Mia and Milo cover an EU privacy vote that passed by a single seat and could weaken encryption, Microsoft's layoff of the idTech engine team at id Software, and parallel brain-drain signals as researchers leave the US and skilled workers depart Germany. They also unpack the EU's upcoming driver-facing camera mandate, concerns around Windows Device ID tracking, and a wave of local-first tools including Rowboat, Kokoro TTS, and a new K/Q runtime. The episode rounds out with a Chinese bribery death
Timeline
00:00:00 Opening00:00:07 Intro00:00:27 EU Chat Control Passes First Parliamentary Hurdle00:01:08 Microsoft Lays Off idTech Team at id Software00:01:40 Brain Drain: Researchers and Skilled Workers on the Move00:02:12 EU Mandates Driver Monitoring Cameras in New Cars00:02:46 Windows Device ID and the OS-Level Tracking Concern00:03:29 Rowboat: Local-First Claude Desktop Alternative00:04:04 Kokoro: CPU-Friendly Local Text-to-Speech00:04:44 Postgres Connection Pooling and EC2 Cost Benchmarks00:05:27 China Sentences Ex-Regulator to Death for $325M in Bribes00:06:17 European Company Websites Rely on US Infrastructure00:07:10 A New Runtime for K and Q Array Languages00:07:47 Amazon and the Persistent Knockoff Problem00:08:21 Ilya Sutskever's 30 Essential ML Papers, Curated00:08:50 Davit: A GUI for Apple Containers in Xcode00:09:20 US Government Homes for Sale Under $100K00:10:00 Automating AI Away: The Quiet Erosion of Jobs00:10:39 StreetComplete: Gamified OpenStreetMap Fixes00:11:25 MacSurf Brings NetSurf Browser to Mac OS 900:11:56 Jim's TrueType QR Code Font00:12:32 The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors00:13:06 A Better Drawstring Knot00:13:42 98% Isn't Much: How Small Failures CompoundRelated links
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