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An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)

Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

Meta and Russian Yandex engaged in unprecedented internet tracking practices, likely illegal with EU data protection law. localmess.github.io

"They'll keep pushing this as they're replacing workers with AI!" no they're not! That isn't happening. They're laying people off because they sunsetted Section 174 of the tax code that let tech companies immediately deduct 100% of R&D if it "helped improve products."

qz.com/tech-layoffs...

BIG doc score by @danahull.bsky.social

@bloomberg.com is publishing photos & partial footage of a fatal Tesla crash, which was recorded by the Model Y and downloaded by police, for the 1st time after obtaining the images & video through a public records request
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Want to understand what's going on with the Reactive Extensions for .NET? Watch Ian Griffith's "state of Rx in 2025" talk:

endjin.com/what-we-thin...

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.

We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

Hurray! My zombie talk is one of my favourites, but I never had a video recording of it. #KubeCon have been super-fast publishing their videos, so this is live already.

hollycummins.com/zombies-kube...

Have you ever thought about the CO2 emissions related to training an AI model? There are many people globally diving into promptathons and excited about AI, which is not surprising with all the benefits. It's also useful to consider the environmenal impact: thesustainableagency.com/blog/environ...

I'm surprised that Edgio (formerly Verizon, and sold via Azure) going bankrupt hasn't made bigger splashes in the news.

In good news, SMASH! is no longer using this CDN... as of yesterday. 🙃

New post: Buyer Beware: Azure SQL Managed Instance Storage is Regularly as Slow as 60 Seconds
kendralittle.com/2024/12/18/a...

🚀 [𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐠] Get Azure Cost Estimates in Azure DevOps PR comments with Bicep💲

In what is likely to be my last blog of 2024, I wanted to share a proof of concept I put together for getting a cost report into your pull request comments on review.

#azurebicep #devops

rios.engineer/get-azure-co...

We are beyond excited to announce the Service Bus local emulator! This has been the most requested feature for Service Bus, and today is the day.

You can find the official announcement at techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/messagi....

New ImageSharp release v3.1.6

Hit that update button and get the new shiny!

#dotnet #oss

Release Notes:

github.com/SixLabors/Im...

NuGet:

www.nuget.org/packages/Six...

Men: Be an ally and disrupt the bro code. When you hear harassment directed at women, you can say:
- "Not funny"
- “We don’t do that here.”
- “I find that offense, and I don’t ever want to hear that again.”
www.fastcompany.com/91229814/men...