Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Who watched the debate and was swayed either way ✋

Strong contestants that were able to set their differences aside to ultimately come to a consensus (following the "polder model").

Thank you Sebastiaan Mannem, Marc Linster, Mayuresh B., and Derk van Veen

Follow the livestream(s): https://www.youtube.com/@PGDayLowlands/streams

Quick snaps from the hallway track: some participants have already had a chat with all our Partner-level sponsors Nibble IT, OptimaData, CYBERTEC, Credativ, STEADION, and Adyen, and handed in their sponsor passport to enter in the raffle for some great prizes! #PostgreSQL

Nail-biting suspense! Is #PostgreSQL on a Raspberry Pi faster than a cloud managed instance?! @intrbiz explores at @pgdaylowlands.

#Postgres #RPI #RaspberryPi #cloud #database #OpenSource

Intellectual loneliness isn't about wanting "deep talks".

It's about realising how few people can tolerate complexity.

It's noticing how quickly people rush to have an answer not to understand, but to feel right.

It's watching people form entire worldviews off headlines, vibes, and whatever reels told them last.

It's the silence that follows when you say something that doesn't fit neatly into someone's script.

It's not arrogance.

It's exhaustion, from always having to code-switch between what you actually think and what's safe to say around people who shut down at nuance.

And no one warns you: Once your brain learns to stretch, small talk doesn't just bore you, it alienates you.

You're not looking for smart people. You're looking for people who are still thinking.

Wow. TIL the purpose of the guide rail tiles in pavements. Makes absolute sense once you see them being used.

Very much hoping i've not been causing blind folks problems in the years i didn't know what they were for.

#Accessibility #Blind #Community

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ih1xFcB5Gak?si=EebpCMaZennNbhcQ

A UK man was acquitted of terrorism charges after delivering his own closing argument:

The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.

https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492

1/2 🧵

#GoodNews #Politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117202983989699195

Quietly happy that I’m using Xubuntu, not whatever the hell this Oligarchy Linux is or whatever it’s called, and I’m using pass, the standard Unix password manager, and not one of the “trust us with your passwords: here’s loads of ui you don’t want” Valley services. A bit clunky and awkward? Yup. Am I fine with it for the sense of security and unchanging comfort it provides? Also yup.

PGDay UK 2026 is next Tuesday, 8 September, in the west end of London. Two parallel tracks this year.

Single-day PostgreSQL conferences are the best value on the community calendar. No travel week, and the hallway track is the actual product.

https://2026.pgday.uk

https://pgexperts.com

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #PGDayUK

FOSDEM PGDay will in 2027 expand to 2 days and be held on Jan 28-29 in Brussels, Belgium, ahead of the weekend #FOSDEM event. Further details and updated website to follow soon.

#fosdempgday #postgresql #postgres #brussels

PGDay UK is coming to London this September.
A full day of PostgreSQL talks and community.
Get your ticket here: https://2026.pgday.uk/

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs

In the end the Water industry crisis & scandal is a perfect memorial for Thatcherism:

A falsified bill of goods, sold on the promise of an answer to the UK's economic problems but delivering a major opportunity for financial services to rob normal people whilst wrecking the environment. And unwinding over a sufficiently long period that those who've robbed the country have either fled or died, handing on their ill-gotten gains to others who now deny any knowledge or responsibility!

#politics

Staying in Utrecht a little longer? We've compiled a list of things-to-do in this beautiful city: https://2026.pgday.nl/things-to-do/

It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity

https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/gaslight-years-166761233

https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/to-end-part-two-166818254

@jonty no access to a computer rn but I'm on Three with single SIM, no airplane mode. Got two alerts. Other family members on Three also report two alerts yesterday evening.

LB: this is *fucking nuts*.

on certain AMD CPUs you can just poke a random MMIO address from ring 0 and change the memory controller's scrambling pattern, on a live system, which completely jumbles the mapping between physical addresses and DRAM IC coordinates. since all memory protection features (IOMMU, SMM boundaries, etc.) are based on physical addresses, it bypasses *all of them*. you can read AND WRITE the SMM, fTPM, and even the C6 microcode save regions. wild.

https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431

My small British company was bought by Americans. I have just been formally reprimanded for sarcasm and sardonic commentary. I told the disciplinary panel I was grateful for the opportunity to reflect on my attitude going forward and would be certain to bear it in mind in future.

Authenticity Problem

Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

#wealth #value #billionaires #billionairelifestyle #nobillionaires #nobillionairesshouldexist #eatthebillionaires #compostthebillionaires #billionairetax #epsteinparasiteclass