Chris Krebs has quit his job at SentinalOne to launch a legal and public relations fight against Trump and the presidential memo Trump he signed against Krebs last week. "Krebs said he understood why some have kept a low profile and tried not to further anger the president. But he said he disagreed with that approach. "I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one for the moment we’re in."

Miles Taylor who was also targeted by Trump said "the memos targeting him and Krebs were 'punishment for dissent' and that he too planned to fight back.... 'How we respond will set the tone inevitably for how others targeted by these EOs decide to respond.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chris-krebs-trump-cybersecurity-executive-action-31cb99cb

This poll is important.

Please boost.

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

It's bumming me out to see so many universities forcing their English departments to put on a "English Majors Are Useful Too" promotional campaign to justify their existence when my experience out on the job market right now is HOT DAMN THIS ONE CAN WRITE A SENTENCE

@kgjenkins If I had a way to actually contact someone I would. Know someone at Box?

Whoever decided on these password complexity rules needs their decision making authority revoked 😠

The latest PgOSM Flex image now has osm2pgsql 2.0.0. Here's the quick start if you haven't tried PgOSM Flex yet!

https://pgosm-flex.com/quick-start.html

#pgosm #postgis #openstreetmap #gischat

Woo! osm2pgsql 2.0.0 is out! 🎉

https://github.com/osm2pgsql-dev/osm2pgsql/releases/tag/2.0.0

#postgis #openstreetmap #osm2pgsql

It's official! "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate of PostgreSQL 17 is now available for download...

The planned date for the general availability of PostgreSQL 17 is September 26, 2024."

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-rc1-released-2926/

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #technews #opensource #foss #database #databases #developer #dba #sql

@CD_Newton@fosstodon.org The generic "Dirty data" seems to fit

@mvexel Coors field is one of my favorites in OSM. The 3D rendering of it is pretty incredible on f4map.com.

https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=39.7560003&lon=-104.9941652&zoom=19&camera.theta=64.481&camera.phi=14.037

#openstreetmap

We have a VP candidate who knows what #PostGIS is.

Paul Ramsey (@pwramsey): Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Postgres Style https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-postgres-style
#postgres #postgresql

⏰ Time is a funny thing! For starters, how are we already nearly in August?

But more importantly, when examined closely, time reveals several excellent #geoweirdness examples. In this week's thread, we’ll look at some of the weirdest timezone quirks from around the world.

To get us started here’s a map of the world as segmented by the tz database.

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Let's make contour maps

https://www.letsmakeamap.com/blog/lets-make-contour-maps

The first comment nailed it.

Home Depot keeps emailing me a survey about product satisfaction about an $0.18 purchase I made...

Uh... I bought a washer. Is there really satisfaction to be had from that purchase worth surveying? 🤔

Woo! Postgres 17 Beta 1 is out! 🐘 🐘🎉

I'm excited to start testing some of the improvements, particularly this improvement to EXPLAIN:

"SERIALIZE, which shows the amount of time it takes to convert data for network transmission"

🤓

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-beta-1-released-2865/

#postgres #postgresql

Samay Sharma: Introducing pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL https://tembo.io/blog/pg-timeseries
#postgres #postgresql

Built a webmap to generate random geodata with export to #Geopackage #FlatGeobuf #CSV #GeoJSON or #PGDump

Besides #wgs84 (latitude/longitude) all #UTM projections are supported dynamically by location

Thanks to #GDAL #WebAssembly this works completely in the browser and does not require server processing 🤩

Demo: https://jakobmiksch.github.io/random-geodata/
Repo: https://github.com/jakobMiksch/random-geodata
#gischat #vuejs #openlayers