funny story to start the show uh is this gonna be nipple related no
it's not surprising right uh anyways when i came back from
taiwan i came to yvr the airport that is
near us don't worry about it um and the statue with nipples no no unfortunately
not gonna work nipples into this at some point no actually
none crap okay you came to the vancouver airport
i'll try she's in richmond by the way vancouver international airport not in
vancouver yes it's in the greater vancouver area that's true
so or a greater vancouver regional district as it's actually called the gta
is the greater toronto area the gvrd sucka okay my bad anyways the wi-fi
network there does one of those things where you have to like approve your
login thing through a portal and whatever and i was trying to do it it
wasn't working and i needed internet at that point in time so i was like whatever and turned my Wi-Fi off
didn't really think about it a little while later
using my phone and it's like oh your wi-fi your data has been turned off
because you're at your maximum my warning didn't come through or i swiped
it without realizing it because i hate it when notifications load while you're
in your notification bar i might have swiped it without actually seeing it
so my data is dead and i think i'm like
six days into the month or something
so that sucks i have a dumb phone for a
while well your smartphone just a dumb user
yeah that's fair so i guess uh
yeah i know i failed to work nipples into that yeah you did that's okay
because i can work nipples into anything uh speak up
people are asking us to turn the mic up but i just did a test recording and it
was fine so um i guess it was i guess i
had the volume a little high actually i don't even know why that worked at all
but i what i just did in terms of testing maybe i could load up the stream
and see if people are messing with me in the meantime why don't you let them know what fantastic topics we have for them
today so we have uh the the whole catastrophe around team
viewer all the the accounts being hacked into or passwords being known or
whatever because those aren't really the same thing but anyways we'll talk about
that later gawker has officially filed for bankruptcy and is saying some other
stuff uh sony officially confirms the 4k ready playstation but i believe it's not
being announced at e3 or something and
i don't actually know a fourth topic that's interesting you sound wonderful
to me by the way do i yeah i'm at like 38 on my system volume so i um
okay space mining space mining what i
don't know i didn't see that all right space
yeah we may not get to that yeah intro time
equivalent to not turning your wi-fi back on for a week or maybe not gross
maybe it's like hot oh if you're into that sort of thing like
phone spit yeah that's probably not good all right
apparently the intro is loud well you know what you guys there is only so much
i don't know there's only so much i can do
jim's address says ow and it's also that
it's pre-recorded i think no it's not pre-recorded all right so
let's get into some topics first up we've got and i actually have no idea
whether um whether luke said that this was going to
be one of our one of our main topics for this week
gawker is no more at least in its current form
maybe someday it will reach its final form
but that won't be its current form uh they filed for bankruptcy
and have said that they will sell the company uh the headline says to zif
davis or someone else that i don't think it's necessarily gawker saying they're
gonna sell to ziff davis it's that zif davis has an offer in on them for
somewhere to the tune of 90 to 100 million dollars you know maybe i should
just buy gawker
what yeah i know you know for a fact that i can't that's not going to work
can't afford that it also just doesn't sound like a good idea yes
why would we do that if we could just like life hacker i i said a tweet about
this earlier i was like i don't really care about the rest of it but if life hacker survives that would be cool yeah
if we could just consume like just them i'd be down with that i mean thea
already could use some of the upstairs office space for that make them all canadians theoretically they could sell
individual publications so uh so gawker
is a life hacker jezebel dead spin
gawkerdog.com gizmodo kotaku jalopnik
uh and yeah jezebel and uh
i don't know if you said that yeah no you said dead spin actually but you know
good job um you said it twice which is important great for people who didn't
hear you yeah um
so out of all of those yeah i think life hacker i didn't used to mind gizmodo but
i can't remember the last time i went on that site i liked them i think 2009
yeah a little bit let's see if that lines up nope how old were you in 2009 19. you were
nice well 18 for most of it 18 okay so i was close very close i was actually
quite close okay so um
basically yeah they're filing for a chapter might even be more accurate
um actually yeah i think so
it was right around there yes um so they're they're they've announced
their chapter 11 filing uh basically that puts them in protection from
creditors for the time being while they sort of entertain offers to buy the
company um gawker and nick denton have
said that they will not pay hulk hogan and peter thiel the 140 million dollars
they have told their employees that they still plan to fight the case and to
operate the publishing business while they do so um
but zif davis has come out and said there's uh let me just see if i can
bring up the uh the article here so this was in an internal memo it does say for
less than a hundred million dollars like i'm assuming not a ton less there's
conflicting reports so this particular one on recode.net says for around 100
million but it should be noted that they may end up paying more because this is
just their initial bid for it and actually nothing to do necessarily with
um how much it'll end up selling for so someone else could make a counter offer
yup yup it could end up being a bidding war over jezebel yep
which i guess someone wants apparently um
i didn't know that these sites as a whole were still
that big i had no idea
online written media publications were still worth like
tens of millions of dollars each i mean i guess it's sort of enormous amounts of
traffic um this is a really good clip with nick denton basically saying uh nope i stand
by the decision to publish that even in light of everything that has happened
