Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

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

#PGConf.EU 2026 programme is out! 🐘
Five tracks. Three days. Valencia, 20–22 October.
Explore & register: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2026/schedule
#PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL30

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo - I am beyond furious about this bit of news.

The Lovell Telescope has - from day one - been a project that has produced incredible results on a shoestring budget, using whatever Lovell could scrounge to produce an instrument that has reshaped our view of the Universe.

(I was observing OH- masers there the day Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter.)

The budget needed to keep it running is a rounding error when compared to government spend on 'AI'.

Closing it is criminal folly.

If you’re still using anything made by 37signals, this is the shit you’re supporting. https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d

Sometimes you read something that tells you what you already know…but you feel as if for the first time.

I read this searing piece through hot tears of rage and renewed determination.

Canada should be using every tool we have - legal, diplomatic, economic - to rein in and isolate this rogue state.

It should be a national scandal that we aren’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/13/israel-prison-torture-death-hussam-abu-safiya-palestine

#canada #palestine #cdnpoli

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and ...

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/jun/20/elbit-four-law-jurors-criminal-damage-terrorism

A British court tried protesters for criminal damage, but then sentenced them for terrorism, a charge that was never presented to the jury. This proceeding contravenes a fundamental principle of law.

I'm not saying Safari is the new IE6; that would be unfair...to IE6. When it came out, it was world-beating in nearly every regard, but got long in the tooth.

No, Safari is more like IE 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11: predictably disappointing showings thanks to under-funding by an organisation hellbent on holding the web back to defend profits:

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-praise/

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/5266624

Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets

<- by me on #TheRegister

Smalltalk-80, HyperCard, and Visual Basic 6 were far more compelling "future of programming" attempts than anything available today

Hasn't had much coverage, but David Potter, founder and CEO of Psion, died yesterday. One of the patron saints of alt.fan.pratchett in its early years.

Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid

UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/uk-apple-google-mobile-app-stores-developers-payment-cma
CMA says developers should be able to steer users away from app stores for payments to increase competition

Postgres has a huge array of features; many can make application development easier and reduce application complexity. In his talk for POSETTE 2026, Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) of Nexteam reviews a range of use cases & PostgreSQL Design Patterns.

📺Watch on YouTube:
https://buff.ly/AYOM2xn

#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community