Years later, some sw companies have gotten better at operating it and AWS (among other clouds) has gotten better at contributing to the sw. But there's still a gap and that prompts things like the BSL.
@mjasay
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Cloud Giants’ Advantage in Monetizing Open Source Software
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Years ago @timbray called out the divide between the cloud vendors (awesome at operating sw at scale) and others better at building sw. https://
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HashiCorp’s Shift: Open Source Commitment Under Scrutiny
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Et tu, Hashi? It's always been overly façile to blame "VC-backed biz", and claim companies just didn't get open source/lacked commitment. But Hashi was (and is!) one of the "good guys." So this isn't done out of some "We're not rich enough" motive. Time to confront reality https://
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Utah Telehealth AI App Launches for Primary Care Access
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Great to hear. I got an email that it's now available in Utah and will try it. I'm fortunate to have some doctor friends that serve as surrogates of urgent care/PCPs but this sounds like a better way to preserve them as friends not medical care.
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Zoom’s Data Usage Policies Raise Privacy and AI Ethics Concerns
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That's cool of Bard, and scary from Zoom. "We can use your meetings for…pretty much anything we want to"
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Zoom’s New Terms of Service Raise Data Privacy Concerns
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Zoom seems to be dramatically overreaching in how it treats customer data with its new terms of service:
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Timezone Management Database Architecture Long-term Technical Debt
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Mr. @QuinnyPig is right: using your local time zone for a database or server seems fine until it's not ("It's a one-way door that you don't realize you're passing through and then you spend decades unpacking the mess").
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GenAI Shifts Developer Focus But Preserves Their Importance
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Think generative AI will render developers obsolete? Quite the opposite. GenAI promises to shift the focus for developers, but not their importance https://
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AI Safety: The Room Confinement Paradox
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The staying is safe. It's the leaving your room that's dicey. 🙂
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ChatGPT won’t revolutionize programming as much as feared
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@mikeloukides on how things like ChatGPT will change programming, but not as much as we may think https://
oreilly.com/radar/fearing-
the-wrong-thing/
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