"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is.
Mood board:
Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots.
We can educate Coté.
Learning from each other, the more you know!
There’s a lot of kube shit.
Non-subjugating windows.
Anyone can do a hyphen, you have to go out of your way to do an em-dash.
What’s a ‘fixie’?
HOT LINKEDIN ETHICS DEBATE.
You’re probably using the Twitter webpage and following the “Suggested Follows.”
There have been reports in social media.
It’s the chaos monkey for business models.
We can Armchair Product Management this thing.
I've been asked if crocodiles are considered "pescatarian-friendly."
It’s kind of like the yaml version of the Rational dream.
The whole rest of the world was putting together best of breed tools.
If you say so, Grammerly.
“Monty-python simulation”
Stay out of the room Mr. AI!
It’s paper size A-somebullshit.
We’re puttin’ the Plan column back on!
Space carpets.
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Meetups
Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20893343/meetup-users-furious-new-rsvp-payment-test)
LinkedIn Launches Events to Facilitate Professional Meet-Ups (https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-launches-events-to-facilitate-professional-meet-ups/565171/)
freeCodeCamp is building an open source alternative to Meetup (http://mattray 5:55 PM https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241)
GitLab
Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/)
GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/gitlab_reverse_ferret/)
AWS
AWS Promotional Credits for Open Source Projects | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/)
Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/amazon-migrates-more-than-100-consumer-services-from-oracle-to-aws-databases/)
Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/)
Security
Google teams up with Yubico to build a USB-C Titan Security Key (https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/14/google-yubico-usb-c-titan-security-key/)
Thoma Bravo makes $3.9 billion offer to acquire security firm Sophos (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/14/thoma-bravo-makes-3-9-billion-offer-to-acquire-security-firm-sophos/)
Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions (https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html)
Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They're Restricted (https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html)
Kube Corner
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/)
Red Hat Flexes OpenShift Kubernetes Muscles (https://www.lightreading.com/cloud/network/red-hat-flexes-openshift-kubernetes-muscles/d/d-id/754862)
MuleSoft Announces Anypoint Service Mesh, Extending the Power of Anypoint Platform to Any Microservice | MuleSoft (https://www.mulesoft.com/press-center/october-2019-release-anypoint-service-mesh)
Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/technology/facebook-europe.html?utm_source=Memberful&utm_campaign=e1340d4a90-daily_update_2019_10_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4c7fece27-e1340d4a90-111265207)
Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra (https://www.axios.com/mark-zuckerberg-libra-facebook-congressional-testimony-6665e91a-e520-4cda-92c7-50783393cd17.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Inside Mozilla's 18-month effort to market without Facebook (https://digiday.com/marketing/after-mozilla-stopped-spending-on-facebook-the-company-increased-its-focus-on-offline-marketing/)
Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Memo on HKmap.live Doesn’t Add Up (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live-email)
Open Source Gerrymandering (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/10/08/open-source-gerrymandering/)
Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku (https://twitter.com/ripienaar/status/1182794059297050624)
Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz (https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252471956/Docker-Desktop-asset-fiscal-stress-prompt-acquisition-buzz)
Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says (https://www.zdnet.com/article/building-chinas-comac-c919-airplane-involved-a-lot-of-hacking-report-says/)
Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/headless-cms-company-strapi-raises-4-million/)
Why Richard Stallman doesn’t matter (https://maffulli.net/2019/10/17/why-richard-stallman-doesnt-matter/)
IBM stock falls on revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/16/ibm-earnings-q3-2019.html)
IBM Reports Messy Results @themotleyfool #stocks $IBM (https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/10/16/ibm-reports-messy-results.aspx?Cid=UheJXN)
Nonsense
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Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). †
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Epson Scanner (https://epson.com/For-Home/Scanners/Document-Scanners/WorkForce-ES-400-Duplex-Document-Scanner/p/B11B226201).
Matt: Anti-pick: The Dead Don’t Die (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8695030/). This Must Be The Gig (https://consequenceofsound.net/thismustbethegig/) podcast: Mike Patton (https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/this-must-be-the-gig-mike-patton/).
Coté: The Fifth Season (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161852-the-fifth-season).
