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Richard Milner-Watts

@rmilnerwatts.bsky.social

Cloud infrastructure guy @ AWS, rider of bikes, builder of Lego & video game expert. Opinions are mine.

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Steam is down?! Wow this is the first time in about 20 years I've ever had this happen.

07.10.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs)

AWS Organizations now supports full IAM policy language for SCPs, adding conditions, resource ARNs, NotAction with Allow, wildcards, and NotResource elements for more precise control.

19.09.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.

Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

05.08.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1305    πŸ” 452    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 200

Nice Luc! Your site is now part of my daily routine, really useful!

26.07.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Todaywas a turbo day!

19.07.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Shot himself in the head twice to be sure"

07.07.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome to LEGO F1 Miami Driver's Parade!

Had to keep this a secret for so long but absolutely insane effort from the team to pull this off. Every single car not only life size but driveable with both teammates in each car... just insane. Truly EPIC watching them driver (crash) around the track 🏎️

04.05.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Looks up bloom filters :)

04.05.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No vegetarian option on a plane, that's pretty pathetic.

19.04.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ace game though πŸ‘Œ

19.04.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

12.04.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7451    πŸ” 3389    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 425
Original post on infosec.exchange

So I'm doing some #AI coding using Amazon's Q Developer. It's frankly pretty impressive. I hate AI and #LLMs for all the right reasons, and this seems like one of the things that they're actually good at. I don't ask it to do anything I can't do myself. I can verify and understand every line of […]

11.04.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

08.04.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 31522    πŸ” 8823    πŸ’¬ 260    πŸ“Œ 472

As the article (in thread) says, outsize SUVs cost the public purse more in terms of strain on the infrastructure & pollution, and are far more dangerous for pedestrians & cyclists. Yes, we should tax them and their usage heavily. Why on Earth should the rest of us subsidise this obnoxious trend?

04.04.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1811    πŸ” 498    πŸ’¬ 99    πŸ“Œ 25
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Remember that no matter how secure your platform is… (and congrats to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social & @signal.org for providing a service that obviously meets the most secure communication requirements)

25.03.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When i win+shift+s this is, sorry.

22.03.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a way to revert back to the old behaviour where the sniping tool loads as an application when you use it, rather than popping up for two seconds in the notification area? Thanks!

22.03.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ…

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

19.02.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 800    πŸ” 191    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 8

Interesting read, thanks for sharing Giorgio

14.02.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What on earth is that?! Looks like a huge rat?

11.02.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there anything more depressing than supporting Tottenham?! Sigh.

09.02.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oops 😬

08.02.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 77747    πŸ” 19489    πŸ’¬ 1008    πŸ“Œ 854
"The ARRs of cloud migration" - a pirate illustrates the various forms of a cloud migration such as Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, etc

"The ARRs of cloud migration" - a pirate illustrates the various forms of a cloud migration such as Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, etc

Forgot I drew this one. Deeply pleased with it tbh

07.02.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

06.02.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 30177    πŸ” 10946    πŸ’¬ 1173    πŸ“Œ 1820

Nope, I'd never heard this phrase before I worked with Indian contractors. It's not used in British English.

18.01.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kranjska gorge? Your photos are a lot better than mine!

17.01.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ooh that's a nice quality of life change. Especially when using things like customer VDIs where you don't have Firefox containers available.

16.01.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters MENLO PARK, CAβ€”Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ...
11.01.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 58123    πŸ” 11377    πŸ’¬ 2235    πŸ“Œ 1105
A cybertruck with a logo below it reading "incel inside", a pun and visual copy of the logo Intel.

A cybertruck with a logo below it reading "incel inside", a pun and visual copy of the logo Intel.

I'm dead πŸ€£πŸ˜…

08.01.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gratz dude!

08.01.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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