Episode 548: Household CMDB

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548

Runner-up Titles

Mystery Knob
Vegans are cursed vegetarians
Skilled enough
Defrag the dishwasher
Design Intentions
QR codes everywhere
I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start
SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition.
SDT Open Source Money Maker
Lead with Nagware
Stocks go up, stocks go down
Safari’s my naked browser
Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not.

Rundown

FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
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Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
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Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

Nonsense

AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario

Conferences

DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.

SDT News & Community

Join our Slack community
Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
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Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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Brandon: The Beast in Me
Matt: The Prestige
Coté: Fantastic 4 with that Boba Fett guy, “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged Goddesses.

Photo Credits

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Household CMDB

Episode 548

November 28th, 2025

1 hr 2 mins

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About this Episode

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548

Runner-up Titles

• Mystery Knob

• Vegans are cursed vegetarians

• Skilled enough

• Defrag the dishwasher

• QR codes everywhere

• I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start

• SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition.

• SDT Open Source Money Maker

• Lead with Nagware

• Stocks go up, stocks go down

• Safari’s my naked browser

• Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not.

Rundown

• FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

• Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

• Replicate is joining Cloudflare

Relevant to your Interests

• The Walt Disney Company Announces Multi-Year Distribution Agreement With YouTube TV

• Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt

• Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

• Compact, human-readable serialization of JSON data for LLM prompts

• Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog

• Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive

• PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz

• Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies

• A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3

• The platform that needs a platform

• The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion

• The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell

• Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance

• OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It

• Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

Nonsense

• AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives

• Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario

Conferences

• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA

• Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community

• Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com

• Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com

• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky

• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok

• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté

• Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com

Recommendations

• Brandon: The Beast in Me

• Matt: The Prestige

• Coté: Fantastic 4 with that Boba Fett guy, “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged Goddesses.

Photo Credits

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