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Apr 16, 2024

Stability AI's Mistakes, and How YOU Can Avoid Them

Tom and Chunga are tired, TIRED of talking about AI! They need a dang break from talking about AI!! Are they going to get a break in this episode of The Hacks? Nope… Well, ok, kind of. At the start of the year, Tom predicted one of…

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Apr 16, 2024

Stability AI's Mistakes, and How YOU Can Avoid Them

Tom and Chunga are tired, TIRED of talking about AI! They need a dang break from talking about AI!! Are they going to get a break in this episode of The Hacks? Nope… Well, ok, kind of. At the start of the year, Tom predicted one of…

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Apr 9, 2024

Did Open Tofu steal new Terraform code?!

Do you remember a few episodes ago, when Chunga said “The tech industry is terrible at this! We’re the worst I’ve ever seen, in any industry, when it comes to taking 20-steps to do something, when it can be done in two!” This episode of The Hacks, is…

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Apr 2, 2024

XZ Backdoor CVE Targets Linux!!

Tom and Chunga have a good one for you today! Late last week, news broke that an extremely dangerous backdoor CVE, built within the XZ compression library had compromised Linux Debian Unstable and Fedora 40-41. Fortunately, was discovered…

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Mar 26, 2024

Another One Bites The Dust!

Tom tells people a lot… a lot. When you choose to pick up or “adopt” open source software, you take on a certain level of liability. If you choose to deploy open source software into your infrastructure you run the risk of that software going away!…

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Mar 19, 2024

What Is DBOS? Will It Change Infrastructure Forever?

Chunga noticed somehting recently, and he’s wondering if it’s symptomatic of a larger problem. A few weeks ago, a video game emulator company called “Yuzu” was sued by Nintendo. Yuzu folded and disappeared almost immediately. Since then, several other…

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Mar 12, 2024

AMD & Intel Have An Open Source Answer to CUDA!

Score another one for Tom Hatch! He and Chunga have been trying to get to this episode for weeks! As all of you know, Nvidia is king. At the first of the year, Tom said that if AMD and Intel wanted to have any hope being…

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