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Welcome to WAN Show.
How's it going?
We have a bunch of great news this week.
Twitter made money.
That's weird.
I don't think that's ever happened before.
No.
No, I don't believe it has.
The HomePod stains your furniture permanently.
AMD is apparently potentially sending out free processors?
We'll have to get to that later.
Google removes the ability to view images,
now requires you to save them to your account.
And, um.
I think we've called out enough news.
Stay tuned to watch the rest.
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You know what?
Whatever.
Screw Colton.
It is really good.
Yeah, it's fine.
But it's not.
But there's tens, Colton.
See, Colton, you know, he's not a ten thinker.
You know, he's more of a nine thinker.
As long as it's past the post, you know?
Yeah, past the post.
All right.
So we have got a lot of great news for you guys.
Why don't we kick it right off with Twitter made money.
So this might not sound too crazy,
but if you've been following Twitter at all,
they have never been profitable.
Twitter turns a profit for the first time in 12 years.
And just like so many other.
Look at this.
Like.
Look at this.
Look at that one.
They've lost as much as $500 million in a single quarter.
Oh, man.
What do they do?
And like regularly, $100 to $200 million.
They made $100 million.
Like, they are clearly still many, many years in the hole,
but like $91 million profit on $732 million revenue.
And there's so many social kind of tech companies
like this that just make nothing and burn for so long.
I don't know.
Snapchat is actually at the point
now where it's like old, and people don't really
want to use it anymore because it like feels old.
Wow.
And I still don't think they're really making money.
So like, yeah.
They didn't really make enough.
It says here, the profit was modest, $91 million
on a $732 million in revenue.
So the profit was $91 million, the revenue was $732.
Their shares soared as much as 30%,
which is the most since November 7, 2013.
Did they really go public that long ago?
It's been a while.
Like, what?
See, this is why I don't invest in stocks,
because I don't understand it.
It's basically if you're, OK.
Now, to be clear, there are situations
where I kind of look at it and go, OK, yeah, that sort of makes sense.
Like, there are companies that pay out a dividend on their profits
to their shareholders.
So if you do the math and you go, OK, well, this is blue chip enough
and stable enough that I think that they are blue chip terminology.
Blue chip?
A blue chip stock is like a predictable one
that basically rises and falls as the market in general does.
If you think you're bad at stock, I'm like a tier below.
OK, so if you look at it and you go, OK, this blue chip stock
pays out dividends at sort of x rate, and overall we're tracking this,
and the economic outlook is y, and whatever.
Because I can't buy any.
Right.
Then you could kind of go, and in eight years,
I'll have made back what I spent on my stock in just dividends.
And then you still own the stock.
And then you still own the stock.
Like, if there's some kind of math that you can do where you kind of go,
OK, yeah, sure, maybe that sort of makes sense.
To be clear, it's still gambling because it can all still totally
be destroyed.
The company could vanish.
Yeah.
But this whole betting on companies that don't make money,
that one really confuses me.
Like, the way that I've always believed in running a business
is small is fine, big is good, big is better,
but profitable is essential.
I believe in sustainability.
Everyone who gets hired at Linus Media Group
should know that even if I fail in my efforts
to go around and get on my knees and do whatever it is that I need to do
from my knees, be it like this or like whatever else, with VC capitalists,
they need to know that even if my efforts to raise money
from people who just don't know what to spend it on fail,
they will still have a job.
I believe in that.
I like not being VC-based.
It's kind of cool, even though FlowPlane sort of is, but in a different way.
In a different way.
In a quite different way.
Yeah, so the way it works is I'm the VC.
Yeah, which is, I think that's different.
It is different.
You and I have a long working relationship,
and I'm directly involved in the company.
It's not like-
It's inside investment?
That sounds like a bad thing.
Is that what it's called?
I don't know.
It's probably not called that, because that sounds like-
It sounds sketchy.
It sounds like something illegal, but it's specifically good.
The point is, this whole pure speculation on,
I'm going to buy this stock because someone else is going to look at it and go,
wow, I should have bought that stock, and they're going to jump in,
and they're going to buy it for more, and then I'm going to sell it.
That has always been scary to me for the same reasons that cryptocurrency is scary.
Or putting-
Well, because it's the same thing.
Or mortgaging my house and putting it all on black is scary.
All of those things are scary to me.
I just want to make sure that even though we're getting kind of amped because Twitter
made money,
which I have never seen an ad on Twitter.
I have.
Where are they?
Okay, no, they're not ads.
They're promotions.
I don't see ads.
They're promotions.
I actually just like, I have a learning disability.
