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Episode 286: Press the turbo button on that one


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This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.

Rundown
  • Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back
  • Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115)
  • Operating Systems
    • CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome
    • The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore
    • Relevant to your interests
      • ‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal
      • Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin
      • Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch
      • Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams
      • Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software
      • Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’
      • CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing
      • Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users
      • Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database”
      • Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls
      • The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy
      • The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers
      • Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion
      • This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.
      • Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook
      • Security
        • Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M
        • Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions
        • The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier.
        • Passwords
          • LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both
          • Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords
          • Hardware highlights…?
            • Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020.
            • Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm
            • Audio is the future?
              • Clubhouse’s Inevitability
              • The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi
              • Nonsense
                • 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T
                • Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years'
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                  • Listener Feedback
                    • Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based)
                    • Conferences
                      • DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
                      • SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
                      • Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
                      • SDT news & hype
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                        • Recommendations
                          • Matt: HDMI LCD controllers.
                          • Brandon: Fake Famous.
                          • Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation.
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