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)

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  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
  
  
  
  


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  Green bubbles ruin everything 🙄
  
  
  • RCS
  
  
  • Dithering
  
  
  • Snell on iMessage
  
  
  • Google/Android interpreting tapbacks
  
  
  
  


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  #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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