Synchronous Viralicity [18]
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 26, 2022
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
- 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
Hosts
Chris Hayner (He/Him)
Our story starts with a young Chris growing up in the agrarian community of Central New Jersey. Son of an eccentric sheep herder, Chris’ early life was that of toil and misery. When he wasn’t pressing cheese for his father’s failing upscale Fromage emporium, he languished on a meager diet of Dinty Moore and boiled socks. His teenage years introduced new wrinkles in an already beleaguered existence with the arrival of an Atari 2600. While at first it seemed a blessed distraction from milking ornery sheep, Chris fell victim to an obsession with achieving the perfect Pitfall game. Hours spent in the grips of Indiana Jones-esque adventure warped poor Chris’ mind and brought him to the maw of madness. It was at that moment he met our hero, Ned Bellavance, who shepherded him along a path of freedom out of his feverish, vine-filled hellscape. To this day Chris is haunted by visions of alligator jaws snapping shut, but with the help of Ned, he freed himself from the confines of Atari obsession to become a somewhat productive member of society. You can find Chris at coin operated laundromats, lecturing ironing boards for being itinerant. And as the cohost on the Chaos Lever podcast.
Ned Bellavance (He/Him)
Ned is an industry veteran with piercing blue eyes, an indomitable spirit, and the thick hair of someone half his age. He is the founder and sole employee of the ludicrously successful Ned in the Cloud LLC, which has rocked the tech world with its meteoric rise in power and prestige. You can find Ned and his company at the most lavish and exclusive tech events, or at least in theory you could, since you wouldn’t actually be allowed into such hallowed circles. When Ned isn’t sailing on his 500 ft. yacht with Sir Richard Branson or volunteering at a local youth steeplechase charity, you can find him doing charity work of another kind, cohosting the Chaos Lever podcast with Chris Hayner. Really, he’s doing Chris a huge favor by even showing up. You should feel grateful Chris. Oaths of fealty, acts of contrition, and tokens of appreciation may be sent via carrier pigeon to his palatial estate on the Isle of Man.