Like I can't-
Or like a visual impairment.
I remember we talked about that, yeah.
Yeah, like I can't see them.
Where are they?
They're kind of hard to see because they're-
Here, okay, let's all go on a journey to Twitter together.
Let's go to the home.
Okay.
So I think you can pay to get here.
On worldwide trends?
I could be wrong.
But sometimes you'll see something that has like-
Like here, this doesn't have many tweets.
Yeah, exactly.
So there's ones with like huge amounts of thousands.
Watch something on Netflix.
So is this sponsored?
But it's not disclosed.
I have no idea.
Okay.
I think you can pay to get there.
I don't necessarily know that any ones that are there right now did.
I could also be completely wrong.
So you can advertise with Twitter.
It's not real clear what you get for your money from looking at my homepage or the Linus
Tech Tips homepage anyway.
Check it.
Okay.
So why don't we go to-
No, no, no, no, no.
I want to know where the ads are.
I don't want to know where to spend money to buy these supposed ads.
I don't think you're going to see any notifications.
I think you only see them in home and moments.
Okay.
No, this is from my network.
I followed.
Okay.
Okay.
So like, so this is what I'm trying to figure out here is like, you know, so I think it's
really cool that Twitter made money.
I can't figure out why they made money because I can't figure out why anybody's buying advertising
on it.
And lots.
Their revenue is huge.
Yeah.
It's like $700 billion of revenue.
I mean, to be clear, like that's nothing compared to a giant like Google or Facebook, but I'm
sure Twitch chat is tearing me apart here.
They go turn off ad block.
I don't have ad block.
Yeah.
Neither of us have ad block.
That's not it for sure.
Like here, here, here, here.
You know what?
No, yeah, no.
I want to, I want to make sure that like that the air is clear.
Where would ad block be?
If I had it.
Up here.
Up where?
The only extension you have is LastPass.
Yeah.
Not any extension that requires an icon, but I'm pretty sure ad block.
Like where, where, where would I show my, what shows my extensions?
Would it show up as an app?
I think it's under more tools and then, yeah, more tools and then extensions.
So more tools.
More tools.
Extensions.
Extensions.
Here we go.
I actually don't really use browser extensions as you guys can plainly see.
Okay.
You have a fair amount, but most of them are not enabled.
You can see from the check mark, check mark box.
So there you go.
There's my, there's every extension I have ever like tried for five minutes.
There you go.
Yeah.
So no, ad blocker is not the issue.
I just maybe, maybe part of it is that I don't see them and I don't click on them.
So maybe they just stop bothering.
Yeah.
Okay.
Cause I'm on mine and I decided that I was just going to sit here and just constantly
scroll through home until I got to one.
Yeah.
And I haven't.
I've seen them before though.
I have seen sponsored tweets.
They definitely exist.
I know.
I don't use Hola VPN.
I think I, I think I grabbed it like years ago for, I know what I used it for.
We did a sponsored spot for Hulu and I had, and Hulu is US only and we needed to get some
screen capture of Hulu and I just needed to go on like their website.
So I think that's why I grabbed just like some free, cause that was prior to our tunnel
bear sponsorship.
I don't think I had even heard of tunnel bear at the time.
Yeah.
So so yeah, that's why I had a couple of random, like that, that's from like four years ago.
An actually insane amount of scrolling and I have seen zero ads.
I've scrolled through a lot of stuff while we're just sitting here.
So yeah, like I just, I, I don't, I don't.
I don't get it.
So, so back to, so their total advertising revenue was only up 1% year over year because
maybe there's a lot of people out there who can't find the ads on Twitter.
Or maybe, you know what, you know what?
It's mid Q1.
Oh, no one's buying.
Yeah.
Maybe just, maybe they actually are just like, don't have any ads to serve.
Yeah.
That could definitely be it.
So I mean, just so you guys know, like there's a, there's a very there's a very cyclical
nature to online advertising spending and we've been doing it long enough that we're
very familiar with the, the abs and the flows.
So in, in quarter one of any given year since Linus media group has become a thing, we,
we've been running around with our hair on fire, trying to figure out how we're going
to survive for the next year because we do our annual employee reviews, we try to get
them finished, in December and during that time everyone gets sort of the feedback on
how things went this year for the company, how things went for them and a lot of the
time people get raises.
So and that's also the time of year that we do all of our budgeting for the following
year where we'll go, okay, we need to set aside this much money to hire this person
and this much for that person and whatever else.
And then every Q1, like we're not surprised because we know it's coming.
Okay.
I'll show that in a minute.
