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 Welcome to Log Level Debug, a show 4 out of 5 doctors say has no nutritional value.

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 Recorded live Monday, August 24th, 2026, and I'm stuck in a container.

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 It's not as roomy as a VM...please help.

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 The past week has been full of news with stories like these from globalglob.dev.

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 Good stuff.

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 Now let's talk about the other news we loged over the past week, with links on the show

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 notes, and in the 98% malicious free QR codes right here.

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 GitHub had a lot of problems this week, and last week, and statistically next week, but

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 specifically on August 17th when a lot of their services went down for 7 hours and 47 minutes,

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 which is enough time to watch all 3 Jurassic Park films, and enough of Jurassic World

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 to realize how much you don't like it.

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 GitHub says the root cause was too much network traffic saturating one datacenter, and

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 a misconfigured policy that didn't allow auto scaling to work in that scenario.

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 Even though the network recovered quickly, a ton of connected clients sent their message

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 retries all at once.

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 VS Code was the worst of them all with a retry bug that sent in 10 times as much traffic

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 as usual, all of which combined caused a retry storm. Which is worse than a

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 retry monsoon, but way, way better than dealing with a retry hurricane.

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 Retry earthquakes have been known to happen, but they're not really a problem anymore because

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 we all use SSDs now.

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 These retry weather events are expected to happen more frequently due to global warming.

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 GitHub listed a set of follow-up actions they will take to reduce the chance of this happening

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 again, including fixing the retry behavior in VS Code. And also asking other people to do

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 the same to their applications. Because GitHub doesn't want your bad retry code to bring

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 them down too.

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 Please, don't DOS GitHub.

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 They barely have a single 9 of uptime right now.

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 Also, please, pretty, pretty please, stop using it so much.

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 It's the constant load that's breaking it.

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 They didn't say it, but I think Microsoft would really appreciate it if we all stopped using

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 GitHub Copilot.

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 OpenAI is no longer scraping data directly from Reddit.

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 The mods probably didn't ban it, but you never know with some of those subs.

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 We at globalGlob(**/*) are stating, that Gizmodo is reporting, that PromptWatch discovered

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 OpenAI changed the way it performs searches, in order to pull directly from websites.

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 This means Reddit is being cited much, much, MUCH less often in ChatGPT responses,

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 down an estimated 0.03% since July.

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 This might be bad for Reddit, because previous estimates say OpenAI pays Reddit about

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 $70 million USD a year, or roughly $50 million oompa-loompa bucks a quarter.

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 This means ChatGPT is responding with more data from websites instead of user-generated

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 comments, like the infamous Reddit post that told people to use glue on pizza to get cheese

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 to stay on it. Which Google once told people to do.

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 So, what does that mean for you?

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 Is it good?

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 Is it bad?

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 Honestly, it's a coin toss.

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 Outlook not so good.

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 Where is this coin from?

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 Google will host a Google book event on September 15th.

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 Good for them.

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 A lot of open source projects are moving to some kind of fee structure to get funding from

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 the companies that abuse the take-a-penny, leave-a-penny system of open source software.

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 And I'm looking at you, every single enterprise company in the world.

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 The .NET Doundation, the open source software group loosely associated with Microsoft,

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 but sort of, kind of, run by them too,

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 put out a statement with their guidance for all developers this week.

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 But sort of, kind of, just for .NET developers too.

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 The safe bet, have a lawyer read the license documents in each and every dependency you use.

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 Which is way more expensive than just paying every maintainer $5 a month.

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 That adds up to, what, $40, $50 a month.

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 That's nothing for a company.

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 It's a rounding error.

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 We all pay more for streaming services each month.

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 Netflix, Peacock, Fubo, Showmax, Dropout, AppleTV...and whatever a Hulu is.

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 Probably a Pokemon.

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 So again, thanks for that, every single enterprise company in the world.

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 Not all licensed documents are stored with the package, and it's on you to visit the

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 project's website or repo to figure out the rules.

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 I guess a cheap lawyer or an intern works, but maybe don't trust this particular task to

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 an LLM. Because you can get sued.

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 And just because a project is part of the .NET Foundation doesn't mean it's free for everyone.

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 Projects can charge maintenance fees at their own discretion.

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 Unless a few large enterprise companies want to fund the project themselves.

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 Yeah, I knew that wasn't going to work.

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 Stripe through some darts at a board and decided to buy OpenRouter for over $7 billion.

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 OpenRouter is a gateway service that lets you choose, or have it choose, which AI tool

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 the valuation has to be way higher.

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 They're being paid over $7 billion to join a company that still hasn't IPO'd, but why

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 Stripe says it's because they already have a complimentary product called Token Billing.

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 It allows their customers to charge their customer for tokens.

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 This acquisition brings their suite of AI products to 2! Which is enough to call Stripe

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 a real AI company. Not one of those companies that vaguely says they do AI all over the website.

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 I'm looking at you, most companies. Annnnd Oracle.

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 The state of Florida is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying they should both be

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 The Florida State Attorney General says OpenAI aggressively promoted ChatGPT without

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 telling people about the known risks of using the technology.

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 Focusing largely on the mental health of children, Florida states OpenAI did not do enough to

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 protect those users from known harms.

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 This is not the only AI safety lawsuit in the US, but it is the one with the funniest premise.

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 The state of Florida will have to prove in court that OpenAI and Sam Altman are nuisances.

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 And while they can walk into court and say, "Come on. Look at them. Come on."

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 They will spend the next couple of years preparing.

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 Sam Altman is specifically named in the lawsuit because he was directly involved in decisions

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 developing, marketing, and deploying ChatGPT.

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 of those companies.

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 I look forward to seeing Elon Musk lying under oath, saying he's a normal guy that people like.

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 Not at all the kind of person people hate so much that Cards Against Humanity launched

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 a crowdfunding campaign just to annoy him.

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 I did my part.

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 It was ten bucks well spent.

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 The price of the OpenAI model, GPT 5.6 Sol, is down 50% for a limited time.

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 The VS Code social media accounts posted about the temporary sale, saying it lasts until

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 The announcement links did not include a referral code, but expect those in future announcements.

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 Microsoft has been known to require each product to justify its continued existence.

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 And since VS Code is free, one can only assume they're looking for ways to pay 

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 I'm looking forward to the inevitable ads inside VS Code. Not just for failing Microsoft

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 products like Surface and Co-Pilot, but other tech products developers enjoy.

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 Like replica lightsabers, CyberTrucks, and the quintessential digital ad, singles in your area.

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 And Microsoft, if you need an influencer to hawk your wares, I'm willing to give up my

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 MVP status for a reasonable fee.

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 Remember when Anthropic rewrote Bun with Rust using hundreds of thousands of dollars worth

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 of Claude tokens?

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 That version has finally been released.

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 Bun 1.4 was announced earlier this year with a tentative release date in July.

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 A month after the anticipated date, the rewrite is now live with promises of lower resource

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 utilization, less bugs, and no external dependencies.

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 Only time will tell if this is a good release or not. But just to be safe, I won't be updating

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 my projects to use it.

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 And that has nothing to do with the fact that all my code is in C#.

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 PR is needed, it's, um, it's not off to a great start.

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 If major issues are found, we'll be talking about it on this show.

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 We'll call out each and every problem.

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 We won't shut up about how bad of an idea it was to do the rewrite.

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 And if nothing is found, I don't know, we'll, we'll make fun of Jeff Bezos or something.

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 Eh, we'll think of something.

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 And that's all the news we logged this week.

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 For more, before the next episode, remember to visit globalglob.dev for news, technology

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 professionals really care about.

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 Until next time, go to total some bits.

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