Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Red Hat gives an ARM up to OpenShift Kubernetes operations
Red Hat announced the general availability of OpenShift 4.12, bringing new capabilities to its hybrid cloud application delivery platform.
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Mozilla: How to talk to kids about the news
As the father of a teenager, I find myself worrying – and not just about their grades and how quickly they’re growing up. Dating? Driver’s permit? I’m not ready for this! I also worry about how my child, through the internet, is experiencing the world at a much quicker pace than I did.
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PGConf.BE 2023: Call for Papers & Sponsors
Announcing the Belgian PostgreSQL Conference
PGConf.be 2023 is the third Belgian PostgreSQL conference in Haasrode, Leuven.
The conference will take place on May 12th, 2023. Registration for the conference will be opened later.
The Call for Papers is open until March 30th. Submit your talks by mail with the subject 'I love Elephants'.
The Call for Sponsors is open on pgconf.be
See you in Leuven in May!
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PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2023
PGConf.de 2023 is the next iteration of the German PostgreSQL Conference. It takes place in the "Haus der Technik" in Essen.
The conference will take place on June 27th, 2023.
Registration for the conference will be possible well in advance. Talks will be in German or English language. Tickets must be purchased online. For sponsors, we have put together a package that includes among other things, a number of free tickets.
The Call for Papers is open now: www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfde2023/callforpapers/
Note that this event takes place in the same week as Swiss PGDay 2023. As a speaker you should be able to travel from one conference to the other in the day between the two conferences.
See you in Essen in June 2023!
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A guide to fuzzy queries with Apache ShardingSphere
Apache ShardingSphere is an open source distributed database and an ecosystem users and developers need for their databases to provide a customized and cloud-native experience. Its latest release contains many new features, including data encryption integrated with existing SQL workflows. Most importantly, it allows fuzzy queries of the encrypted data.
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What's your community thinking pattern?
This article is the second and final part of a discussion of the research by Dave Logan, Bob King, and Halee Fischer-Wright. If you haven't read the first part yet, you can do so here. These researchers defined five cultural thinking patterns in communities. In part one, I explained the first three of five thinking patterns. These communities are 20-150 people. I also suggested the responsibilities of an introducer-in-chief. This environmental thinking also refers to how the group behaves and how members talk to each other. To the researchers, each pattern has a identifying perspective:
In this article, I continue with their impressions of community thinking pattern #4 and conclude with thinking pattern #5 (the most optimistic).
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The Danger of Focusing on Specs
Many years ago I was a sysadmin for a medium-sized tech company, and a fringe benefit of that role was getting first choice at stacks of “obsolete” computers that were about to be thrown away. They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and that is even truer when the first man ran Windows, but you run Linux. It has long been known among the Linux community that a Windows computer that was “too slow to use” and about to be thrown away, could be transformed into a brand new computer simply by installing Linux on it. While my Windows-using colleagues were replacing computers every two or three years as they grew slower and slower with age, I found my Linux-using friends and myself were often using the same hardware (even second-hand hardware) for at least twice as long. Even when I replaced hardware with something new, I found that the old hardware still performed, for the most part, as well as it did when I started using it. The hardware specs didn’t matter nearly as much as the software that ran on it.
Even today, many people still fall into the trap of relying solely on specs to gauge whether hardware is “fast” or “slow” and forgetting the giant role software has to play in performance. Both hardware and software companies incentivize this mentality, as it means more frequent sales for hardware vendors, and customers who are more likely to blame their “old” hardware than bloated software for poor performance. In this article I will discuss some of the consequences that come when you only assess hardware by specs.
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Call for Community-Led Tracks at FOSSY
We're looking for organizers who can give us a really good idea of what we can expect from their track. The description should give a detailed explanation of the topic, ideally along with some of the issues you expect to cover. Example talks you expect, what kind of audience are you aiming for, and how this topic fits into the larger FOSS ecosystem are good things to mention.