We're not surprised cause like we know it's coming, but we're always kind of surprised
by the severity because the calendar flips over, figuratively, who uses paper calendars?
It's ridiculous.
But the calendar flips over and like all of our sponsors are just like, yeah, we don't
have any budget right now.
And AdSense goes like this, and we're just like, oh, how are we going to survive?
We're paying people more than we used to, but we're making less than we used to.
This is not a good, this is not a good, uh, I've got, I've got, sorry, I got a cough.
Damn it.
There's, there goes that bingo piece.
So the point is, um, this happens, this happens every year.
And so it actually shouldn't surprise me that much if Twitter doesn't have a lot of advertising
inventory to pump out to the people who are least likely to click on it.
People like me.
With that said, here, we had someone provide this, is this in Twitch chat?
Uh, no, it's a tweet to both of us.
To both of us?
To both of us?
No, like they tweeted this screenshot to both of us.
So one thing to note here is someone brought this up in the chat as well.
I don't know if I want to like promote this too much.
What is this?
I have no idea.
Don't go to it.
There you go.
Uh, yeah, this, this looks like pretty scummy.
It does.
Like I've never heard of it.
It might be fine, but like investment advertising on Twitter that compares itself to crypto
and is like, yeah, we provide even better returns than crypto.
Like what does that even mean?
It sounds like, it sounds like the worst thing I would in particular not go there.
How about that?
We'll give them negative promotion.
But yeah, like apparently it's more popular than the mobile app, which might be part of
the reason why we're not seeing it.
So January, so there's less of them or it's not January, but Q1, so there's less of them.
And we're not mobile app, so there's less of them that both of those actually does make
quite a bit of sense.
Okay.
So there you go.
Twitter made money, but that doesn't mean that I would necessarily recommend going and
you know, investing your life savings because our revenue is only up 1% as I said before.
And 2017 as a whole was down 6% from 2016, which I don't know what that means if you're
advertising revenue is up 1%.
Oh, maybe they have other sources of revenue, like data sale.
What does Twitter do?
Does Twitter sell data?
I have no idea.
I assume so.
I totally assume so.
Cause they have a lot of it.
Yeah.
We've got to be careful, you know, because we don't want to get caught up in a slander
libel disbarment thing.
So we don't know there.
We don't know.
And we mostly don't care.
It would be logical that they would.
We mostly don't give two, two poops and a half of a rat's rear end about sort of Twitter's
financials.
Yeah.
So someone just tweeted me this, which was they tagged me in a sponsored post that they
saw in their feed.
That doesn't show me that it's sponsored because of how Twitter works.
You just make a normal tweet and then you promote that normal tweet and it will be promoted
to individual people.
But if other people see it, it's just a normal tweet.
So you can't actually tell, like there's no, there's no hashtag ad or anything because
it's coming from the actual home company.
So that's kind of interesting actually.
I just found out why my hard drive mining test machine wasn't booting after the power
outage.
Why?
Boot drive got nuked.
So like it's not the hugest deal, but I need to put a new OS on it.
No, no.
All the plot files are still there.
So you can just read them.
Oh yeah.
The plot files are still there.
It's just, it's a pain in the butt because it has like 25 drives in it.
And so I just need to go through and tediously re-add all the plots and like get it all signed
in and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Luckily the plot file names should have your nonce counts in it.
Yeah, it was a pain in the, no, yeah, no, it does.
Like it's fine.
Like, I mean, I plotted all of them on separate machines already anyway.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's just, it's the actual rig that runs it.
And it's just, it's a pain in the butt because, um, I had a really, really hard time finding
a driver that worked for the LSI controller cards that are in there because the problem
is that LSI got acquired by whoever who then got acquired by someone else.
So finding drivers for the old LSI stuff, even if there is a current product, that's
the same thing.
It's just kind of like a pain in the butt.
And I figured it out like a few months ago, so I'm just going to have to do it from scratch.
It took me like half an hour.
So it's just like, not the end of the world, you know, speaking of not my 800 burst coins
worth a total of like $26 are safe.
So far, by the way, guys, the results for mining adventure side quest, hard drive mining,
not great.
Um, if you have to actually buy a hard drive for it, not recommended.
Yeah.
Not so much, but yeah.
Anyway.
Sorry.
Not the end of the world, but not recommended.
Have you been watching the Olympics at all?
No.
Okay.
So I haven't seen anything.
There's a few different people talking about how different coverage has been going.
And one thing that I do have to give a shout out for is CBC has been great.
CBC rocks that Olympic coverage.
Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Corporation, but sure.
Sure.
They're not a company.
Oh, that makes sense.
