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Hey there,

🎙️ This week, I was interviewed by Len Epp from Leanpub in a quick-launch video about my book, "Generative AI for the Rest of Us." The video provides an overview of the topics covered in the book.

👉 You can watch it here .

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lumigo.io lumigo.io
 
Building Resilient Applications - Smart Approaches in Chaos Engineering, Observability, and AIOps
 
 
Join us to learn about the best approach to building resilient applications using three innovative technologies—chaos Engineering, Observability, and AIOps.

Explore how:
✔️ Chaos Engineering aids in pinpointing potential failure points in complex systems by deliberately inducing problems and observing their effects.
✔️ Observability and troubleshooting platforms enhance this approach in microservices environments by providing extensive insight into the internal states of systems operating in cloud-native environments.
✔️ The significance of integrating technology and personnel beyond mere alerts through AIOps, which provides automated diagnostics with human-led resolution.
 
 

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ℹ️ News, Updates & Announcements
 
news.itsfoss.com news.itsfoss.com
 
Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0
 
 

systemd is an essential init system in many popular Linux distributions, providing a system service manager. Recent announcements from the creator, Lennart Poettering, include a new tool called "systemdrun" that aims to address the pitfalls of using sudo.

 
 
www.csoonline.com www.csoonline.com
 
Kinsing crypto mining campaign targets 75 cloud-native applications
 
 

An ongoing attack campaign is targeting cloud-native environments to deploy cryptocurrency mining malware, according to a research report from Aqua Security.

 
 
www.theregister.com www.theregister.com
 
Spanish startups file Microsoft cloud competition complaint
 
 

Spanish startup association has filed a complaint alleging anti-competitive practices by Microsoft in the cloud market in Spain. The association claims that Microsoft's dominance in operating systems and productivity software is pushing customers towards Azure, creating artificial barriers to competition.

The complaint also alleges that Microsoft's licensing terms restrict competition and make it difficult for startups to compete equally in the cloud market. The European Cloud Provider Lock-in group has also raised concerns about Microsoft's licensing practices.

 
 
www.ifixit.com www.ifixit.com
 
LPCAMM2 Is Finally Here, and It’s a Big Deal
 
 

If you've ever tried to futureproof a purchase by paying for everything you might eventually need up front, you know it can be a risky game. The problem is, you can't actually see into the future. Today’s laptops are becoming more modular, repairable, and upgradeable. The collaboration between Micron and Lenovo has led to a new upgradeable and replaceable LPDDR memory standard for laptops.

 
 
build5nines.com build5nines.com
 
Stack Overflow Upset Over Users Deleting Answers After OpenAI Partnership
 
 
The partnership between Stack Overflow and OpenAI has faced backlash from the community due to users attempting to delete content, causing some accounts to be temporarily suspended. This collaboration aims to provide developers with accurate and verified data from Stack Overflow through OpenAI's advanced AI model.
 
 
www.windowscentral.com www.windowscentral.com
 
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises "with a high degree of scientific certainty" that GPT-5 will be smarter than the "mildly embarrassing at best" GPT-4
 
 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently stated that ChatGPT is the dumbest model ever used and kind of sucks. Despite this, he emphasized the importance of providing users with capable tools to achieve incredible feats. Altman also mentioned that OpenAI spent $10 million on ChatGPT last year and is working on improving its performance and accuracy.

 
 
 
🐾 From FAUNers
 
faun.dev faun.dev
 
AI-based tools for Kubernetes troubleshooting and more
 
 

This overview list details open source tools for Kubernetes administrators looking to incorporate AI into their daily operations. Some of the featured tools include ChatGPT Bot, Kubera Kubecopilot, Kubectl Plugins, KubectlAI, and KubectlGPT.

 
 

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🔗 Stories, Tutorials & Articles
 
itsfoss.com itsfoss.com
 
Running AI Locally Using Ollama on Ubuntu Linux
 
 

By following the provided tutorial, users can easily set up and run different open-source LLMs on their system. This tool streamlines the process of model configuration, dataset control, and model file management in a single package.

