Giant Conversations Episode #24
Topic: Kubernetes Ecosystem News
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AI News
How AI is on the way to become a millionaire Two instances of Claude Opus (LLMs) together invented the “GOATSE OF GNOSIS” - a shock meme that went viral. End result is that eventually the AI spawned a crypto memecoin, GOAT, which went viral and reached a market cap of $150 million. Truth Terminal has ~$300,000 of GOAT in its wallet and is on its way to being the first AI agent millionaire.
ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use DISCLAIMER: "A few days ago, Anthropic released Claude Computer Use, which is a model + code that allows Claude to control a computer. It takes screenshots to make decisions, can run bash commands and so forth. It’s cool, but obviously very dangerous because of prompt injection. Claude Computer Use enables AI to run commands on machines autonomously, posing severe risks if exploited via prompt injection."
Swarmalicious News
Giant Swarm sent a ragtag group to KubeCon this month. We had one talk by our very own Marco Ebert and his NGINX partner in crime James Strong about the future of ingress-nginx!!! You can see their talk here
Giant Swarm and our Friends representing at KCDUK:
- From Fragile to Resilient: Using Admission Policies to Strengthen Kubernetes | Marcus Noble
- Charting the Course: The History and Evolution of Kubernetes Security | Rory McCune
- Building an Application-Specific Container Image Builder| James Laverack
Everybody in our ecosystem is moving to Blue Sky Cloud Native super hero's like Kelsey Hightower (who actually quite Twitter altogether), Joe Beda, Frederic from Polar Signals, Tiffany Jernigan, and many others. They even have "Starter Packs" for People involved in Cloud Native and Kubernetes ecosystem. They also have a CNCF starter pack - the whole 9. And we're on it too: https://bsky.app/profile/giantswarm.io
The recently announced Flux Plugin for Headlamp showcasing the new map/graph view, which will be the basis for plugins for observability that they are working on. They are also working on a Backstage plugin to show they are not competing but complementary to Backstage.
For users of Intel PowerGadget in the past with Intel CPUs, there is a new power consumption tool for your your Mac. It's called the Mx Power Gadget by Seense. It's not an "Activity Monitor" it's more of an "Energy Impact" tracker. Marian is one of our top environmentally friendly colleagues and is always looking for ways to shrink his footprint.
Our friendly neighbors here in sunny Cologne Germany have secured a total of 10 Million EUR in an oversubscribed seed extension round for their product that is touted to help save Billions in heating costs. It's called Vamo and we wish them the best of luck.
The Art Institute of Chicago has developed a bash script, "aic-bash," that queries its API for public domain artworks and renders them as ASCII art. Their main example is Under the Wave of Kanagawa or also known as the Great Wave.
You can now Edit your Git-based Grafana dashboards locally To over simplify it: "You can edit dashboards as JSON using your IDE, or create them using tools such as Grafonnet (in Jsonnet) or the Grafana Foundation SDK (Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, PHP). You can then publish them to your Grafana instance(s) with tools such as the Grafana Terraform provider, Grizzly, and the Grafana Operator for Kubernetes."
News to Me
IMG0001: Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMGXXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. https://walzr.com/IMG_0001