Um, it's been awesome.
Watching their stuff has been really great.
They stream all of it, which is pretty sick.
It's been interesting though, watching Twitter because I started like someone, someone mentioned
that NBC sucked for some reason and I was like, CBC has been great.
I heard NBC has been like cutting off the like middle of events for like certain, yeah,
for certain events and then other events like I think it was a ice dance or figure skating
or something.
They're doing like picture in picture to make sure we like see the reaction cam.
Like some of them, they're trying like really hard to cover really well and then others
they just like don't give a crap.
Okay.
So with CBC apparently, cause a lot of people have been tweeting about it with CBC, if you've
been tweeting about this, if you run ad block, the stream just keeps going when the ads are
supposed to be running.
So the announcers think that the ads are running and they keep talking.
Really?
And it's been pretty bad, but like there's constantly through the CBC there's like none
of this shall be reproduced or like CBC will come after you basically is constantly broadcasted.
So there's not a lot of clips of it, but there's like, man, I don't want to effing commentate
the next game, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I wonder if they're going to, you know, send any to our hotels, like bad stuff, stuff that
should not be on the air.
No way.
So you're not supposed to copy it.
You're not supposed to record it.
And but if someone did, wow, that'll be golden.
You know, I'm not even convinced that any scandal matters anymore.
Yeah.
I mean, it made me salty because I was so happy with how the CBC's coverage was working.
Their web streaming was working great.
You could watch VODs, you could watch live coverage.
Their commentation was going really well.
The timing of ads was very sensible.
Everything was super awesome.
Everyone else was complaining.
I was like, yes, this is great.
And then none of it's going to stick because like we don't we don't really get political
on the show anymore.
But I it's it's probably worth at least mentioning that right now the president of the freaking
United States has a porn star and an ex playmate, both of which have given very credible accounts
of affairs that he had with them.
And it's as simple as, no, it's all a lie.
Never happened.
And it's like barely even news.
And now with deep fakes and all this other kind of stuff, and I'm sure they'll come up
with like a deep fake equivalent for audio.
That'll be a bad combination.
So, yeah, like whatever the commentator said, the best advice I can give them to anyone
from the CBC who said something.
Yeah.
No, no, no, no.
You don't even have to ignore it.
Just be like, nope.
Fake news.
Yeah.
Like, OK, nothing sticks anymore.
Like I'm at the point now where I'm kind of looking at it going, why do I even stress
out about this stuff anymore?
Yeah.
Like I should find something like scandalous to do and then just see, see how quickly it
goes away.
Gain, gain temporary attention.
Yeah.
Which is helpful.
Yeah.
And then it'll just disappear.
Like, do you have any idea how healthy Tampon Gate was for the the overall momentum of the
channel?
Was it?
Oh.
Yeah.
Because I guess a bunch of people came to watch it to see the context and stuff.
And a bunch of them subscribed.
And that's why, like, YouTube saw that video, saw it had great traction and promoted the
heck out of the next few.
I found it really, really interesting when everyone that hated on X YouTuber, I'm not
even going to bring his name up because that's my whole point, just tweeted out his name
and links to the videos that they're upset about and were like, I can't believe this
is happening.
And I'm like, you're just growing his channel.
Like if you're just saying like, I'm upset, this is bad.
You're not actually deconstructing the person.
So people don't actually really care and they just want to see what's going on.
And then they're like, oh, okay.
And they just move on.
So you're actually just helping them.
Yeah.
I mean, your anger.
What are cheers?
Cheers?
That's, that's money.
We have a top cheer by Squantoon.
I think that's...
What's a thousand cheers?
I think $10.
Really?
I think.
I could be wrong.
Why would anybody give us $10?
I think a hundred.
This show is terrible.
Yeah.
I think a hundred is $1.
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All right.
So we have managed to do one news topic so far.
So we should probably get a move on.
Let's do that.
So line this to screen.
The original article here is from The Verge.
It was posted on the forum by Good Bytes.
Okay.
Good Bytes.
Okay.
Scale of one to 10.
Microsoft?
How about...
Are we going to talk about Microsoft?
Are we going to talk about Microsoft?
How...
Okay.
Is he pro-Microsoft or anti-everything else?
Or some combination of the two?
I was just going to say, why not both?
Why not both?
So he posted this on the forum.
Home pods are apparently staining wooden tables with a white ring.
It seems to have something to do with the rubber bottom and some kind of a chemical
reaction that takes place with wood.
And to be clear, apparently Sonos does too.
Silicone.
Not rubber.
Sonos does too.
Apple has confirmed the issue stating that this is great.
