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  • In this topic deep dive, Cate and I discuss government bailouts for tech companies, EU investment in tech companies, and the possible manipulation of US politics by tech companies and cybercrime.

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  • I speak with Stephen Hood of Mozilla about their joint efforts with the Open Source Initiative to create a definition of open source AI.

    Read all about the announcement

    Learn more about the definition

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  • I speak with Mike McQuaid, long-term maintainer of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, about Workbrew, a new commercial version of Homebrew that brings extra security and governance features to Homebrew.

    This interview formed the basis of my article on The Next Web in July.

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  • In this episode, Cate and Chris dive into tech events. The different types, how they work, how they feel, and how they've changed the past few years.

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  • Corey from Crowdbotics joins me in the Tech Lounge to talk about their six year journey in creating an AI-powered code reuse platform, long before others jumped on the bandwagon.

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  • This episode is all about WASM at KubeCon EU 2024 way back in March. I speak with WASMEdge and Cosmonic to find out what they bring and their thoughts on WASM.

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  • It's a discussion episode! And this time, Cate Lawrence from Tech.eu joins me to talk about alternative meats and proteins, and I ask in a sea of jargon and hype, what really is artificial intelligence?

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  • In the tech lounge this episode, I have Leonard Pahlke talking about bringing sustainability to infrastructure and the work of the CNCF sustainability TAG and Dedy Kredo from Codium AI talking about their AI-powered IDE and text editor extension.

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  • No real episode, but rather a small update on some changes coming to the show.

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  • 00:00 Introduction and Welcome

    01:33 AI Crawlers and Content Scraping

    04:17 TechCrunch and the State of Tech Journalism

    06:12 Retro Tech: Classic Mac OS and Image Formats

    08:25 Web Browsing Privacy Enhancements

    10:08 Sleep Tracking and Orthosomnia

    11:05 Sign Off

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    AI crawlers need to be more respectful

    about.readthedocs.com

    There’s a growing backlash against AI crawlers consuming websites, videos, and other content with little respect for robots.txt, copyright issues, or the spikes of traffic that hosts have to pay for. Now, more people are talking about the impact.

    Apple Nvidia Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

    wired.com

    See above…

    Tech Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way

    keepgoingpod.com

    This honestly feels like a summation of the trials and tribulations of tech journalism over the past 20 years, seen through the focus of one of the best-known sites. To some anyway.

    Orthosomnia

    en.wikipedia.org

    I am a terrible sleeper, but one of the best pieces of advice I read is to stop worrying about it. In fact, I found out this week that worrying about sleep now has a medical term.

    Managing Classic Mac OS resources in ResEdit

    eclecticlight.co

    Sometimes, I miss the hackability of classic Mac OS. Then I remember how unstable it was 😬

    Here’s why you have to deal with so many annoying webPs now

    pcgamer.com

    Turns out I am not the only one endlessly irritated by this odd image format that pops up more and more and never feels like a “real” image.

    Artifacting

    tedium.co

    On the subject of webP, what’s the history of the JPEG? Maybe one of the most successful image formats of our time.

    Private Browsing 2.0

    webkit.org

    When is private browsing truly private? When it’s version 2!

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  • I am literally powered by Magic Mind right now. It’s helping me focus and keep going in some tough weeks of poor sleep and too much to do.

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    More interviews from KubeCon Paris. This time, Matt Wilson, a colleague from Docker Build Cloud, and Sebastian Blanc of Aiven.

    00:00 Introduction and Podcast Overview
    01:42 Docker Build Cloud Explained
    03:22 Challenges in Docker Image Building
    04:33 BuildCloud Features and Benefits
    06:22 User Experience and Feedback
    18:50 Future Plans and Roadmap
    20:34 Aiven - Exploring Data Management Solutions
    22:17 Aiven - Open Source Commitment and Contributions
    25:23 Aiven - Competing in the Cloud Market
    31:39 Aiven - Developer Experience and Tools
    36:24 Aiven - Future Directions and Innovations
    40:57 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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    Peering Into The Black Box Of Large Language Models

    hackaday.com

    How do LLMs *actually* work? A surprisingly small amount of people know, or bother to find out. But slowly, their creators are starting to ask questions about their creations, like any good creator really should.

