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Karen Haberkorn @khaberkorn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Wooot! #AWS Security Agent is one of three "frontier" agents AWS released today at #re:Invent: www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/ama... -- check it out for #security reviews of your designs and code and on-demand penetration testing.

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AWS unveils frontier agents, a new class of AI agents that work as an extension of your software development team

The first three frontier agents revolutionize how you build, secure, and operate software

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 02/12/2025

Proud to be involved in building this. Looking forward to customer feedback!

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 13/07/2025

37k feet in the air is a great time to get a text message informing me my connecting flight is cancelled. They rebooked me two days out, on the day I'm supposed to return home..

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 28/06/2025

I know @joshgondelman.bsky.social mostly from NPR's Wait Wait and @thebugle.bsky.social, both of which are news-heavy, so it's cool to see him knock out a very positive yet relentless funny hour that doesn't get into the minutia of the day's headlines. Worth a watch!

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 24/06/2025

This will pair well with my current read of John McWhorter's "Pronoun Trouble"

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Karen Haberkorn @khaberkorn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This re:Inforce launch includes a valuable new capability in AWS Organizations, multi-party approval. Integrated here with AWS Backup for recovery use cases, the feature requires authorized people to approve a specific action. Very cool! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWSreinforce

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AWS Backup launches Multi-party approval support for logically air-gapped vaults - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Backup launches Multi-party approval support for logically air-gapped vaults

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brigidjohnson.bsky.social @brigidjohnson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Do you have an S3 bucket or DDB table with your companies crown jewels? 👑💎 Now IAM Access Analyzer tells you all the users and roles in your organization that have access to them gems. 🧵 (1/8)

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Karen Haberkorn @khaberkorn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So excited for this launch! AWS IAM Access Analyzer now offers an internal access analyzer, so you can easily identify whom within your organization has access to resources that contain critical data. Check it out: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWSreinforce

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IAM Access Analyzer now identifies who in your AWS organization can access your AWS resources - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with IAM Access Analyzer now identifies who in your AWS organization can access your AWS resources

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 12/06/2025

AWS Verified Permissions finally got a sensible pricing scheme, at $5 per million requests (down from $150/million!). This makes it a much more viable solution for permissions management.. Will need to explore this! aws-news.com/article/2025...

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Amazon Verified Permissions reduces authorization request price by up to 97%

Amazon Verified Permissions dramatically reduces authorization request pricing by up to 97% to $5 per million API requests, making fine-grained authorization m...

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 30/04/2025

In Minneapolis for the first time - good 10km run that crossed the Mississippi a few times

Man in running gear taking a selfie with a bridge going over the Mississippi River in the background

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 21/04/2025

The Phaaaantom of the chocolate is there.....

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 12/04/2025

The best part of this was that I could absolutely hear Alice's voice and cadence while reading it. Come to Canada, we're cool!

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 21/03/2025

Guess who was transferring through LHR today… 🔥

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cμʁᴉƨ @evilalien.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

IT travel protocol for the US is now China-adjacent.

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

No Fucks Left to Give Trudeau is the best Trudeau

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 06/03/2025

Just finished listening to @thebugle.bsky.social . @zaltzcricket.bsky.social, on behalf of Vancouver, I apologize for our dogs. They’re not antisemetic, they just hate people good at @taskmaster.tv . Which means that @mrnishkumar.bsky.social is safe when he’s here later this month :)

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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In a Truth Social post about the call, Trump says Trudeau “is trying to use this issue to stay in power.” (The Liberal Party elects a new leader on Sunday and Trudeau has said he will step down soon after. It won’t be Trudeau who calls the next election)

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

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Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech

YouTube video by CNN

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/02/2025

The only good thing happening.

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 16/02/2025

Just finished listening to the audiobook of "Not the End of the World" by @hannahritchie.bsky.social. Inspiring and positive, with real calls to action. For anyone currently feeling down from *gestures around at everything*, it's worth a read (or listen).

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 05/02/2025

"Canada reduces fentanyl flow by 33% thanks to Trump's efforts" - a bunch of people probably

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Babe, wake up, the menswear guy is dropping lore about the Cowichan sweater

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 04/02/2025

This is like the old joke about the British police not carrying guns. "Stop, or I'll yell stop again!"

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Aaron Parecki @aaronpk.com · 04/02/2025

At long last, the OAuth working group has finished the Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security and it was just published as RFC9700! This has been a long time in the works, and I'm very thankful to everyone who has helped out with it over the years! www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9700....

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RFC 9700: Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security

This document describes best current security practice for OAuth 2.0. It updates and extends the threat model and security advice given in RFCs 6749, 6750, and 6819 to incorporate practical experience...

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HyveMynd @hyvemynd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Okay, look. My general feeling is that the NYT can eat shit, but holy fucking shit. This is unbelievable. Elon Musk, a private citizen with financial and personal interests above the federal government, is effectively running the US government without any kind of oversight. What. The. Fuck.

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 02/02/2025

I know it's likely not original, but I just thought of the term "Canschluss", did a very brief giggle, then got sad.🇨🇦

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 29/01/2025

The DeepSeek market freakout as applied to Amazon: “OH SHIT—wait, model training is a rounding error to their revenue, never mind.”

A stock graph for AMZN showing an extreme dip yesterday before completely recovering almost instantly

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/01/2025

Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The problem, ultimately, is that people seem to think categories are real things, things that exist in nature. And they aren't. NATURE exists in nature. Any finer distinction is something that we draw - and we have to decide where to draw it.

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 10/01/2025

Of the 58 books I read last year, I'd say 55 of them were from the library...

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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Christy Clark is no more a Liberal than Stephen Harper.

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 03/01/2025

Let me check with Betteridge...

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 02/01/2025

Guess I should go out for a run..

Registration confirmation for the Whistler Half Marathon

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/12/2024

I am frequently asked what is the "best" way for people to buy my work so that the most money gets to me, enough so that I've finally written a primer about it to point people toward, and it also covers my opinions re: libraries, used bookstores and pirating: whatever.scalzi.com/2024/12/30/a...

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Acquiring My Work: A Primer

Several times a month I get an email or social media message from someone who wants to know what the “best” way to buy my work is so that I, the writer, get as much of their money as po…

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 30/12/2024

Tired: We must beat China at social media apps Wired: We must catch China at rail travel

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 26/12/2024

Advanced OAuth Security complete!

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 23/12/2024

Just over halfway through @zekefaux.bsky.social's "Number Go Up" - came into with a dislike of crypto because of the people, the obvious environmental impacts, and the clear house-of-cards aspect. Even with that, this is an awesome read that really plumbs the depths of how screwed up the system is.

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Chris @chrissimmons.ca · 22/12/2024

Still a better plot than "The Red One"

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

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