he's expressed a lot of frustration with peter thiel basically
public basically funding this lawsuit
as a way to um
i think i forget i was reading some article about it but the quote from him
was something to the effect don't quote me on this that's a quote of a quote
that's not an accurate quote but sick um
so the so something to the effect of that it's not vengeance but it's more of
like a cautionary sort of like it's more of a deterrent i
think was some something close to the word that was used um
against publishing articles that are
basic that basically amount to bullying so that was that was sort of how he
interpreted the hulk hogan article where this sort of this individual was being
bullied by a publication that uh published an article and indeed a sex
tape video of him um
banging to use the term that the kids use these days i think uh a friend's
wife did they say that yeah banging still a
thing still a thing really you got to throw
that in at me yeah i guess that's still a thing if you're an old man well like
how long has banging been around for i don't know a long time i'm sure my dad
is like well versed with that term the term or
what are we talking about i'm here so probably
both just being honest it's almost father's day you got nine days to figure
it out to figure out if he's your father or
well maybe that could that could be the situation
okay so luke's parents aside and they're
whatever they don't still watch wancho do they
they probably do oh that's a shame hi mom and dad
um so it'll be a court supervised auction
and uh basically the the lawsuit one way or the
other will have to be resolved before nick uh before excuse me zif davis is
gonna have any interest in in taking
uh taking possession of it and yeah that's basically how it went down
um would this make you think twice about
publishing a sex tape on Linus tech tips
why why why would we publish a sex tape online i i didn't say we i said you so
we should okay no we should do this but we should do it with like uh like
computer components
oh man we should like make a fake hulk
hogan
no i want and have it water cool someone
else's computer i want no party i want no part of any of this
i just want we've got people asking for us to review a sex bot
okay that's nice talking about our robots let's talk aaron does our robots
yeah but taryn wouldn't know what to do with the sex
so let's talk let's talk seriously again for a minute
would you do an objective review
of a sex robot
uh okay i mean we'd have to be careful what we show in b-roll and not in b-roll
but would you would you benchmark it and host the video i think i think like
the the the journalistic side of me is like yeah and then there's like i'm in a
relationship no so but what if the i think is it if it's a
robot probably is it like because i mean they're not that
sophisticated at this point yeah at this point i think basically
they just do pre-programming you are attempting to very because this this
ties into another conversation which is like
is porn okay while you're in a relationship and this is like stuff you
need to decide in your relationship yeah i'm not saying as a general statement i
mean with you and your partner you need to do this yes is porn okay and then on
top of that is vr porn okay because they're actually pretty different
right yeah vr porn is very much putting you in that scenario yeah with like
like uh directional audio so you feel like you're there and like if the
person's talking to you you can hear where it's coming from like all that like
crazy stuff which is like on another level and then you're stepping up again
you think so i think each one of those will reduce the amount of people that
are okay you don't think actually i
i would i would argue i would argue the other way so i think porn is where it is
so let's establish that porn is a bass line okay and you know your bass line
could be it's like super okay and mine could be it's super not okay or the other way around whatever doesn't matter
let's call two-dimensional porn the bass line sure and let's talk like
two-dimensional is like a screen let's talk let's talk like straight guy on
girl if you're a straight person like like like vanilla porn
like sure not like animals or whatever because i wasn't really okay like i'm
thinking like two two-dimensional like just kind of vanilla porn
whatever fits in your preferences yeah like whatever would be vanilla for you
everyone's vanilla can be a little different you know chocolate strawberry
vanilla we're talking vanilla okay so that's our baseline okay i would make
the argument that a robot is actually less akin to
a real life sexual experience
than i see we are coming from with that but you also have problems where and
certainly less than uh than toy assisted vr
toy assisted vr is way up there um with the robot though
you are directly trying to replace the person
in the actions that they do and it is possible to get somewhat
emotionally attached to a robot
so like you are actually attempting to replace the functionality of the partner
yeah which is also why vr toy assisted would
probably would that top the robot for you i don't
know they're both like so these are both like no zone for you
this is really awkward uh well remember we're talking when you're
in a relationship and remember your no zone can be sort of what you're
comfortable with someone else engaging in while you're in a
relationship like it goes as a two-way street yeah yeah
so are both of those gray area at the very least to say
okay
okay interesting see i
how did we get here i don't know
but i i i wholly disagree okay i think that
the robot and then okay i and i'm saying inanimate object i
understand that not all of them are completely inanimate
um some of them like blink and stuff oh okay yeah yeah um but i would make the
argument that an inanimate object is
less like a real experience than an actor
on a screen uh
but it's not happening directly to you
that's true but nothing's happening to you i mean
let's face it you're doing all the work in either scenario that might be true in relationships as
well though wow shots fired
not even sorry to hear that bro no not that's not true at all but i'm saying
for some people that is a reality it's it's i'm sorry but like it is okay
sure fair enough people are saying next topic and they're
probably
sony officially confirms the 4k ready playstation excellent original article
