Accidental Tech Podcast

466: There’s Probably a Wizard for It

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  • Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks
    • TPM
    • yt-dlp
    • DeCSS
    • SGX
    • FairPlay
    • Pirated movie release types
    • Follow-up:
      • Printer Murder Rooms
        • John Tsombakos
        • Richard Smith
        • LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida)
        • Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
          • Wall Street Journal
          • Activision Blizzard’s abhorrent culture
          • Prior acquisitions (via Jon Erlichman)
            • Activision Blizzard: $68.7b
            • LinkedIn: $26.2b
            • Nuance: $19.7b
            • Skype: $8.5b
            • ZeniMax: $7.5b
            • GitHub: $7.5b
            • Nokia (phone unit): $7.2b
            • aQuantive: $6.3b
            • Mojang (Minecraft): $2.5b
            • Perfect Dark
            • Green bubbles ruin everything 🙄
              • RCS
              • Dithering
              • Snell on iMessage
              • Google/Android interpreting tapbacks
              • #askatp:
                • Will macOS last another 20 years? (via Daniel Begqvist)
                  • Copland 2010 Revisited
                  • POSIX
                  • Mach
                  • Real-Time Operating System
                  • What game system for a casual gamer who hasn’t had a console in ten years?
                  • Do programming languages cause problems for people with hyphenated last names?
                  • Post-show: Marco’s Jerk-Store Moment
                    • L’esprit de l’escalier

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                        Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
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