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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…
Data Center Drama
For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…
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Is Open Source Economy Proof?
You’re no doubt hearing about it everywhere you go. The global economy is having some issues and financial experts are all saying it’s about to get much worse. What does that mean for open source projects? After all, people use open source…
Chungas Irrational Fear of Hard Drives!
It’s a weird time of the year. Everyone seems to be taking vacation time before things start getting cold. Tom and Chunga are no different. Chunga is just getting home from his break and Tom is on his way to start a cruise! Thankfully, as…
Super Nerd Spotlight! "The Origin Guys"
Tom is losing his mind. Chunga has been bugging him to do a new Super Nerd Spotlight episode of The Hacks. Tom has been insisting that the two of them have done one of these recently. Much to Chunga’s delight, Tom is wrong! For today’s episode,…
Why Do Software Companies "Pivot" at the Drop of a Hat?
It seems like software companies are doing this more and more lately. Have you noticed it? For reasons that are often unknown to the masses, a software company will pivot and change not only their entire business model but their product as well! When…
PyPi Is Having Malware and Phishing Problems
Shout out to Derek Ardolf! He’s one of the rock stars on the Salt Core team. A few days ago, he sent Chunga a handful of different blogs and news articles about PyPi, which sent Chunga into a massive rabbit hole. The articles and blogs were all about…
VMware Explore! We Saw Some Great Stuff!
Tom and Chunga have just returned from their first in-person convention in 3-years! VMware Explore was held last week in San Francisco and what a crazy and educational week it was! For both of the Hacks, the experience was both weird and…