Mega Chad GPT: Taking Umbrage at Ubuntu Snap Strongarm [47]

Chris gives no Snaps to Canonical, Ned reminds you that Comcast is awful, and we both agree that The Life of Brian is just OK.

Show Notes

Mega Chad GPT: Taking Umbrage at Ubuntu Snap Strongarm

Episode: 47 Published: 2/28/2023

Ubuntu is Strong Arming other Distros Into Using Proprietary Canonical���s Snap Program for Package Installation

• Ubuntu pushing out flatpak
• Snap, while ostensibly open source, is completely controlled by Canonical
• Canonical is pushing their own product even harder by strongarming other Ubuntu-based distributions into not providing flatpak by default
• Ubuntu has actually lost mindshare over the past decade

Lightning Round

• You Suck. Pay Me.
• Copyright Office Backtracks On Allowing AI-Generated Art To Be Protected
  • Zarya of the Dawn
• Lying Liars Xfinity Continue To Lie
• Justice Department Alleges Advertising Company Google Destroyed Records Relating To Anti-Trust Lawsuit
• Broadcom Acquisition Date for VMware Extended
• GCC Project To Frontend Rust Compilation Back On Track After A Hiatus

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.