heroes in the thing oh yeah we should talk about youtube heroes
hey guys i don't know what the next one is
oh no no i'm done filming now no no no
good try go try it i'm done filming uh i hope i hope everything's working
everything's working right welcome to the lance show
oh man it has been an intense week
between me and luke we scripted 11
no 12 12 videos this week okay you did a lot then
uh holy crap what the hell
uh because i did four yeah okay
i have been i appreciate that you bundled me in that fully but just to add
some context i'm trying to i'm trying to make sure four is a lot just so people
like understand four is like four is okay so we do WAN Show every week that's
one of our seven weekly LTT uploads yeah um so if each luke and i do three then
that covers everything we need to do for the week yeah because that's our six
uploads so if we produce 12
in a week then what that means is that in the event that Linus's wife
who was induced this morning
gives birth in the next 18 or so hours
like she did last time she was induced what's happened just like how it's
supposed to work then we will have a full additional week
based on what we produced this week a full additional week of content that
will allow Linus to spend some time with his brand new baby yeah that
that is uh and then if i keep we're at
four a week then we'll only rot at two videos a week
as time goes on yes which is not that bad so maybe so maybe i will be able to
take some time it's really funny like i never actually take
my kind of vacation time like since i started working at ncix i
think i've taken one time off that i would actually consider to be a vacation
and it was like it was like early on in the days when basically i like got home
and i was living with my girlfriend's parents and we would like get home and
play team fortress 2 like my life really wasn't that hard anyway yeah yeah um but
since then it's always been like some trip from hell to asia
with two infants or like uh when i've had a child
so i i think i took about seven work days off when i had my daughter
um but this time the plan is and this has actually been kind of incredible
like our team is now 15 strong as of the new
salesperson that we've added who starts not monday but the following monday okay
now 15 strong and the team is now structured such that i'm hoping to take
two to three weeks off to enjoy with my new child to be fair out of all of those
new hires from three people to 15 people
you haven't added anyone that's going to help with what you do
the core on LTT no yeah on super fun and
on techwiki i have okay but super fun used to be a much smaller commit yes and
but technically yeah was a lot of work for me yeah yeah although we didn't do
three to four tech quickies a week the way that we do now and they were
yeah the original one oh okay the
original original ones i think they were just a little low
hanging i don't think they're necessarily bad they were just very low hanging they were very low hanging they
were low hanging like the balls of a potent stallion actually no
stallion balls are actually kind of tight to the body
so i like what has good thing what has low hanging balls
i'm sure twitch chat knows twitch chat can please please let us
know twitch what are we even do do we have topics preferably no longer low
hanging balls i can i can get us some topics here uh there's one
okay for topics today yahoo confirms
a 500 million account breach
for people who will never even know that this breach occurred because let's face
it they are not that twitch twitch savvy internet savvy yeah they have yahoo
accounts yeah moving on total biscuits tumor is down 50 in size
that is excellent news that is so good is it it's okay i know because of like a
new treatment and stuff and that's after a very small amount of sessions i know
that inoperable means that it cannot be
operated but is it operable if it can be operated on
i would assume so i don't know but english is stupid and
medical stuff gets crazy so you've got that combination i don't know
okay i mean flammable and inflammable same thing
so like rip english yeah uh what else we got palmer lucky is
financing trump memes so well they're more like anti-hillary
memes well we'll get into it sure yeah yeah and apple patents a paper bag
so yep maybe you can store your is it a
lunch bag is it because it could have an apple in it oh
that's not even funny that's not even like an aw damn
that's just stupid that's okay i really appreciate you like
no worries
sorry
videos week normally i would have to put those
little graphics in there which is why a lot of the time it wasn't done
so that's a thing okay
well it's done now so good job Colton
so yahoo has confirmed 500 million accounts breached we have uh article
from i believe the one tell me to post that in twitter journal i got it already
here i'll share luke screen boom there you go
oh twitch section twitch section there we go
so yeah at least 500 million user accounts um they're probably taking a
little bit away from that for like people that haven't actually accessed
their yahoo account for the last six years i think 500 million accounts
i mean is that not like is that the entire population of north america
more than that canada has like 35 million the states
has like 335 million or so like 330 340. i don't
know how many people live in mexico but like it can't be that many
like holy crap yeah is this is this the biggest account ever
potentially yeah yeah i guess because we don't fully know
how every single one of them has gone then we don't technically know if it is
the biggest but it is potentially the biggest
i mean do 500 million people have yahoo accounts how many of them are dead like
how many of them have passed away but yeah like actually people who have
passed away a lot of these are probably people who like oh when i was 10 i made
an email account called like sephiroth xxx 69 boy
and now i have replaced that with my real name and then at yahoo like there's
probably a lot of those going on frighteningly enough sephiroth porn is
probably a thing i just i remember like when i was
younger and into video games it seems like every second dude that i ran past was like xxx sephiroth xxx it's just
like the the big and the small yeah yeah the big x's in the middle yeah i
know you know what was your like i'm a little kid email okay i'm gonna do
Yvonne's first okay so Yvonne's was
sweetheart09 oh man at hotmail.com oh
man with underscore sweet underscore heart underscore zero nine and her
display name always had like those things with the assassins
it's amazing that i ever fell in love with her because that's terrible
um with that said um
my cringe like first email address is
muumuu underscore the underscore cow at hotmail.com
yeah someone actually acquired it from me like really later on down the line
like it went inactive and like someone got it otherwise
i would have kept it i totally would have kept that you know quite frankly my
new one is not that much better but it's