The marks can improve over several days after the speaker is removed from the wood surface.
Also known as get owned.
The company also recommended that users try cleaning the surface with the manufacturer's
suggested oiling method if the white rings don't fail.
There is apparently already an accessory.
So padandquill.com is selling and this surely, surely was a leather poster.
This surely was a leather coaster they already had.
Oh my goodness.
Wow.
Go away.
Surely was something they already had that they are just calling leather surface protector
for home pod.
And it was absolutely just a coaster or something.
Money bucks, you can get a leather surface protector for the home pod.
But surely this is not going to be the last solution.
We got a note in the notes from James here.
Wouldn't Apple have known about this?
Why didn't they warn consumers?
You know, I can see this being the kind of thing that Apple might not have noticed.
I would probably see, I would give them the benefit of the doubt there as well.
And I'm kind of king of like, no, don't do it.
But yeah, in this case I honestly would.
But their response, how fast was their response?
I think it was within a day or two.
So they might've.
Right?
Right.
So you're saying anything that they wouldn't, if they didn't take three to five days to
validate it or wait, no, right.
The fact that they think it might fade in three to five days and they didn't have three
to five days to figure it out.
So I would normally give them a bit of a doubt, but I think they played their cards pretty
clearly here.
They must've already known because they, Apple's king of just like, I don't know.
So if they do totally know and they're like three to five days, this is it, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah.
Maybe get on our level and get more glass furniture.
If it doesn't fade out in three to five days, use this specific oiling method.
Like I don't know.
I think they knew I would have give them benefit of the doubt, except, uh, yeah, I think they
basically told us that they knew.
Hmm.
All right.
Well at any rate, if they didn't respond, I would say, Oh yeah, I don't, they know.
I don't think any of my smart speakers are sitting on, you know what?
No, I do have one.
I have the Sonos play three that's sitting on, it's sitting on the, um, so I have a wardrobe
and it says Sonos does it too.
So I have a wardrobe that has two drawers in the bottom and then it just has like an
open slot where you can put like, um, you know, belts or ties or something like, and
I have a, I have a plate.
I don't have any, I don't have any ties and I only have one belt, so I have a Sonos play
three in there.
Um, so I should check, I should check and see if, uh, this wasn't posted to the form.
Apparently James found it over on our technical AMD is sending out free processors to solve
firmware flashing catch 22 apparently, so AMD will help you out if your new motherboard
needs a new bios to work with your new CPU.
Now these kinds of issues have come up before, so this really surprises me that they would
be doing this.
So one of AMD's selling points compared to Intel over the last little while has been
forwards and backwards compatibility of their CPU's and their motherboard and chipset platforms.
And for, for most intents and purposes, when we're talking aim 2, aim 2+, aim 3, um, was
there an aim 3+, can't remember.
For most intents and purposes, this hasn't really mattered much because, um, there wasn't
really a significant upgrade to make.
Like anyone who went from an 1100T, what was that, 2 bin, to a, to a pile driver, I think,
I can't, I can't remember all the code names, anyway.
Anybody who went from their, their high performance 6 core to their high performance 8 core actually
lost performance in a lot of situations.
So there wasn't really a compelling reason to, to, to, to want to cross contaminate your,
your platform.
But, and the other thing too is that they were comparing theirself, themselves to, um,
to Intel who's notorious for going, okay, yeah, a chipset has a two year lifespan, that's
it.
Um, so one of the big pitches with aim 4 was like, hey, you don't notice every aim 4 board
has a, has a graphics output on it?
You're going to be able to take AMD upcoming zen based APUs, so CPU and GPU combination
chips with integrated graphics, you're going to be able to plug them into these boards
and go.
Now in this case, there is a compelling reason why you might actually want to do that and
aside from upgrading, cause you wouldn't, you wouldn't upgrade to one of the new, I'm
not, I hate calling them APUs, but one of the new CPUs with integrated graphics, um,
you wouldn't really upgrade to them, but there might be boards out there that have been sitting
on a shelf for the last three months and someone just goes and like buys it and buys a new
CPU with integrated graphics that doesn't work and might be in a situation where they
can't flash their bios without an older style CPU.
So basically what they're doing apparently is, um, AMD will send you a bootkit to flash
your firmware.
So you actually get a free CPU, a dual core A6 9500.
You're supposed to send it back, but you don't have to send the heat sink back.
What?
The whole thing is just super weird.
I'm like, do you have to sign some agreement to get it because if not, I suspect the majority
of people just won't send it back.
So here's what I want to know.
Asus has had this figured out for like five years.
