Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage

IBM Watson didn’t work so well in health care, maybe it was too early. Also, Chef goes full open source, with Apache 2. Meanwhile, Coté has to pay taxes in two countries.

Plus:

• My dog’s in a cone right now.
• I gotta go play some video games.
• This is not premium content.
• There’s a Ted talk in here.
• I like my science fiction truck-stoppy.
• You can go nuts with the code, where ever you like.
• You are taco-eating hologram.
• Molemite is the worst.

Relevant to your interests

• How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
• Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware
• BMC brings back Beauchamp as interim CEO
• Fine-Grained Sandboxing with V8 Isolates
• Hitting Microsoft's metal: SUSE flings Enterprise Linux at SAP HANA on Azure
• TOC Votes to Move OPA into CNCF Incubator - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Google stuff
  • Google Cloud launches fixed monthly fee plan for storage that smooths out cloud cost bursts
  • Gmail can schedule messages to send them at a better time
  • Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network
• Chef stuff
  • Chef’s Different Recipe
  • Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
  • Chef FAQ
  • Making sense of a crazy year in open source
  • Chef Software Open Source Communities
• Facebook will stop asking new users for their email passwords
• Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Apple
• Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen
• Cloud Foundry :heart: Kubernetes.

Nonsense

• Elon Musk drops surprise rap single about Harambe.
• Finance World Faces Chaos As Patagonia Rejects Orders Of Corporate Power Vests.
• Microsoft gives up on US Excel Pros.
• Doin’ OK, gotta whole lotta milka.

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Conferences, et. al.

• ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
• April 11th, 2019 - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
• 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
• ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
• ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20

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Recommendations

• Coté: Drafts for macOS; Patagona 3-in-1 Tre’s Parka still good; “The Challenge of Going off Mind-drugs”; related, “Useful Hippie.”
• Matt: American Made, Mute, and Cloverfield Paradox **are perfectly fine airplane movies.
• Brandon: Go NFC East and Blackout podcasts.