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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Also UK's Government Gateway was also down due to the outage... UK is 100% ready for Digital ID with that critical dependency on a data centre in Virginia... totes ready
Signal going down with us-east-1 was not something I expected.
October 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Also UK's Government Gateway was also down due to the outage... UK is 100% ready for Digital ID with that critical dependency on a data centre in Virginia... totes ready
Steam is down?! Wow this is the first time in about 20 years I've ever had this happen.
October 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Steam is down?! Wow this is the first time in about 20 years I've ever had this happen.
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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.
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.
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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.
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.
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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.
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.
August 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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.
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.
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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 🏎️
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 🏎️
May 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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 🏎️
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 🏎️
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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.
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.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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.
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.
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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?
Large SUVs are too big for parking spaces and dangerously heavy in crashes - time to bring in weight and size based charges?
“In 2024, a record 1,213,385 cars wider than 1.8 metres were sold.”
“In 2024, a record 1,213,385 cars wider than 1.8 metres were sold.”
April 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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?
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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)
March 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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)
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The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ…
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
February 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ…
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
Is there anything more depressing than supporting Tottenham?! Sigh.
February 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Is there anything more depressing than supporting Tottenham?! Sigh.
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Forgot I drew this one. Deeply pleased with it tbh
February 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Forgot I drew this one. Deeply pleased with it tbh
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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Back to work tomorrow after 16 days off... think I deserve one last beer 🍺
January 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Back to work tomorrow after 16 days off... think I deserve one last beer 🍺
Ah yes, the "compiling shaders" step of playing a new game. (Swear I never saw this before last year, now it seems a thing on every game I play)
January 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Ah yes, the "compiling shaders" step of playing a new game. (Swear I never saw this before last year, now it seems a thing on every game I play)
Just finished the new Indiana Jones game, enjoyed it after a slow start, though that last boss fight was awful. I think part of the appeal is the unserious nature stealth and combat elements, paired with a fun story & varied environments. Recommend.
January 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just finished the new Indiana Jones game, enjoyed it after a slow start, though that last boss fight was awful. I think part of the appeal is the unserious nature stealth and combat elements, paired with a fun story & varied environments. Recommend.
I have no idea why anyone would chose to work in the UAE. For a start how is slander a criminal offense.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Craig Ballentine: 'Christmas miracle' of man detained in Dubai over Google review
Craig Ballentine has landed in Dublin after being detained in the United Arab Emirates since October.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2024 at 1:41 PM
I have no idea why anyone would chose to work in the UAE. For a start how is slander a criminal offense.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Honestly, the Let's Encrypt folks don't get nearly enough credit for basically protecting the entire fucking internet, by making it absolute bog standard to encrypt everything. It happened so fast and so many people were skeptical.
VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists...
We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone.
Man-in-the-middle attacks on Public WiFi networks haven't been a realistic threat in a decade. Almost all websites use encryption by default, and anything of value uses HSTS to prevent attackers from downgrading / disabling encryption. It's a non issue.
December 20, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Honestly, the Let's Encrypt folks don't get nearly enough credit for basically protecting the entire fucking internet, by making it absolute bog standard to encrypt everything. It happened so fast and so many people were skeptical.
Catching up on the Game Awards... #Witcher4 trailer has me really excited, the previous incarnations are some of my favourite games ever.
December 14, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Catching up on the Game Awards... #Witcher4 trailer has me really excited, the previous incarnations are some of my favourite games ever.
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Erk. Just seen adventofcode.com day 4 challenge. I have no clue about how to approach this :/
Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Erk. Just seen adventofcode.com day 4 challenge. I have no clue about how to approach this :/