Ron Korving
@ronkorving.bsky.social
From the Netherlands, living in Tokyo, Japan.
Opinions my own. Reskeets not necessarily endorsements. He/him.
Interests: software development, data, AWS, chess, freedom and independence for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Opinions my own. Reskeets not necessarily endorsements. He/him.
Interests: software development, data, AWS, chess, freedom and independence for Ukraine 🇺🇦
So… this just happened 🤷♂️
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December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So… this just happened 🤷♂️
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Hey Siri, what is the most on-the-nose metaphor for the polycrisis situation of the current era?
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Hey Siri, what is the most on-the-nose metaphor for the polycrisis situation of the current era?
A sad state of affairs over at @github.com. I love GitHub, but to some, the enshittification is very real and should not be ignored.
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Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
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Zig Programming Language
ziglang.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A sad state of affairs over at @github.com. I love GitHub, but to some, the enshittification is very real and should not be ignored.
ziglang.org/news/migrati...
ziglang.org/news/migrati...
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⚡️ US threatening to cut intelligence, weapons to pressure Ukraine into new peace deal, Reuters reports.
Washington is pushing Kyiv to approve the framework of the deal by Nov. 27, coinciding with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
Washington is pushing Kyiv to approve the framework of the deal by Nov. 27, coinciding with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
US threatening to cut intelligence, weapons to pressure Ukraine into new peace deal, Reuters reports
Washington is pushing Kyiv to approve the framework of the deal by Nov. 27, coinciding with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, one of the sources told Reuters.
kyivindependent.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
⚡️ US threatening to cut intelligence, weapons to pressure Ukraine into new peace deal, Reuters reports.
Washington is pushing Kyiv to approve the framework of the deal by Nov. 27, coinciding with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
Washington is pushing Kyiv to approve the framework of the deal by Nov. 27, coinciding with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
There’s a special place in hell for people who leave stickers on their baseball caps.
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
There’s a special place in hell for people who leave stickers on their baseball caps.
@ryanmcbeth.bsky.social Please do a video on the Trump magnet thing 🙏
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
@ryanmcbeth.bsky.social Please do a video on the Trump magnet thing 🙏
Tamaki Kouji is a once in a lifetime talent. The only artist that comes close is Freddie Mercury.
He’s not some “the Japanese Freddie”. No. He’s just right up there.
He’s not some “the Japanese Freddie”. No. He’s just right up there.
October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tamaki Kouji is a once in a lifetime talent. The only artist that comes close is Freddie Mercury.
He’s not some “the Japanese Freddie”. No. He’s just right up there.
He’s not some “the Japanese Freddie”. No. He’s just right up there.
That came out nicely today 😂
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October 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
That came out nicely today 😂
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Living on the edge. Having a milk sour.
October 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Living on the edge. Having a milk sour.
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We can learn that people love to ignore opportunity costs
Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?
The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest
Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?
www.newscientist.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We can learn that people love to ignore opportunity costs
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The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
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Remember when record labels bankrupted teenagers for downloading Metallica?
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Remember when record labels bankrupted teenagers for downloading Metallica?
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"Alexa, show me the most bullshit AWS IAM permission in the world."
August 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Alexa, show me the most bullshit AWS IAM permission in the world."
I love this. At least they’re doing something useful.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I love this. At least they’re doing something useful.
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National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
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⚡️Pentagon has quietly barred Ukrainian long-range strikes in Russia with US missiles, WSJ reports.
Pentagon has quietly barred Ukrainian long-range strikes in Russia with US missiles, WSJ reports
The U.S. has quietly implemented a review process giving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authority to approve Ukrainian long-range strikes inside Russia with American missiles, effectively blocking str...
kyivindependent.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
⚡️Pentagon has quietly barred Ukrainian long-range strikes in Russia with US missiles, WSJ reports.
For some reason, YouTube subs generate the word “heat” a whole lot. Not sure yet why.
August 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
For some reason, YouTube subs generate the word “heat” a whole lot. Not sure yet why.
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⚡️'Alaska opposes tyranny!' — Pro-Ukraine rally planned ahead of Trump-Putin summit in US.
The rally, scheduled for Aug. 14 in Anchorage, is being held to protest the "presence of an international war criminal" and as a show of solidarity with Ukraine, Stand Up Alaska said.
The rally, scheduled for Aug. 14 in Anchorage, is being held to protest the "presence of an international war criminal" and as a show of solidarity with Ukraine, Stand Up Alaska said.
'Alaska opposes tyranny!' — Pro-Ukraine rally planned ahead of Trump-Putin summit in US
The rally, scheduled for Aug. 14 in Anchorage, is being held to protest the "presence of an international war criminal" and as a show of solidarity with Ukraine, Stand Up Alaska said.
kyivindependent.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
⚡️'Alaska opposes tyranny!' — Pro-Ukraine rally planned ahead of Trump-Putin summit in US.
The rally, scheduled for Aug. 14 in Anchorage, is being held to protest the "presence of an international war criminal" and as a show of solidarity with Ukraine, Stand Up Alaska said.
The rally, scheduled for Aug. 14 in Anchorage, is being held to protest the "presence of an international war criminal" and as a show of solidarity with Ukraine, Stand Up Alaska said.
Jesus H. Christ. @awscloud.bsky.social just can't leave well enough alone with their news feed. What's with this mega font and the 2 columns? This is *not* easier to read, so why do it?
August 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Jesus H. Christ. @awscloud.bsky.social just can't leave well enough alone with their news feed. What's with this mega font and the 2 columns? This is *not* easier to read, so why do it?
AWS dropped so many balls here, they now have negative balls.
Amazon Q shipped a feature where a rando hacker told it to run aws iam delete-user, and AWS said “Sure thing, pal!”
They caught it only because a journalist asked.
This isn’t “move fast and break things," it's “move fast and let strangers write your roadmap.”
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
They caught it only because a journalist asked.
This isn’t “move fast and break things," it's “move fast and let strangers write your roadmap.”
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...
Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities - Last Week in AWS Blog
Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. To break it down into its simplest form: A hacker submitted a PR. It got merged. It told Amazon Q to nuke your computer and ...
www.lastweekinaws.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
AWS dropped so many balls here, they now have negative balls.
Zoom will do a trillion video calls a day without breaking a sweat. But don't try and load their release notes. Slowest webpage on the internet: support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...
Release notes for the Zoom Workplace app
Zoom provides up-to-date release notes for the Zoom Workplace app on all supported platforms: Windows,
support.zoom.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Zoom will do a trillion video calls a day without breaking a sweat. But don't try and load their release notes. Slowest webpage on the internet: support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...