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539: Mike Breaks the Build Oct 11, 2023

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Mike checks in from the grind and shares some challenges in recent cross-platform testing; then, we get into the avalanche of negative AI press coverage this week and the one massive story they're not touching.

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Why Hybrid Workers Are 'Coffee Badging' to Avoid Going Back to the Office — The workplace trend involves showing up at the office for a few hours before leaving.
Report Claims LOTR: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology — An investigation by German outlet Game Two into what went wrong during the development of Lord of the Rings: Gollum has made claims that the publisher’s apology for the terrible state of the released game was written by AI ChatGPT.
Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI — Loki season 2 poster has been linked to a stock image on Shutterstock that seemingly breaks the platform’s licensing rules regarding AI-generated content.
Artists are upset that ‘Secret Invasion’ used AI art for opening credits — Marvel’s latest series, “Secret Invasion,” made its debut on Disney+ today, sparking tons of backlash after it was confirmed the intro sequence was AI-generated.
AI doesn’t sound particularly profitable. — Despite charging $10 a month for GitHub Copilot, The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is losing an average of over $20 per user, per month.
Who Is OpenAI’s Sam Altman? Meet the Oppenheimer of Our Age — Altman grew up the oldest of four siblings in suburban St. Louis: three boys, Sam, Max, and Jack, each two years apart, then a girl, Annie, nine years younger than Sam.
Annie Altman on X — I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore.
Annie Altman on X — Annie's video message to Sam Altman.
Émile P. Torres, PhD on X — This is Sam Altman's sister. Her tweets about sexual, physical, emotional, etc. abuse are incredibly hard to read. Seems that no one in the media is that interested in covering this story because they're afraid of losing access to OpenAI if they write something critical of Sam.
Pledditor on X — Sam Altman's sister is making some eyepopping allegations against him 👀
LinuxFest Northwest | Meetup

538: You Never Forget Your First Oct 04, 2023

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How does your first major programming language/technology still shape your work and career? Then grab some popcorn and let's watch the next epic tech titan battle unfold.

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Barista Express — Create third wave specialty coffee at home from bean to espresso in less than a minute.
Bones Coffee Company - Say Goodbye to Boring.
How To Brew Espresso Like a Pro — Learn how to brew espresso at home, using an automatic or a manual espresso maker. Tips on pulling the perfect espresso shot and a troubleshooting guide.
AeroPress Coffee Maker Official Store
American Economic Liberties Project on X — Apple and Google have a “fantastic oligopolistic arrangement” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on day 14 of the #USvGoogle trial.
Apple Deal Responsible for Google's Dominance in Search, Says Microsoft CEO
Microsoft’s Nadella Takes Stand at Google Antitrust Trial - Bloomberg
Microsoft has spent $100 billion on Bing — Satya Nadella is one of several executives the US Department of Justice will have testify in its antitrust trial about Google search.
An hour-long history lesson about Microsoft’s many failures in mobile. — Nadella is mostly just responding “that sounds right” and “correct.” He’s not arguing that Bing is better than Google — he’s arguing that it’s impossible to be better than Google. And Schmidtlein says no, it’s just that Bing sucks. And that’s your fault, not ours.
Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices — The strategy, as described in redacted parts of FTC lawsuit, is part of agency’s case that Amazon has outsize influence on consumer prices
Apple enforces new check on apps in China as Beijing tightens oversight — Apple began last Friday requiring app developers to submit the "internet content provider (ICP) filing" when they publish new apps on its App Store, it said on its website for developers.
After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors' — In new comments today, EU industry chief Thierry Breton reiterated that Apple must “open up its gates to competitors.”
CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework — We are developing a modern broadcasting framework that can adapt to changing circumstances.

537: Unity Mutiny Sep 30, 2023

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Our unique take on the Unity outrage, thoughts on RustRover, and Mike shares a very annoying mistake.

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A montage of snippets from Jupiter Broadcasting’s CoderRadio Show — Alex is bloggin 'bout Coder.
RustRover: Rust IDE by JetBrains — A brand new JetBrains IDE for Rust Developers
Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains | The IntelliJ Rust Blog — Today we’re opening the RustRover Early Access Program (EAP) and we’d love for you to try it, give us feedback, and help us shape the product.
Adobe launches Photoshop for the web with its popular desktop AI tools — Photoshop for the web is now generally available as part of all Photoshop paid plans and includes Firefly-powered features like Generative Fill.
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs — According to a Bloomberg report, Epic is cutting roughly 16 percent of its workforce.
Unity has updated its controversial pricing policy again — A troublesome rollout of new policy changes had left developers frustrated and angry
An open letter to our community | Unity Blog — I want to start with this: I am sorry.
Godot Engine — Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine
Torque3D

536: Grindr-in-Chief Sep 20, 2023

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The painful side of making video games, Grinder's big problems, and Google's sneakiest trojan horse.

