ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

A mob of red deer stags in Richmond Park, they were on the edge of the woods and unless you stopped to look from most angles they were perfectly hidden, I crouched down to take the shot, that's when I could see how many there were (shot with a long lens it looks like I was a lot closer than I actually was). #RichmondPark #RedDeer #Stags #RedStags #WildLifePhotography #Nature #Photography #AltText

#throwbackthursday to this day 5 years ago when I found the chosen one while going for a walk in the woods
#tirol #austria #winter #photography #shotoniphone #NaturePhotogaphy

Guys, I passed my Security+ today, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m so proud of myself.

@gsuberland I've only ever been a consumer of SAP HANA systems (apart from the tiny one I setup at home for fun), but big enterprises just end up treating it as the "the database" and push for as much data to end up in a central location as possible - usually leading to a nice mess.

I've seen management try to use this data to create a "single pane of glass" for the org without realising that the data is very fuzzy/hard to tell a story just looking at raw numbers.

Proof that I posted this from toot!

I ran @p_malin's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=6SBoC #bbcbasic

Is it weird that all the Web3.0 and crypto people seem to have based their entire worldview on a handful of Neil Stephenson/William Gibson novels and then TOTALLY MISSED THE POINT of what those novels were actually about?

Because I clearly remember in "Cryptonomicon" how the fact that cryptocurrency is basically worthless until/unless it's actually BACKED by anything (e.g. a several tons of lost Japanese gold as a Mcguffin) is a major driving plot point. I just as clearly remember that the whole premise of the Metaverse in "Snow Crash" was that a bunch of clueless tech bros tried to create a giant virtual reality playground and nobody wanted anything to do with it until Juanita figured out how to make avatars' faces -- and eyes especially -- accurately reflect the emotions of the people using them. And then WENT ON to explain that the Metaverse had become a vector for widespread corporate-sponsored mind control funded by a psychotic televangelist so obscenely wealthy that he owned an actual aircraft carrier as a yacht.

Just getting a lot of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" vibes from the entire tech industry right now.

WOW if you think I’m just gonna keep paying for all these streaming services as they multiply, rack up prices, and far exceed a cable bill then you are correct, that is exactly what’s gonna happen

Do you know any #PostgreSQL people or #Citus people? Please help spread the word that the #CFP is *OPEN* for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023, a virtual event happening in April.

📣 An event is only as good as its speakers! Which is why we need to boost this post high & low.

🐘 Looking for talk proposals on
- PostgreSQL
- Citus database extension
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (aka Citus on Azure)

#CitusCon #CfS #Azure #Microsoft

https://www.citusdata.com/cituscon/2023/cfp/

New, by me. Two weeks ago, LastPass said it was hacked for a second time this year. In a notice, LastPass said an intruder gained access to customers' information, but LastPass has said little else about the breach since

I parsed LastPass' data breach notice to explain what LastPass is and isn't saying, and how it impacts users.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/14/parsing-lastpass-august-data-breach-notice/

On the Fediverse, you can post about Elon Musk's private jet.

#FediTips

I have written a Python script that takes my Mastodon feed and turns it into #teletext pages, and I consider this time well spent.

This is super cool! TRSE (Turbo Rascal Syntax Error) is a full IDE that lets you create games or demos in a Pascal-like language targeting 26 different platforms!

CPUs supported are 6502, 68000, z80, and x86.

#c64 #amiga #amstrad #spectrum #z80 #atari #atari2600 #bbcmicro #mega65 #gameboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R84cfYjjvt8

Interesting review paper just out in Nature. "Heatwaves are anticipated to become more frequent, persistent and intense in nearly all inhabited regions, with trends amplified by soil drying in some areas, especially the mid-latitudes." https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00371-z

Merry Holidays 🙄 I just got let go from my social media/marketing job. If you know of anybody hiring for that, devrel, or podcasting, audio, video, etc. Please reach out.

Also, feel free to jump on my calendar: https://calendly.com/mandymoore/30min?back=1&month=2022-12

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#Security truths

I'm so happy ❤️ that my talk proposal was accepted for @fosdem in the #PostgreSQL devroom!

This will be my 2nd time presenting at FOSDEM and I am grateful for the opportunity!

What's my talk about? The title is "How to Give Your Postgres Blog Posts an Outsize Impact"

#fosdem #opensource #postgres #microsoft