Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SPAM/116603250749392292

You gotta love this guy.

The Burnham/Brexit thing is terrarium of Labour's failure: by not confronting lies in the past, and not being willing to call them out now, they both deprive themselves of real arguments about inequality and come off as triangulating, rather than honest.

This isn't hard; e.g.: "Farage lies about who is making us poorer because dividing people that work is how those who don't escape paying their fair share. He lied then, and it's hurt us for a decade. And he's lying now to cover his tracks."

📢 CFP for talks at Community Events Day at #PGConfEU 2026 is now open!
Community events will take place on Friday, October 23 in Valencia 🇪🇸
🗓️ Submission deadline: 1 June 2026
https://2026.pgconf.eu/community-day/
#PostgreSQL #pgconfeu

The Badger Badger Badger video is in the British Film Institute's archive of significant British films. 😳 https://replay.bfi.org.uk/video/fe55f1ff-bd71-5f02-8f89-6d6829c75d0d

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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.

🙃

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