Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

[Poll]

How many open source projects do you financially support (ie recurring donations of any frequency)?

(If you donate to an umbrella organization with the intent it will support multiple projects on your behalf, I guess probably count that organization as 1 project.)

PGDay UK returns on September 9, and we’re proud to be a Partner-level sponsor. Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Evangelist at EDB, will take the stage with his talk “Future Postgres Challenges.” Devrim Gunduz, Bilge Ince, and Floor Drees support the event as volunteers: https://2025.pgday.uk/

The night before, we’re also sponsoring the very first Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup at Paddington Central. Miles Richardson will be speaking about the WarehousePG project: https://lu.ma/u042b0vw @postgresuk

Do you have complex orchestration issues that you'd like to solve with Podman? Quadlets are now native to Podman and they let you do that! Find out how here! https://blog.podman.io/2025/08/level-up-your-container-game-unified-quadlet-management-is-now-natively-in-podman/ #podman #OpenSource

Meta AI, the honest spokesperson for #WhatsApp 🤣

Celebrating 20 Year of the #openSUSE Project Today!!!

An analysis of Github's recent studies on "AI" agents for software development

(Original title: Jussi Pakkanen: Let's properly analyze an AI article for once)

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html

Another superb front cover from Private Eye magazine proving that satire can be more powerful than many newspaper stories.

I don't suppose Ian Hislop will be visiting the USA any time soon, he might have an issue getting through immigration.

#gaza #israel #labour

And now this.

#uk #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ukpolitics

🎤 Our first confirmed speakers for PGConf.EU 2025 are now live!
Check out who’s already on the lineup 👉 https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2025/sessions/

We’re updating the list as more speakers confirm, so keep an eye on it — and once all sessions are locked in, we’ll be publishing the full conference programme.

Exciting things ahead — stay tuned!
#PGConfEU #PostgreSQL #Postgres

There's a lot talk about "ZeroDisk" infrastructure backed by S3. The pitch is "move your data from locally attached NVMe storage to S3 and your applications will scale easier and be more performant!"

Maybe I'm getting too old for this shit, but I swear to dog this is the 4th such cycle in my career:

1. NFS
2. iSCSI / Fibrechannel
3. Hadoop / HDFS
4. ZeroDisk with S3

Am I the only one that's like: "wait, move TBs of data to S3 from NVMe to increase performance? Are you high?"

It doesn't work, so you scale up. Now you're back to local NVMe "cache disks" running instances as expensive as the locally attached NVMe instances when you add those costs to your S3 bill. The performance is worse because of course it is.

It always comes back to the two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. 😂

#zerodisk #s3 #hadoop #cache #datalake #GetOffMyLawn

House prices ticked up in July, so its time to say again:

House price rises are...

NOT a 'return to growth';

NOT a 'bounce back';

NOT the return of a welcome return of 'health' to the housing market...

HOUSE PRICE RISES ARE ASSET PRiCE INFLATION & ARE CONTRIBUTING TO OUR ONGOING HOUSING CRISIS!

Until we get this message we will never approach removing our housing problems (yes, I know there are other issues for rental rights to loose finance that contribute too)

#housing #politics

The best software engineers solve problems, not just write code.

They ask:
- What problem are we actually trying to solve?
- Is this the right problem to solve?
- What's the simplest solution that could work?
- What are the trade-offs?
- How will we know if it's working?

Writing code is the implementation detail. Understanding the problem space, considering alternatives, and thinking through implications—that's where the real value lies.

Code is just the tool. Problem-solving is the skill.

What happened to @till in part shows why billionaires' whims shouldn't control software…
https://ubuntu.social/@till/114932477260801209
Mark Shuttleworth once shouted that “Software Freedom Conservancy is just like Microsoft” & publicly stated I was a “McCarthyist” for enforcing #GPL. Like most billionaires, he says & does whatever he wants & faces no consequences.

You are far from the only employee he has mistreated & most go on to do their greatest work after leaving Shuttleworth's company. I'm sure you will too.

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

... 🧵

Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

I feel this

Congratulations to Netenyahu in managing to unite the Express and the Guardian in outrage.

The IT world has convinced us no new software can be deployed outside of US clouds. We're so sure about this that European governments (including the UK) are handing over vital government functions & data to US controlled servers. In this piece I argue that until recently we somehow could run stuff on locally owned hardware, and that we should urgently relearn that skill, while it is still possible - or end up as digital colony of the US: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/

This is incredible. The Clorox company is suing their MSP Cognizant for allegedly allowing hackers to gain access to their systems.

The lawsuit claims that Cognizant's staff were grossly negligent and submits what it says are transcripts of the hackers simply asking for password and MFA resets with no ID verification.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26025404-clorox-versus-cognizant-complaint/

As Rachel Reeves seeks to deregulate financial services and return it the more light-touch 'principles-based' regime of the preceded the Global Financial Crisis of 2008... she might heed the worlds of Hector Sants (head of the Financial Services Authority from 2007-2012):

'a principles-based approach does not work with individuals who have no principles'.

And anyone who thinks the leopards in the the City have changed their spots has not been paying attention!

#politics
h/t The New World