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Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
Richi Jennings | | ARM, ARM processors, Exascale, microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, NVIDIA, Python, scripting, supercomputer, The Long View, VBScript, visual studio, Visual Studio Code, VS Code, windowsIn this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...
Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon ...
Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI assistant, ARM, artificial intelligence, bad recruiting, Code Assistant, DevOps hiring, google, hiring, hiring process, IPO, lay-offs, layoffs, LLM, LLMs, recruiters, Recruiting, recruitment, SoftBank, tech layoffs, tech recruiting, technical recruiting, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation ...
Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
Richi Jennings | | Birmingham City Council, database, database storage, England, ERP, failover, Government, Oracle, Oracle Fusion, redundancy, SAP, storage, The Long View, Toyota, UKIn this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space? ...
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 ...
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 … ...
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, careers, DevOps careers, layoffs, linux, Linux 6.3, tech layoffs, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
Richi Jennings | | core-js, Denis Pushkarev, JavaScript, open source, PyPi, Russia, Software Supply Chain, Software Supply Chain Security, softwaresupplychain, supply chain attacks, supply chain security, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI ...
Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
Richi Jennings | | Douglas Crockford, E, emoji, github, JavaScript, microsoft, MIT license, The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape, The Long View, TypeScript, Wasm, WebAssemblyIn this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub ...
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon S3, AWS, Everybody wants to be famous—but nobody wants to do the work, framework, frameworks, job hopping, job search, microsoft, Russia, salary, Snowball Edge, The Long View, Ukraine, windowsIn this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs ...
EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
Richi Jennings | | cloud cost management, data privacy, Data Privacy Framework, Europe, GDPR, If you want the rainbow—you gotta put up with the rain, Max Schrems, Multi-cloud, privacy, Remote work, SkyPilot, The Long View, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work ...
Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out
Richi Jennings | | AI machine learning, AI models, AI/ML, AIOps, DALL-E, Deepfake, latent diffusion, machine learning, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, The Long View, What fools these mortals beThis week: A Stable Diffusion special. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll have seen something about the new open source machine learning model for creating images ...
