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This week: Don’t get scammed looking for a job, and momentum grows for the 32-hour working week. (more…)
Author: Richi Jennings
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LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious
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WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)
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This week: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure. (more…)
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Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
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This week: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI. (more…)
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Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
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This week: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas. (more…)
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OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
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This week: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts. (more…)
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Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
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This week: All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere except China. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed the problem. (more…)
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8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
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This week: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going. (more…)
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FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
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This week: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY cryptography is bad. (more…)
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Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back
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20 Years of Neglect Led to ‘Meltdown’
Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci. (more…)
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Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022.
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This week, something a bit different: I’m devoting my entire column to Agile and Scrum. They’re increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture: Sexism, racism, burnout, micromanagement. (more…)