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Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups? — Is there any specific reason why startups, at least here in India, don’t tend to use dotnet for backend especially now dotnet is also open source and cross-platform.
Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit — Grindr seems to have played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting.
Santiago on X: "I fired somebody cheating" — Around that time, I stumbled upon the idea of overemployment. A whole movement dedicated to helping people work several full-time jobs at once.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly — Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
The Privacy Sandbox — Billions of people around the world rely on access to information on sites and apps. To provide this free resource without relying on intrusive tracking, publishers and developers need privacy-preserving alternatives for their key business needs, including serving relevant content and ads.
Major programming faults discovered in Starfield's code by VKD3D dev - performance issues are not the result of non-upgraded hardware — What really grinds my gears is the fact that the open source community has figured out and came up with workarounds to try to make this game run better.
Starfield Is Great—Unless You're on Nvidia or Intel
Venn on X — While it may not be optimized for PC, it will be optimized for #Linux.
Todd Howard Tells Starfield Players To Upgrade Their PCs
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water — In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
Nissan, Kia 'collect data about drivers' sexual activity' — The foundation said most car companies can comb through a variety of sources to glean personal information about drivers after they pair their smartphones with a vehicle’s connected services.

535: Locally Sourced Carbon Neutral Consumer Sep 13, 2023

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Did Apple's event live up to our expectations? And our thoughts on what new goodies for developers might be in the new hardware and software.

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Coder 535 & 536 + Apple Event Live Stream — First, we Mystery Science Theater the Apple event stream, then sit back as we record two banger Coder Radios!
Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges — "Some customers are concerned about the risk of IP infringement claims," says Microsoft.
iPhone 15 Pro: Here's Everything the New Action Button Can Do — A press-and-hold gesture with fine-tuned haptic feedback and visual cues in the Dynamic Island ensure the new Action button launches the intended action, which users can customize in Settings and assign to different actions.
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 Feature 64GB of Storage — The original Apple Watch, Series 2, and Series 3, had just 8GB of storage, increasing to 16GB on the Apple Watch Series 4. The Apple Watch Series 5 increased storage once more to 32GB, where it has remained through the Series 6, Series 7, and Series 8, making the Series 9 the first time the Apple has increased the device's storage in five years.
Pricing on iPhone 15 Pro Models Technically Didn't Change
iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds — While the new standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are equipped with a USB-C port, data transfer over a cable remains limited to USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480 Mbps

534: Blame the Automation Sep 06, 2023

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Azure suffers a big outage, and Microsoft blames faulty automation; why we think there might be early signs of weak demand for Apple's Vision Pro and more.

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Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement — Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024
Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures — Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind
Apple Claims Vision Pro SDK Downloads Exceeded Expectations Amid Developer Lab Attendance Concerns — The affirmation comes on the heels of concerns highlighted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last month claiming that the developer labs have been "under-filled with small amounts of developers."
Apple's Vision Pro Developer Labs Not Drawing Many Attendees — Any developer can apply to attend a developer lab, but Apple is not reimbursing for travel, and developers located on the east coast of the United States will have to fund cross-country travel to get to the lab.
Elon Musk wants to turn X into a LinkedIn competitor — All in the name of turning X into an "everything app."
Elon Musk's X obtains required license for crypto payments — Notably, Rhode Island approved a requested license by Twitter Payments LLC — X’s payment branch — on August 28, according to data from NMLS. The “Currency Transmitter” license also includes different crypto-related service providers, such as crypto exchanges, wallets, and payment processors.

533: Critical Failure in Open Source Aug 30, 2023

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U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source?

Plus, Mike's thoughts after using Cursor AI and a Cornell study take generated code to the shed.

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Harnessing Generative AI for Application Modernization at Speed and Scale — hat happens when you have applications that have been curated and maintained by different authors of different elements over decades?
2023 Speakers - OLF Conference — We are excited about our lineup of speakers for the 2023 OLF Conference! Read on to learn more about what they have to say.
U.S. officials warning of potential cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure and power grid - YouTube — CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on exclusive reporting around a cybersecurity threat.
Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor — Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI
A Study on Robustness and Reliability of Large Language Model Code Generation — The evaluation results show that evenfor GPT-4, 62% of the generated code contains API misuses,which would cause unexpected consequences if the code isintroduced into real-world software.

