Christopher Brown

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Sr Principal Engineer at Amazon Mechatronics. Seattleite, Buddhist, Father, Husband, Francophile. Erstwhile Londoner and Montanan. All opinions expressed here are personal only and not reflective of nor endorsed by my employer.
GITHUBhttps://github.com/skeptomai
Antwerp by night
#photography #fotografie
Palestinian protest in Trafalgar Square yesterday
Your own Boston Dynamics-style robot powered by Raspberry Pi? My review of the @elecfreaks CM4 Robot Dog -> https://youtu.be/dfTHDAEYVEA?si=Q2Yix-2L39C8uoDg
Review of the Elecfreaks CM4 XGO Robot Dog kit with Raspberry Pi Compute Module

YouTube
My friend Josh graciously making a Wes Anderson moment possible #Photography #Photos #Portrait
Everyone should read this article in the wake of SVB and concerns about Credit Suisse https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/banking-in-very-uncertain-times/
Banking in very uncertain times

We may be in the early stages of a banking crisis: why, what we're doing to avoid it, and what we may not get about it.

Bits about Money
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." -Carl Sagan
Please stop planning conferences, workshops, and events in states where pregnant people cannot safely travel

In light of everyone finding out today that New York State is removing mask requirements in hospitals and healthcare settings in two days.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/09/new-york-to-drop-masking-requirements-00082179

New York to drop masking requirements in hospitals, health care facilities

State officials will allow an emergency Covid rule requiring masks in health care facilities to lapse on Feb. 12.

POLITICO

If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2

If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!

DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to maintain and streamline the operation of our own Mastodon infrastructure (servers, official resources) and help us scale with demand.

Divination by latte foam. What’s today’s prediction? In this foam, I see a woman of Victorian high society, with hat, broad dress skirts and a walking stick / umbrella