Editorial Calendar
80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS!
Richi Jennings | | Hybrid Work environment, managing remote workers, microsoft, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, Secure Time Seeding, STS, The Long View, WFH, Windows Server, work from home, working at home, working from homeIn this week’s #TheLongView: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug ...
Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX
Richi Jennings | | agile environments, ai, AI assistant, AI ChatBots, AI integrations, artificial intelligence, Cloud development environment, copilot, development environment, full stack, GitHub Copilot, google, PaLM, Project IDX, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to ...
2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
Richi Jennings | | Chrome, Chrome OS, cloud desktop, GNOME, google, Lacros, linux, The Long View, user acceptance testing, user experience, user interface, window managementIn this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas ...
AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
Richi Jennings | | ai, artificial intellegence, ChatGPT, generative AI, India, large language model, LLM, LLMs, machine learning, microsoft, ml, OpenAI, outsourcing, Stability AI, Stable Diffusion, The Long View, training modelsIn this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI ...
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
Richi Jennings | | ai, CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, generative AI, gpl, ibm, large language model, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, LLM, LLMs, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, Oracle, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, SUSE, The Long View, training modelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words ...
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
Richi Jennings | | ActivityPub, Cinder, Elon Musk, fediverse, Instagram, JIT, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastodon, Meta, Meta Platforms, Python, The Long View, ThreadsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making ...
Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability
Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case ...
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
Richi Jennings | | CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, gpl, ibm, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but … ...
How to Avoid Risk When Using Multiple Low-Code Platforms
Bill Doerrfeld | | application security, citizen development, devops, Low Code, Low-Code/No-Code, SaaSOrganizations are still increasing their use of low-code/no-code (LCNC). But this adoption isn't always consolidated around one tool—frequently, multiple low-code/no-code platforms are used under the same roof. In fact, Gartner predicts that ...
Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email
Richi Jennings | | Alphabet, azure, Azure cloud, Azure DevOps, competition, competitive pressure, email, FTC, Gen-Z, google, Google Cloud, license, licensing, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft Azure DevOps, software licensing, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to “office.” ...
92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI assistant, AI machine learning, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, copilot, developer productivity, DevOps Survey, devX, disabilities, disability, DX, github, GitHub Copilot, Intel, machine learning, machine learning artificial intelligence, microsoft, Productivity, Productivity Metrics, survey, The Long View, tools surveyIn this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface ...
The Tragedy of the Data Commons: Balancing Innovation With Risk
Clean drinking water and fisheries are classic examples of the "tragedy of the commons," the problem in economics and ecology where an individual is incentivized to consume as much of a shared ...