here is from the verge
confirms a ps4 console upgrade but it won't be at e3 which raises the question
what will be at e3
i don't know people were asking me like at computex
and stuff they're like you've done e3 before you're going this year i was like nope like oh why not
it's probably nothing well you know what's funny is we missed a year when e3 was
like the [ __ ] yeah and then we were like okay we'll do it next year but the
problem is that we're not in the console mindset like we don't even understand
what qualifies as like a big e3 for console people because it's all just
kind of e3 yeah so it's like yeah all the consoles are launching this year we
don't go the next year all the consoles launched last year we go and it's like
here's some game with games with some tessellation or something the problem is
even if we did go the previous year
it was probably just keynotes wasn't it just keynotes like i'm pretty
sure we just watched those in the office i remember like talking to you because
we were both scripting and half watching at the same time like we basically more
or less went just virtually not to tie back to the previous
conversation yeah i mean on that subject man i went to uh i think two keynotes
yeah two keynotes at computex this year i went to one let's just not do them
anymore yep they are the worst thing ever yep there is nothing that i can
learn in a keynote that i can't learn and like
yeah i don't know the the most valuable thing i think we could do from a keynote
um and the the keynote that i went to was an NVIDIA one and what i did was i
just periscope live streamed the whole thing which like
i did that because i don't think it was being live streamed right the the stream
that i did uh twitch stream of at the NVIDIA event when i didn't have a table
and was like crammed in these tiny freaking seats in the back trying to hold my camera up while supporting my
laptop was horrible i don't even really know why people watched i tried to like
i tried to even get reactions from like jay and the other people that are sitting beside me and i'd turn the
camera in the HDMI cable
because it wasn't a very stable connection um but there's like live
tweets but then we don't have to be there in order to do that right
i don't know um
so this is actually this is actually sort of an ongoing
and ongoing scandal so i don't know if some of you have seen it but sourcefed
is claiming that google manipulated search results
in favor of hillary clinton it's actually a very well constructed video a
very compelling sounding argument for uh for how big this has become i'm
surprised it doesn't have way more views yeah it's actually only got about a
quarter million views let's go ahead and pop that up on our screen here so they
basically say okay look uh here's the popularity of
certain um search terms for example hillary
clinton indictment and hillary clinton india you can see indictment is much
more popular than india according to google's own interest over
time and they point out that when you actually enter
hillary clinton end into google search
it comes up with indiana india independent voters
indiana campaign absolutely nothing about indictment as a suggested search
with the argument being made by sourcefed being that
you should be suggesting search topics based on
autocomplete based on what people are actually searching for that would start
with those letters um
so this is this is very quickly turning into and they they also showed like i
think it was yahoo and bing typing the exact same thing in and yahoo being
reacted the exact same way that they would have expected yeah so indictment
was the top uh suggested with that said i wouldn't use bing search as an
indication of what is relevant necessarily although they make again a
good point it's very well constructed video actually i watched the whole thing
start to finish i was like wow that was very cogent um anyway
so they make the argument that if there's three people in a room and i
think something along don't quote me on this again three people in a room and
one of them says i'm in a room and two of them say i'm on the room's on fire
you know you should probably go with the two people who are saying hey the room's
on fire and not the person that it's what's relevant information i guess is
the point um now the defense up on the verge already
google denies oh and there's there's like there's like a whole like um
illuminati thing about how um larry page
uh funded or owns a company well i think
that princeton campaign no no it's true yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean to be
clear i'm not saying illuminati confirmed like you know uh
mr peanut on the peanut butter jar the american not the illuminati yeah it's
this like tech based company that larry page is funding that
is yes helping hillary's campaign that is being
uh contracted by hillary's campaign something to the tune of 177 177 000 in
a quarter which sounds like a lot of money to normal people like you and me
but this is important right now in the context of larry page that means nothing
he probably keeps that amount of money in every pair of shoes in the event that
he gets robbed and he needs to you know grab some money for walking around out
of somewhere that the robber wouldn't have gotten it from yeah that sucks sorry to hear that
and we're back illuminati freaking confirmed you were
waiting on that the whole time rachel hillary clinton showed up outside the
door of our warehouse walked in with like
armed guards behind her dressed in black and told us well not us told our
computer yeah you blue screen right now
or we are not walking out of this place
and it did it happened josh was there
okay so the last thing happened our computer blue screen i'm not really sure
what the deal was with that something to do with attempted switch from dpc which
is something to do with maybe a real tech wireless driver we don't have any real tech devices in this computer mini
card it seems to be like one of those catch all don't we don't have any of those that's
that's for sure so let's get back into um into what i was talking about what
the hell was i talking about before okay um so right uh medium dog
where was i going with this okay so the verge has uh the verge has a good uh
follow-up that basically says google denies altering search suggestions for
hillary clinton and points out that some of the examples that sourcefed cites for