 
 
dev.to dev.to
 
Say Goodbye to Docker Volumes
 
 

Docker has released a new feature called Docker Compose watch, which allows developers to automatically synchronize local source code with code in a Docker container without using volumes.

 
 
github.io github.io
 
The C++ Iceberg   ✅
 
 
A list of known and less-known concepts and facts about C++
 
 
thetshaped.dev thetshaped.dev
 
6 tools that made my life much easier as a Software Engineer
 
 

Software engineers often need tools to simplify daily tasks and boost productivity. A refined GitHub browser extension can add useful features, such as linking back to PR workflows and matching PR titles to commit titles. Other tools like Maccy, Rectangle, Lunar, and Amphetamine can also enhance workflow efficiency and convenience in various ways.

 
 
yosefk.com yosefk.com
 
A 100x speedup with unsafe Python
 
 

Speed up your Python code by using unsafe operations in Rust instead of numpy arrays, depending on the specific circumstances. Improve performance by understanding array layouts and strides, as well as adapting to surface layouts for pygame in order to avoid slowdowns.

 
 
simonwillison.net simonwillison.net
 
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
 
 

@deepfates tweeted about the term "slop" becoming a label for unwanted AI-generated content, likening it to how "spam" refers to unwanted emails.

 
 
itsfoss.com itsfoss.com
 
Things I Recommend Doing After Installing Ubuntu 24.04
 
 

The latest release of Ubuntu LTS comes with various improvements and new features to enhance usability. Users can choose between different sources to install software packages, such as Snap packages from Canonical or Flatpak packages from Flathub. Additionally, installing media codecs and managing software packages can be done easily through the Software Center or the Synaptic Package Manager.

 
 
pub.towardsai.net pub.towardsai.net
 
Build E2E CI/CD Pipeline using GitHub Actions, Docker & Cloud
 
 

A crucial step in machine learning work is implementing code to fetch the current production model from MLflow. MLflow backend storage and REST API allow for direct methods to fetch the current production model.

 
 
newsletter.programmingdigest.net newsletter.programmingdigest.net
 
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
 
 

There are two sources of truth, one of which is likely incorrect. Omlet is a new component analytics tool for React developers that helps drive component adoption and improves code reusability. Flink and Datadog can be used to enhance data observability within a service by providing two log levels: info and error.

 
 
 
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loovent.com loovent.com
 
The Ultimate Cloud Native Experience
 
 
This year, Europe’s flagship conference on everything cloud native will take place from September 03-04, 2024.

As in the past editions, ContainerDays 2024 will offer you a great learning experience on #Kubernetes, #CloudNative, #DevOps, #GitOps, #EdgeComputing, and much more. This is your opportunity to meet and exchange with other cloud native enthusiasts from across the globe in person or in the virtual world.

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⚙️ Tools, Apps & Software
 
github.com github.com
 
kubecost/disk-autoscaler
 
 

Resize Kubernetes PersistentVolumes based on Kubecost PV recommendations.

 
 
github.com github.com
 
AmrDeveloper/GQL
 
 

Git Query language is a SQL like language to perform queries on .git files with supports of most of SQL features such as grouping, ordering and aggregations functions

 
 
github.com github.com
 
activepieces/activepieces
 
 

Your friendliest open source all-in-one automation tool. Workflow automation tool 100+ integration / Enterprise automation tool / Zapier Alternative

 
 
github.com github.com
 
google-research/timesfm
 
 

TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting.

 
 
github.com github.com
 
LorenDB/neofetch
 
 

A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

 
 

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🤔 Did you know?
 
 
In 1980, the first gigabyte-sized hard disk drive was introduced by IBM. The IBM 3380 was as large as a refrigerator and weighed about 550 pounds, but it could store a whopping 2.52 gigabytes of data. At the time, this storage capacity was enormous, costing over $40,000, which translates to an astonishing $15,000 per gigabyte.
 
 
😂 Meme of the week
 
 
 
 
🗣️ Quote of the week
 
 
“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science