Episode 423: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?

This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 423

Runner-up Titles

• Capitalizing on Competitors
• Bring the Go Bag
• There are no backpacks in Gucci ads
• No bad vibes

Rundown

• Threads
  • Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived
  • Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri
  • Facebook's Threads is so depressing
  • Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion
  • Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days
  • How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
  • Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps
• Linux
  • Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked
  • Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To
  • SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
  • History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes.
  • Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall
  • Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9
• Shifting
  • "Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)"
  • Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left
• Matt’s packing list
• Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar

Relevant to your Interests

• DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash
• Snowflake vs. Databricks
• WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030
• Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter
• Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022
• Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision
• 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation
• IBM watsonx
• ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project
• Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup
• Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware
• Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023
• Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals
• Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January
• Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year.

Nonsense

• If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan?

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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Recommendations

• Brandon: Hijack
• Matt: Murderbot Diaries
• Coté: Fantastical, read-out of second HEY try.

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