example hillary clinton cri doesn't come
up with crime in fact apply across the board
google avoids auto-completing the word
crime or criminal um so that they can avoid
making disparaging comments about people who
may not have actually committed a crime or may not be a criminal in fact they do
so they've pointed this out this is uh who's this guy matt cutts
is the currently on leave from his position as head of google's web spam
team um
so they do this for everyone else including people that have actually been
charged and convicted very interesting um he also points out
that those looking for negative stories don't necessarily type hillary's last
name they actually mostly search apparently for i don't entirely know why
he would know this if he's on leave no you might still well you might still
know enough about the inner workings to come up with some examples that
demonstrate the opposition okay the first part totally the the part
where they're all looking for hillary not hillary clinton is like what well
you can look for that though um like you can search for relevance like you can
search for uh yeah yes they did people were searching for
that so basically uh oh and so another thing
they pointed out is that many results pop in when you type in donald trump
racist but results also appear for hillary clinton racist
um so there you go
so basically the conclusion in the verge article here is they're likely trying to
walk the line between providing as much information as they can and not stepping
into a sort of gray legal area by say
suggesting that someone could be a criminal um
so here's a state a spokesperson's full statement on the matter google
autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause claims to the
contrary simply misunderstand how you type in donald trump rac yeah it comes
with with donald trump racist if you type hillary clinton rac it comes with
rachel race issue rachel maddow race
2016. oh that's interesting i wonder if that is a regional thing as well
yeah donald trump rac racist snl racist commercial racist articles racist rally
it's all racist i don't know that racism is necessarily
a hot button topic for hillary i doubt it
i'm just saying that was said in there yeah that's very interesting doesn't
seem true so here hold on we should we should probably do the demo live if
we're going to if we're going to talk about this so hillary i don't even necessarily know
because like so there you have it uh so racist costume is my
sixth fifth fifth suggestion am i right mine only
goes down to four browser thing probably oh no no i'm
actually on the resolution thing or like uh
zoom things i'm actually on google's website too you're doing the browser
suggestions okay so there you go oh okay so
i don't know yep no look it so that's a browser thing yep because
i'm in firefox here in chrome oh yeah okay there you go so
age email young news
news twitter wife donald glover okay let's help it out a
little bit news twitter wife net worth so there's nothing particularly incriminating there
but it looks like as you continue to dig in and find examples you can find stuff
that um appears to be a bit of an issue so there
is an article over on medium.com that appears to have been done without help
from google so here we go um search trends are a
significant factor in how autocomplete works this is the entire basis for
sourcefriends claiming yet according to their logic google must be favoring donald trump as well because they've got
donald trump r a completely leaves out the quite common
search term donald trump rape um which was the whole alleged thing with uh
ivana trump where she eventually
took back the statement but she claimed that he raped her so i guess i didn't
follow that closely enough yeah so donald trump l.a
okay so we've got donald trump lawsuits and donald trump laughing what is it
coming with latest latest news latest last night laughing
so at this point you're probably thinking this is a great point at this point
you're probably thinking to yourself whoa you're just choosing random words and searching them and he's like yeah
that's right i'm doing exactly that totally makes sense yeah which does make
sense so i can definitely see how source fed came to the conclusion
they did because you right there sitting there were like
well hold on a second what about this this conflicts with that remembering
that we're in a different region and i know that google does
specifically target suggestions region by region
so outside of america you might get very very different types of suggestions
to do with any of the presidential candidates
versus someone who's actually in the u.s so do i believe
that google is 100 percent ethical
no do i believe that they would be stupid
it might not be a targeted thing to do something this blatant right um
no i i i think this would be really dumb
i also have a really hard time believing that hillary clinton is necessarily the
candidate that like google as a whole would have decided is
like ideal um
so i mean she seems pretty impressionable better than trump i guess
that's such a yeah that's a can of worms actually this
is interesting i had um sort of changing topics i had dinner uh at computex with
uh like a self-professed like die-hard trump supporter
and um basically the conversation went
something along the lines of people are like where's the tech talk
this is tech by the way just saying the google stuff yeah the google stuff and
what i'm telling you about right now was a conversation i had at computex tech is
right in there um so basically he he like was just out of
absolutely nowhere we were talking about something to do with AMD's strategy for
fire pro cards and distribution channels or something like a legitimately tech
conversation and then he goes something something
something you know my boy donald something something something and
and then he's like well and we're like oh okay so you're a trump
supporter like as if it was not obvious at that point and he goes yeah you know
blah blah blah blah blah of course i am why what are you like well canadian he's
like oh you're socialist then like well you know what a
not necessarily for one thing
and b um who cares because at a business
dinner the last thing that i'm gonna be talking about is socialism for donald
trump that is like completely inappropriate
so so yeah but uh hey he's not afraid to speak his
mind just like his boy donald it's all good
