Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Sometimes you read something that tells you what you already know…but you feel as if for the first time.

I read this searing piece through hot tears of rage and renewed determination.

Canada should be using every tool we have - legal, diplomatic, economic - to rein in and isolate this rogue state.

It should be a national scandal that we aren’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/13/israel-prison-torture-death-hussam-abu-safiya-palestine

#canada #palestine #cdnpoli

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and ...

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/jun/20/elbit-four-law-jurors-criminal-damage-terrorism

A British court tried protesters for criminal damage, but then sentenced them for terrorism, a charge that was never presented to the jury. This proceeding contravenes a fundamental principle of law.

I'm not saying Safari is the new IE6; that would be unfair...to IE6. When it came out, it was world-beating in nearly every regard, but got long in the tooth.

No, Safari is more like IE 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11: predictably disappointing showings thanks to under-funding by an organisation hellbent on holding the web back to defend profits:

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-praise/

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/5266624

Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets

<- by me on #TheRegister

Smalltalk-80, HyperCard, and Visual Basic 6 were far more compelling "future of programming" attempts than anything available today

Hasn't had much coverage, but David Potter, founder and CEO of Psion, died yesterday. One of the patron saints of alt.fan.pratchett in its early years.

Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid

UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/uk-apple-google-mobile-app-stores-developers-payment-cma
CMA says developers should be able to steer users away from app stores for payments to increase competition

Postgres has a huge array of features; many can make application development easier and reduce application complexity. In his talk for POSETTE 2026, Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) of Nexteam reviews a range of use cases & PostgreSQL Design Patterns.

📺Watch on YouTube:
https://buff.ly/AYOM2xn

#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

1. Today, brave brave John Edwards ran away.

To thank the UK Information Commissioner for all the fish, here are FIVE EPIC FAILURES he's made during his tenure. Or, to paraphrase his own words, the five best attempts at humor that were inappropriate.

Thread below 🧵

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o

Macron is such a mischievous little bitch he knew exactly what he was doing. I love him.

Don't miss Boriss Mejias (@tchorix) of EDB at #PosetteConf on Livestream 1 (Tue 16 Jun) talking about "JSON in PostgreSQL - evil data type or just needs to be tamed?".

Join live to chat with Boriss in the virtual hallway track on Discord.
https://posetteconf.com

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #JSON #OpenSource

Starting soon at #PosetteConf Livestream 1 on Tue 16 Jun: Tomas Vondra of Microsoft presents "random_page_cost in Postgres - why the default is 4.0 and should you lower it?".

Join live to chat with Tomas in the virtual hallway track on Discord.
https://posetteconf.com

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #Microsoft #OpenSource #DeveloperTools

Happening soon at #PosetteConf Livestream 1 (Tue 16 Jun PDT): Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) of Nexteam on "PostgreSQL Design Patterns" for real-world patterns that simplify app architecture.

Join live to chat with Chris in the virtual hallway track on Discord.
https://posetteconf.

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #OpenSource #Developer

More of this please: https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

Four Palestine Action activists have been sentenced not on the basis of the convictions for criminal damage (through a jury trial) but on the basis their crime *really* was terrorism (a subsequent decision by the presiding judge).

This not only violates the sanctity of jury trials (the jury was not informed of this possibility), it also is a retrospective legal decision, essentially violating the Rule of Law.

Its a direct attack on civil liberties!

#politics #protest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o