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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

TechCrunch

The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. Image Credits: Hill Street Studios (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development

David Heinemeier Hansson

Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode , WSL , and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and generally feels like a completely viable alternative to macOS for working with the web.

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Linux as the new developer default at 37signals

David Heinemeier Hansson

But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like dealing with Apple's awful reliability years , and being cut off from seeing how half our Basecamp customer base saw by default (since they're on Windows!). First of all, we have a great mobile team that simply needs to be on Apple hardware to develop for Apple platforms.

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Building a SQL Server Virtual Lab in Windows: Software & Hardware Requirements

Datavail

In case you’ve missed out, I’m publishing a blog series on “Building a SQL Server Virtual Lab in Windows” weekly. Most technical documentations will start reviewing the hardware before the software requirements. Operating System – Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Evaluation Edition. Hardware Requirements. Total of 40.

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. Salesloft uses OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 to write the email, says Fields.

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Linus Torvalds Biography

The Crazy Programmer

His Master’s Degree was awarded for work done on the Linux kernel, which is one of the most popular open-source operating systems today. It’s open source and has been used by many people to create applications, websites, and other programs. Linux and Other Contributions.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

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