466: There’s Probably a Wizard for It

• 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

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