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Episode 451: How does anyone use the Internet? Jan 26, 2024

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This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story.

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Enshittification
The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization
Wait for Wifi
Taxes by beef rib
It’s actually not fine
Smoking crack in Disneyland
AI is accelerating the crappiness.
Why don’t you just sell more cloud?
Generated Garbage
I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile.
Accidentally upgraded
Jury duty…”pretty cool.”

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Airalo for mobile cell phones plans when traveling.
How Google perfected the web
AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
Subprime Attention Crisis
2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”
Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

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Brandon: Travis County Jury Duty
Matt: Perplexity.AI
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Episode 450: Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness Jan 19, 2024

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This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation.

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Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers
Sales is crazy
Donut over-eating avoidance
Fundamentals don’t change
Do you have good recipes for golden geese?
We need better Dungeons and Dragons
The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence.
Peter Pan as DevRel
Hard stop goes soft
HR in volume feels dehumanizing
Mad Libs for layoffs
Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness.
We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision…
Status quo wins again
The Strangler Pattern for password management
Schwag cannot be stolen.

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SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots.
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Brandon: Carrot Weather App (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar).
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Episode 449: Magic of Cloud Jan 12, 2024

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This week, we delve into the Stack Overflow Survey, compare AWS and Azure, and discuss why everyone loves "Coding at Google." Plus, thoughts on the new Mobile Passport Control App and Global Entry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 449 Runner-up Titles That is part of the podcast I am going to have a change of pants for that They’re very good notes “Buildies” Of course they are The Internet is a series of tubes… filled with money The easiest way to make money is to have a lot of money Gobsmacked Rundown Mobile Passport Control (MPC) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 Amazon's Silent Sacking AWS Overhauls 60,000-Person Sales Team to Fix ‘Fiefdoms,’ Customer Complaints Coding at Google Relevant to your Interests Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features Exclusive: GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine execs after safety probe Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts Apple’s new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000 Google's GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available The Besties’ Revenge: How the ‘All-In’ Podcast Captured Silicon Valley Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes InfoWorld’s 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners DHH on LinkedIn: This is our cloud spend over the last 12 months. Can you tell when we… Apple Plans Rescue for $17 Billion Watch Business in Face of Ban Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement The Rule of X Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams The Big Cloud Exit FAQ Pro Take: The Cloud Isn’t The Answer to All IT Problems—At Least for Now Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers Who will buy VMware's end-user compute products? Deploy web apps anywhere A Look Back at Q3 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings End of Life VMware’s Cheaper New Bundles May Drive Up Costs Intel CEO says Nvidia’s AI dominance is pure luck Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends Reddit’s CEO takes a victory lap The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement Broadcom Hands VMware Partners ‘Termination Notice’ Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023 What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama 2023 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024 Remembering the startups we lost in 2023 Windows boss pledges to 'make Start menu great again' Amazon eliminated his role. Four months later, he's still getting paychecks. Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024 Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion LastPass prompting users to set a stronger master password Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups Command line csv viewer Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first phone service satellites Elon Musk is not understood Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity 2024 Predictions US fines Southwest Airlines $140M for 2022 IT meltdown Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages Office vacancy rate hits record high The robots will make us more human Amazon’s Twitch plans to slash staff: report Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. DocuSign surges amid report it is exploring buyout deal (DOCU) Adobe walks away from its $20 billion Figma acquisition amid regulatory scrutiny IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B Thomas Graf on LinkedIn: Cisco to Acquire Cloud Native Networking & Security Leader Isovalent Flexera enters into definitive agreement to acquire Snow Software Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles Cisco to Acquire Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion The companies employees don’t want to leave in 2023 Nonsense ‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship The 52 definitive rules of flying Neither Overhead nor Underground, PG&E Pilot Program Evaluates the Benefits of Putting Powerlines Right on the Ground Airline Amenities iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282 Reacting to Blackstone's holiday video The Generation Gap | 2024 Lamb ad Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking. SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Quick Flip Go Bottle | 24 Oz How a 40-ounce cup turned Stanley into a $750 million a year business Cup Fever Matt: Apple Watch 9 Coté: Patagonia 3-in-1 Parka. It is fucking expensive and iPhone 15 Pro Max Photo Credits Header Artwork

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Episode 448: Jorge Castro on Late Stage Linux on the Desktop and Working for the CNCF Jan 05, 2024

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Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, behind the scenes at the CNCF, and mentoring the next generation of open source contributors. Plus, “you can have anything you want, but the defaults are the best”.

