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1. AI on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Trust and Stability: RHEL provides the mission-critical foundation needed for workloads where security and reliability cannot be compromised.

Predictive vs. Generative: Acknowledging the hype of GenAI while maintaining support for traditional machine learning algorithms.

Determinism: The challenge of bringing consistency and security to emerging AI technologies in production environments.

1. Rama-Llama & Containerization

Developer Simplicity: Rama-Llama helps developers run local LLMs easily without being "locked in" to specific engines; it supports Podman, Docker, and various inference engines like Llama.cpp and Whisper.cpp.

Production Path: The tool is designed to "fade away" after helping package the model and stack into a container that can be deployed directly to Kubernetes.

Behind the Firewall: Addressing the needs of industries (like aircraft maintenance) that require AI to stay strictly on-premises.

1. Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Red Hat AI: A commercial product offering tools for model customization, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

Inference Engines: James highlights the difference between Llama.cpp (for smaller/edge hardware) and vLLM, which has become the enterprise standard for multi-GPU data center inferencing.

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Links:

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• AWS CEO Says Most Developers Could Stop Coding Soon As AI Takes Over — "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding," said Garman, who became AWS's CEO in June.
• Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes — Using conditional writes, you can simplify how distributed applications with multiple clients concurrently update data in parallel across shared datasets. Each client can conditionally write objects, making sure that it does not overwrite any objects already written by another client. This means you no longer need to build any client-side consensus mechanisms to coordinate updates or use additional API requests to check for the presence of an object before uploading data.
• Syncing Prod & Staging Data With Dokku — Dokku’s apps:clone command is a fantastic utility that allows you to replicate an entire app, including all code, databases and environment variables.
• Study Finds 77% of Employees Report AI Has Increased Their Workload — The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI's impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees.
• Docker Image disappeared · Issue #799 — The DMCA notice
• macos: OSX (macOS) inside a Docker container. — By default, macOS Ventura will be installed. But you can add the VERSION environment variable to your compose file, in order to specify an alternative macOS version to be downloaded
• A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project — Mono had many homes over 23 years, but Wine's repos might be its final stop.
• Thank you to all the Mono developers!
• Start9 — Opt out by running a private server.
• Start9 | Lightning — The following guide will get you up and running with a lightning node and walk you through opening your first channel.

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• Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder
• Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard.

Links:

• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023 Bellingham Technical College
• We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit — The rough math goes like this: We spent $3.2m on cloud in 2022. Just under a million of that was on storing 8 petabytes of files in S3, fully replicated across several regions. So that leaves ~$2.3m on everything else: app servers, cache servers, database servers, search servers, the works. That's the part of the budget we intend to bring to zero in 2023. Then we'll worry about exiting the 8PB from S3 in 2024.
• White House endorses Senate TikTok bill, urges Congress to pass soon — The RESTRICT Act would empower the Commerce Secretary to mitigate “undue or unacceptable risk” to national security posed by technology transactions in which foreign adversaries have an interest.
• Text of the Bill [PDF] — LEW23098 - restrict_act_final_text.pdf
• The White House is Reportedly Pushing For More Power to Deal with TikTok — Many are concerned about how broad the bill is. Some fear this could give the federal government vast new powers over all social media. Many, though, agree something needs to be done about TikTok.
• Statement from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Introduction of the RESTRICT Act | The White House — We applaud the bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senators Warner and Thune, who today introduced the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act. This legislation would empower the United States government to prevent certain foreign governments from exploiting technology services operating in the United States in a way that poses risks to Americans’ sensitive data and our national security.
• We Found 28,000 Apps Sending Data to TikTok. — TikTok’s software development kits could undermine Joe Biden's order to stop internet traffic flowing from federal employees' phones to TikTok within 30 days.
• Alby — Lightning for your Browser! — Alby brings Boosts to the web.
• Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.
• P0302 Code - What It Means
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• Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder
• Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard.

