Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

#PostgreSQL has the highest adoption rate out of any other database in the last 1-2 years. For good reason - it's an excellent #OpenSource solution that is incredibly flexible, allowing it to suit just about any use case.

Check out the full report from #Redgate (2025 State of the Database Landscape) to learn about the current state of #database management and get "valuable insights into how organizations can navigate and simplify the growing complexities." https://buff.ly/431mI26

#tech #dev

Congratulations, USA and Russia, you’ve managed to out evil the guy who had a journalist chopped up in his embassy.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/18/7498959/

#USA #Russia #fascism #Ukraine

At least once a day I'm reminded of this slide from @bagder last year at FOSDEM

@SecurityWriter common mistake, thinking that you need to put something *into* your brain to use JavaScript. What you *actually* need to do is remove best practices, separations of concerns, sanity, and hope. Then you'll finally be a JavaScript developer.

Come see Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) talk about "PostgreSQL Tips & Tricks For App Devs" at Nordic PGDay in Copenhagen!

#postgresql #conference #copenhagen

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/sessions/session/6427-postgresql-tips-tricks-for-app-devs/

Quick update: I've joined EDB as a Principal Program Manager, working on their (#PostgreSQL) community initiatives!

I'm going to business hell for this one

Calling all PostgreSQL enthusiasts!

Join us in the beautiful city of Napoli, Italy, for the first PGDay Napoli on September 25th!

Learn about the most advanced open source database, network with the vibrant PostgreSQL community and explore this amazing city!

More info coming soon.

https://2025.pgdayna.org/

#PGDayNapoli #PostgreSQL #Naples #Italy #OpenSource #PGDay #PGDayNapoli

🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore

They say it's a "safety measure" to protect your #privacy, but in fact it's client-side scanning.

Yet, we all know that client-side scanning is bad: https://tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-scanning

Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps

Before we left for preschool this morning, my 4-year-old stopped in front of the table where I left my #FOSDEM stickers. She perused them, picked one up and said "I'm giving this to M" (her best friend).

What did she pick?

"Make art, not billionaires".

You should have seen my smile.

Wishing you all a great day!

P.S.: off I go actually make art - aka a video - promoting the Fediverse and criticizing tech oligarchs

⚠️ Time is running out: the UK Data Bill will unleash AI ⚠️

Being stripped back is the right to human review over automated decisions that have life-changing impacts.

Life mustn’t be haunted by the ghost in the machine.

Join over 1.1K people: Sign and share NOW before the Bill returns to Parliament ⬇️

#dataprotection #GDPR #DataBill #DUABill #privacy #AI #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai-says-no-tell-keir-starmer-that-people-not-machines-should-oversee-life-changing-decisions

From the latest Private Eye magazine.

just... just please stop changing the layouts and menus all the time

please

A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.

Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

We're here! The PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force is excited to have finally landed on Mastodon! We look forward to interacting with all of you and sharing the work we're doing.

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

When elephants meet. #postgres #mastodon #fosdem

@floord

@fosdem #FOSDEM main track again, bit of history (and future!) of systemd by @pid_eins, my visual summary: