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

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.

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 […]

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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?

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)

The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ… From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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

Oops 😬

Forgot I drew this one. Deeply pleased with it tbh

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

I'm dead 🤣😅

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)

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...

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.

Making Tea xkcd.com/3022