Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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PostgreSQL ☛ Timescale's 2024 State of PostgreSQL Survey Open until Sept 30
Our love for PostgreSQL runs deep. We built our products on PostgreSQL, are proud members of the PostgreSQL community, and wouldn’t exist without it and the extensibility it provides.
In 2019, Timescale launched the first State of PostgreSQL report, advancing our desire to provide more significant insights into the specificities and features applicable to the PostgreSQL community. Thanks to your contribution as a community, we have continually delivered this report.
The 2024 survey is open for submissions until September 30, 2024! Questions involve everything from how you use PostgreSQL for work and personal projects, how you deploy it, how you interact with the community, and how collectively we can help improve the complete developer and user experience.
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WordPress ☛ WP Engine is not WordPress – WordPress News
This is very important, it’s at the core of the user promise of protecting your data, and it’s why WordPress is architected and designed to never lose anything.
WP Engine turns this off. They disable revisions because it costs them more money to store the history of the changes in the database, and they don’t want to spend that to protect your content. It strikes to the very heart of what WordPress does, and they shatter it, the integrity of your content. If you make a mistake, you have no way to get your content back, breaking the core promise of what WordPress does, which is manage and protect your content.
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Jacky Alciné ☛ The Potential Case against Microblogging
As pointed out by another person online, the Fediverse has a conflated (undefined) understanding of community. And I do not believe that it can be solved in a generic way: we are peoples of many places and walks; we will not agree on everything (nor can we). So having the potentiality of an almost-forced global community, even in a federated space, is not going to happen without reproducing the same nation-state adjacent behavior we see offline. I close with what, to some might seem pessimistic but is already underway, I think it's going to continue to happen if we all don't try to make this issue something of the past:
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Eric MacAdie ☛ I am on a new Mastodon Server
I have moved my Mastodon account. I am now at Fosstodon.
The admins running the Emacs.ch server have decided to shut it down. They gave everyone 90 days notice.