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September 24, 2024A Coder PSA
A quick update from Chris on where the show is at this week, and what to watch out for next week!
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September 18, 2024588: Hulk Smash “PUNY DEVS”
The insidious undercurrents threatening to crush open-source AI projects, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's "big changes" to Windows post-CrowdStrike.
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Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
— "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said
California’s AI Bill Threatens To Derail Open-Source Innovation
— While proponents tout amendments made "in direct response to" concerns voiced by "the open source community," critics of the bill argue that it would crush the development of open-source AI models.
Mark Ruffalo on X
— My open letter to Gov @GavinNewsom on CA’s #SB1047: the AI regulation we need to get ahead of the risks.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google employees support California AI bill
— California's SB 1047 has passed both the State Assembly and Senate and now sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, awaiting his signature or veto by Sep. 30.
OpenAI Says California’s Controversial AI Bill Will Hurt Innovation
— The startup wrote a letter to California State Senator Scott Wiener opposing the legislation.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman leaves safety committee
— Other members include Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, retired US Army General and former NSA chief Paul Nakasone, and former Sony general counsel Nicole Seligman.
Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident
— There’s no talk of locking down the Windows kernel just yet, but Microsoft clearly wants to move endpoint security systems out of there.
Finalement, nos téléphones pourraient bel et bien nous écouter - YouTube
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September 11, 2024587: Surfing the WSL Wave
Our thoughts on the iPhone 16, and then Mike surfs the WSL wave.
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The Biden administration launches its second big attack on Google - POLITICO
— The DOJ is expressly seeking to break up the company, a feat not attempted since its case against Microsoft in the early 2000s, and not successful since the historic dismantling of AT&T in the early 1980s.
Apple Announces iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with Larger Displays, New Camera Control, and More
— The devices are powered by the new A18 Pro chip, made using 2nd-generation 3nm technology. It offers a 16-core Neural Engine with 17% more memory bandwidth, making Apple Intelligence tasks up to 15% faster compared to the previous generation. The 6-core CPU features two performance cores and four efficiency cores, providing 15% faster performance and 20% more efficiency. Additionally, the 6-core GPU is up to 20% faster than the A17 Pro, with hardware-accelerated ray tracing for more realistic lighting in games. Faster USB-C speeds and twice the data processing for video encoding are also supported.
AirPods Max Still Lack H2 Chip Following Minor Update With USB-C Port and New Colors
— Apple first released the AirPods Max in December 2020, so the headphones are nearly four years old and continue to have the H1 chip from 2019.
iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence launches in October, more languages rolling out over time
— Apple did not officially confirm which parts of Apple Intelligence will launch when. Starting in October, we expect the company to debut notification summaries, email summaries, the Reduce Interruptions focus, and Clean Up image editing in Photos.
Rumors indicate that the image generation functionality, like Genmoji and Image Playgrounds, will roll out in December.
Apple’s iPhone 16 AI is useful so far, except when it’s bonkers
— Weird like the time it alerted me that Donald Trump had endorsed Tim Walz for president.
Surfing the WSL Wave - dominickm.com
— With Summer coming to a close I decided to take another surf on the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) wave and in short was not disappointed.
hotshots.dashboard
— A Shiny-powered dashboard summarizing virtual racing league stats!
submissions-pilot4-webR
— Development repository for Pilot 4 WebAssembly Shiny App
Shocking leak suggests your phone really is listening in on your conversations
— An apparent pitch deck from one of Facebook's alleged marketing partner appears to detail how the firm eavesdrops on users' conversations to create targeted ads.
Bombshell leak reveals your phone really might be listening to you – and telling Facebook and Google
1 hr 1 min
September 04, 2024586: Mike's Clone Army
How Mike plans to win the Clone Wars with Dokku, we review some shocking developer data and say goodbye to another project DMCA'd by Apple.
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AWS CEO Says Most Developers Could Stop Coding Soon As AI Takes Over
— "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding," said Garman, who became AWS's CEO in June.
Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes
— Using conditional writes, you can simplify how distributed applications with multiple clients concurrently update data in parallel across shared datasets. Each client can conditionally write objects, making sure that it does not overwrite any objects already written by another client. This means you no longer need to build any client-side consensus mechanisms to coordinate updates or use additional API requests to check for the presence of an object before uploading data.
Syncing Prod & Staging Data With Dokku
— Dokku’s apps:clone command is a fantastic utility that allows you to replicate an entire app, including all code, databases and environment variables.
Study Finds 77% of Employees Report AI Has Increased Their Workload
— The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI's impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees.
Docker Image disappeared · Issue #799
— The DMCA notice
macos: OSX (macOS) inside a Docker container.
— By default, macOS Ventura will be installed. But you can add the VERSION environment variable to your compose file, in order to specify an alternative macOS version to be downloaded
A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project
— Mono had many homes over 23 years, but Wine's repos might be its final stop.
Thank you to all the Mono developers!
Start9
— Opt out by running a private server.
Start9 | Lightning
— The following guide will get you up and running with a lightning node and walk you through opening your first channel.
