OSS Summit Energy and Sustainability
Back from travels and in this issue, it's all about open-source energy and sustainability
Podcast version
Listen to the episode here, or search for “Chinchilla Squeaks” wherever you find your podcasts. The podcast features my interviews with Max from the CNCF Sustainability TAG and Arpit of LF Energy. In the interviews, we cover both groups’ efforts to bring open-source technology and practices to energy generation, distribution, monitoring, and energy sustainability.
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A whole lotta Linux
The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth→
It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. It is one of the very first programs that load when most computers power up.
Ubuntu 23.10, Mantic Minotaur
Cool name, cool logo, and a whole lot of tweaks. Find out more on the Ubuntu blog and stand by your update channels for an imminent release!
Canonical releases Charmed MLFlow→
Machine learning practitioners want the same tools as application developers, and now they are slowly getting them. Canonical announced today that Charmed MLFlow, Canonical’s distribution of the popular machine learning platform, is now generally available. Charmed MLFlow is part of Canonical’s growing MLOps portfolio.
All change
The Death of Unity→
Unity was once heralded as the savior of the video game industry. It was relatively easy to use, and provided an engine/framework for multiple games rather than just one.
Photoshop is now on the web!→
Enabled by WebAssembly + Emscripten, Web Components + Lit, Service Workers + Workbox & new Web APIs. Chrome & Adobe enjoyed collaborating on it. Bringing the Photoshop desktop application to the web (photoshop.adobe.
40 companies that are beating the West→
What is the world’s biggest digital bank? No, not HSBC — it’s Brazil’s Nubank, which reported close to $5 billion in revenue last year. What is the most widely used social media platform in Vietnam? Not Facebook or TikTok — it’s Zalo, with an impressive 87% adoption rate.
The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last?→
Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google, said out loud what many in Silicon Valley must have been whispering for weeks: an open-source free-for-all is threatening Big Tech’s grip on AI.
And finally…
