Synchronous Viralicity [18]

Ned pontificates about the premature announcement of Open Core's death, Chris is incensed by Facebook (again), and we all sigh heavily about hardcoded passwords.

Show Notes

Synchronous Viralicity

Episode: 18 Published: 07/26/2022

Stories

Is Open Core Dead? No.

• The Future of Open Source, or Why Open Core Is Dead
• There���s a bunch more in the list, and if you���re curious you can hit up the show notes for the link.
• Elastic, in particular, tried to create a new license that prevented AWS and other cloud providers from running their software without paying
• AWS is free to fork an older version of the code and continue to develop it in the open

Lightning Round

• Mozilla enables URL Stripping (which is not as sexy as it sounds). Facebook responds by encrypting links, which is not as safe as it sounds
  • Mozilla announced that their firefox browser would be automatically stripping out these query parameters
  • There is nothing that can be done to get away from the current facebook tracking model
• Hardcoded passwords are still��� bad? Yes, bad.
• Simply unplugging the network doesn’t guarantee your data is safe
• Stumbling into the cloud era, vSphere now supports cloud-init
• OpenAI makes full DALL-E 2 model widely available- for a cost
• NFTs hit a roadblock with Minecraft

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

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Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combined years in the industry. Are we all doomed? Yes. Will the apocalypse be streamed on TikTok? Probably. Does Joni still love Chachi? Decidedly not.