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Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 6:30 a.m.

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This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.

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Rundown

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• Citi Can\\u2019t Have Its $900 Million Back
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• Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115)
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• Operating Systems\\n\\n
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  • CentOS Stream: Why it\\u2019s awesome
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  • The world\\u2019s second-most popular desktop operating system isn\\u2019t macOS anymore
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Relevant to your interests

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• \\u2018Millions\\u2019 of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal
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• Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin
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• Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues \\u2013 TechCrunch
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• Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams
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• Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software
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• Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans\\u2014\\u2018We Need to Inflict Pain\\u2019
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• CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and \\u2018Roaring Kitty\\u2019 slated to testify in GameStop hearing
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• Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users
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• Excel Is The World\\u2019s Most Used \\u201cDatabase\\u201d
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• Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls
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• The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy
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• The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA\\u2019s Martian Explorers
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• Elon Musk\'s SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion
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• This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.
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• Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook
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• Security\\n\\n
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  • Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M
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  • Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions
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  • The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier.
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• Passwords\\n\\n
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  • LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both
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  • Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords
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• Hardware highlights\\u2026?\\n\\n
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  • Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020.
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  • Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm
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• Audio is the future?\\n\\n
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  • Clubhouse\\u2019s Inevitability
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  • The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi
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Nonsense

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• 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T
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• Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be \'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years\'
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Listener Feedback

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• Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based)
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Conferences

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• DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
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• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
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• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
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SDT news & hype

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\\xe9\\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
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Recommendations

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• Matt: HDMI LCD controllers.
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• Brandon: Fake Famous.
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• Cot\\xe9: Susan Sontag\\u2019s first book, Against Interpretation.
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