Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

the developments at gitlab feel unsettling. we have all our sources in a self hosted gitlab since a long time, and migrating to i.e. forgejo would be a big undertaking, with the tons of deeplinks from our docs into the repositories, a bunch of tricked-out CI yamls etc. and we're under a lot of pressure to ship hardware atm, so i can't pick that battle right now :/

The quid pro quo of a Starmer leadership was that - fine - we weren't getting a storyteller or a charisma powerhouse, but we'd at least get serious, competent leadership committed to delivery. In fact we got neither.

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PgQ brings lockless queuing to Postgres. Alexander Kukushkin (Microsoft), the Patroni guy, shows how at POSETTE 2026, a free & virtual developer event.

Mark your calendar for POSETTE Livestream 2 on Wed 17 Jun & join us for Alexander's talk
https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/postgresql-queues-done-right-with-pgq/

#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #OpenSource #Microsoft #Developer

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

https://keepthingsopen.com/
https://keepthingsopen.com/

In April 24, ​Trudi Warner, a retired social worker, stood outside Inner London Crown Court holding a sign that read:
​"Jurors, you have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience"

She was arrested for "intimidation of a jury" but at trial ​Mr. Justice Saini ruled in her favour, saying she was only stating the law outside a courthouse, and that can not be illegal

She was arrested again last week for doing exactly the same thing as were many others

#defendourjuries

Loving Chris Ellis talk at #oggcamp2026 Beautiful work!!!I treasure the elephant badge I got at the last #oggcamp
@intrbiz

@intrbiz oh yes you can!

Trump says he speaks 'for the UK more than Prince Harry'

What on earth are you bleating about you senile fool? You don't even speak for the majority of your own country.

Go back to your play room, the one with the golden toilet and try putting the different shape wooden blocks into the correct holes for a while.

Moron!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx268zxgx1no

#trump #uk #idiot

Not hallucinating, not hitting a token limit. Only uncontrolled expense is coffee.
Are "#AI layoffs" coming?

Zarah Sultana MP entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026. Today it remains illegal for UK media to report on this. It can only be published in Hansard or the Parliament's own video service.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-04-14

#UK #Palestine

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More on the UK's retrial of six already-acquitted activists from Palestine Action

They were acquitted in February following over a year in prison.

If convicted on retrial, they & 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms.

The jury is not allowed to know this. The UK is prohibiting crucial trial information from both the jury & the media.

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/

#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Palestine #PalestineAction #CorruptTrial #ElbitFactory #IsraeliArms .

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away & prevented from giving 1st aid

Maybe the B in JSONB stands for Beast? Boriss Mejias, @tchorix, (EDB) covers schema-design pitfalls, index strategies & TOAST tables for JSON/JSONB in PostgreSQL.

Join us for Livestream 1 to watch Boriss's talk on Tue 16 Jun https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/json-in-postgresql-evil-data-type-or-just-needs-to-be-tamed/

#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #OpenSource #JSONB

Tomorrow, the London PostgreSQL Meetup Group will be presenting “Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room: Zero-downtime Major PG Upgrades in Practice” with Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov. This is an in-person event and the waitlist has been activated!

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/313848775/?eventOrigin=network_page

#PostgreSQL #postgres

Gentle reminder that May 5 our #CfP closes. Get your proposals in for 45, 25 and 5 minute talks on anything #PostgreSQL (community): https://2026.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/