um however inappropriate or appropriate it
might be weren't we supposed to be talking about the 4k ready playstation
yeah i have no no idea how we got how did we i think he
said no i think we stopped i think we were done no no we never made it past
the headline we talked about e3 and go no because because i saw this over here
and i realized it wasn't on the dock yeah we never got no i'm going through
what we did talk about we talked about three we talked about going to e3 and why we don't anymore we suck at that so
we said it won't be at e3 which was in the headline yeah and then we're like we
won't be at e3 either yeah okay so let's talk about the playstation 4 console
upgrade to be clear there doesn't seem to be any indication that this is an
upgrade in the sense that you can upgrade your existing console it looks
like there will be an upgraded playstation 4 that will include a faster
processor 4k resolutions oh man i got
such a kick out of the endless
endless playstation fanboys back at the time of launch that were like yeah 4k
support's coming actually it's not actually it isn't because
because actually the HDMI port on the playstation is not going to output it so
pay for one so there's that um
yeah so technically 4k sport is coming to places yes if you buy a completely
new device just not yours um i'll offer
4k resolution support and improved graphics presumably it will also have
support for playstation vr although i
don't know if playstation vr is going to
be supported on the existing playstation 4 do you know this no
i don't know this hmm that has been an interesting why are your things like off
your screen that's weird
i don't know if that's a known thing on
ps4 yeah i i actually i actually don't
know so 500 headband display blah blah blah blah blah blah upcoming virtual
reality headset for the ps4 console but what's interesting is that the only
confirmation that we have is that there will be an upgraded ps4
they're not actually calling it something else yeah so if they said ps
vr is for the playstation 4. i mean if this is like a
oh man because there has been some confusing stuff that's gone on in
console generations before you know mini versions and you know cooler running
versions and the halo versions and all kinds of
different different stuff that actually in some cases can have very different
hardware and software limitations i mean early playstation 3's had backwards
compatibility with hardware you can install Linux on them they're actually
still really cool and then that completely got kicked out those things
are worth money on ebay they are because you can make them computers like there's
a isn't there like a military data center or server or something
that's playstation threes i think it's like defunct now but i'm sure but like
okay it was a thing it wasn't there i mean um it might have just been
experimental that's also very possible anyway the console will be priced higher
than the current 350 for the existing ps4 and it will be better um so there
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there there are closer ones if you're looking for a kit they're like
right there there's an entire bin of them right
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ah yes my friends so cm store dash usa.com has all kinds of interesting
stuff everything from cooler master and
uh basically yes everything from cooler masters their free-form modular stuff
expected to find that like if you saw the cooler master uh video
from uh computex you would have seen some of these things already so those things are
made by primo chill actually yeah so these are a little like you can change
the look of the front of your case and the uh power supply basement area to
this like crazy blue thing if that's not
your style there's a bunch of other stuff you can do you can get official stuff from
cooler master too which includes like the this crazy handle on the top of the
case this actually ties in really well to the thing that i was criticizing
about ASUS concept pc that they had at the show that that one that all
assembles with hard pcbs um and the problem is that
they were like oh yeah we'll have like modular upgrades for
uh rear i o so that an older motherboard could have like usb type c and you would
just have this module that you slot in and i was like well by the time the
distributor and the retailer and the shipper remember you have to get it to a
distributor then to a retailer then to the customer all take their cut these
things are going to be inordinately expensive you might as well just buy a new motherboard you need a controller
for that too um the controller is actually in the like upgrade module
that's what i'm saying so it's gonna be really expensive yeah so so well okay so
the product manager for the claims it wasn't but i was like yes it is sure
um so cooler master buy stocking because
that's been a big problem for cases too i bought a windowed side panel for an
antec p160 so that was
12 years ago um anyway so i did that it took like five
weeks to special order because there was like
one in the entire country and that's the way it was then and that's the way it is
today when it comes to accessories for computer cases
because you just can't stock enough of them
in all the right distribution areas in order to have timely fulfillment of
those orders be possible and that was a windowed side panel and it's a
relatively common thing we're not talking like like a freaking you know
like slashed like front panel thing so i actually see cooler masters
cooler master store as an interesting solution to that
problem because cooler master themselves is handling this doesn't have to stock a
ton of them yeah they can just say okay stock five
is they buy the things from the makers and then resell them too which is pretty
cool so you know that like cooler master is tracking their
stock and like all this other kind of stuff which actually makes sense
so i think it's pretty cool so the other thing we're supposed to mention i guess is the um
the master case maker 5. so make it what you will i know luke you
especially had a lot of skepticism in your brain and in your heart and
probably in your pants about cooler masters whole maker branding and there
are still some products here we're still doing a cooler master sponsor spot but
i'm not afraid to criticize them during a sponsor spot there are still some
