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Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?

This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 423

Runner-up Titles

Capitalizing on Competitors

Bring the Go Bag

There are no backpacks in Gucci ads

No bad vibes

Rundown

Threads

Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived

Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri

Facebook's Threads is so depressing

Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion

Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days

How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)

Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps

Linux

Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked

Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment

History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes.

Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall

Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9

Shifting

"Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)"

Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left

Matt’s packing list

Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar

Relevant to your Interests

DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash

Snowflake vs. Databricks

WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030

Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter

Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022

Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision

87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation

IBM watsonx

ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project

Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup

Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware

Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023

Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals

Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January

Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year.

Nonsense

If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan?

Conferences