Coder Radio

The hosts analyze Apple's event and discuss new hardware and software for developers. They also talk about Microsoft offering legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges and explore the features of the new iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Series 9. The podcast covers Apple's marketing strategies, patent trolls, less intense games, the US versus Google trial, staffing in data centers, Microsoft's cloud services, internet frustrations, and car troubles.

Topics discussed in the podcast include Microsoft blaming faulty automation for Azure outage, potential signs of weak demand for Apple's Vision Pro, retirement of Visual Studio for Mac, concerns about developer attendance at Apple's developer labs, challenges with proxies and biases in Linux support, and the impact of the tech industry on independent developers.

U.S. officials warn of cyber security threat in open-source software. Discussion on the challenges faced by cobalt developers during the pandemic and potential cyber threats to US infrastructure. Debate on open source security and the need for code review. Exploring the fear of open source software being infiltrated by hackers from specific countries. Initial experience with a tool and its benefits. Importance of tech skills in various industries.

Topics discussed include limitations of ChatGPT's knowledge, editors, career outside of tech, Trump's nicknames, AI-generated YouTube channel, technological problems, upcoming meetups, teleportation prank, podcast support, regulation and marketing, TailScale as a sponsor, installing and using Co-pilot in VS Code, Surge as an experimental tool for language models, and TypeScript and its alternatives.

Java developers facing Oracle licensing issues, OpenAI running out of money, challenges with Oracle's tactics, possibility of open AI establishing a business model and Microsoft's role, discussion on iPhone subscription plans and Salescale VPN, Zoom's AI features and privacy concerns, Boosts and infrastructure management, virtual conferencing tools, Fast Mail and Proton Mail, tensions between friends and businesses, software pricing, and the Microsoft co-pilot lawsuit.

Did we get this one wrong? It seems consumer AI is eating the lunch of some web's biggest names.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Tesla hackers turn to voltage glitching to unlock features — Instead of approaching the problem like Tesla hackers of the past, who've tried to gain control of vehicles or break into them as an outsider, Christian Werling and his fellow researchers wanted to approach the problem like someone who already had physical access to a vehicle and was trying to make their own modifications – like breaking through soft locks on optional, but installed, features.Apple already shipped attestation on the web — Google isn't the first to think of this, but in fact they're not even the first to ship it. Apple already developed & deployed an extremely similar system last year, now integrated into MacOS 13, iOS 16 & Safari, called "Private Access Tokens".Zoom can now train its A.I. using some customer data — Zoom's terms of service update establishes the video platform's right to use some customer data for training its AI models.Gabor Gurbacs on Twitter — New Zoom Terms of Service (10.2) stipulate that you as a user consent to allow AI to train on and use all of your data, including video, audio, facial, biometric data, etc... ChatGPT is putting Stack Overflow out of business traffic is down over 50% — ChatGPT has been crushing Stack Overflow. To combat ChatGPT they announced their own AI "OverflowAI" which includes AI-enhanced search to attract users back.Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates — In the first half of 2023, 338 U.S. companies filed for bankruptcy protection, according to newly released S&P Global Market Intelligence data, including 54 companies with private equity or venture capital backing. At that rate, 108 VC-backed startups will fail by year’s end, besting the 95 that failed during 2010.Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs! — Fedora Asahi Remix will provide a polished experience for Workstation and Server use-cases on Apple Silicon systems. The Asahi Linux project has also announced that the new Asahi Linux flagship distribution will be Fedora Asahi Remix.ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS — The project is called "Lacros," which Google says stands for "Linux And ChRome OS." This will split ChromeOS's Linux OS from the Chrome browser, allowing Google to update each one independently.Funding Developers With Lightning — PkgZap gives a way for NodeJS developers to easily fund the packages they're relying upon for their project. Alby | pkgzap — Value4Value payments for npm (and other package managers)Serving at the Pleasure of the King — But as a software developer, I am deeply ambivalent about an Apple dominated future. Apple isn't shy about cultivating the experience around their new iOS products and the App Store. There are unusually strict, often mysterious rules around what software developers can and cannot do — at least if they want entry into the App Store. And once you're in, the rules can and will change at any time.

Microsoft's dirty old API games, the new, even more restrictive rules Apple developers will now have to follow, and why Google's "Web Integrity API" seems gross.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.FBI Claims It Procured NSO Group Spyware Without Knowing It — The bureau was ordered to find out which government agency broke with White House policy and engaged a blacklisted spyware vendor. It found...itself.About 7 years ago I was in a meeting with a former Windows core graphics engineer — Proceeded to explain to me that this was how he, and many other core Windows engineers lined their pockets for years - write complex implementations, do the absolute bare minimum documentation, then take a 6 month sabbatical and publish a reference book that was absolutely required to actually use the API.App Store developers must detail why they're using some APIs — As detailed on the Apple Developer website, some APIs are now classified as “Required Reason APIs.” This means that in order to use them in an app, the developer must describe to Apple the purpose of that API in the app.Describing use of required reason API | Apple Developer DocumentationUserDefaults | Apple Developer DocumentationGoogle’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web — It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.Free and open source software projects are in transition — The tech bubble—the one that has been kept inflated over the past sixteen years with low interest rates, non-existent antitrust regulation, and a legal environment for tech that, in the US at least, has effectively been a free-for-all—is now over. Twitter is now listed as ‘X’ in the iOS App Store — Elon Musk’s social network seems to have gotten an exception to Apple’s App Store character limit rule.Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X

