Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

DocumentDB has a new home now!

https://news.itsfoss.com/documentdb-moves-to-linux-foundation/

#opensource #linuxfoundation

The PostgreSQL User Group NL team is organizing a PGDay Lowlands Warmup Meetup on Thursday, September 11.

Whether you are attending PGDay Lowlands or not (but really you should), this meetup is open to the entire community and is a great opportunity to meet some of the speakers and other attendees.

Join for talks by Chris Ellis, showcasing some Postgres features that make developers’ lives easier, and Stefan Fercot from Data Egret, who will dive into the inner workings of PgBouncer: https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-nl/events/310728717/

i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at https://github.com/schlae/cm5-reveng

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

@GossiTheDog I keep telling managers that the premium they will pay for expertise is only going to go *up.*

At PGDay Lowlands, we know that great content doesn’t happen by accident — it takes preparation and practice. That’s why we’re offering all confirmed speakers a free, one-hour public speaking training on August 28.

In addition, the brave participants of our conference debates will gather virtually on August 26th for a preparatory session. This will be an opportunity to get to know each other, exchange ideas, and sharpen their proverbial knives before stepping onto the stage.

We’re deeply invested in supporting our speakers and debaters as a team — because when they succeed, the whole community benefits. We can’t wait to share their work with all of you: https://2025.pgday.nl/

'While Trump still commands the daily news cycle, he no longer commands the West... It is Europe that is becoming the new arsenal of democracy.' Exceptional, morally urgent and utterly clear sighted column in the Telegraph. Yes, you read that right. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

European rearmament is pushing...

@vyruss is donating a signed copy of his "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them", and @intrbiz put a special edition "electric elephant" in the prize pool - truly, what's keeping you from testing the beta release?! 😅

https://2025.pgday.nl/testing-pg/

https://hachyderm.io/@pgdaylowlands/114993354125707997

[Poll]

How many open source projects do you financially support (ie recurring donations of any frequency)?

(If you donate to an umbrella organization with the intent it will support multiple projects on your behalf, I guess probably count that organization as 1 project.)

PGDay UK returns on September 9, and we’re proud to be a Partner-level sponsor. Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Evangelist at EDB, will take the stage with his talk “Future Postgres Challenges.” Devrim Gunduz, Bilge Ince, and Floor Drees support the event as volunteers: https://2025.pgday.uk/

The night before, we’re also sponsoring the very first Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup at Paddington Central. Miles Richardson will be speaking about the WarehousePG project: https://lu.ma/u042b0vw @postgresuk

Do you have complex orchestration issues that you'd like to solve with Podman? Quadlets are now native to Podman and they let you do that! Find out how here! https://blog.podman.io/2025/08/level-up-your-container-game-unified-quadlet-management-is-now-natively-in-podman/ #podman #OpenSource

Meta AI, the honest spokesperson for #WhatsApp 🤣

Celebrating 20 Year of the #openSUSE Project Today!!!

An analysis of Github's recent studies on "AI" agents for software development

(Original title: Jussi Pakkanen: Let's properly analyze an AI article for once)

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html

Another superb front cover from Private Eye magazine proving that satire can be more powerful than many newspaper stories.

I don't suppose Ian Hislop will be visiting the USA any time soon, he might have an issue getting through immigration.

#gaza #israel #labour

And now this.

#uk #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ukpolitics

🎤 Our first confirmed speakers for PGConf.EU 2025 are now live!
Check out who’s already on the lineup 👉 https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2025/sessions/

We’re updating the list as more speakers confirm, so keep an eye on it — and once all sessions are locked in, we’ll be publishing the full conference programme.

Exciting things ahead — stay tuned!
#PGConfEU #PostgreSQL #Postgres

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