Ingy döt Net created the functional #YAML Script programming language in part so there will be one standard (working) reference implementation of #YAML that all the programming languages can use. One upside for #K8s users: no more need for #Helm files. #OSSummit

Linux Foundation Overture Maps the Globe with Open Data thenewstack.io/linux-foundati… @joab_jackson #OSSummitNA #Overture #Maps #OpenData

“I don’t want to be part of the hype. Let’s wait 10 years and see where it goes before making these claims,” — Linus Torvalds on the current wave of AI hype, adding that he is an AI optimist in that it will eventually bring better tools. In convo with Dirk Hohndel #OSSummit

“If you’re not running Linux on Azure, you’re running it in the wrong place”— Jack Aboutboul, explaining, along with Klum Kashan, Microsoft Microsoft Azure’s extensive update/support mechanism for Azure Linux Fleet, which runs 20k different #Linux images across a million VMs. #OSSummit

In a @LinuxFoundation #OSSummit talk, Kuan-Wei Chiu demonstrated more efficient data structures the #Linux kernel could use—rather than the standard min heap —to reduce string comparisons in half & reduce swaps by 0.5 * N. The kernel Library Code sorely needs more work/ testing

“Changing the license doesn’t work. Why build a moat in the age of flight?” Kelsey Hightower #OSSummit

Amazon Web Services is now the largest contributor to Postgres -
Sirish Chandrasekaran #OSSummit

The 6 member steering committee for the #ValKey fork of #Redis , each from a different company, has a collective 26 years work and over 1k commits to Redis. Verizon, Percona and Alibaba have joined the project - AWS’ Madelyn Olson, #OSSummit

The The Linux Foundation Has launched the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (Opea.dev), an open source platform for building generative AI apps —Melissa Evers #OSSummit

The takeaway from the xz security vulnerability is that we should collectively “start thinking about how can we better create systems for overworked systems maintainers to better trust each other…” jzemlin The Linux Foundation #OSSummit

OpenTofu Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft thenewstack.io/opentofu-proje… @joab_jackson #Hashicorp #OpenTofu

Question-answering systems and chatbots have inadvertently created a false narrative that AI can solve any problem with a simple prompt, including complex creative tasks like storytelling and filmmaking. The ability to generate video from language has been misinterpreted as the…

The fundamental error all of these GenAI use cases make is in assuming that people will want to read something that other people couldn't be bothered to write.

Here's a little syntactic sugar for @GoLang users to enjoy as a treat: No more cumbersome three-expression formatting for defining how long a for loop should run. Now just set the range and let Go iterate. thenewstack.io/golang-1-22-re… w/ Changelog ThePrimeagen dreams of code

Golang 1.22 Redefines the For Loop for Easier Concurrency thenewstack.io/golang-1-22-re… @joab_jackson #GoLang #ForLoop

Hasura Visualizes Data API Integration into a ‘Supergraph’ thenewstack.io/hasura-visuali… @joab_jackson @Hasurahq #APIs #Supergraph

So, close but still not there.
Morale of the story? Because Linux Kernel developers did not want to implement something ridiculously simple as resampling at kernel level, Desktop users have been suffering for 25 years, waiting for a theoretically great solution in userspace..