Notices by James Broadhead (jbo@mastodon.social)

Excited about Postgres 17? So are we!
Try it on Neon first -- https://neon.tech/blog/postgres-17
#postgres #postgresql

Neon went GA today!

Fork your database instantly with Copy-on-Write, try something out, shut down the fork.

Autoscale up, autoscale down - your connection stays up, your transactions keep running

https://neon.tech/blog/neon-ga

#neondatabase

#neondatabase news coming on the 15th!

@mcc I'm really worried that Android is getting worse and worse

@bitprophet nothing in the present, just a story from the past. Great reaction to it though. Still has me laughing

"sasuga Stallman" - the absolute high point of my day

@siderea Grecian?

I should put on my bio that whatever I post, I do not want you to explain to me "how the real world works". I probably already know that, because unfortunately I live here.

@danhon Ouch

@oldladyplays look up the secret setting to "auto-no" cookie popups!

@seldo it's more casual that way

@dayvehuse @annika they should add a random dot for the airport

my thermonuclear take is that the issue here isn’t whether it matters that we call AI “AI”

but that Mastodon’s culture is poorly socialized and people here have a hard time doing constructive conversation

This is frequently lamented as “replyguyism,” but I think that’s imprecise. Something happened along the way to mislead people here that derailing the conversation makes friends

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/7/call-it-ai/

I miss Google Cache

@rose unboost, reboot, once again

@slothrop you get respect for trying to have two though

I often wonder if the common nerdbrain social fallacy that friendship is transitive - A(f)B & B(f)C -> A(f)C - somehow metastasizes in our minds and blinds us to the metabehaviors and strategies of organizations that pay lip service to our goals and values. "Microsoft😍Linux", then buys github to monopolize the world's devchains. "Google❤️AI-ethics" until ethics impedes market domination, then goodbye.

To Amazon's credit, at least they never snowed their own employees pretending to give a shit.

There's just a lot of people on here today saying "give facebook a chance" who do not seem to want to talk about what facebook does with the chances it's given.

@Eramdam I don't have a good handle on what their business plan is

@Eramdam it's for the advertisers. They pay for 'authenticity', they fear brand confusion