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Sept. 28, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 9/28/2023 …

Microsoft loses 38TB on Azure, Sony is hacked (again), and NFTs continue to be worth less and worthless.

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Sept. 26, 2023

My Pet, Server Cow […

Ned meditates on the suitably of analogies and models, including the OSI model, LEAN manufacturing in DevOps, and Justin Timberlake as electricity.

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Sept. 21, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 9/21/2023 …

Web3 is DOA, AI worse than crypto for environment, and MOVEit breach still breaching.

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Sept. 19, 2023

ReiserFS In Decline …

What's in a name? Sometimes forced obsolescence.

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Sept. 14, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 9/14/2023 …

Your car is watching you, DevOps YOLO is a no-no, and IBM joins the back-to-office crew.

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Sept. 12, 2023

Opposite Day With Advertising Company Google …

Your privacy sandbox is neither private nor a sandbox. Discuss.

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Sept. 7, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 9/7/2023 …

Don't deploy in us-east-1, no thanks Noonoouri, and Facebook at any price would still suck.

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Sept. 5, 2023

Spinning Rust Ain't Dead Yet …

The humble hard drive isn't going anywhere, despite rumors of its imminent demise. Tape too.

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Aug. 31, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 8/31/2023 …

Dropbox drops unlimited, Instacart IPO, and Excel loves Python.

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Aug. 29, 2023

Exploring VMware, err, Explore …

Spelunking Into VMware Explore to Discover the Hidden Secrets. It's AI. Because, of course it is.

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Aug. 24, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 8/24/2023 …

Jetporch is the new Ansible, GCP sets egress free, and Generative AI is your drunk uncle.

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Aug. 22, 2023

Software Licensing is BS...L …

Ethan Banks joins Ned and Chris to discuss HashiCorp's BSL change.

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Aug. 17, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 8/17/2023 …

HashiCorp goes BSL, Intel SGX is feeling vulnerable, and Microsoft Teams loves Windows For Workgroups.

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Aug. 15, 2023

Soapbox Engineering? …

Chris helps to illuminate what the heck a Platform Engineer even is.

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Aug. 10, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 8/10/2023 …

DevOps goes local (to us), SEC demands faster disclosure on breaches, and Zoom stumbles into an AI brouhaha.

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Aug. 8, 2023

Honesty Is The Worst Policy …

Ned walks us through Microsoft's lost MSA Key and the ensuing disaster.

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Aug. 3, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 8/3/2023 …

AI is coming for your job, AWS is charging for IPv4, and FCC updates their broadband standards... to 2013.

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July 20, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 7/20/2023 …

Broadcom lumbers towards VMware acquisition, InfluxDB deletes data, and Elon has more bad AIdeas.

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July 18, 2023

Hyper Prologue Log […

Chris introduces us to LogLog, SuperLogLog, and HyperLogLog. I swear these are real things.

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July 13, 2023

Moar Tech Garbage [M…

AI Still Sucks at FanFic, JumpCloud revokes all the API keys, and Threads is 100M strong.

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July 11, 2023

Microaggressive Licensing …

Ned walks us through the RHEL licensing debacle with a historical perspective on Linux, GPLv2, and Red Hat.

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July 4, 2023

Thirty-Six GigaToasters …

Chris relays his experience at Security Field Day 9, Ned is amazed Yammer still exists, and we all lament the recent RHEL changes.

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June 27, 2023

Just Disappointed [6…

Chris teams up with CISA to talk about Zero Trust in the government (no, not like that), Ned is pumped about the Aurora supercomputer, and Oregon does what New Jersey couldn't.

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June 20, 2023

Sometimes You���re The Problem …

Ned tells us why OpenStack is not dead yet, Chris reminds us that Twitter continues to be awful, and we both wonder if anyone isn't using us-east-1.

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