Why does everybody else not have CPU lists, motherboard bios flashing sorted out at this
point?
Yeah.
Why is it still hard to flash a bios?
Is it patented?
That's a great question.
I have no idea.
Yeah.
I don't know either.
Well, Razer's bios flashing method is super simple.
You download an EXE and you run it and it updates your system firmware, updates your
bios and you reboot.
Like how, if you can't get into windows though, but that's what I, that's been around for
a while though.
But that sounds more complicated to me doing it while the system is booted up.
The only thing that would make sense to me is it's gotta, it's gotta be a patent thing.
Cause I really, cause yeah, it, it doesn't seem like it should be that hard.
Right?
Pull the file off the thing.
You do that without an OS cause you know why, like, I don't know if you remember, but back
in the day there was a few games that had little mini games starting during loading
screens and that hasn't been a thing for a long time.
It's cause some stupid patent troll was just like, no, it wasn't a stupid trolls like Atari
or something.
Yeah.
And they never did anything with it.
If I remember correctly.
I want to see who did it.
Yeah.
I'm looking it up already.
Um, it's about to expire apparently.
Nanco Bandai.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Okay.
But it's like, it's like one of those like ancient, irrelevant, like sell the patent
or something.
Yeah.
Because it's a really awesome, yeah, it's great and you're just not allowing anyone
to do it.
And it's really annoying.
I commented on that when I was doing that video with my son.
And that should not be patentable by the way.
Oh my God.
So I, I noticed that when I was doing the video with my son on the Kano that it has
their flappy, their stupid flappy bird clone.
Oh dear.
On the loading screen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I was like, wow, this is great.
Why doesn't everybody do this?
And then the comments were just full of people being like, yeah, cause they can't idiot.
And I was like, okay, great.
Thanks.
Yeah.
Thank you commenters.
I really appreciate you.
And your comments.
I wonder if Kano got in trouble for that.
I missed Jim Carrey.
Like what has he done lately other than just like being bizarre on social media and on
camera and stuff.
Yeah.
Oh, there's a movie on camera.
Uh, he's, he's, uh, I don't want to get into it just in case I say something wrong, but
he's, yeah, I don't want to get too far into it just to get, nothing like, yeah, nothing
too crazy.
Didn't his wife commit suicide or something like that?
Yes.
That's part of the reason why I don't want to get too into it.
Uh, there's, there's been some, oh, there's been a civil suit against him.
Something to do with that.
Interesting.
This is part of the problem.
Okay.
The fact that this is happening at all apparently is like extremely mentally straining, which
makes sense.
Um, yeah.
So there's been some pretty intense amounts of nihilism stuff.
It's a very sad situation depending on whether or not it's true and all this kind of stuff.
And I don't know.
And blah, blah, blah.
But yeah, it's been a little complicated for a little while.
And I feel like it's going to be an extremely polarizing thing.
Huh.
Interesting.
Okay then.
Moving on to other tech news.
All right then.
Oh, excuse me.
All righty then.
Oh, um, are you allowed to say that?
Like if you can patent or like trademark let's get ready to rumble in the way that he said
it.
Can you, can you, can you do like other catchphrases?
I assume so.
Are you wearing a savage jerky shirt?
I am.
You are such a sellout.
I was so excited when I heard we had more.
It's my first food for the day.
So like thank you for feeding me.
Sponsor.
I appreciate it.
Also clothing me.
We're doing good.
We're doing good.
You put a roof over my head and we're done.
Actually you sort of do.
Can I help you?
You know you can't have more.
You were already here.
You ate the whole bag already?
You ate the whole bag?
I shared it with people.
Well, that's what you get for sharing.
What did we learn?
Sharing is losing things.
Uh, okay.
So Google to tweak image search to help protect photographer copyrights.
So it used to be that it was as simple as this.
Yeah.
So images may be subject to copyright, which was Google's way of basically going, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
Well, because they don't know.
Because they don't know and because they don't care.
So they have removed the view image button that was next to it that would directly link
to the high res photo and they're going to make that copyright notice more prominent
for users.
So unless you just middle click or right click and open a new tab.
So this change is a result of a partnership between Google and the stock photo agency
Getty Images, which has been lodging anti-competitive complaints against Google for making high
resolution stock photos easily downloadable through Google Images.
So they're saying this is a benefit to all image owners globally.
We expect it to have a positive impact on traffic to our site.
Less than 24 hours later, oh this is fun, there are already browser extensions for Chrome
and Firefox that bring the buttons back.
However, these extensions probably won't last long, especially on Chrome.