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LinkedIn: jorge-castro2112
GitHub: @castrojo
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Episode 447: 2023 Year in Review Dec 29, 2023

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This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions.

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Flat budgets are better then no budget
Applauding as the Titanic goes down
They weren’t going to be patriated
But this is you!
Now we know
The hippies have lost
Keep your head on an open-source swivel
Once it works, it’ll be great
At least we got USB C
Great year for cables

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2022 Year in Review (Last Year’s Recap Episode)
Travel App Recommendations
- FlightRadar24
- Flighty
Final Numbers
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software
Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’.

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Episode 446: The Business B.S. Dictionary Dec 22, 2023

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This week, we “define” and decode business jargon and take a look at what it really means. Subscribe to Coté’s “Business BS Dictionary” YouTube Playlist for even more definitions.

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When your early is really on time
Showing up on time is is early for me
We are not going to sell any Kubernetes in TikTok

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Brandon: Slow Horses Season 3
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Episode 445: It’s my sacred time Dec 15, 2023

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This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying.

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I feel very safe on an airplane
We’re one mishap away from Lost
Difference between the right decision and the safe decision
First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo
“Rice”
They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck
Figure out where all the yaml goes

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Brandon: The Fund
Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped
- Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit
Coté: Sex Education, season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff)

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Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete Dec 08, 2023

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This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again!

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A.I. Arms Race
Table 4 needs pork chops
Run with that
Thanks for not saving us from the AI
The King of Cameos
Rebels going to rebel
Ivory Tower Scruples
The sign of something

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Episode 443: Everything is maintenance Dec 01, 2023

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This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 443 Runner-up Titles No Slack The Corporate Podcast. Quality of life stop Our roads diverge Eats a bag of llama Nobody wants to do a bake-off AI all the time Rundown AWS re:Invent Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g) Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS DGX Platform Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing AWS takes the cheap shots Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent Relevant to your Interests Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach Keynote Highlights: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023 Thoma Bravo to sell about $500 million in Dynatrace stock FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.0-preview Released to Demystify Cloud Billing Data AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent | TechCrunch Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media | TechCrunch Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024 Amazon to launch car sales next year with Hyundai Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023 DXC Technology and AWS Take Their Strategic Partnership to the Next Level to Deliver the Future of Cloud for Customers Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023 Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware | Hock Tan Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval VMware is now part of Broadcom | VMware by Broadcom Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It! Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected Meet ‘Anna Boyko’: How a Fake Speaker Blew up DevTernity IBM's Db2 database dinosaur comes to AWS Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake Gartner Says Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028 IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership Apple employees most likely to leave to join Google shows LinkedIn Ranked: Worst Companies for Employee Retention (U.S. and UK) Apple announces RCS support for iMessage Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 Today on The Vergecast: what Apple really means when it talks about RCS. Nonsense Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023 Listener Feedback Matt’s Trackball: Amazon.com: Kensington Expert Trackball Mouse (K64325), Black Silver, 5"W x 5-3/4"D x 2-1/2"H : Electronics Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Complete History & Strategy of Visa Matt: Markdown in Google Docs Google Docs to Markdown Coté: pork chops, preferably thin sliced. Photo Credits Header Artwork

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Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software Nov 24, 2023

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Brandon interviews Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. They delve into Dustin’s experience as a part-time analyst, explore how Chainguard secures open-source software, and Dustin shares his hiking experience on the Camino de Santiago. Plus, some thoughts on men’s fashion and the timeless three-piece suit.

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