Jeff Segal

Created this account to test some Twitter integration code. Kept it so I can doom scroll every two hours.

[Jeff Segal @jts7s]

@MatthewSitman

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

sorry there’s no “but USA made it this far” upside here

USA could’ve went out like Cabo Verde who played the game of their lives, taking Messi & Argentina to the limit

instead USA went out like that video of 100 elementary school kids playing against the Japanese national team

[Jeff Segal @jts7s]

@MatthewSitman Great theater and shout out to The Legwarmers

[Jeff Segal @jts7s]

@reynoldsgareth @daveanthony But who accused Gareth of being well read

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

Oracle tried to take MySQL from its creator. So he forked it and named it after his other daughter.

This is one of the most dramatic stories in open source history.

Michael Widenius created MySQL in 1995 and named it after his daughter Mai.

In 2008 Sun Microsystems bought it for $1 billion. One year later Oracle bought Sun. The same Oracle whose main product directly competes with MySQL.

The same day the acquisition was announced, Michael forked MySQL into MariaDB. Named after his other daughter Maria.

He tried to block Oracle entirely. The EU approved the deal anyway.

Oracle promised to keep MySQL alive. They technically did.

But the best features quietly moved behind a paid enterprise version. Bug reports piled up. Community contributions dried up. The soul of it was gone.

MariaDB filled the gap fast.

→ Fully compatible with MySQL. Zero rewrites needed to migrate.
→ Wikipedia migrated.
→ Google migrated.
→ Most Linux distributions dropped MySQL and made MariaDB the default.

Then in 2024 MariaDB was bought by private equity.

A different villain. The same feeling.

Michael also has a son. He named a database after him too. MaxDB.

He only has three kids. So there are no more databases left to name. No more forks left to make.

The man who named two databases after his children to protect them from corporations watched both get acquired anyway.

Some stories do not have a happy ending. They just have a really good dad.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.

The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.

https://t.co/rpSgTmmPU4

[Jeff Segal @jts7s]

@MatthewSitman https://t.co/ZGlULCVnVQ

[eliza @thefemiurge]

to call republican primary voters npcs would be overselling their agency. they're like units in an rts you can just group select and then right click on the target

[Virginia Men's Tennis @UVAMensTennis]

𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗔 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 🏆

The Cavaliers are once again atop college tennis for a seventh national championship!

[Jeff Segal @jts7s]

@vlad_mihalcea Understood, was trying to give the whole picture. We only use MULTISET on read, but perhaps we should look at it for writes. Every change is a new jOOQ POJO API call. It’s a legacy system where we can’t change exiting schemas. Probably could be improved but it works well so far.

[Kim "Katie" USA @KimKatieUSA]

ATP event gets interrupted by a woman moaning loud from a nearby apartment. Francis Tiafoe yells out, “It can’t be that good!”

The commentator first thought someone’s phone was playing an adult video. Good lord people, have some decency!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Berwyn Choobs @sabatonfan69]

They worship money like a god, and will tear out the copper wiring of this once great nation while they shake their heads and shrug their shoulders as you lie broken, impoverished and lobotomized

[Jeff Segal @jts7s]

@TNOQuoProQuid @ettingermentum He was at least a big influence on Charles Sumner, who became one of the rare voices for racial equality in the mid 1800s

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

A man who has never seen war and never will, cheering this on from a comfortable perch in Washington.

Every Senator who fails to stop this war should lose their seat, starting with @SenSusanCollins and @SenFettermanPA.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

No more forever wars.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

I can assure you your prayers didn’t save my friends from dying in the last war you supported.