Elon Musk trying to build the "everything app" is ridiculous, and the quiet little promise openAI just made with the White House.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Introducing GitHub Copilot X — With chat and terminal interfaces, support for pull requests, and early adoption of OpenAI’s GPT-4, GitHub Copilot X is our vision for the future of AI-powered software development. Integrated into every part of your workflow.GitHub Copilot Chat enters beta — “As we prepare to bring the entirety of GitHub Copilot X to general availability, we believe every developer could be made 10 times more productive. This means 10 days of work, done in one day. 10 hours of work, done in one hour. 10 minutes of work, done with a single prompt command."Apple Vision Pro Developer Kits Now Available — Along with a Vision Pro, developers will get help with device setup and onboarding, check-ins with Apple experts for UI design and development guidance, and help with app refining. Each developer who receives a kit will be provided with two additional code-level support requests for troubleshooting code issues. President Joe Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet — what went wrong? — ‘Dark money’ and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission.CSPAN on Twitter — President Biden announces an agreement for responsible innovation in development of artificial intelligence (AI) among seven of the leading AI companies. Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ — This is not the first time Musk is changing the Twitter logo. Earlier this year, he briefly changed the social network’s logo to the Doge meme. Elon Musk on Twitter — In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird.Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. — In 2017, he reacquired the X.com domain name and, according to Soni, he once pitched Reid Hoffman on the idea of reacquiring PayPal to revive his original vision. Worldcoin Launches WLD Token — The Worldcoin Foundation also launched its World ID system and expanded its World App to over 80 countries, with plans to increase that number to 120. Worldcoin Whitepaper - Supply SchedulePledditor on Twitter — Here's a list of WorldCoin VCs, according to http://dealroom.coplane: 🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA — Meet Plane. An open-source software development tool to manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps with peace of mind lotus_position_woman.Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software — A featured-rich software that offers a very simple start through its intuitive user interface.Outline – Team knowledge base & wiki — Lost in a mess of Docs? Never quite sure who has access? Colleagues requesting the same information repeatedly in chat? It’s time to get your team’s knowledge organized.

Shopify has a mind-blowingly obvious solution to too many meetings, a recent failure Chris is struggling with, and more.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Grab Alby, and then you can boost from the web. Top it off in the app or using something like CashApp. Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Send a boost from the web using the Podcast Index. Start with Alby, top it off, then head on over to our page on the Index.List of new Podcast apps — Try a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and you can boost and more right in the app.Kaz Nejatian (COO, Shopify): Why Shopify Elevated the Non-Manager Career Path and Ditched Meetings — The difference between crafters and managers and how Shopify rages against meetingsShopify: How this e-commerce company is using calculators to put an end to 'pointless' meetings — The tool uses average compensation data across roles and disciplines, along with meeting length and attendee count, to put a price tag on the event. Peter Yang on Twitter — Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year.‘Millions’ of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo — A Dutch entrepreneur says he’s been trying to alert US military officials to the leak for a decade.Nostr Privacy — I have observed a few privacy issues with nostr protocol and apps related to privacy. This post is not an attempt to FUD although this could help in more users being aware of the problems and possible solutions.

openAI's window to build their moat is closing, but they have a powerful friend stepping up to help seal the deal. Plus, our reaction to Oracle's very spicy response to Red Hat.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Help the show reach its 500K sat goal, and send your message to the show. Boost from the web with Alby.Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index :)Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.Traffic to OpenAI's ChatGPT fell almost 10% in June — Traffic to ChatGPT’s website fell by 9.7% over the month of June, according to preliminary estimates from Similarweb, a web analytics firm, released this week. The decline was even greater just in the U.S., with a 10.3% month-on-month decline. The number of unique visitors to ChatGPT also fell by 5.7% from the previous month. We’re Going Down A Very Dangerous Path With AI Regulation, Despite Better Options — Reading through the “SAFE Innovation Framework” is like a masterclass in the political game of making it sound like you’re saying something, while actually saying nothing at all:Chuck's MS Doc Exported to PDF SAFE FrameworkKatharina Koerner on Twitter — This article articulates the fear that with new AI regulations, big companies with the means to employ lawyers will dominate the AI market, and the more creative and innovative startups are shut out.Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement - The Verge — The lawsuits allege the companies trained their AI models on books without permission.Guillaume🐻 on Twitter — This version introduce `include` keyword which allow you to use an existing Compose configuration as part of your Compose stack RFC: publish a compose application on registry — I suggest we define a mechanism and media type to push a compose.yaml file to a registry, in addition to images, with adequate OCI references