This week, we recap Matt's experience at KubeCon Chicago, provide some hot takes on OpenAI's impending App Store, and delve into Apple's claim that 8 GB is all you need.

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Runner-up Titles

• Keep on keeping on
• They’re not sandbox projects they’re litterbox projects
• It was USB thing
• If you spent all week in the OpenCost kiosk, this is the report
• The platter days
• Wait a second, I’m a pro
• Microsoft Benchmark Home Edition
• Vanity Metrics are for Vanity
• Rub some A.I. on it
• Rubbing A.I. on all of it
• Of course this is the way you’re going to do it

Rundown

• Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM
• CNCF
  • October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
  • AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure-native cost visibility experience built on the OpenCost project
  • Buoyant and SUSE Expand Partnership to Provide Secure Edge Computing Deployments
• OpenAI
  • OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
  • All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference
  • ChatCSV
  • How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents
  • OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo and fine-tuning program for GPT-4 | TechCrunch
• CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Matt Ray’s Keyboard Quest
  • Andrew says gets switch tester

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• The GPU Math", AI's impact on Cloud Rev and Capex
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• Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
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• Big Blue Can Still Catch The AI Wave If It Hurries - The Next Platform

Nonsense

• Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
• Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami

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