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

L’esprit de l’escalier

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466: There’s Probably a Wizard for It

January 20, 2022
01:47:49 •
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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, iMessage vs. green-bubble people, and a gaming PC finally doing what PCs do best.

• 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

• Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit.

• Mack Weldon: Radically-efficient wardrobing. Get 20% off your first order with code atp.

• Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.

Become a member for ad-free episodes and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

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