Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸
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Dad, husband, ultrarunner, Chief Technical Evangelist at @Backblaze. Previously @Citrix, @StreamSets, @SalesforceDevs, @Huawei, @SunMicrosystems.
SF Bay Area, California, USA
Joined April 2007
If you’re on @bluesky, you can find me there at https://t.co/2wvL9oL3j6 - come say hi!
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Are you getting the full picture of how your cloud storage is being accessed? #BackblazeB2 now offers Bucket Access Logs—a powerful feature that delivers detailed records of every access request to your data. Join me next Wednesday and learn how to query these logs for insights,
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Why does @awscloud hate C++? Most of the AWS SDKs have supported overriding the endpoint URL via the AWS_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable for about two YEARS now, but still no sign of C++ support! https://t.co/r5CpYSU0rv
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Congratulations to @Sammy_Sidhu and Eventual on their funding round. I've been giving @daftengine, their distributed data engine, a spin recently - great stuff! Expect a post on the @backblaze blog soon on how to access Apache Iceberg tables stored in #BackblazeB2 from Daft
Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others. The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted. 🧵
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Handy cheat sheet for configuring CORS for #BackblazeB2 buckets, from @Ziberna
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A step-by-step guide to configuring Backblaze B2 buckets for seamless browser uploads in your SaaS application.
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Stuck for pressie ideas? @backblaze has you covered!
It's a funky year for holiday scheduling this go-round, but never fear: the Backblaze Gift Guide will get you ahead of the game. Snag the latest recommendations from the Backblaze team and focus on the fun 🔥➡️ https://t.co/bzRWUDKsN4
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If you’re on @bluesky, you can find me there at https://t.co/2wvL9oL3j6 - come say hi!
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So the brain worm serial cheater who decapitated a whale & dumped a dead bear is gonna be in charge of our nation’s health and the chick who shot her dog and her goat and lied about meeting with Kim Jong Un is gonna be in charge of our homeland security. We are living The Onion.
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Doctors said it was “inevitable” that Josseli Barnica would miscarry — yet they waited 40 hours to treat her under Texas’ abortion ban. Days later, Barnica died. https://t.co/DjlAKrHwlN
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1. I've found a large, AI-driven bot network on X which is posting in support of Trump in the US election. Thread.
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Without saying anything, show me how long you’ve been on the internet
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.@Backblaze customer @DecartAI emerged from stealth mode last week, announcing Oasis, their playable, realtime, open-world AI model. I love this quote from their CEO, @DLeitersdorf, in our blog post: "B2 Cloud Storage was literally the only technical thing we used in training
How do you build an AI model 10x more efficient than Sora? Guessing Decart won't tell you all the secrets, but we can tell you how Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage helped. Today, we're sharing how @decartAI used @backblaze to launch their Oasis model.🔥➡️ https://t.co/gcNKszGpM2
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Thread of before and after photos 🧵 1. Chichen Itza in 1892 and now
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Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future. https://t.co/oe7XpUkSoT
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This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala
Trump on Liz Cheney: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
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Poppy vs. Community Notes 🧵 An updated thread. 1. How it all started
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