cooler master products that i look at the maker branding and i just go like
what exactly is maker about this but i've got to give them the vision for
the case at ces they announced that they were going to have this store here we
are six months later they have products in it so they are working on it they are
trying to make it actually like maker in some way yeah i don't
understand how like uh beautiful honestly looking power
supply uh happens to be maker but
i do appreciate that they did follow up on the store thing i i like it probably
would have helped if i said it in the original video but the first time i covered their free-form modular system
stuff yeah was last computex not the most recent one
and i gave them like a year or whatever and i talked to you about it not that
long ago yeah going where is that where is that store thing because it's not
here yet and then it showed up like three weeks or a month before computex
or something and i was like all right okay okay all right you made it not by
much but you made it but we'll give you that one cooler master you made it get
it yep you liked it i got it
beautiful yep make it beautiful
make her it beautiful all right let's talk about beautiful community
interaction the original article here is from engadget
riot used league of legends chat logs
to spot bad staff
apparently looking closely at what employees say online it's a good thing i
don't do that or ed probably wouldn't have a job anymore
so riot gaines looked at employees chat logs and found a correlation between
their behavior in and out of game they
worked with google's work staff analytics team and picked through the last 12 months
of each staffers league of legends gameplay records and
chat logs they found that a quarter of the people they had fired in the last
year so they had fired prior to knowing
had shown unusually high levels of toxic
behavior in game armed with this information riot used it
to proactively address the problem with remaining staff so they singled out 30
employees all of whom were actually fairly new to the company and gave them
two options those who got a stern warning and those
who should be let go and then during the meetings many
employees expressed regret at how they behaved in game they received essays
from employees vowing to change their ways and the report ended with riot's
intention to request league of legends user names from all future hires for
similar analysis
so yeah like social media investigation
by potential and current employers just got real very very real like i
wouldn't be and you know what it's it's funny because if you'd asked me
yesterday what is social media i would have said i
don't know twitter facebook youtube um and a lot of people don't even think
of youtube like i only think of it because youtube is my primary social
platform i think a lot of people don't think yeah yeah i guess because you yeah okay a lot
of people watch a video i mean what percentage leave a comment under the video it feels more like a tv viewing
thing yes instead of a inter communication thing like twitter and
facebook but it absolutely is it is a social media platform um i'm not saying
i would not have said the game i played last saturday night
so let's get a straw poll going on here like
oh straw poll is what riot did okay
oh and i'm not putting in turnip because
i've this is like the requesting kind of a big deal here these are names
seems a little weird does it not for future employees
okay so before we before we get into the answer to that question um
let me say this when i applied at ncix
i actually went out of my way to include
my forum username yeah so they could review
my posting history on their site i'm not going to say who but uh certain people
on like the forum and certain people that i know through twitch and stuff
yeah have included their handles for the line of sections forum for
certain jobs that they have gotten and that has been part of it so
other jobs yeah i actually do totally does one of them
have the initial cc
fairly prominent member real initials oh
uh i'll talk to you later oh okay okay i'm just i'm idly curious yeah yeah i'll
talk to you later i have no problem telling you but i'll talk to you okay um
and like it's worked and it's helped them and i understand the voluntary
giving of those things yeah and like
having riot be like it's a good thing if you give us your username
is probably i just i think it's because aren't there certain legal requirements
but what you're even allowed to ask you can spin it both i i sincerely doubt
a gamer handle is even covered but i
could see ryan spending it both ways because they could spin it to every
candidate this way if you give us your league of legends
username it enables us to help you the
good candidate get a job
but the implication the implied
back side of that story is that it helps weed out potential
jackasses during the interview process so so some
questions that you can't ask is what is your religious affiliation are you
pregnant what is your political affiliation what is your race color or
ethnicity although if you're in an interview uh anyways sometimes it's not
obvious sure most people think my wife is uh i think i get a lot of people
saying she might be filipina but she's not
sure um that's a good point how old are you are you disabled are you married do
you have uh children or plan to uh are
you in debt do you drink or smoke
socially socially i guess um
so in that social drink so in that sense
if riot asks for your username
they because they could very indirectly get the answer to like everything there
they could get the answers to pretty much all of that especially because that
probably includes whispers
what if it doesn't though let's say it doesn't let's assume let's assume let's
let's give the benefit of the doubt let's say it doesn't include whispers right okay so let's say it only includes
public chat but by the time you post that information on
a public server have you forfeiting yeah have you have
you put that information on your forehead no because there's also implied
anonymity through your username you're not playing
as Linus sebastian right you're playing as
whatever i do because i give up but sure yeah but like okay you know what i mean
though yeah yeah yeah i give up too um i don't actually use my
real name but yeah i give up uh i twitch stream what was i
supposed to do um but yeah like i don't know
