466: There's Probably a Wizard for It
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• 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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