most of the past decade, the Chromium animation team in Google's Waterloo office has gotten an earful from me about about how the we *had* to get to a point where scroll-based animations were not only possible, but reliably offloaded to the compositor.
And they did it, despite *constant* stop-energy from Apple (who still can't do <body> scrolling right 🙄). The results speak for themselves:
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Tonight we are cheating.
Bought this marinated at the store
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What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive
“The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.”
OpenAI looking at Microsoft Recall and thinking “consumers love the idea! Let’s make something that records everything you do!” is pretty funny.
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Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.
Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩
Get the hell out of it right now.
› https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3
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Now presenting at #PGConfdev, Karen Jex of Crunchy Data is giving an update about the #PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force, to help people understand what’s happening (and what you can do to help)
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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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