This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend.
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ThreadsThreads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has ArrivedSpecial Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam MosseriFacebook's Threads is so depressingTwitter, Threads, and the Great Social ImplosionInstagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five daysHow Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat appsLinuxRed Hat's open source rot began when IBM walkedKeep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not ToSUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million InvestmentHistory Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes.Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywallAutomation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9Shifting"Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)"Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting leftMatt’s packing listGmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google CalendarRelevant to your Interests
DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cashSnowflake vs. DatabricksWebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on TwitterCourt filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History FoundationIBM watsonxChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launchCloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with ProjectEarly Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeupBeing acquired from a smallish start-up into VMwareGartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document RevealsMicrosoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in JanuaryShopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year.Nonsense
If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan?Conferences
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.Explore EU CFP is open.Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!Recommendations
Brandon: HijackMatt: Murderbot DiariesCoté: Fantastical, read-out of second HEY try.HeaderArtwork
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