okay so let's let's hear from the viewers this is split pretty much right
down the middle i saw that we've got 53 percent of you saying it's okay
riot has the right to know what you and you
know what it might be in their eula somewhere riot has the right to know before you
work for them that's our neighbor what you posted on their privately owned
servers which is an interesting point
riot probably has terms in their eula
that entitle them to ownership of everything that gets posted in much the
same way that linustechtips.com owns anything you post on it sure
through the end user license it doesn't have to do with you forfeiting the information of your user name right but
you knowingly and willingly posted that
with maybe you figured you were anonymous but you weren't according to
the end user license agreement you willingly and knowingly posted that
publicly yeah yeah but so it's still it's still
not forfeiting your username because you could falsify your personal data that's
true but if the eula
says you're not allowed to do that euliss also don't hold up like ever
that's true they don't but
if riot's company policy is that all employees subject to termination if they
fail to comply need to follow the eula but can you can you go around say
if there was i'm going into three articles here yeah if that list of stuff
that i just said included gamer tag for whatever reason
would circumventing that by saying that they have to follow the eula is that
legal i guess john and i don't think it comes down to
legality or not legality because ultimately
you can you can control what an employee
posts on your privately owned servers as
a company yeah it's not about control though this is reading the last 12 months right so
going back and looking at it well ultimately because there could be a code
of conduct within the company where you have to act a certain way yeah like
costco has a code of ethics yeah they have like an entire handbook
it's like this thick it's like here's uh you know here's the
value up to which you can accept a dinner from someone here's this that
that that that and that um you know you know what's funny is i have
actually kind of talked myself into it
you're also an employer no but even outside of that because
while i because we've talked about this before yeah and
i don't remember what stance i took but you know
whatever we have uh to give some insight we have
uh necessarily changed opinions but but
added information to what we thought about a person that was going through an
interview process with us by looking at their social media yes oh long time ago
you were in on that did i was it was their twitter account yeah okay okay
this was uh this was a long time ago did they twitter
i think the twitter account was was given to us okay so it was given to us
yeah okay but we clearly have no problem looking at social media for things now
with that said i personally don't really
like this the reason why i don't really like this is because of the implied
anonymity of your username if you post something on twitter or to a public
facebook account that is very searchable and is directly
attached to your name i think of course that's searchable by your employer i
don't think you have to forfeit those accounts but they're under your name and
are searchable so whatever
so i don't like
the idea of creeping something that wasn't provided
yeah especially if it's a third party so if
riot was saying you have to provide your facebook username because i've heard of
employers demanding this you have to you have to
you know what's your facebook yeah and we're we intend to look at it like if
they demanded that that's one thing and that to me is actually very different
from demanding to know what potential employees or current employees because
they only did this for current employees and then the potential employees is moving forward now so they did this for
current employees yeah what your current employees are posting on a server you
own yeah i was just going to say that's also a different thing because it's their platform and i could definitely
see this this might change my opinion a little bit because it's their platform
that's like how they are treading on your turf yeah
it's how they are representing your brand i was applying this to like any
gamer tag right so like if you played wow
and league of legends they would want to have both of them you
know what i mean yeah but that's what they don't have no i know because they
wouldn't have the ability to do that anyway right so but i think that would be more wrong
anyway yeah i think so too i think what an important the treading on your turf
wanting to know your stuff for your own servers i actually totally see that if
if someone wanted to apply to work here and we're on the forum i would want to know what their account was and would
want to see how they conducted themselves on the forum i wouldn't ask for their other accounts
so i actually i guess i do agree with it i just don't agree with it as a a gamer
tag in general a gamertag in general feels like it should just be
this is my escape is in land yeah that's that's
what i was trying to defend it's your anonymous area you should just sometimes
you role play that's the thing roleplaying is a thing
how i behave as a gamer tag shouldn't
necessarily be the be all and end all of someone how of how someone interprets
who i am and what i am as a person but i also see where riot's coming from which
is if you're role-playing an [ __ ]
to the community of our paying customers who you're trying to apply for and will
be representing in some way or another yeah who you're ultimately serving at
your like freaking day job that you're paying for riot is gonna want someone
who uh like compared to a negative person they
would want someone who's trying to make the community better because that's the
exact same kind of deal as the person in the interview
uh who is actively trying to find ways
and offer up ways that they could improve the company and
who have pre-thought about these things like like the
the standard thing like if you're applying for a social media position being like oh i have these
ideas for improving your social media situation because i've already looked at
what you're doing and analyze what you're doing and thought about it and tried these practices and whatnot that's
a very good thing to bring to that interview
bringing to that interview that you obviously didn't care and are
