"Amazon Web Services … is by and large an ethical organization." I can't help but wonder at the proliferation of open source software companies who have relicensed their product specifically to prevent AWS just SaaSifying it with no contributions back to the original project.
RT @timbray@twitter.com
Friday was my last day at Amazon: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon
[Server’s running a little hot but give it time, it’ll come through.]
New breach: Indian marketplace Elanic had 2.3M email addresses breached & posted to a hacking forum. Elanic verified the data but advised they will "not have as such any communication and public disclosure" to customers. 56% were already in @haveibeenpwned https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Communism and the World: Karl Narx and His Legacy. Lecture by Dr. A. James McAdams. Wednesday, May 6, 2020 4:30 PM 5:30 PM
https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/events/karl-marx-and-his-legacy
Problem Solving or Political Theatre?
https://www.climatestrikeleicester.org/post/why-is-climate-activism-so-alienating
Closure of zero-emission #nuclear power plants is good business for environmental apparently:
"The state of New York, together with the environmental group Riverkeeper, which had waged a legal battle to shut down the plant (...) that the deal created a $15 million fund for community and environmental projects and that Riverkeeper believes it is due half of that"
Russian 9 may posters have a long history of blunders caused by graphic designers who are used to just copy & paste whatever comes first in search engine. They have already celebrated Americans from Okinawa, Wehrmacht and now it's time for a Finnish solder (Finland was attacked by USSR in 1939 but was able to push back).
Co-author of XML spec, Timy Bray quits Amazon,calling the company "chickenshit" for firing striking workers.
@kravietz Amazon is getting a bad track record with #covid19. They also recently packed job applicants into a small job fair venue during the pandemic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/amazon-s-hiring-spree-followed-no-special-coronavirus-precautions
Tim Bray: "May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at #Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19"
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon
Starting a new service and considering #ipv6? It's a good practice to go IPv6 for a number of reasons:1) IPv4 is exhausted, 2) IPv6 offers much better privacy thanks to the client address rotation, 3) IPv6 greatly simplifies P2P, 4) slightly better performance & latency
"In fact, the British were locking themselves down days before the government finally accepted the realities of the pandemic. We did so because one aspect of human behaviour remains predictable: we don’t want to die."
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.