Mastodawn

Update!!! Karen Jex donated this cutie to the prize pool for our Testing Challenge - truly, what's keeping you from testing the Postgres beta release?!

https://2025.pgday.nl/testing-pg/ @karenhjex

Sarah Conway Sep 11, 2025

Data Bene Sep 11, 2025

@pgdaylowlands is coming up fast. Will you be attending in person in #Rotterdam (#Netherlands), or viewing the recordings after (or livestream during!) the event?

There's many ways to take part in this #PostgreSQL community event happening Fri., Sept. 12th at @rotterdamzoo.

Check out the schedule:

👉 https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdaynl2025/schedule/

Say hi to our own @talktomeabouttech as CoC during the livestream! 👋

#tech #dev #data #datascience #dataanalytics #mongodb #kubernetes #opensource #foss #oss #postgres

PGDay Lowlands 2025 Schedule

Sarah Conway Aug 28, 2025

Privacy Guides Jul 24, 2025

Privacy is a marathon, not a sprint.

It's common to be overwhelmed by the constant attacks on privacy we read about every day, and to burn out trying to fix every problem all at once.

This is by the attackers' design, of course. Big tech companies and governments want to paralyze you with choices and actions, so you give up on the fight entirely.

It's okay to take a breath, clean up slowly, and train yourself over the long-term to improve your data privacy health over time.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/24/privacy-is-like-broccoli/

#Privacy #PrivacyHabits #PrivacyGuides #HealthyHabits #PrivacyTraining #Training #SelfImprovement #Article

Privacy Is Like Broccoli

Improving privacy can get overwhelming at first. It's important to move one step at a time, but remain persistent. Good privacy is like good health habits.

Privacy Guides

Sarah Conway Jun 5, 2025

Do you take screenshots constantly and then immediately lose track of them forever more amongst the sea of other screenshots you've taken? I do. I just came across this tool but haven't tried it yet. Have you? What method of screenshot storage & organization works for you?

https://snapnest.co/

Screenshot Manager & Organizer - Drag, Drop, Organize | SnapNest

The simplest way to manage your screenshots. Upload, organize, tag, and share screenshots in seconds with advanced features.

SnapNest

Sarah Conway Jun 4, 2025

“One of the fundamental security principles that exists...is called sandboxing...You run everything in a sandbox, and there is no interaction within different elements running on it. What this attack vector allows is to break the sandbox that exists between the mobile context and the web context. The channel that exists allowed the Android system to communicate what happens in the browser with the identity running in the mobile app.”

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

#cybersecurity #privacy

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

Ars Technica

Sarah Conway Jun 3, 2025

Just announced: #SnowflakeDB to acquire #CrunchyData, a PostgreSQL startup, in order to help Snowflake "to win over customers seeking to build their own artificial intelligence agents. The deal is valued at roughly $250 million, according to a person familiar with the matter."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/snowflake-to-buy-crunchy-data-for-250-million-233543ab

This development closely follows Databricks' acquisition of Neon earlier in May:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-to-buy-startup-neon-for-1-billion-fdded971

#Tech #techstartup #business #entrepreneur #opensource #foss #oss #ai #ml #technews

Sarah Conway Jun 2, 2025

The opportunity for malicious activity has exponentially increased with #AI being used frequently in coding environments, these days.

This read lists examples of possible threats, explores how they might happen, explains that relying on agentic AI to save us from agentic AI might not work as well as we might hope (shocking, I know), and finishes off with best practices that are good to follow *anyway*.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-ai-coding-agents-could-destroy-open-source-software/

#cybersecurity #vulnerability #zeroday #ml #opensource #tech

How AI coding agents could destroy open source software

Imagine a single rogue line of code slipping past your tired eyes - and suddenly your entire app is compromised. AI coding agents could be the silent saboteurs of the next big cybersecurity crisis.

ZDNET

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