1 hr 7 min
August 28, 2024585: From Ops to Dev and Back Again
We reflect on the rise of DevOps and the frustrating dynamics that led to it. Plus, tech's latest bright idea: Roombas with attitude.
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iPad Illustration App Procreate Condemns Generative AI
— We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.
Procreate on X
— We’re never going there. Creativity is made, not generated.
You can read more at http://procreate.com/ai ✨
History of DevOps
— The DevOps movement started to coalesce some time between 2007 and 2008, when IT operations and software development communities raised concerns what they felt was a fatal level of dysfunction in the industry.
The Cloud Talent Crisis: Skills Shortage Drives Up Costs, Risks
— Organizations are facing increased cloud costs, risks, and inefficiencies due to a shortage of skilled cloud professionals.
Apple Is Developing a Tabletop Robot for the Home - YouTube
— Apple Inc., seeking new sources of revenue, is moving forward with development of a pricey tabletop home device that combines an iPad-like display with a robotic limb. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports this is part of Apple's bigger move into robotics.
First Plans for Apple's Tabletop Robot Spotted in Supply Chain
Tesla is hiring people to train its Optimus bot via motion capture
— The company is paying people to train its humanoid Optimus bot via motion capture, but the task may require vast amounts of data.
54 min
August 21, 2024584: Google’s Poisoned Apple
The walled garden wrecking ball is fueling up - where we think it strikes first. Plus, what was really behind the recent GitHub outage.
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Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD
— Upton explained of the new Broadcom BCM2712 D0 stepping that it eliminates some dark silicon that goes unused by the Raspberry Pi boards but ultimately impacts the die space/pricing and is now eliminated with this new stepping
Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
— udge James Donato will issue his final order on what Google gives — and Epic gets — in mere weeks.
US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
— This action would mark Washington's first attempt to break up a company for illegal monopolization since the failed bid to dismantle Microsoft two decades ago.
GitHub rolls out AI-powered fixes for code vulnerabilities
— Copilot Autofix, a new addition to the GitHub Advanced Security service, analyzes vulnerabilities in code and offers code suggestions to help developers fix them.
GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself
— "We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services," the source code silo said in an advisory on its status page. "We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back."
GitHub Status - All GitHub services are experiencing significant disruptions
— At 22:59 UTC an erroneous configuration change rolled out to all GitHub.com databases that impacted the ability of the database to respond to health check pings from the routing service. As a result, the routing service could not detect healthy databases to route application traffic to. This led to widespread impact on GitHub.com
Diablo 1 for web browsers
— I've modified the code to remove all dependencies and exposed the minimal required interface with JS, allowing the game to be compiled into WebAssembly.
48 min
August 14, 2024583: A Shekel for Every Click
Apple goes into full crackdown mode and begins to squeeze even more out of developers and creators. Plus, why tiny models are suddenly the rage.
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Ford could be working on a camera system that automatically reports speeding vehicles
— A recent patent filing by Ford titled "Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations" appears to show that the company is looking at a way of automatically snitching on speeding motorists.
In AI, Smaller, Cheaper Models Are Getting Big Attention
— OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are investing in more affordable alternatives to large language models.
What is InstructLab?
— InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications. Created by IBM and Red Hat
InstructLab Demo: Lowering the barrier to AI model development - YouTube
granite-code-models
— Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps
— . Apple is rolling out a change that will require you to give explicit permission on a weekly basis to these types of apps, and every time you reboot your Mac.
macOS Sequoia makes it harder to run apps that don’t follow Apple’s rules
— In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized. They’ll need to visit System Settings > Privacy & Security to review security information for software before allowing it to run.
Apple Requiring Patreon to Use In-App Purchase and Pay 30% Fee for Memberships
— Apple is requiring Patreon to adopt the in-app purchase system, a process that Patreon started at the beginning of the year.
Gergely Orosz on X
— Following news that Apple succeeded in taking 30% from Patreon subscriptions, Substack reveals it's working w Apple for in-app subscriptions. Terrible idea, given it would mean Apple takes 30%, Substack 10%, Stripe 3%: so 43% goes to platforms.
54 min
August 07, 2024582: Intel: It Hurts Inside
We take a look at SeaweedFS, roast Apple Intelligence, and reveal the vendor that caught Intel's mess before it shipped.
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Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case
— udge Amit Mehta ruled in favor of the Department of Justice, writing that Google has maintained a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
Google default search deals break US law, court finds
— "This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people," said Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a statement. “No company – no matter how large or influential – is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws."
Jason Kint on X
— Don't overlook the impact this may have on Apple. Yes, I believe any remedy has to look at forced divestiture of Chrome and Android in addition to killing the exclusive dealing. But if Apple loses its sweetheart deal with Google, it may lose $12B in revenue (mostly profits)
Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
— After losses, the chipmaker is cutting $10 billion in costs.
Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
— Based on this information, we are definitely experiencing CPU failures higher than our historical average, especially with 14th Gen. We have enough data to know that we don’t have an acute problem on the horizon with 13th Gen — it is more of a slow burn
seaweedfs
— SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.
