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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26m

There are currently 16 data centers in Scotland.

They use enough tap water to fill 27 million bottles per year.

And that number has quadrupled in just four years.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

www.bbc.com

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 1d

Future is bright 🙃🫠

Terence Eden @edent.tel · 1d

Woman on the tube has a phone in each hand.
Right hand has an email from her boss.
Let hand has ChatGPT.
She scrolls the e-mail, then has ChatGPT take a photo of it.
She gives the LLM a prompt and then thumb-types it into a reply.

I'm on my way to the #AIforTheRestOfUs conference.

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 1d

🙈🙃

evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

"Starting in December 2024, the researchers began contacting the affected telecoms. T-Mobile responded by encrypting its satellite transmissions within weeks, but responses from other cell carriers were mixed."

Everything is cool and normal.

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 1d

I swear the things AWS manages to squeeze out of their data centers should be classified as black magic. You can now create instant copies of EBS volumes with single-digit millisecond latency. Sounds simple - but this is an amazing feat of engineering.

aws-news.com/article/2025...

Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes

Amazon EBS Volume Clones allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of encrypted volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call ...

aws-news.com

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 1d

Congrats @crossplane.io moving their @cncf.bsky.social Graduation application for Public review 👏

github.com/cncf/toc/iss...
github.com/cncf/toc/pul...

Add Crossplane Graduation Due Diligence by angellk · Pull Request #1919 · cncf/toc

This PR contains the due diligence for Crossplane to move to Graduation status. Project application issue: #1788 This PR is now open for TOC review and comment.

github.com

Marko Bevc @marko.social · 2d

If running Framework, ⚠️ make sure to patch:

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Secure Boot bypass risk threatens nearly 200,000 Linux Framework laptops

Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Dec 29

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 3d

Two announcements which might be relevant if you're running workloads in #AWS - EKS supports latest #Kubernetes version 1.34 and notifications if reaching Service Quotas (automatic action to raise it will be added later too) 🚀

More:
* aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
* aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.34 - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.34

aws.amazon.com

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 3d

"There are some obvious drawbacks to this method: It's not a drop-in replacement for existing data transfer code, and it can have much higher latency than direct network connections." 😜

Marko Bevc @marko.social · 3d

Not very practical, but can reduce cots by 99% when moving data around and quite cool thought experiment: www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashi...

Thanks for sharing @quinnypig.com 👏

Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% - Bits and Cloud

www.bitsand.cloud

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 3d

Really enjoyed a gorgeous day in the sun 😎

Marko Bevc @marko.social · 3d

If nothing else you probably want to avoid Liquid Glass 🤣

Marko Bevc @marko.social · 4d

Indeed, she was a great actress! 🪦

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 4d

Adoption of #AI is perhaps also hugely influenced/driven by the funding of big players 🙃

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 4d

Lenovo still might be an option and they have good Linux support

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 4d

🤔❓

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 5d

Worth a watch, @kelseyhightower.com sharing his views on containers and where tech is going, as well as great takes on #AI 👏

Docker @docker.com · 5d

📣 Kelsey Hightower’s keynote from ContainerDays is now live!

Insightful, unfiltered, and packed with perspective on the future of containers and developer tools.

Watch the full session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1t2GPChhX8
#Docker #KelseyHightower #ContainerDays #Containers #OpenSource

Why are we still talking about containers? - Kelsey Hightower at ContainerDays 2025

YouTube video by ContainerDays

www.youtube.com

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 7d

I wonder how is that going to work and what is the wording here, because that could be tricky to enforce a lot of situations 🤔

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 8d

Totally unexpected 🙃

I wonder if we're already seeing the signs 🤔

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

Marko Bevc @marko.social · 8d

After the initial deprecation of some services...ahem, CodeCommit 🙃 #AWS has a page announcing deprecations now: aws.amazon.com/products/lif...

They've updated it yesterday with 19 services and capabilities moving to maintenance, and 4 moving to sunset ⚠️ - most not very popular ones, but still 😉

AWS Product Lifecycle

aws.amazon.com

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 9d

Take action!

fightchatcontrol.eu to contact your ministers, permanent representation, MEPs, and, if you are German or Italian, your national MPs!

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 9d

You could pass options to systemd via /etc/sysconfig/docker or if using compose set up netowrking options there, e.g. forums.docker.com/t/is-it-poss...

Is it possible to disable nat in docker-compose?

How can I implement enable_ip_masquerade=false Into networks: front: driver: bridge ipam: driver: default config: - subnet: 172.25.0.0/24

forums.docker.com

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 9d

Nice - Headlamp just got a Plugin for #Karpenter for better visibility on Scaling 🚀

kubernetes.io/blog/2025/10...

#kubernetes

Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility

Headlamp is an open‑source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Karpenter is a Kubernetes Autoscaling SIG node provisioning project t...

kubernetes.io

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 10d

The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-49844) is caused by a 13-year-old use-after-free weakness found in the Redis source code and can be exploited by authenticated threat actors using a specially crafted Lua script (a feature enabled by default):
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

#security

Redis warns of critical flaw impacting thousands of instances

The Redis security team has released patches for a maximum severity vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain remote code execution on thousands of vulnerable instances.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 10d

Going back to: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... , thanks to @quinnypig.com something to mind, contrary to ECS this service is not free 😉 which is not mentioned ↑.

I've done some calculations, and similar to EKS Auto Mode you'll be paying on average ~13% premium on top of your compute managed by ECS.

Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances

aws.amazon.com

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