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Rob: “My hobby is to discover interesting filmmakers. This is even more important to me than finding a good role. So I read all the movie reviews, watch every new trailer and study the lists of the film festival.”

Goldene Kamera 2017
#RobertPattinson #quotes #film #filmmaker #hobby

It's about time I'm doing an #introduction . I'm a software developer, previously in video games for 20 years (worked on Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto V), now at Google. I'm also a #filmmaker on the side every now and then.

Hobbies? #photography #scuba diving, obstacle races like #toughmudder and #spartanrace , #marathon #running , #android, #softwaredevelopment , #parenting.

Let's grow this place.

Just before the invasion, #Ukraine made a deal with #Amazon #AWS to create a data warehouse for its government information and infrastructure: tax and property records, bank statements, and the like. Things that an invaded and occupied Ukraine might lose if Russia got their hands on the only copies.

They literally snuck Pelican crates full of SSDs into the country and spirited them back offshore after backing up 10 petabytes of important historic and legal records.

This paragraph, second from the end, really put a fine point on why Amazon did this: They were not beholden to, nor being held hostage by, any Russian operations...because they never had any:

Amazon didn’t have to worry about its relationship with Russia on the Snowball project. It doesn’t have one. “We didn’t have anything to turn off there,” Maxwell said. “We had never invested there. It’s a point of principle.”

Truly an amazing story from the #LATimes.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data