Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

BambuLab basically locks down their entire 3D printer ecosystem with this ridiculous cloud authorization system.

You want to print locally via your LAN? Sorry, the cloud needs to authorize your g-code first.

Want to use another slicer to send your job to the printer? Sorry, no.

Would it really still surprise anyone if DRM'd filaments are next on their agenda? Their printers are good, their prices are cheap, but please, stop supporting this company.

https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-authorization-control-system-2/

#3dprinting

He's not wrong.

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

This is the most delightfully nerdy thing I've ever seen:

I’ve done it. Now there is an easy way to figure out whether or not you should use React for your or your company’s next project or product:

https://mottokrosh.github.io/should-i-use-react/

#betterweb #accessibility #datadrivendecisions

The #CFP deadlines for 4 different #PostgreSQL conferences are upon us! One of the deadlines, for @pgconfdev, is this Mon Jan 6.

So if you want to share your 🐘 #Postgres stories, it's time to carpe diem ⏰ & submit your talk proposals. Remember that new speakers are welcome to submit 👍

🚀 Boosts appreciated from all of you who care about Postgres, to help spread the word. @pgdaychicago @pgconfde @posetteconf

#conference #CallForSpeakers #OpenSource #database #PGConfdev #PosetteConf

Some good #PostgreSQL CFP deadlines are coming up soon, as in today Dec 31st. Here is the list of speaking opportunities below—please help to spread the word! 🚀
#CFP #conference #Postgres #databases #OpenSource
https://hachyderm.io/@clairegiordano/113684455079281766

The #38C3 presentation about the massive #Volkswagen data leak is over and the leak was as bad as it sounded. 100,000s of cars could be located down to cm precision. Also a lot of metadata that is NOT supposed to be public. Disturbing.

The main takeaway was that the real problem here wasn't the leak itself, but that this data was collected in the first place.

I agree. It's not a good idea to create mountains of very personal data and then pray it never leaks.

#privacy #fail #leak #breach #vw

As it turns out, Volkswagen has been collecting extensive geo data from all their electric cars and made them available online in an AWS bucket. Almost 10TB of geo traces from 15 MiO cars. Amazing detail and patterns. This is why I don't want a smart car 🤯 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen/ #Volksdaten

Last day, I can't wait to "Clock Out"!

@vyruss congratulations Jimmy, it's a well deserved recognition. Same to @tchorix @floord @intrbiz @clairegiordano, all of whom have done a lot of work in & for the Postgres ecosystem!

@alvherre @vyruss @tchorix @floord @intrbiz Thank you Álvaro! What a delightful email to wake up to this morning, from Christoph Berg. And so happy about Jimmy, Boriss, Floor, & Chris too! I'm in good company it seems.

Some good news to end the year on: Today Christoph Berg emailed to say I am now listed on the official Contributors page for the #PostgreSQL #opensource project!

There are so many ppl ❤️ in Postgres 🐘 who have helped me on this 8.5+ yr journey, both inside & outside of #Microsoft. Thank you! 🙏

And @alvherre tells me that congratulations 👏 are also due to @tchorix, @floord, @intrbiz, & @vyruss. All of whom add so much to the Postgres world. 🐘
https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

Anyone in London, interested in PostgreSQL - come and chat PostgreSQL with like minded people at our London PostgreSQL social get together.

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/304775898/

Find some great PostgreSQL videos from PGconf.EU 2024 on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF36ND7b_WU4QL6bA28NrzBOevqUYiPYq and don't forget to subscribe!
#postgresql #database #opensource #athens #speakers #postgres

Another day, another read through a whole-ass design system mired in *custom* "CSS-in-JS" tools that perform like crap. We will be digging out from the React community's lack of understanding about how browsers actually work for at least another decade, I fear.

Christ, this a banger.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-react

/cc by @collinsworth