🎃 Scarier than any horror movie
Scarier than any horror movie
Happy Halloween! This week’s scariest stories aren’t make-believe. Picture waking up to 300 pull requests instead of 10, or watching a tool you depend on quietly turn proprietary overnight. Leaders from Apache, NVIDIA, and the Linux Foundation ask whether open source can win AI the way it won software, we run local LLMs in a container with Ollama and Podman, and make the case that it’s finally time to bury the ISO file. More from the community: Why bots should get the toil while humans keep the good first issues, and how to pick between Cloud Run and GKE.
On the podcast, OpenTofu maintainer Christian Mesh tells the tale of a rug pull scarier than most horror movies, plus advice for turning pull requests into a career. This is edition #87 of the We ❤️ Open Source newsletter. Made and curated (with the lights on) by Jason & Todd.🎃👻
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What happens when your open source project wakes up to 300 pull requests instead of 10? Leaders from Apache, NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, and Qodo tackle AI’s impact on open source, from the myth of proprietary software to why standards may matter more than ever.
WHY WE ❤️ IT: Smart folks, honest answers, and a reminder that the humans still get to make the rules.
Want to try local AI without cluttering your workstation? Don walks through running Ollama in a Podman container, from a persistent volume to a first Llama 3 prompt, including a port snag he hit along the way and the NVIDIA GPU command if you have one.
WHY WE ❤️ IT: Don admits he’s new to containers, and that honesty makes this a friendly way to learn local AI.
Shipwright lets Kubernetes build container images with the tools developers already use. 808labs talked with maintainer Adam Kaplan about the project's journey to the CNCF and how he wants AI to help. His plan: hand bots the toil and the long-standing hard problems, and keep good first issues for people.
WHY WE ❤️ IT: Let the bots do the chores. The new kids still need a place to learn.
Still burning ISO files to boot Linux? Learn Linux TV makes the case that it’s time to move on, and shows how the Raspberry Pi ecosystem has already quietly solved the problem with raw disk images.
WHY WE ❤️ IT: Why are we still writing an ISO to a flash drive, tricking it into being a CD? Jay’s got a better way.
What's in your technology toolbox?
Someone asked a simple question during a live session: Cloud Run or GKE? Peculiar answers it with four practical tests, a candid look at cost and scaling, and a step-by-step deployment of a Gemini-powered quiz app. Spoiler: You might not need to set up that cluster after all.
WHY WE ❤️ IT: Peculiar turns a classic "it depends" into a clear answer, with real code you can run.
From theWe ❤️ Open Source Podcast
A popular open source tool got less open, so a handful of competing companies teamed up to fund a fork instead. OpenTofu maintainer Christian Mesh explains how that works, his blunt take on rug pulls and CLAs, and his advice for turning pull requests into a career.
WHY WE ❤️ IT: Because rug pulls are scarier than most horror movies, and Christian's lived through one.
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