Tech Lounge

I speak with Stephen Hood of Mozilla about their joint efforts with the Open Source Initiative to create a definition of open source AI.

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I speak with Mike McQuaid, long-term maintainer of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, about Workbrew, a new commercial version of Homebrew that brings extra security and governance features to Homebrew.

This interview formed the basis of my article on The Next Web in July.

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In this episode, Cate and Chris dive into tech events. The different types, how they work, how they feel, and how they've changed the past few years.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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No real episode, but rather a small update on some changes coming to the show.

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 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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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.

wired.com

See above…

keepgoingpod.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.

en.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.

eclecticlight.co

Sometimes, I miss the hackability of classic Mac OS. Then I remember how unstable it was 😬

pcgamer.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.

tedium.co

On the subject of webP, what’s the history of the JPEG? Maybe one of the most successful image formats of our time.

webkit.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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