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Richi Jennings is a foolish independent industry analyst, editor, and content strategist. A former developer and marketer, he’s also written or edited for Computerworld, Microsoft, Cisco, Micro Focus, HashiCorp, Ferris Research, Osterman Research, Orthogonal Thinking, Native Trust, Elgan Media, Petri, Cyren, Agari, Webroot, HP, HPE, NetApp on Forbes and CIO.com. Bizarrely, his ridiculous work has even won awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, ABM/Jesse H. Neal, and B2B Magazine.
LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious

LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious

| 4-Day Work Week, bad recruiting, Indeed, job scam, LinkedIn, microsoft, Recruiting, recruitment, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: Don’t get scammed looking for a job, and momentum grows for the 32-hour working week ...
WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)

WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)

| agile, Hybrid Work environment, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, scrum, The Long View, waterfall, WFH, work from home, working at home, working from home
In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure ...
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps

Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps

| core-js, Denis Pushkarev, JavaScript, open source, PyPi, Russia, Software Supply Chain, Software Supply Chain Security, softwaresupplychain, supply chain attacks, supply chain security, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier

Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier

| Amazon, AWS, Bloom Energy, CO2 emissions, data center, data centers, datacenter, gpl, Green data center, LGPL, open source licensing, The Long View, voice.ai
In this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing

OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing

| ChatGPT, Codex, github, GitHub Copilot, gitops, microsoft, Netflix, open source, OpenAI, password policies, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts ...
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?

Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?

| azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long View
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs

8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs

| ai, Amazon, deep learning, floating point, FP8, inference, layoffs, microsoft, ml, recession, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going ...
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!

FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!

| cryptography, database, devsecops, Don’t settle for what life gives you—make life better and build something, encryption, end to end, FAA, federal agencies, legacy, mainframe, NOTAM, privacy, risk, security, technical debt, The Long View, Threema
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad ...
Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back

Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back

| LUV, Refactoring, Southwest Airlines, SWA, technical debt, The Long View
Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci ...
Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure - Here’s Why

Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why

| agile, scrum, The fault is not in our stars—but in ourselves, The Long View, waterfall
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture ...
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