Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

@ChrisMayLA6 United utilities latest £300m profit, but paid out £400m+ in dividends.
Just think about that, they gave all the profit from peoples bills vs costs, then borrowed another £100m to give to its shareholders…
Then will ask for your bills to be put up to pay for any maintenance.
Nationalise now.

On privatisation, three decades ago, the water companies were passed to private investors debt free. Since then:

£78bn has been paid out in dividends

£64bn in debt has been taken o across the sector, and

£190bn has been spent on water infrastructure.... which given the current sewage & related crisis has been clearly inadequate!

Water firms across England want increases in bill of up to 70% in the next five years.

Like the railways, (re)nationalisation looks like the rational answer

#water

Oh & if you'd prefer to listen to this episode somewhere other than the YouTube link above, no problem, #PathToCitusCon is available on most of the #podcast platforms!

If one is missing plz let us know // in the meantime here is the Transistor link (there's a transcript too)

https://pathtocituscon.transistor.fm/episodes/becoming-expert-at-using-postgresql-with-chris-ellis

@intrbiz

Before @intrbiz joined us on the Path To Citus Con #podcast, I already knew Chris was an excellent #PostgreSQL speaker (I had just seen him speak at @nordicpgday & @pgDayParis after all)... but was he always that way?

🎙️🎧 Check out Ep14 on becoming more expert in Postgres to learn more about Chris's unusual path into #Postgres
#OpenSource #conference #community #database
https://youtu.be/XeXpU61dG2Q?si=-EsFNy8cw5PBZkjI

The English water companies have told the govt that to fix the infrastructure problems they will have to increase prices to customers.

Just worth remembering that Scottish Water – which is publicly owned – has invested nearly 35 per cent more per household in infrastructure since 2002 than the privatised English firms, charging 14 per cent less and not paying out dividends.

Conclusion ….Nationalised water works better!

#TurdReich #TorySewageParty

Last chance to get your #pgconfde ticket for the #PostgreSQL #conference this Friday in #Munich!

https://2024.pgconf.de/

Our #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft produces a monthly #podcast 🎙️ Path To Citus Con about people's paths into working with/on Postgres🐘

Listen to the latest Ep14: Becoming expert at using PostgreSQL w/ guest @intrbiz 💥 available on all the podcast platforms!
https://youtu.be/XeXpU61dG2Q?si=S3cmWpk8gTrb9mP-

"What it means is that there is no supply chain here. Because there is no supplier. I am not providing you something that you bought from me. There is no relationship. I put something online because I wanted to. The fact you made your product depend on it is your responsibility. Not mine. Not the one of the providers. We provide libraries. We do not supply them. You cannot apply rules to me. […] So all your Software Supply Chain ideas? You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code. So I would advise you to put these rules in the same dumpster."

🔥🔥🔥

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

#xz

Friends, need ideas, how to help more ppl <discover> a 🔥 #podcast that explores the many different paths into #PostgreSQL?

I know Step #1: invite amazing #Postgres ppl onto the show!

Step #2: be consistent, in our case monthly like clockwork

Step #3: publish on all podcast platforms incl youtube

Step #4: ask ppl to rate, review, subscribe

What is Step #5 ?

New Ep14 just dropped w/guest @intrbiz & Topic: Become expert at using PostgreSQL
#PathToCitusCon #OpenSource

https://pathtocituscon.transistor.fm/episodes/becoming-expert-at-using-postgresql-with-chris-ellis/transcript

Yay, this commit by @tmunro is important infrastructure work on the path to using AIO in postgres, and provides some nice improvements on its own, once used (like coalescing 8k reads into larger reads).
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=b5a9b18cd0bc6f0124664999b31a00a264d16913

Latest episode of the #PathToCitusCon #podcast for developers who love Postgres just dropped, with guest @intrbiz who was fascinating to talk to.

The topic was: "Becoming expert at using PostgreSQL" & we talked about how Chris got his start as well as how he got involved speaking at (& now, organizing) Postgres conferences.

If you're into #PostgreSQL & you're into podcasts then give this episode a listen. 🎧 Would love to know what you think! 📣
#OpenSource #Postgres
https://pathtocituscon.transistor.fm/episodes/becoming-expert-at-using-postgresql-with-chris-ellis

Want to know the backstory for @AndresFreundTec, the #PostgreSQL developer from Microsoft who discovered the #xz #backdoor

Andres was a guest on the Path To Citus Con #podcast that I co-host a few months back (along with Heikki Linnakangas) to discuss: "How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres)"

Here's the link on YouTube & yes their stories are fascinating (it's also on most other podcast platforms too 🎙️ ) https://youtu.be/V8bw0UepeuI?si=nHc-OoF7L-h6kcaq

#Postgres #PathToCitusCon #developer #Microsoft

Credit where credit is due! I'd really like to take a minute and thank Jia Tan how they helped us to finally get sd_notify() support merged into OpenSSH upstream!

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2641

Thank you, Jia, you rock!

Wealth of top 1% in 2020: $30 trillion

Wealth of top 1% now: $44.6 trillion

That’s an increase of nearly 50%.

I don’t want to hear that the super-rich can’t afford a wealth tax.

They are literally the richest they have ever been.

Happening this Wed Apr 3rd at 10am PDT is a LIVE recording of Episode 14 of the monthly Path To Citus Con #podcast for developers who love #PostgreSQL

📣 who? @intrbiz + co-hosts Pino de Candia & me
🐘 topic: "Becoming expert at using PostgreSQL"
🗓️ mark your calendar if you want to be a superfan and join the LIVE recording, to be part of the parallel live text chat on Discord:

#Postgres #community #OpenSource #Microsoft #PathToCitusCon

https://aka.ms/PathToCitusCon-Ep14-cal

i think the real takeaway is that postgres devs aren’t fucking around when it comes to performance

This is a bad take. I'd like to see the OpenSSF show a bit more empathy. A badge isn't going to stop this sort of attack.

https://openssf.org/blog/2024/03/30/xz-backdoor-cve-2024-3094/

8⃣ more days until the #PosetteConf #CFP closes on Sunday Apr 7 at 11:59pm PDT

+ Don't miss your chance to submit a talk proposal ⏰
+ Everyone is welcome to submit, from first-time speakers to super-experienced ones (and everyone in between!)
+ Here are Tips on how to get your #PostgreSQL conference talk SELECTED from blog post by @clairegiordano ✅

#Postgres #OpenSource #Community #Microsoft #Azure #databases #CallForSpeakers https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/01/16/tips-on-getting-talk-proposals-accepted/