Corporation vs. Community

About this Episode

This week we discuss RHEL licensing changes, check the vibe of DevOps and some thoughts on programing language. Plus, has ChatGPT already become boring?

Runner-up Titles

• I don’t like listening to fellow thought leaders. I listen to myself enough.
• Dammit, alarm was set for PM
• A massive failure of one
• The end of free
• It’s not all smiles and thumbs
• Goose-cow
• “I used to, but I don’t anymore.”
• The Podcast Review podcast.

Rundown

• RHEL
  • Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
  • Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
  • IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
  • Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat
  • The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion]
  • Rant about Red Hat's Licensing Change for REHL
• Reddit
  • Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”
  • Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
  • Reddit doubles down
  • Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit
• DevOps
  • Second Wave DevOps
  • Kelsey Hightower Predicts How the Kubernetes Community Will Evolve
  • Kelsey Hightower Retires
  • Even the best rides come to an end featuring Kelsey Hightower (Podcast)
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023

Relevant to your Interests

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• The best password managers for 2023 | Engadget
• After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees
• Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work
• Twilio to sell ValueFirst business to Tanla (NYSE:TWLO)
• Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share
• Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share
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• Modular: Our launch & what's next
• Exclusive-Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61 billion VMware deal, sources say
• Amazon is reportedly trying to offer Prime subscribers free cell phone service | Engadget
• Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment
• Twitter stiffs Google
• Open Sourcing AWS Cedar Is a Game Changer for IAM
• Oracle beats on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue jumps
• America to halt $68.7bn Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard
• Meta's Open-Source 'MusicGen' AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes
• Google's return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees:
• Forrester Wave Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023
• The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
• 1 big thing: Where AI's productivity revolution will strike first
• For the first time in almost 30 years, a company other than IBM received the most US patents
• AMD stock pops on potential Amazon superchip deal, CEO bullishness
• Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users
• Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy | Amazon Web Services
• 40 photos from inside Metropolitan Park—the first phase of Amazon's HQ2
• The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023
• AWS US-EAST-1 wobbled after Lambda management issues spread
• The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots
• A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings
• Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle
• Apple Watch alerts 29-year-old Cincinnati woman to blood clot in lungs while sleeping
• Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase
• Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover
• What happened to Oracle? Why do they keep acquiring companies?
• How an ex-Googler is reimagining the oldest computing interface of all
• WFH 4 ever
• Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B
• Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter language model
• AI's next conflict is between open and closed
• Amazon is investing another $7.8B in Ohio-based cloud computing operations,
• A new law protecting pregnant workers is about to take effect
• Amazon launches AWS AppFabric to help customers connect their SaaS apps
• State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization Report
• FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business
• OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS
• Surprise! You Work for Amazon.
• btop - the htop alternative
• We Raised A Bunch Of Money
• Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills
• Report: 2022 Microsoft Azure Revenue Less Than Estimated, Half That Of AWS | CRN
• Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace
• Is Waze next?
  
• The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google
• Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses
• Who killed Google Reader?
• Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match
• IBM to Acquire Apptio Inc.,
• IBM Re-ups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition

Nonsense

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• Summer intern's commute goes viral: She flies from South Carolina to New Jersey
• Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills
• Fishing crew denied $3.5M in prize money after 600-pound marlin DQ’d in tournament
• 'World's Largest' Buc-ee's store opens now on Bus-ee’s Map
• Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.
• 'Fueled by inflation': USPS stamp prices are increasing soon. Here's what to know.
• At least a year younger on paper: South Korea makes changes to age-counting law
• Sony just spilled confidential PlayStation information because of a Sharpie
• Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health

Listener Feedback

• Let's Get To The News | Craig Box | Substack
• When You Don't Have a Seat At the (Managed Database) Table by Doug Sillars

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, 2023
• Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
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