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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