The change won't stop people from using copyrighted images, but it does add a little bit more
inconvenience unless you use James' method, which yeah, is the right click on the image
and select open image in new tab, doesn't seem particularly...
I love how that's James' method.
Here's what I want to know.
If there's any programmers out there watching that are sort of looking for a weekend project
that would make my life a little bit better, what I want to know is, and maybe this exists,
I just haven't been able to find it.
So some...
Copyright checker or something?
No, no, there's something entirely...
Some important thing.
Yeah, well I don't know, I wanted to look for something important.
Here's 10 important things to simplify your life.
Copy link address, oh, why did that work?
What?
When does that not work?
No, it usually has Google's crap attached to it.
Oh, the picture, look at a picture, look at a picture.
Oh, is it only pictures?
I think it's pictures.
What?
Wow.
There's no important pictures.
Okay.
Um...
And like if you copy that, if you copy the search...
No, no, that I'm not talking about.
I'm talking about when you just like right click, yeah, okay, this junk.
Yeah.
Okay.
Can someone make an extension that removes all this?
Like, is that possible?
Because if you just mouse over it, oh no, it is, it is the stupid thing.
Yeah.
Okay.
Still, how...
Just to open this search with that thing extended, if I remember correctly.
Okay.
And there's another issue.
In, um...
You could maybe make something that copies the click-through link.
Like what's the thing that makes it like impossible to copy-paste things into Hangouts?
I can't remember exactly what it is, but you know that issue where if you try to paste,
if you try to just link someone to something in Hangouts, you can't send them an exact
URL and Hangouts defies it?
So there's like a couple things like that that are really frustrating.
How about just stripping all that stuff out with an extension?
I would download the crap out of that extension.
So you'd be among the like very small handful of extensions.
Apparently there is a Grease Monkey or Tamper Monkey script for that.
I just haven't been able to find it.
Link Cleaner and Firefox apparently, but I don't want a Firefox thing because...
Hey, Quantum's...
Yeah.
Quantum was really unstable the last time I tried it.
Is it better?
Yeah, me too.
No, I don't think so.
As far as I can tell right now, based on like a machine-by-machine basis, not even person-by-person,
just machine-by-machine, either Quantum is super unstable or Chrome is super unstable.
Just one of them, and it's on like a machine-by-machine basis.
Most of the machines that I have, of course I just get randomly signed out.
This happens every show, I have no idea why.
On most machines that I have, it's Chrome, but I've definitely heard reports from people
that they like can't use Chrome because it just crashes all the time, which I've basically
never seen or heard of that.
But they use Quantum and it runs perfectly fine all the time.
Both my main machines, Quantum just crashed at like full system lock because of Quantum
constantly.
So I don't know, I'm not sure.
I would love to use Firefox again, but when it like significantly negatively impacts my
work productivity, then I just, I can't.
All right.
There's some confusion around Nvidia's code names.
The original article is from Digital Trends, apparently.
Nvidia may reveal dedicated Turing cryptocurrency mining cards in March.
What?
I find that very hard to believe.
And this is even, this is a little confusing given rumors about Ampere, which is supposedly
locked and loaded and ready to replace Nvidia's current gaming-based cards on the Pascal architecture.
So right now it's pretty unclear what the crap is going on over there, and they're pretty
good about keeping these things private.
So yeah, I think everyone's initial thought was that Volta was going to come to everything,
but this may be the generation that Nvidia not only, so it was only recently even that
they started doing a different die even for the data center parts.
But this may be the generation where we get a completely different architecture for the
data center parts.
Very interesting.
This is pretty huge.
Waymo gets okay for first driverless ride hailing service.
Wow.
Alphabet's Waymo, so that Google parent company, got a permit in late January from the Arizona
Department of Transportation to operate as a transportation network company.
This allows Waymo's fleet of driverless Chrysler Pacifica minivans to pick up and drop off
paying riders in Arizona through a smartphone app or website that will compete with Uber
and Lyft.
So Google, Alphabet, that group kind of is directly competing with Uber and Lyft now.
Wow.
The service will initially have thousands of cars.
Prices could be competitive given there's no driver to pay.
So last year they started a free early rider program in the Arizona capital where hundreds
of people used a Waymo app to hail and use cars within a hundred square mile radius.
In November they began testing vehicles in parts of the city without a driver at the
wheel.
I kind of suspect that-
This is moving fast.
Faster than I thought.
Yeah.
Well, and another interesting thing here is my brain went to, okay, so it's got to be
cheaper because no driver.
Then I was like, okay, but they cycle through the vehicles really fast because it's a lot
of wear on them to drive literally all day.
