Fix is coming, as per the attached conversation with an AWS WAF PM.

FYI: just 11 days left to send your talk proposals for AWS Community Day Romania!

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Person 1: so cloud is somebody else's computer/data-center the same way a dildo is someone else's penis. you know, technically true but so not true — we have glow-in-the-dark ones and dragons and all that

Person 2: oh, it's an evolving definition — like the camembert and brie thing!

Me:

"C'mon, with the ever-present hero syndrome and with the military language overuse are you really surprised that DevOps has many similarities to the Military Industrial Complex!?!"

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"No Vlad, don't get a hair transplant! You're at the perfect mid-way point: with that one outfit you look like a college freshman and with that other outfit you look like a middle-age dad 😍 You're hot for both people with daddy issues and for people without daddy issues!"

"Nortel is a good example of this" said Vlad to the room before seeing a bunch of confused faces

The fking Universe sided with them 🤦

After posting this, I wanted to pour myself a glass of wine as a reward aaaaaand the bottle got evil — it gave me a facial and sprayed me with a bunch of wine. Now I gotta shower again to wash the wine off 😠

Maybe me getting older in 2024 is not so bad

Thank you! (Image source: Mastodon)

Incestuous Silicon Valley companies discovering the horrifying implications of inbreeding continues to remain a hilarious thing to watch 🤣

TL;DR: in this latest episode, AI/ML assistants are getting destroyed by the real market.

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KEYNOTE NOW SUPPORTS SVGs!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL KEYNOTE NOW SUPPORTS SVGs! NO MORE EXPORTING TO PDF JUST FOR KEYNOTE!

In adulting news: I spent 45 minutes trying to figure out if a soap I bought is actually soap or not.

After checking the official website (the US, UK, RO, and ES versions) and multiple other sources I still did not reach a conclusion and I am waiting for a cosmetics expert to get back to me.

AWS' April 2023 stats, as per the still-not-public-I-am-sorry-about-it OtherSecretProject.

I don't have a word count for the full report cause it's not 100% ready yet 😅 But hey, at least now we know that the video and Q&A variants do not work.

This is ridiculously bright ☀️

Blue-ish skies today 🌤️

Mandatory blue sky photo

I want this to be a positive place, so timeline cleanser after my previous ranty post!