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@paulmilbank

Lifelong learner, husband and father, computer tinkerer, SRE. Love road cycling and cooking BBQ.

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Knowing no F1 anything, it sounds like a fun drink. You need to come into the pits, finish your regulation colapinto and rejoin the race.

08.03.2026 18:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An older man and woman posing for a Metlifecare brochure, clearly AI. The man has a massive hand with at least two thumbs

An older man and woman posing for a Metlifecare brochure, clearly AI. The man has a massive hand with at least two thumbs

Would love to go to the open day for Metlifecare to meet the man with a hand so large, it has at least two thumbs. He has a hand like an alien facehugger, who makes this and then goes, yep, good enough, and sends it out?

27.01.2026 05:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sometimes there is joy in amongst the doom scrolling

26.01.2026 10:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, of the two, execution foundations is the slightly less horrifying option.

06.01.2026 22:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sorry, I did wonder if it was too dark.

06.01.2026 22:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The first one definitely sounds like it should have final solutions architects

06.01.2026 21:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The octopus execution team?

06.01.2026 21:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I give my stamp of approval to Elton John pug.

14.12.2025 19:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Actually, it seems I'm wrong. AWS document DB doesn't use DynamoDB on the backend.

25.11.2025 02:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seems pretty close. Not the same tech, but AWS Document DB is a Mongo compatible API over Dynamo DB. So same name, very similar feature set, more confusion when trying to find documentation online

25.11.2025 02:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well at least it is named the same as the exact same product in AWS now

25.11.2025 02:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Huh, I thought it was closed at the moment around the bottom of St Kents. It's my preferred way to get out of East Auckland on the bike because Pak highway is a nightmare.

16.11.2025 10:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We finally got rid of it. Thought the parental controls were set and kids were only talking to friends. Turns out that was not the case.

05.11.2025 18:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mid is exactly the word for it. Samsung have put out a couple of AI adverts for their quantum dot TV tech and it just feels like they couldn't find a director or actors who cared enough to make the adverts. So they shrugged and an exec threw AI at it for an afternoon

19.10.2025 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finally. This is such a needed improvement. Needing to manage 2 sets of creds per service to use RDS proxy was a bit crap

13.09.2025 01:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Amazon RDS Proxy announces support for end-to-end IAM authentication Amazon RDS Proxy now supports end-to-end IAM authentication for Aurora and RDS database instances, simplifying credential management and enhancing connection security without requiring Secrets Manager.

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports end-to-end IAM authentication for Aurora and RDS database instances, simplifying credential management and enhancing connection security without requiring Secrets Manager.

12.09.2025 22:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So it was you! I listened to a sheriff in a press conference today say "noticed bulge capital OWO" because of you๐Ÿคฃ

12.09.2025 20:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Feel the same way on the bike trainer in the garage. There must be some kind of time distortion field that kicks in around certain exercises

25.08.2025 20:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sam Altman Responds to Bunnies on Trampoline
Sam Altman Responds to Bunnies on Trampoline YouTube video by Cleo Abram

That's exactly it, describes him perfectly. Saw this interview clip with him and it fits that vibe exactly. youtube.com/shorts/JjNGk.... On AI images and figuring out what is real: Don't worry about it, just accept that you will be in an AI Dreamworld where you can't tell fact from fiction

21.08.2025 19:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I heard a lot of people say inference costs were going to go down. But the loans the top AI companies have now are so monumental that if inference costs decrease all that happens is the CFO might stop walking up in a cold sweat one less night a month. It's unlikely they can pass that savings along.

20.08.2025 19:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Throw TFS on the awful pile too. Git is one of the first tools that goes on any of my laptops.

14.08.2025 22:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I live that in the grand after photo it's still sitting over the old mechanics building and the gas station. Really grounds it.

06.08.2025 00:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We may not have brand name data centers, and our IP over ovine carrier tech was admittedly inferior to the avian carrier version but we won't let you besmirch our above average broadband speeds

22.07.2025 20:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just give me another 6 hours to come up with a witty reply, then you will see...

22.07.2025 19:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why is NZ catching strays here? Our fibre being faster than Australia is one of the main things we have to brag about. I hope you are prepared for an onslaught of speed test pics

22.07.2025 19:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, doing that out the hard way going the other direction from iPhone to Android. Thankfully it was only a handful of 2fa codes. If you use Whatsapp, read the instructions for migration first.

20.07.2025 06:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is so bleak and dystopian

02.07.2025 02:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awesome, I thought it was the 25th for some reason. Bring on longer days and more sunlight

20.06.2025 22:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh my gosh, it's actually called liquid glass ๐Ÿฅฒ

09.06.2025 19:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We shall call it aero glass, that seems like a cool name

09.06.2025 19:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0