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Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In today's episode:

Biz corner

  • AI regulation race 
    • https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/what-the-executive-order-means-for
    • https://www.ft.com/content/e0574e79-d723-4d94-9681-fae22648e3ad
    • https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/25/artificial-intelligence-executive-order-biden/
    • https://www.wired.com/story/joe-biden-wants-us-government-algorithms-tested-for-potential-harm-against-citizens

Tech corner

  • Adoption of the business source license (BSL)
    • https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
    • https://www.getdbt.com/blog/licensing-dbt
    • https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/
    • https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/main/LICENSE
  • Companies responding to HashiCorp's move to BSL
    • https://spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-latest-statement-on-hashicorp-bsl
  • OpenTofu & HashiCorp's OSS work
    • https://opentofu.org/
    • https://medium.com/@andrewhertog/contributing-to-terraform-vs-opentofu-26779d480c7f?sk=5343d4a76b390833af621905c858777b
  • Cyber Resilience Act might kill open-source altogether
    • https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-act
    • https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/
    • https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52022PC0454
  • OSS companies - is it a sustainable way of doing open source?
    • https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0
    • https://astral.sh/
    • https://pydantic.dev/
    • https://duckdblabs.com/
  • We haven't figured out OSS sustainability yet, but the BSL comes close.
    • https://curl.se/docs/security.html
    • https://xkcd.com/2347/

Intro music courtesy of fesliyanst

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