But then they can almost definitely just move the driverless tech from vehicle to vehicle.
So they'll have to swap out like engines and vans and stuff.
They can probably just move over a lot if not all of the automated driving tech.
So that's-
Interesting.
That could be way cheaper.
Google could come in and just be like, this is the better option.
I mean-
You don't have to worry about when you're in Las Vegas and you're going to Las Vegas
convention center, your driver ends up being like super racist and super sexist.
You don't have to worry about that.
That was incredible.
You heard about that?
I did hear about that.
Hold on a second.
Hey Max, are you over there?
Cool.
Can I tell people about your awful cabbie or do you want to tell people about your awful
cabbie?
Okay.
Okay.
So, so basically Max is in this car.
Okay.
And the driver starts going off about, here we go.
Women drivers, right?
Asian drivers, Canadians-
Italians, wasn't there one more?
French Canadians.
Asians, Canadians, women, Italians, wasn't it young people, young women especially, 25
year olds explicitly managed to make racist, sexist, or otherwise prejudiced comments about
five things, all of which Max is either, is somewhere from 50 to a hundred percent.
All in the span of what?
Like a, like a 10 to 15 minute drive, like it wasn't even, and that only started like
halfway through, like he was working through him.
He was on a mission.
And the best thing about this, sort of, depending on your perspective, like if you appreciate
the ironic use of the word best, the best thing about it is that it was even pointed
out that Max was young, female, Asian, Canadian, and half Italian.
Wow.
And like clearly no one in the car was down with the conversation.
Rasta universe says, sounds like he comments on YouTube videos.
Yep.
Sounds about right.
But yeah.
Good observation.
One of the terrifying things is if they start doing these ride sharing apps, they'll gather
obscene amount of data of like how driving works and automated driving and stuff.
So if this becomes a thing, it's going to massively advance all the rest of it.
Grow exponentially.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like the transport industry is huge.
The amount of people that work in the transport industry is huge.
And there's certain parts of the transport industry that will hold for a little while
longer.
Oh yeah.
These will still need to be maintained.
Yeah.
Yep.
And like certain specific thing, like very high, like black car and limo might still
have a person because being served by a person, like having someone come out and open your
door and all that kind of stuff might be nice.
So people that are like super balling might still pay for that.
And very specialized transport stuff I'm sure will still be covered.
But A to B driving.
Someone says it's not hate speech if you hate everyone.
Well, there's actually a couple of other pretty ridiculous comments here.
First of all, Max is a stupid name.
Who names a girl Max?
Her name is Maxine.
It's called a nickname.
Terrible.
I expect better from the Twitch chat.
No I don't.
Nevermind.
Have you ever called someone Bob?
Their full name is very likely not Bob.
Yeah, it's Bobbert.
All right.
And so moving on to what we've got on FlowPlane this week.
I think we're gonna.
There's someone watching named Bobbert.
I'm sorry Bobbert.
Let's close down the show pretty quick here because I think I'm pretty much done.
All right.
What do we got over there?
Ooh, we've got the HomePod versus the Google Home Max.
I watched the very end of this.
Gold.
Yes, the very end is definitely gold.
We've got the job posting that I think is actually up on YouTube now.
So we're hiring again.
I went snowboarding and the guy that got me my equipment was like, I want to apply.
I applied in the past.
I didn't make it.
This is for the writer's catchment thing.
Oh yeah.
He's like, but I'm here.
I want to apply again.
I'm like, dude, we're hiring soon.
Yeah, there it is.
This is a good video.
You guys are going to like it.
Our review sample CPU's cherry picked.
Shit viewers say one retail chip engineering sample, which one performs better?
And we did both Intel and Andy.
Have you talked about like the history of this though?
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, like in the video we do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause it's happened.
I don't know what the results of this are.
I haven't seen it, but.
Liquid metal laptop cooling, 20 degrees cooler.
That's really cool.
No lies.
Uh, what the crap is floating point performance?
Everyone talks about it.
A lot of people, I'm not going to say most people, you know, most people have no idea
what it is.
I've written a programming.
This went up at the same time.
Um, handy tech under a hundred, mostly gaming.
There's actually some really cool stuff.
This is a credit card sized game console.
That's literally in your, in your wallet.
That's cool.
Um, what else we got here?
I think that's most of it.
Oh yeah.
Oh, one 20 Hertz PC gaming on a TV still isn't up.
So that'll go up pretty soon and I think that pretty much wraps it up.
All right.
So we will see you again next week.
Same bad time.
Same bad channel.
Bye.
Now to consume more people.
So many people playing bingo.