contributing to a toxic environment which place pokemon says someone was
role-playing at me real hard in an overwatch match i played last night
we're not saying that playing an [ __ ] is okay
we're just saying that i think we specifically didn't yeah it
might not necessarily be who you are as a person yeah
um okay teamviewer confirms
number of abused user accounts is
significant uh the original article here is from bleepingcomputer.com
they apologize but they still say they were not compromised which is something
that has yet to be actually proven even
though redditers and some blogs out there have
offered up some evidence that looks fairly compelling to suggest that they
were indeed compromised so uh what well they were
definitely compromised the the question is whether or not team viewer
was compromised like their records that that's their compromise yeah um but team
viewer accounts were definitely kind we're definitely compromised so the
suggested course of action it right now is to protect your accounts with secure
passwords that are frequently changed have reliable anti-malware and security
solutions in place at all times and enable two-factor authentication that's
what teamviewer is suggesting um there's other stuff that you can do uh the way
that i was once compromised well not not
me personally i've never been compromised i'm not compromising
not i don't know what i'm talking about anymore anyway the way the Linus tech tips channel was compromised was through
a key logger um where i did not have
two-factor authentication enabled because i don't remember if it was
available yet i doubt it was back then it was a long time ago anyway um
so through a key logger so one of the other ways that you can avoid getting
your password sniped by a key logger is by having something like a password
keeper like lastpass one thing that people are questioning is they're saying
i had a two-step enabled and they still got in
we don't have any confirmations of these things but hearing that is bad
um one one thing that i'm gonna say is uh not to bring this up again but
quite a while ago we had a breach on the last sections forum which super mega
sucked and
even if that wasn't our fault
you still have to kind of be a little more proactive you should
probably considering this as an exploit that's going against your software
sure their breach isn't your fault but it's still an exploit that is widely
significantly going against your software you should probably
inform your users yep that this could be a problem suggest password changes
password actively through email suggest two-step they have my email address one
thing i can't reach was like busted our email reputation by making sure that we
hammered emails out as fast as we could to all of our users yeah which actually
hurt us in the longer term no one from hot no one at a microsoft domain got an
email from us for months for a very long time including password reset emails yeah
which was a nightmare thanks microsoft we were just trying to help people and
then they ignored us for months with trying to get anyway anyways
um so pretty much the way the attack works is
people are breaking into your team viewer into your computer with
teamviewer and then they are using presumably saved passwords on your
computer please don't do that for example if you have a password
keeper i don't understand why this isn't a default option but actually while
you're in your next security audit can you run around to make sure everyone has it set to timeout after a very short
period of time make sure your password keeper times out like for the love of
everything that is valuable to you time out your password keeper the whole
point so what they're doing is they're going into
whether it's you're using chrome to save your password which by the way is really stupid um or firefox save your passwords
which by the way is even super stupider because it saves it in plain text in a
file in like data roaming local whatever it is
um what was i oh yeah so then they're using
your saved passwords to drain your bank account and your paypal
which there's not a whole lot that um anyone can do about once it's done if
the action was effectively done by you
um right we've got a lot of topics left
some of which i like really did want to uh
talk about real quick here um
where'd it go um
uh where where did it go
maybe up no i've had like looking forward i had something i really wanted to do like
tied into the teamviewer one i had like a segway and everything and it's
completely not in my mind anymore this
no no it was cool this
no that's cool too but not not as cool
um oh well
yeah oh this no oh that ties in yeah no i know it was
like something else like it might not have actually oh this is a dock
uh oh yeah wait no no this oh this apparently got rejected
i don't know i don't know why uh why did that get rejected
um i don't know i actually don't know
um oh okay well i don't know why it was
rejected so i'm not gonna go too far into it but uh
twitch troll donates fifty thousand dollars to streamers paypal allegedly
refuses to refund maybe we don't actually have confirmation on whether
paypal is refunding it or not ah yeah okay nick nick is nick is filling it in
for me conflicting reports okay so i was gonna try and tie that in well i think
that pretty much wraps it up for the lan show i do want to do a call out for nerd
sports guys if you haven't already uh
check it out over on vessel they offer a seven day free trial night vision
they offer a seven day free trial where you can see uh Linus tech tips tech
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bunch of other creators and it should also be noted that nerd sports uh all
five episodes of which are up there
and for whatever reason not particularly searchable there it is
it's one word apparently uh all five of which are watchable curling ice hockey
dodgeball lacrosse and volleyball where
we the keyboard warriors take on real athletes in the sports of their choosing
the curling one was funny you guys suck you almost got it those are my uh inputs
thank you you almost got there i almost got the other guys really didn't help oh
my god karen what were you doing they really let me down that is not how
you try to be the lead of a team they really let me down in a big way
so thank you very much guys
um we will see you again next week same bat
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