Episode 422: Corporation vs. Community

This week we discuss RHEL licensing changes, check the vibe of DevOps and some thoughts on programing language. Plus, has ChatGPT already become boring?

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A massive failure of one

The end of free

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Goose-cow

“I used to, but I don’t anymore.”

The Podcast Review podcast.

Rundown

RHEL

Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams

IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up

Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat

The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion]

Rant about Red Hat's Licensing Change for REHL

Reddit

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”

Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted

Reddit doubles down

Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit

DevOps

Second Wave DevOps

Kelsey Hightower Predicts How the Kubernetes Community Will Evolve

Kelsey Hightower Retires

Even the best rides come to an end featuring Kelsey Hightower (Podcast)

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023

Relevant to your Interests

AWS teases mysterious mil-spec ‘Snowblade’ server

To fill offices, Google issues ultimatum while Salesforce tries charity

Amazon is pursuing 'too many ideas' and needs to focus on best opportunities

There are better places for Amazon to put their capital to work, says Bernstein's Mark Shmulik

The best password managers for 2023 | Engadget

After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees

Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work

Twilio to sell ValueFirst business to Tanla (NYSE:TWLO)

Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share

Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share

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Modular: Our launch & what's next

Exclusive-Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61 billion VMware deal, sources say

Amazon is reportedly trying to offer Prime subscribers free cell phone service | Engadget

Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment

Twitter stiffs Google

Open Sourcing AWS Cedar Is a Game Changer for IAM

Oracle beats on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue jumps

America to halt $68.7bn Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard

Meta's Open-Source 'MusicGen' AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes

Google's return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees:

Forrester Wave Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023

The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier

1 big thing: Where AI's productivity revolution will strike first

For the first time in almost 30 years, a company other than IBM received the most US patents

AMD stock pops on potential Amazon superchip deal, CEO bullishness

Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users

Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy | Amazon Web Services

40 photos from inside Metropolitan Park—the first phase of Amazon's HQ2

The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023

AWS US-EAST-1 wobbled after Lambda management issues spread

The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots

A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle

Apple Watch alerts 29-year-old Cincinnati woman to blood clot in lungs while sleeping

Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase

Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover

What happened to Oracle? Why do they keep acquiring companies?

How an ex-Googler is reimagining the oldest computing interface of all

WFH 4 ever

Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B

Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter language model

AI's next conflict is between open and closed

Amazon is investing another $7.8B in Ohio-based cloud computing operations,

A new law protecting pregnant workers is about to take effect

Amazon launches AWS AppFabric to help customers connect their SaaS apps

State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization Report

FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business

OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS

Surprise! You Work for Amazon.

btop - the htop alternative

We Raised A Bunch Of Money

Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills

Report: 2022 Microsoft Azure Revenue Less Than Estimated, Half That Of AWS | CRN

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace

Is Waze next?

The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google

Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses

Who killed Google Reader?

Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match

IBM to Acquire Apptio Inc.,

IBM Re-ups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition

Nonsense

Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Mom and Dad's Ok

Summer intern's commute goes viral: She flies from South Carolina to New Jersey

Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills

Fishing crew denied $3.5M in prize money after 600-pound marlin DQ’d in tournament

'World's Largest' Buc-ee's store opens now on Bus-ee’s Map

Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.

'Fueled by inflation': USPS stamp prices are increasing soon. Here's what to know.

At least a year younger on paper: South Korea makes changes to age-counting law

Sony just spilled confidential PlayStation information because of a Sharpie

Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health

Listener Feedback

Let's Get To The News | Craig Box | Substack

When You Don't Have a Seat At the (Managed Database) Table by Doug Sillars

Conferences

August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.

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Explore EU CFP is open.

Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.

Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.

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