By Chris Chinchilla
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Corey from Crowdbotics joins me in the Tech Lounge to talk about their six year journey in creating an AI-powered code reuse platform, long before others jumped on the bandwagon.
This episode is all about WASM at KubeCon EU 2024 way back in March. I speak with WASMEdge and Cosmonic to find out what they bring and their thoughts on WASM.
It's a discussion episode! And this time, Cate Lawrence from Tech.eu joins me to talk about alternative meats and proteins, and I ask in a sea of jargon and hype, what really is artificial intelligence?
In the tech lounge this episode, I have Leonard Pahlke talking about bringing sustainability to infrastructure and the work of the CNCF sustainability TAG and Dedy Kredo from Codium AI talking about their AI-powered IDE and text editor extension.
No real episode, but rather a small update on some changes coming to the show.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
01:33 AI Crawlers and Content Scraping
04:17 TechCrunch and the State of Tech Journalism
06:12 Retro Tech: Classic Mac OS and Image Formats
08:25 Web Browsing Privacy Enhancements
10:08 Sleep Tracking and Orthosomnia
11:05 Sign Off
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AI crawlers need to be more respectfulabout.readthedocs.com
There’s a growing backlash against AI crawlers consuming websites, videos, and other content with little respect for robots.txt, copyright issues, or the spikes of traffic that hosts have to pay for. Now, more people are talking about the impact.
Apple Nvidia Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AIwired.com
See above…
Tech Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its waykeepgoingpod.com
This honestly feels like a summation of the trials and tribulations of tech journalism over the past 20 years, seen through the focus of one of the best-known sites. To some anyway.
Orthosomniaen.wikipedia.org
I am a terrible sleeper, but one of the best pieces of advice I read is to stop worrying about it. In fact, I found out this week that worrying about sleep now has a medical term.
Managing Classic Mac OS resources in ResEditeclecticlight.co
Sometimes, I miss the hackability of classic Mac OS. Then I remember how unstable it was 😬
Here’s why you have to deal with so many annoying webPs nowpcgamer.com
Turns out I am not the only one endlessly irritated by this odd image format that pops up more and more and never feels like a “real” image.
Artifactingtedium.co
On the subject of webP, what’s the history of the JPEG? Maybe one of the most successful image formats of our time.
Private Browsing 2.0webkit.org
When is private browsing truly private? When it’s version 2!
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More interviews from KubeCon Paris. This time, Matt Wilson, a colleague from Docker Build Cloud, and Sebastian Blanc of Aiven.
00:00 Introduction and Podcast Overview
01:42 Docker Build Cloud Explained
03:22 Challenges in Docker Image Building
04:33 BuildCloud Features and Benefits
06:22 User Experience and Feedback
18:50 Future Plans and Roadmap
20:34 Aiven - Exploring Data Management Solutions
22:17 Aiven - Open Source Commitment and Contributions
25:23 Aiven - Competing in the Cloud Market
31:39 Aiven - Developer Experience and Tools
36:24 Aiven - Future Directions and Innovations
40:57 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Peering Into The Black Box Of Large Language Models
hackaday.com
How do LLMs *actually* work? A surprisingly small amount of people know, or bother to find out. But slowly, their creators are starting to ask questions about their creations, like any good creator really should.
A revolution in your hand: Happy 45th birthday to the Sony Walkman
musicradar.com
I had a depressing conversation with a 22 year old recently where they had no idea what ripping or burning CDs was. Imagine if I’d told them about cassettes, battery life, and changing sides…
How Labour Can Fix the UKs Tech Industry
wired.com
I am still registered to vote in the UK, and I’m not going to get to optimistic (yet), but it’s nice to see some attempt to build upon an already fairly strong tech industry from the new government.
The telltale words that could identify generative AI text
arstechnica.com
Have you noticed how overly verbose and full of verbiage AI-generated text is? And, of course, the more that goes in, the more comes out again in some kind of self-fueling flurry of verbs. Lovely.
EuRuKo 2024
2024.euruko.org
EuRuKo is the annual European Ruby Conference. Join us in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024 on 11th — 13th of September.
In this episode, more interviews from KubeCon Paris.
I speak with Dinesh from CIVO, a European cloud-native hosting company, and Thierry of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, whose projects typically power data centres.
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Want to come see me do sounds and lights for a play in Berlin?
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‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomniatheguardian.com
I am an on/off long-suffering poor sleeper. The middle-of-the-night insomnia is better than it used to be, but I still find it hard to stay in a deep sleep and wake up too early most of the time. I have also been trying to stay up later, hoping it might mean I wake up later, but it’s not working especially in summer. I am not sure I want to push things to this extreme, but maybe it’s worth trying.
Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternativesmacstories.net
I love macOS’s menu bar, but it can get cluttered quite quickly. Thanks to Setapp I’ve been using Bartender for some time to keep mine tidy. Recently, the developer sold the company to a new owner who, shall we say, didn’t handle the transition well. Most people’s concerns around security and privacy seem to now be resolved, but it still gave developers of alternative applications a great opportunity, and this list summarises some of the best.
Training AI music models is about to get very expensivetechnologyreview.com
Did I mention before I used to be a professional musician? I think I did 😅. Anyway, as I still make some money from that part of my life, it makes me more sensitive to those exploiting musicians’ work. Oddly, AI-generated music is one of the rare cases where the archaic archaeology of the music business works in favour of artists. They are not an industry with a reputation for taking a hit to their bottom line lightly, and now the AI companies are firmly in their sights.
Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?bbc.com
While some companies are still beginning their journey with cloud-native, some of the early adopters are already moving to the next thing, which seems to be back to running your own servers. The promise of flexible costs hasn’t been the reality for many, and the loops and hoops providers make you jump through too much work. 37signals (and isn’t it great to hear from them again!?) are one of many recent examples of this trend. While I don’t think we need to worry about the big three providers yet, what’s next?
EuRuKo 20242024.euruko.org
And on the subject of Ruby! EuRuKo is the annual European Ruby Conference. I’ll be there in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024 on 11th — 13th of September. Hope to see you there!
SimCity Isnt a Model of Reality. Its a Libertarian Toy Landwired.com
Anyone reading for a while might know I am a fan of building-style games (on the rare occasions I play games anyway). Sim City is a classic of this genre, and it became so popular that its influence spread further than you may realise. “Simulations” being something new meant that the game’s developer was asked to create simulation games for a lot of different industries, but not all of them were as successful as the original.
Micropoliswebmicropolisweb.com
And if all this talk of SimCity makes you nostalgic or experience what we oldies had to put up with, you can play it in the browser thanks to the power of WebAssembly.
News from me2024 hasn’t been the best year for many of us. Unfortunately, the same applies to me. Especially in the past few weeks, I have had several projects cancelled, but there’s one I am most annoyed by and would like to try to find a new home for.
I was working on a book covering Ableton Live 12, and the project was suddenly cancelled. I was quite enjoying the process and was building up a good plan and body of work covering the topic, bringing a dose of practical “analogue” music experience to a largely electronic topic.
It’s too late for a specific Live 12 book now, but I would love to take some of what I have to a new home. A new book, a course, maybe. I was thinking of ideas around “Live for drummers”, or “Live for analogue musicians”, that kind of thing. If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in this, let me know!
Finally, I am planning a rebrand of the podcast and newsletter. I still need to investigate a few things and all being well, I will push ahead in August, as it’s a quiet month.
I’ve been painting
The podcast currently has 299 episodes available.