    A revolution in your hand: Happy 45th birthday to the Sony Walkman

    musicradar.com

    I had a depressing conversation with a 22 year old recently where they had no idea what ripping or burning CDs was. Imagine if I’d told them about cassettes, battery life, and changing sides…

    How Labour Can Fix the UKs Tech Industry

    wired.com

    I am still registered to vote in the UK, and I’m not going to get to optimistic (yet), but it’s nice to see some attempt to build upon an already fairly strong tech industry from the new government.

    The telltale words that could identify generative AI text

    arstechnica.com

    Have you noticed how overly verbose and full of verbiage AI-generated text is? And, of course, the more that goes in, the more comes out again in some kind of self-fueling flurry of verbs. Lovely.

    EuRuKo 2024

    2024.euruko.org

    EuRuKo is the annual European Ruby Conference. Join us in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024 on 11th — 13th of September.

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  • In this episode, more interviews from KubeCon Paris.

    I speak with Dinesh from CIVO, a European cloud-native hosting company, and Thierry of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, whose projects typically power data centres.

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    Want to come see me do sounds and lights for a play in Berlin?

    https://www.eventbrite.de/e/the-house-of-bernarda-alba-tickets-920747038177

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    ‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomnia

    theguardian.com

    I am an on/off long-suffering poor sleeper. The middle-of-the-night insomnia is better than it used to be, but I still find it hard to stay in a deep sleep and wake up too early most of the time. I have also been trying to stay up later, hoping it might mean I wake up later, but it’s not working especially in summer. I am not sure I want to push things to this extreme, but maybe it’s worth trying.

    Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternatives

    macstories.net

    I love macOS’s menu bar, but it can get cluttered quite quickly. Thanks to Setapp I’ve been using Bartender for some time to keep mine tidy. Recently, the developer sold the company to a new owner who, shall we say, didn’t handle the transition well. Most people’s concerns around security and privacy seem to now be resolved, but it still gave developers of alternative applications a great opportunity, and this list summarises some of the best.

    Training AI music models is about to get very expensive

    technologyreview.com

    Did I mention before I used to be a professional musician? I think I did 😅. Anyway, as I still make some money from that part of my life, it makes me more sensitive to those exploiting musicians’ work. Oddly, AI-generated music is one of the rare cases where the archaic archaeology of the music business works in favour of artists. They are not an industry with a reputation for taking a hit to their bottom line lightly, and now the AI companies are firmly in their sights.

    Are rainy days ahead for cloud computing?

    bbc.com

    While some companies are still beginning their journey with cloud-native, some of the early adopters are already moving to the next thing, which seems to be back to running your own servers. The promise of flexible costs hasn’t been the reality for many, and the loops and hoops providers make you jump through too much work. 37signals (and isn’t it great to hear from them again!?) are one of many recent examples of this trend. While I don’t think we need to worry about the big three providers yet, what’s next?

    EuRuKo 2024

    2024.euruko.org

    And on the subject of Ruby! EuRuKo is the annual European Ruby Conference. I’ll be there in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2024 on 11th — 13th of September. Hope to see you there!

    SimCity Isnt a Model of Reality. Its a Libertarian Toy Land

    wired.com

    Anyone reading for a while might know I am a fan of building-style games (on the rare occasions I play games anyway). Sim City is a classic of this genre, and it became so popular that its influence spread further than you may realise. “Simulations” being something new meant that the game’s developer was asked to create simulation games for a lot of different industries, but not all of them were as successful as the original.

    Micropolisweb

    micropolisweb.com

    And if all this talk of SimCity makes you nostalgic or experience what we oldies had to put up with, you can play it in the browser thanks to the power of WebAssembly.

    News from me

    2024 hasn’t been the best year for many of us. Unfortunately, the same applies to me. Especially in the past few weeks, I have had several projects cancelled, but there’s one I am most annoyed by and would like to try to find a new home for.

    I was working on a book covering Ableton Live 12, and the project was suddenly cancelled. I was quite enjoying the process and was building up a good plan and body of work covering the topic, bringing a dose of practical “analogue” music experience to a largely electronic topic.

    It’s too late for a specific Live 12 book now, but I would love to take some of what I have to a new home. A new book, a course, maybe. I was thinking of ideas around “Live for drummers”, or “Live for analogue musicians”, that kind of thing. If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in this, let me know!

    Finally, I am planning a rebrand of the podcast and newsletter. I still need to investigate a few things and all being well, I will push ahead in August, as it’s a quiet month.