PodcastIndex Dashboard 1.1.0
— rPodcast's Podcast Index Dashboard.
Apple Intelligence Early Preview: In-Call Recording, Safari Summaries, New Siri
— After testing the first beta version of Apple Intelligence myself, I can tell you that the features don’t yet live up to the excitement.
Cabel Sasser - Panic Social
— Apple Intelligence in 15.1 just flagged a phishing email as “Priority” and moved it to the top of my Inbox. This seems… bad
iOS 18: These Apple Intelligence Features Won't Be Ready Until 2025
Forgejo becomes a hard fork of Gitea
— his proposed agreement is the outcome of a discussion where a significant number of active Forgejo contributors agreed it should be a decision that is made in accordance to the decision making process. Once implemented, there is no turning back and it will impact the future of Forgejo as a whole.
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July 31, 2024581: Lunacy Lake
Why is Google feeling lucky, and the Intel situation slips into pure lunacy. Plus, thoughts on the C# Type Union proposal.
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OpenAI on X: "We’re testing SearchGPT"
— We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.
Google’s antitrust defense could benefit from the threat of SearchGPT
— The new risk Google faces from AI challengers could play a role in the ultimate outcome of a landmark antitrust trial where a judge must decide whether the tech giant illegally monopolized online search.
Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage - YouTube
Intel confirms that any Raptor Lake instability damage is permanent, and no, it's not planning a recall
— Microcode patch can't reverse the damage caused by the elevated voltage - only prevent further harm.
CrowdStrike Outage Losses Estimated at a Staggering $5.4B
— Parametrix researchers have found that roughly 25% of Fortune 500 companies experienced disruptions due to the incident, the most heavily affected industries financially being healthcare ($1.94 billion in estimated losses) and banking ($1.15 billion). In addition, a shocking 100% of the transportation and airlines sector was affected, and the group will rack up an estimated $0.86 billion in losses, according to the forecast. The $5.4 billion estimate excludes Microsoft.
Parametrix Analysis.pdf
proposals/TypeUnions.md
— A proposal for type unions (aka discriminated unions) in C#.
California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud
— The project, in collaboration with tech company Oxhead Alpha on Ava Labs' Avalanche blockchain, will allow California's more than 39 million residents to claim their vehicle titles through a mobile app, the first such move in the United States.
How Kamala Harris Could Usher in a Clean Slate for Crypto Regulation
— She may not be appearing at Bitcoin Nashville this year alongside Donald Trump. But, if elected president, Kamala Harris could reshape the U.S.'s policy on digital assets.
What is Operation Choke Point 2.0? Trump promises to end it. - YouTube
— It was one of the many promises made by former President Donald Trump to a cryptocurrency crowd at this year’s Bitcoin conference. Crypto advocates have dubbed efforts to cut off the cryptocurrency industry from banking services “Operation Choke Point 2.0,” and Trump is vowing to end it.
Operation Choke Point 2.0
— Crypto still needs on- and off-ramps for US dollars, but the US is making it increasingly difficult to maintain them
Operation Choke Point 2.0: How U.S. Regulators Fight Bitcoin With Financial Censorship
— “The clandestine Operation Choke Point had more in common with a purge of ideological foes than a regulatory enforcement action”, wrote Frank Keating, a former governor of Oklahoma who served in the DOJ during the Reagan administration, in a 2018 editorial for The Hill. “It targeted wide swaths of businesses with little regard for whether legal businesses were swept up and harmed. In fact, that seemed to be the goal.”
49 min
July 24, 2024580: Error Lake
Our thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage and why Intel is in the hot seat with developers.
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Andrew Curran on X
— Will OpenAI commit to making its next foundation model available to U.S. Government agencies for pre-deployment testing, review, analysis, and assessment?
Senators demand OpenAI release data showing it keeps its AI safe
— Following a Washington Post report, five lawmakers ask the artificial intelligence start-up to describe how it will ensure its tools don’t cause harm.
Lior⚡ on X
— This might be the biggest moment for Open-Source AI.
Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more - YouTube
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward | Meta
— Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it.
I believe that AI will develop in a similar way.
Taiwan makes tough decisions as it faces its worst drought in nearly a century : NPR
— This is the third year in a row that rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies not to grow rice this season. The rice uses scarce water that semiconductor factories nearby need.
Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts | CrowdStrike
— Customers running Falcon sensor for Windows version 7.11 and above, that were online between Friday, July 19, 2024 04:09 UTC and Friday, July 19, 2024 05:27 UTC, may be impacted.
Overview of Early Launch AntiMalware - Windows drivers
Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage
Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown
— Gamers have been reporting crashes on Intel CPUs for a number of months now, with the problem appearing to particularly affect games based on the Unreal engine.
Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates | Tom's Hardware
— Warframe developers provide some crash statistics and describe diagnosing the issue
Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August
— Intel's advisory says an erroneous CPU microcode is the root cause of the incessant instability issues. The microcode caused the CPU to request elevated voltage levels, resulting in the processor operating outside its safe boundaries.
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