GC - #20 Is this thing on?

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Giant Conversations Episode #20

Topic: Is this thing on - it's the news!

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Swarmalicious News

Elastic Search is Open Source again Elastic is adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by using AGPL, an OSI approved license, removes any questions, or fud, people might have. Note from Joe Salisbury: The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL

Lidl’s Cloud Gambit: Europe’s Shift to Sovereign Computing Although there is the AWS Sovereign Cloud. Lidl is stepping up as the potential "low-cost" EuroCloud alternative. Fueled by GDPR, businesses are demanding cloud services that operate entirely within the EU’s borders. STACKIT –The German business cloud

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Schule und LIDL? – LIDL lohnt sich.

Reclaim is joining Dropbox: Popular AI assisted calendar Reclaim.ai has been purchased by Dropbox.

Beware, there is an ongoing spambot attack in #GitHub issues. Where random people suggest "the fix" is to download a file from mediafire.com.

Good deal on up to 24 O'reilly books on Software Architecture on Humble Bundle which ends in more than 2 weeks: Theory of a Humble Bundle:

You pay what you want
A portion of the cost goes to Charity
Play or read online like a usual product

Example: O'Reilly books value: €1,274. In the Humble Bundle, you can pay as little as €1 for 3 items, €16 for 9 items, etc.

Exploring China’s 0-day vulnerability research capabilities:: Chinese businesses above a certain size must have a representative that reports to the Ministry of State Security. There is also a mandate that if you as a Chinese researcher/company find a vulnerability, you have to tell the government. This allows the Government to incentivize and coordinate the research and find "boatloads" of vulnerabilities.

Platform engineering Q&A with Kelsey Hightower and Kaspar von Grünberg: Great interview with Kelsey. A few topics he covers:

Communication with executives
PO's and Big picture over micro-improvements
Will Platform Engineering end the era of dominance of the primary cloud provider
Security
AI

AI News

AI Search Engine for Research: Also mentioned from Oliver, Eric Schmidt predicts a groundbreaking shift in AI for 2024, with models uniting large context windows, agents, and text-to-action.

OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion

News to me

Is my blue your blue?

Draw an iceberg and see how it will float Easter Egg: https://youtu.be/n3k5QlQvdio?si=eT_Qp-s0K0-t7ijR