GeekNights Mondays: Science Technology Computing

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider what it means to truly be obsolete technology. In the news, the Pixii camera is a ridiculous waste of money, Olympus exits the camera business, and the Supreme Court upholds the 1991 law that bars robocalls to cellphones.Related LinksForum Thread

• GeekNights Monday - "Obsolete" Technology

Things of the Day

• Rym - Why is the Ace of Spades Fancy?
• Scott - logic.ly

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about CI/CD. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or sometimes Continuous Deployment). In the news, everyone hates Bill de Blasio, Vote tomorrow if you're in New York, the T-Mobile outage was not a big deal, Apple is switching to ARM (among other announcements at Apple WWDC), and Microsoft kills Mixer.Related LinksForum Thread

• GeekNights Monday - CI/CD

Things of the Day

• Rym - Surfin' K.K. Cover
• Scott - How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about our computer maintenance schedules and procedures. We talked about this once back in 2006, but a lot has changed in 14 years.

In the news, Black Lives Matter. That should go without saying, but we're saying it again. Help any way you can. If nothing else consider a donation to the cause or call your local, state, and federal representatives. The protests are working, bit by bit, but we all have to keep the pressure up.

In other news, Google Currents (not the original Currents) replaces Google Plus for G Suite users, and SMITE developer Hi-Rez Studios did a full review of their chatlogs and banned over 5,000 racists. This is easy to do, and more companies should enact this kind of retroactive banning rather than relying on their communities to have to flag and report. The Internet Archive is also in danger due to lawsuits by book publishers.

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• GeekNights Monday - Computer Maintenance in 2020

Things of the Day

• Rym - 1284X FTW
• Scott - The Marion Stokes Project
• Scott - Indie Lens Pop-Up Presents: RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

Tonight on GeekNights, because we are in our late 30s, we talk about kitchen appliances. Stoves, cooktops, refrigerators, and dishwashers. In the news, Windows 10's May update has some stuff in it, twitter plans to fail to stop misinformation from spreading with their same old tricks, Apple is reported to use 12-core 5nm ARM in their coming Macs (we'll see how that goes), and cable TV is dying even faster without sports. We don't talk about washing machines or dryers or the like because we did a show on laundry a while back.Related LinksForum Thread

• GeekNights Monday - Kitchen Appliances

Things of the Day

• Rym - Incredible Sonovox - Kay Kyser
• Scott - World Sports Masters Race
• Scott - World Sports Masters (1982-07-12)

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about our RTMP streaming setup. It involves an nginx server, three OBS instances, but not this pile of garbage. In the news, beware poor performing SMR hard drives, which shouldn't be used in NAS/SAN solutions. Be sure to check any drive you may be thinking of buying. Scott bought a $300 keyboard. It's pretty good.

Our review of No Return is on youtube! We did talk about live streaming back in 2013, and again in 2018, but in this episode we're looking at a specific setup.

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• GeekNights Monday - RTMP Streaming Setup

Things of the Day

• Rym - The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird
• Scott - How containers work!

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider PostgreSQL, the open-source relational database. It's basically the one to use. Most people just call it "postgres." If you're not sure what we're on about, check out our previous episode about relational databases. In the news, new laws mean new COBOL code, John Conway was taken from us, there's a gravity clock (sort of), and Discord is adding group video chat so you can replace Zoom. Also, Brian Swords of York has been rediscovered.Related LinksForum Thread

• GeekNights Monday - PostgreSQL

Things of the Day

• Rym - Apollo 13 in Real Time
• Scott - Hack your Nintendo Switch

Tonight on GeekNights, we have a Tech News Roundup! In the news:

• Jupyter nNotebooks are pretty cool
• Chromium Edge is getting some features
• Broadband should be a nationalized utility
• The tech-enabled gig economy is an exploitative lie
• Sony Electronics lives again?
• Update your SSD's firmware
• Safari blocks third party cookies by default
• The Supreme Court ruled states can't be sued for copyright infringement
• 5G may use 20% more power than 4G
• Porn takes down the LA City Council
• Zoom's privacy policy is bad news

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• GeekNights Monday - Tech News Roundup - March 2020

Things of the Day

• Rym - The Virtually-Unkillable Virus That Makes Itself a Nucleus
• Scott - MAGFest 2020: Classic Japanese PC Gaming
• Scott - PC-98 Bot

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider how to enjoy a social life during times of social distancing, when the only two tools we have are the bad screen and the good screen. In the news, GrubHub is suspending commission fees for independent restaurants, it's soon, but not yet, time for a Tech News Roundup, SETI@home is going into hibernation ending an era, and WireGuard is coming to Linux. Also, some awesome people are already doing what we keep threatening to do, but haven't really actually done! And you should donate blood if you can! Like, soon!Related LinksForum Thread

• GeekNights Monday - Not-Working From Home

Things of the Day

• Rym - Why Pipes Move Underground
• Scott - "Rabbit Habit Cartoon" (1975)

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the Microphone. In the news, Netflix is reportedly adding a (likely-to-be-abused) 1.5x mode, Adobe got permission to continue to support the people of Venezuela, new AirPods are coming, and algorithms can definitely be racist.Related LinksForum Thread

• GeekNights Monday - Microphones

Things of the Day

• Rym - HELLvetica
• Scott - The Five Cowardly Hitmen

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about low power modes. In the news, Facebook should be broken up for having destroyed Internet media, San Francisco explores regulating emerging technology, you probably don't care about AMP or OpenJS, and we hope you remember these things.Related LinksForum Thread

• GeekNights Monday - Low Power Modes

Things of the Day

• Rym - peak video editing
• Scott - Thomas Train Stunts
• Scott - Thomas Train Stunts with Biggie