Links:

• Michael Dominick on Twitter — And a dead 🚘 wow… rough morning. Lol. Guess it’s my turn in the Murphy’s law barrel 😂
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — I’d like to say my MacBook Air lasted the night. I’d really like to… nobody tell ChrisLAS. It’s in rice. It’s fine.
• Tank on Twitter — Let me break this down for you: Elon became largest shareholder for Free Speech Elon was told to play nice and not speak freely.
• Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart — In the last decade, a growing body of research more directly links air and road traffic noise to a heightened risk for a number of cardiovascular ailments — and scientists are beginning to pinpoint the mechanisms at play.
• ‘Reader’ Apps Can Now Add Links for Account Signups Outside of the App Store
• Apple Allegedly Provided User Data to Hackers That Forged Legal Requests
• Fig — Fig adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal. Move faster with Fig.
• Warp Raises $23M — "You walk by any developer’s desk and they’re going to have a terminal open. There are only a couple apps like that: the terminal and the code editor."
• Parag Agrawal on Twitter — Elon Not Joining Twitter Board
• Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why people should return to the office — Schmidt says it’s not just a matter of nostalgia: There are practicalities to working together in person. For example, he says that conversations about professionalism — which might be particularly necessary at companies full of young employees, are much harder to have virtually.

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Links:

• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Today's @CoderRadioShow is brought to you by the Lizard people who love @openSUSE! #Linux #SUSE thanks for the SWAG!
• Follow up on Oracle v Google — Oracle's best claim for copying of actual code is a complaint that Google improperly combined GPL code into an Apache-licensed software suite, but not even that - it is that Apache Harmony did this and Google copied it inadvertently.
• Top Stories: iPhone 12, HomePod Mini, MagSafe Accessories, and More — Apple's media event obviously dominated the news this week
• Apple Announces HomePod mini With Spherical Design — Apple today announced the HomePod mini with a new spherical design and the S5 chip at its "Hi, Speed" event.
• Dropbox is letting all employees work from home permanently — The company plans to convert its existing offices to coworking spaces to aid in team building and collaboration.
• Mike's .vimrc
• Micro - Text editor — A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

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• Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coder

Links:

• Install Sosumi for Linux using the Snap Store — This will boot to the macOS recovery system.
• Google to enforce 30% cut on in-app purchases — Google said Monday it will enforce rules that require app developers distributing Android software on the Google Play Store to use its in-app payment system.
• Android Developers Blog: Listening to Developer Feedback to Improve Google Play
• Coalition for App Fairness — The Coalition for App Fairness is an independent nonprofit organization founded by industry-leading companies to advocate for freedom of choice and fair competition across the app ecosystem.
• Ruby 3.0.0 Preview 1 Released — We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
• Swift System is Now Open Source — Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms.
• Introducing Swift on Windows
• The Era of Visual Studio Code — I believe the era of new text editors emerging and quickly becoming popular has now ended with Visual Studio Code. VS Code has reached unprecedented levels of popularity and refinement, laying a foundation that could mean decades of market dominance. If, like me, one of your priorities for your tools is longevity2, then that means VS Code might be a great text editor to invest in learning today.

Plus some some anger at Apple, and Mike reveals the latest language that's caught his eye.

Links:

• Dokku — A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications.
• Jenkins — The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.
• Jenkins Evergreen — Evergreen is an automatically updating rolling distribution system for Jenkins. It consists of server-side, and client-side components to support a Chrome-like upgrade experience for Jenkins users.
• Jenkins Blue Ocean — Blue Ocean is a project that rethinks the user experience of Jenkins, modelling and presenting the process of software delivery by surfacing information that’s important to development teams with as few clicks as possible.
• Introducing Jenkins X — Jenkins X automates CI/CD and DevOps best practices for you.
• Jenkins Helm Chart — Jenkins master and slave cluster utilizing the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin.
• Jenkins Chef Cookbook — Installs and configures Jenkins CI master & node slaves. Resource providers to support automation via jenkins-cli, including job create/update.
• Why on earth did we choose Jenkins for 2019? — This article tries to explain why the hell Rookout, a relatively new SaaS company, chose to use Jenkins, and what the big advantages are that make Jenkins so great even now, eight years in.
• Linux Academy Certified Jenkins Engineer — Learn CI/CD concepts as well as Jenkins installation and functionality. Plus best practices for CD pipelines as well as Jenkin's security.
• 'Mad Botter' takes 'MacGyver' approach to tech sales — The Plant City-based company turns run-of-the-mill consumer electronics into devices capable of being deployed for use in advanced military applications, such as fighter jets.