Thom O'Connor

YouTube video by ClickHouse How is the AI Made? The Data Behind Language Models

New video, only 11 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yH3...

Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn't get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Denver #NoKings

Millions marched in cities and towns across the U.S. in "No Kings" protests against the Trump administration just hours before Trump's military parade.

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Protestors hold a banner reading, "NO KINGS" as they march in Chicago.

Protestors wave flags during a "No Kings" rally.

Protestors hold signs during a "No Kings" rally.

A protestor dressed as the Statue of Liberty at a "No Kings" rally.

Thousands of Americans gathered in cities across the country on Saturday for an organized day of protests dubbed “No Kings Nationwide Day of Defiance” against President Trump’s policies. wapo.st/4n1tb4v

Rubio Ramps Up Pressure on Harvard With Expanded Visa Scrutiny Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday ordered more scrutiny of the social-media profiles of any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard University, telling US consular officers that applicants’ lack of...

Penalizing a would-be foreign student or visitor for not being active on social media or keeping their online presence shielded from the general public is an outrageous overreach by the administration, EFF’s Sophia Cope told @bloomberg.com.

The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to change course on its recently announced “Technology ...

The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption.

A man smiles holding a microphone beneath a large slide on Json performance where clickhouse is very performant and Postgres and DuckDB are least

Ohhh the JSON perf looks amazing in Alexey Milovidov's keynote

I'm interested in hearing how much the subscriber count for The Atlantic has grown given its recent high-publicity (and courageous) investigative journalism

@TheAtlantic #TheAtlantic

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutt...

End-to-end encryption just survived a major attack in France. This isn’t just a local victory–it’s a global message: Privacy and security are not negotiable.

Signal Messenger: Speak Freely Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.

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It's not solely about Bluesky ... as much as it is a blueprint for the power + potency of distributed, defederated communication platforms -> we can & will connect to our community with common voice and power, and can deftly abandon these sinking ships when they become infected with disease and rot

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

“He’s unqualified, and I daresay that everybody here knows it.” We need more principled senators like Warnock.

DDoSed by Policy: Website Takedowns and Keeping Information Alive Who needs a DDoS (Denial of Service) attack when you have a new president? As of February 2nd, thousands of web pages and datasets have been removed from the U.S. government agencies following a serie...

U.S. Government agencies have been ordered to enact sweeping takedowns of information— but technologists, librarians, and open access organizations have mobilized a preservation effort.

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE.

I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

#clickhouse is as close to a silver bullet for analytics load as you can get. Simple, cheap, just works, fast. One of the very few tools that just makes the right tradeoffs. I'm using it at my second startup now and it is pure joy.

Super excited to announce that my talk "Dancing with the Pods: Live migration of a database fleet while serving millions of queries" was accepted for KubeCon 2025 London.

#kubecon #kubernetes #clickhouse

ClickHouse Release 24.12 ClickHouse 24.12 is available. In this post, you will learn about new features, including Iceberg REST catalog and schema evolution support, the ability to use JSON subcolumns as a primary key, and…

ClickHouse 24.12 was our final release of 2024, and it was a big one! We've got Apache Iceberg REST catalog & schema evolution support, automatic JOIN reordering, usability improvements for Enums, JSON subcolumns as a table primary key, and much more!

GitHub - ClickHouse/NoiSQL: NoiSQL — Generating Music With SQL Queries NoiSQL — Generating Music With SQL Queries. Contribute to ClickHouse/NoiSQL development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/ClickHouse/N...

SQL Polyglot Try running a query anywhere from PostgreSQL to DuckDB in your browser.

Run a #SQL query and get results from PostgrSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MS SQL, MariaDB, Clickhouse, and DuckDB

Using the second fastest option (@ClickHouseDB) to work with some VPC Flow Logs because the first fastest option (/dev/null) doesn't quite do what I need it to.

(holy HELL is ClickHouse fast; wtf they doing over there?!)

1 billion rows challenge in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse Sorting 1 billion rows challenge with PostgreSQL and ClickHouse

1 billion rows challenge in #PostgreSQL and #ClickHouse
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