    I’ve been painting

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  • Two of my interviews from the State of Open Con in London back in February. Featuring Lorna Mitchell, VP of developer experience at Redocly and Amanda Brock, CEO of open UK.

    Lorna and I cover open source developer experience and with Amanda, we discuss the unique role the UK can take in open tech in the world.

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  • Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

    security.apple.com

    Depending on who you speak with and how much attention they actually paid to the event, WWDC was either one of the best or worst events Apple has ever done. Personally, I was excited by a lot of the user and developer-facing announcements and can't wait to try them. Among all the announcements was this detailed post on how Apple intends to keep its new AI cloud services private and secure. It is a fascinating insight from a company that isn't typically so forthcoming with details.

    Smartphones May Affect Sleepbut Not Because of Blue Light

    wired.com

    For years, I, like many others, have tried to reduce screen time before bed due to it and the infamous "blue light" effect on my sleep. It turns out that many of the reports we based this belief on were not as accurate as we maybe thought and that, as always, "it depends".

    13 Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions

    getpocket.com

    Grim, but I am always a fan of hearing of those who, well, erm, died, for what they loved and believed in.

    Musicians outraged as Spotify CEO claims the "cost of creating content" is "close to zero" : "Our albums took hundreds of hours of human effort hard work and creativity"

    musicradar.com

    As a sometime professional musician from the pre-streaming times, no streaming service is exactly great for musicians, but Spotify, ever since they created the idea, have always had disdain for artists, and I refuse to use them. Well, the latest news from the company has not changed my opinion.

    AI Writing Will Feel Real Eventually

    every.to

    A balanced and pragmatic discussion on how we always get used to new things. Eventually.

    The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards

    spectrum.ieee.org

    Anyone who regularly follows me knows that I love computing history. But most of what I know has a Western bias, and I have also always had a side fascination with different keyboard layouts, especially those that don't use Latin characters. Unsurprisingly, one of the largest nations in the world has quite a history of its own keyboard layout.

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  • I spoke with Kalyan of Datacebo, a company that creates open-source and enterprise tools for generating synthetic data for testing, load testing, and more.

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  • I speak with Saravana Kumar of Document 360 about their enterprise-level solution for documentation and knowledge management and what AI could mean for the industry.

    00:00 Introduction to the Podcast00:50 Interview with Saravana Kumar Begins01:11 Document360: Use Cases and Benefits02:18 The Origin Story of Document36006:52 Customization and Integration Options15:21 AI and the Future of Document36022:50 Wrapping Up the Interview31:37 Chris's Latest Updates and Sign-Off

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  • Mac Power Users #745: “Inventing the Future” with John Buck — Relay FM

    relay.fm

    Another MPU recommendation from me and a trip down Apple memory lane. John Buck published a book covering the “Apple Technology Group,” a division within Apple that operated back in the 1980s and 1990s and experimented with many forward-looking bits of technology that we take for granted today.

    Stack Overflow suspends user for editing posts in OpenAI protest

    bleepingcomputer.com

    It was a matter of time before Stack Overflow admitted defeat in their own AI efforts and asked Open AI for a big pile of money to access their data instead. However, as an almost entirely user-generated content site, the people who write said content aren’t happy, and unsurprisingly, Stack Overflow isn’t handling this well.

    Dell turns 40: How a teenager transformed $1000 worth of PC parts into a tech giant

    zdnet.com

    Less noisy than other long-lasting competitors, Dell have been there longer than most, quietly in the background making a big pile of money in varying degrees.

    Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia’s phone unit then killed it as a tax write-off

    theregister.com

    Nokia, once a diamond of European tech, slowly sold off parts of its business until even those who bought those sold them on again.

    Flood of AI-Generated Submissions Final Straw for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher

    404media.co

    Publishers, small and large, are already asking for hopeful submitters to sign disclaimers on AI-generated content. But even this is not enough to prevent the flood of AI-generated crap flooding publishers and ruining it for those of us who actually want someone to read our very human words.

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  • In the first round-up of interviews from KubeCon EU 2024 in Paris, I focus on developer platform-related tools and productivity. The episode features interviews with Luca Galante of Humanitec, Sebastian Stadil of Scalr, and Lev Lazinskiy of Dagger.

    0:00 Intro
    02:26 Humanitec
    17:23 Scalr and OpenTofu
    40:27 Dagger
    01:01:23 Outro

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