Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens. Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays. Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.

Excellent keynote by @abangser.bsky.social at #KubeCon | #CloudNativeCon 👏 . I think the following slide really nails down what good looks like and gives a solid direction for people involved in IDPs! If you missed it it's worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmAf...

Good reminder about the role of humans in an AI-Powered World by B. Schneier: "The enduring role for humans lies in making judgements, especially when values come into conflict. We can imagine machines will help; But the fundamental value judgments will likely remain our domain." #AI is a tool 😉

Reminder ⚠️ NGINX Ingress on #Kubernetes is being deprecated and best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026! kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11...

Good reminder by @ramimac.me about sins of security vendor research: - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt - False Novelty - Correlation, not Causation (statistical sins) - Selling Out to Marketing "When marketing content couches itself in research’s reputation, credibility 📉" ramimac.me/security-ven...

This feels a bit like a slide towards an attempt to ban VPNs. Sure while we're at it let's also ban encryption 🙈 www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/20...

Another amazing episode of @pragmaticengineer.com with Chris Lattner worth watching! "Optimising for an LLM is not the right thing at all, because the important things is reading the code. Code is read much more than it's written - key thing it's about reading it." 💭 youtu.be/Fxp3131i1yE?...

Oh, that a useful addition and also comes as a opt-in for #AWS Control Tower configuration! Landing zone >3.1 can opt in to this feature by toggling the automatically enrol accounts flag in their Landing Zone settings or using the Create or UpdateLandingZone APIs 🚀 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

If only anyone could have predicted this would happen 🙃 Good principle to live by and build your systems with: "The cybersecurity community has long lived by a simple principle: Don't collect more data than you can protect." 😉 www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

didnt realise this

That makes total sense 🫠 🙈

AWS just launched "AWS Capabilities by Region" - arguably one of their best named products in years. It interactively shows which services and APIs are available, planned, and NOT planned for a region. A very welcome addition to service transparency! aws-news.com/article/2025...

There is a specific serenity in the air tonight. Not sure if it's because finally all the fireworks stopped, or just another murky autumn evening 😜

If you missed @kcduk.bsky.social Edinburgh 2025, all the recordings are on YouTube! It was awesome event with amazing talks and people 🚀 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Good write-up by Rob, highlighting key takeaways from DX report: - Non-AI bottlenecks still dominate - AI is an accelerator, not a universal fix Also a good reminder about this: "Automation amplifies efficiencies, but it also does the same for inefficiencies!"

A good reminder to stay on top with patching and updates! It's not a new CVE, but seems it's still catching quite a lot of people and it's used in the wild. I really hope you're not running unpatched #Linux kernel versions from 3.15 to 6.8-rc1 😉 #security www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

I really hope this is going to be opt-in, but also looks like it's going to allow access to a lot of information with quite a potential for misuse or more advertising 🙈 www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/...

Auch 💸 and that's going to be tough to turn around into a profitable business soon.

Microsoft 365 and Azure suffer outages; users report problems accessing sites and services, and the company says it is investigating (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Fedora #Linux 43 was released with some significant changes 🚀: - GNOME 49 without X11 support - RPM 6.0 including #security improvements - Deprecating MBR support (only UEFI) - /boot partition has been bumped up to 2 GiB More: fedoramagazine.org/announcing-f...

You can set and enforce release/tag immutability in @github.com to improve #security 🔐 github.blog/changelog/20...

Good representation how lot of people feel about #AI being forced everywhere 🫠 There are good use cases for it, but stop shoving it in every possible product 😜

Great stance and living up to your values 👏

It's getting dark really quickly now🔅, and clock change doesn't really help either 😜 #WinterTime

Really great write-up on the recent #AWS outage by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com outlining the chain of events, and what might be left out of the post mortem 😜 It also reveals internal service dependencies, which you might not be aware of! blog.pragmaticengineer.com/aws-outage-u...

In the time of abundance of data it seems there is a general trend to decrease the accuracy of searched information, rather than increasing it 😞 Also not to even mention the #security and other impacts...

In the time of abundance of data it seems there is a general trend to decrease the accuracy of searched information, rather than increasing it 😞 Also not to even mention the #security and other impacts...

Had an amazing time at @kcduk.bsky.social💙Great talks, awesome energy, and even better people - loved catching up with old friends and meeting so many new ones from across the #Kubernetes and #CloudNative community. Thanks organisers for such a lovely event & looking forward to the next one!🚀 #KCDUK

Something to keep an eye out if you're using MinIO! That wasn't a nice move from their end and should at least give #OpenSource community some heads-up 😞

Great way of starting Day 2 @kcduk.bsky.social with @lianmakesthings.bsky.social quoting this gem: "APIs deprecate, but being human doesn't"! Also awesome re-acting AI interaction between @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social and @matts.net 😂

And we're off with @denhamparry.co.uk trying his gaelic at #KCDUK 😅 @kcduk.bsky.social

All cleared up on - on both ends 😜

Slack also affected, time for a short break? 🙃

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

That's a great feature and expands what you can already do with #AWS ALBs! 🚀

With everyone chasing the current #AI hype, this seems like a valid question: "Are schools equipped to produce creative thinkers – or is the education system going to churn out mindless, AI - essay writing drones?" 🙄

There are currently 16 data centers in Scotland. They use enough tap water to fill 27 million bottles per year. And that number has quadrupled in just four years. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Future is bright 🙃🫠

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I swear the things AWS manages to squeeze out of their data centers should be classified as black magic. You can now create instant copies of EBS volumes with single-digit millisecond latency. Sounds simple - but this is an amazing feat of engineering. aws-news.com/article/2025...

Congrats @crossplane.io moving their @cncf.bsky.social Graduation application for Public review 👏 github.com/cncf/toc/iss... github.com/cncf/toc/pul...

If running Framework, ⚠️ make sure to patch: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

Two announcements which might be relevant if you're running workloads in #AWS - EKS supports latest #Kubernetes version 1.34 and notifications if reaching Service Quotas (automatic action to raise it will be added later too) 🚀 More: * aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... * aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Not very practical, but can reduce cots by 99% when moving data around and quite cool thought experiment: www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashi... Thanks for sharing @quinnypig.com 👏

Really enjoyed a gorgeous day in the sun 😎

Worth a watch, @kelseyhightower.com sharing his views on containers and where tech is going, as well as great takes on #AI 👏

Totally unexpected 🙃 I wonder if we're already seeing the signs 🤔 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

After the initial deprecation of some services...ahem, CodeCommit 🙃 #AWS has a page announcing deprecations now: aws.amazon.com/products/lif... They've updated it yesterday with 19 services and capabilities moving to maintenance, and 4 moving to sunset ⚠️ - most not very popular ones, but still 😉