Episode 423: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?
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The Importance of Having an Intermediate Bag
"I don't like to me traveling around all the cables. That's just, I mean, I'm more or less have that with," he says. "No backpacks and Gucci ads. That's, well, that's, I'm shockingly not a naguchi out here." He recommends two types of bags: an intermediate bag and a day pack.
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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.
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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
- 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
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
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Hijack
- Matt: Murderbot Diaries
- Coté: Fantastical, read-out of second HEY try.
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