532: Take It to the Limit Aug 23, 2023

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Mike hits the limits of ChatGPT's knowledge, a chat about editors and what we'd do for a living if it had to be outside of tech.

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Berlin with Brent, Fri, Sep 8, 2023 — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups!
Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023 — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing
Microsoft kills Kinect again — Microsoft will no longer make the Azure Kinect Developer Kit.
Orbbec announces family of products based on Microsoft iToF Depth Technology — Orbbec and Microsoft’s collaboration marks a new era of accessibility for AI developers to tap the power of 3D vision for their applications.
CarDealershipGuy on X — UPDATE: Ford has received this patent. 😂
ChatGPT Cheat Sheet for Developers — As a developer, learning how to master ChatGPT can help you to generate code snippets in various languages, learn programming concepts by example, quickly debug code, write test cases, write documents, and gather information.
The emerging usability of ChatGPT in software development — In the hands of a creative developer, ChatGPT has what it takes to be a helpful coding tool. But generative AI may soon attain the capability to act as more than an assistant.
CLion: A Cross-Platform IDE for C and C++ by JetBrains — A cross-platform IDE for C and C++
Cursor - The AI-first Code Editor — Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI
Cursor - Features
Alex MacCaw on X — Cursor is the best product I've used in a while - it's an AI enabled editor.
Santiago on X — I'm trying Cursor, an AI-first code editor. Artificial Intelligence is not a feature for them. It's the whole thing!
Tailscale on X — The Tailscale extension for VS Code just got a major upgrade — now you can seamlessly navigate and edit files on any node on your tailnet, all powered by Tailscale SSH.
MetaGPT: 🌟 — The Multi-Agent Framework: Given one line Requirement, return PRD, Design, Tasks, Repo. Assign different roles to GPTs to form a collaborative software entity for complex tasks.
Serge — Serge is a chat interface crafted with llama.cpp for running Alpaca models. No API keys, entirely self-hosted!
README - TypeScript Deep Dive — I've been looking at the issues that turn up commonly when people start using TypeScript.
Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increase — Verisign, the entity overseeing .COM domains, has pricing authority based on their agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The periodic price changes for .COM domains are in line with this arrangement.
ATOM Echo Smart Speaker Development Kit — ATOM ECHO is a Programmable Smart Speaker based on the M5ATOM design. Its form factor is very small, its dimensions are only 24 * 24 * 17 mm.

531: C# as it Should Have Been Aug 16, 2023

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Java developers are getting the Oracle shakedown, openAI is running out of money, and more.

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Mutiny Wallet — Impressive web-based app.
Let's talk Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email — Oracle is firing off unsolicited emails to businesses offering to discuss Java subscription deals, seemingly in an effort to extract information that could be to its benefit in future license negotiations.
Say No to this “Oracle Java Audit” — This article aims to shed light on these practices and guide organizations in this predicament.
ChatGPT costs $700,000 daily, maker may go bankrupt in 2024: Report — The report noted that even though CEO Sam Altman does not own equity in OpenAI, the company shifted from being a non-profit to profit way back
tae kim on Twitter — Access to Nvidia H100 GPU compute is essentially sold out until 2024.
Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions | Financial Times
piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system — A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4. Piper is used in a variety of projects.
whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision — Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitasking model that can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification.
whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
Zoom amends terms of service after pushback on using calls to train AI models — Zoom on Monday said it won’t train artificial intelligence models on content from its communication app without customer consent following a firestorm of criticism which erupted over the weekend.
Bankman-Fried used $100 mln in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says — An amended indictment accused the 31-year-old former billionaire of directing two FTX executives to evade contribution limits by donating to Democrats and Republicans, and to conceal where the money came from.
MetaLawMan on Twitter — This indictment alleges that SBF lobbied members of Congress and "other high-level government officials to promote cryptocurrency regulation that would favor his business and personal interests." This may make Gary Gensler a witness. Which means SBF's lawyers would be able to cross-examine Gensler under oath at trial.
Full indictment
Amazon’s Leader on Alexa, Echo and Other Devices Plans to Leave - WSJ — David Limp’s retirement would be latest departure from e-commerce giant’s leadership under CEO Andy Jassy
SponsorLink: trying something new-ish for OSS sustainability — Open source sustainability is a tricky topic. I would kindly refer you to the thoughtful post by Eric Sink and Six Labors’s license change post.
SponsorLink and supporting OSS more broadly · Issue #1374 · moq/moq

530: What the AI Skeptics got Right Aug 08, 2023

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Did we get this one wrong? It seems consumer AI is eating the lunch of some web's biggest names.

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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.

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