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Published: July 14, 2023, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Cot\xe9 tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend.

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 423

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• Capitalizing on Competitors
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• Bring the Go Bag
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• There are no backpacks in Gucci ads
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• No bad vibes
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\n\nRundown\n\n

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• Threads\n\n
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  • Threads, Instagram\u2019s \u2018Twitter Killer,\u2019 Has Arrived
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  • Special Episode: Meta\u2019s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri
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  • Facebook's Threads is so depressing
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  • Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion
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  • Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days
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  • How Threads\u2019 privacy policy compares to Twitter\u2019s (and its rivals\u2019)
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  • Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps
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• Linux\n\n
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  • Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked
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  • Keep Linux Open and Free\u2014We Can\u2019t Afford Not To
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  • SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
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  • History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes.
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  • Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall
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  • Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9
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• Shifting\n\n
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  • "Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)"
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  • Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left
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• Matt\u2019s packing list
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• Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar
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\n\nRelevant to your Interests\n\n

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• DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash
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• Snowflake vs. Databricks
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• WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030
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• Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter
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• Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022
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• Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision
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• 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation
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• IBM watsonx
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• ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch
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• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project
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• Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup
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• Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware
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• Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023
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• Microsoft\u2019s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals
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• Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January
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• Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year.
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• If you don\u2019t buy Jony Ive\u2019s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan?
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.
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• August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
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• Explore EU CFP is open.
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• Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Cot\xe9 speaking.
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• Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Cot\xe9 speaking.
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• October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
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• Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
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• If you want your conference mentioned, let\u2019s talk media sponsorships.
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.
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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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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: Hijack
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• Matt: Murderbot Diaries
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• Cot\xe9: Fantastical, read-out of second HEY try.
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