funnier if you like get the joke yeah um i mean i don't even care i don't even
monitor anymore i just keep it more out of sentimental value than anything else
so i'll tell you guys what it is but it's the underscore peanuts underscore gallery
it's just so long hotmail.com it's really long it's hard to type but what's
funny about it and the thing okay this is important to me both of my email
addresses were unique they did not have numbers at the end of them because
especially 10 years ago there was really no excuse for that come up with
something original don't be sephiroth no
69696969 because all the other six nines were taken okay um so they were both
unique and the peanuts gallery is actually pretty funny because
you know my personality of being loud and outspoken and sometimes wrong
is uh is is directly sort of like it is
kind of similar to what we what you would expect from the peanut gallery who
i i forgive me if i have the origin of the
term wrong but it dates back to i think shakespearean times when the peanut
gallery was the standing audience in the theater the the poor people who like
left a lot of peanuts um peanut remains left on the floor so
like they were kind of like and they would like they would yell during the show they were uncouth um so so i called
myself the peanut gallery and then i'm the peanuts gallery because my name is
one of the characters in the comic strip penis by charles schultz Linus so i was
like ha ha i am so clever this is unique no one else would ever want this email
also because it's so damn long yeah okay so what's your cringe email uh
pretty bad i technically didn't make it but i was totally down with it and used
it uh ladiesboy54
54 was my 80s boy i didn't want to use man because i was
too young i didn't self-identify as a man at that
point in time i self-identified as a boy oh i'm so triggered right now so it was
yeah ladies but apparently i was into older women because i used ladies
instead of girls uh well girl's boy 54 just doesn't
really even mean anything sounds a little weird yeah yeah so it was it was
lady yeah ladies boy 54.80 at hotmail.com yeah that was uh i i
actually tried to get it back i remember when i finally abandoned it i just made
its password something crazy so no one would ever get into it and then now it's just gone i tried to like get it back
the other day and like see what i used to do i don't even remember
what brought this on anyway i'm i'm definitely curious what ladies boy 54.
like why were you trying to get it the other day no not the other day oh like
like quite some time i don't remember when but like i went back to try to like
oh can i get my old email back all the older women in the audience are
freaking out by the way because they're like they have a chance
now oh all the older women like my mom
she could be freaking out right now probably because she's embarrassed um
but yeah there's there's probably an extreme lack of that currently watching
yeah but yeah that was uh that was my old
email oh that's funny hooray have we even covered a topic yet oh yeah the
yahoo thing oh that's excellent okay good um
so i don't know we haven't actually really talked about any of the details
of the breach so i guess
oh the reason my laptop is running so poorly is that heaven still thought it
was like running on an external monitor or something oh oh that's
that's very inconvenient guy who believes that the hackers are no longer
in its corporate network that's probably good um the company said that it didn't
believe that unprotected passwords payment card data or bank account
information had been affected um
okay do they say what was affected
yeah i'm trying to figure that blah blah blah investigating claims blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah it's unlikely to affect the terms of the
verizon deal so that's good even though
they said that they weren't aware of any security
breaches on september 9th the intrusion happened in late 2014.
so by now like oh man
wow basically they didn't even really start
investigating until july when yahoo was started looking into claims by hackers
who were offering to sell 280 million yahoo usernames and passwords
they said that the information for sale wasn't legit though and eventually
determined that they had been breached by a state-sponsored actor
so we'll we'll kind of stay tuned i guess and see how many of
our grandparents should probably change their yahoo account passwords and my
girlfriend stop using that email she uses yeah yeah
why you know like i i like subtly roasted
her for this like a like while ago on the WAN Show
but now like come on my aunt who has been retired for the
last five years uses hotmail at least hotmail's even better though i know yeah
like you're you're on the outlook platform and stuff now like that's fine it's just an uh
it's just an older name yeah
ah man it's garbage that's disappointing
all right researchers lead the way
towards a method of unhackable internet
communication okay gray nuts oh
oh yeah no okay so i see where this is going so quantum state
kind of internet networking stuff is iffy because if you try to intercept it
uh before it gets to its destination the data inside will change so
it could be hacked sort of but they won't get what
you were trying to send if that makes sense and there would
still be means of part of the problem is that the the use of the word
hack has become so perverted from the from the actual
definition that because like a very effective attack in
this scenario could be to hit everything and make it
so that each side can't communicate with each other properly because everything
that's going in each direction is scrambled yes or another
hack could be as simple as installing screen recording software on
someone else on someone's computer and intercepting the data that way you don't
have to you know be all like csi
like intercepting transmission re-transmitting
it's upside down now yeah way to go if you didn't get that way to go i tried i
can't see it because that's not the only means of hacking and lots of forms of
hacking including social engineering hacks will very much still exist and
this will do absolutely nothing to
at all helpful social engineering is not hacking yeah it constantly gets used in
that way we call it that like you know oh Linus's twitter got hacked
no no in the purest sense of the word Linus's
twitter account was compromised yep but it was not hacked
because calling it a hack would be giving the folks involved in that far
too much credit credit yeah
all right so anyway um basically it's a group from the university of calgary
that teleported the quantum state of a photon to a location 6.2 kilometers away
using fiber optic cable researchers in shanghai sent states of
photons 14.7 kilometers across that city
so they believe that widespread adoption of quantum teleportation technology
could usher in a new era of unhackable internet communication
the first step though is figuring out how to send that quantum information
over the vast distances we're talking not a few kilometers
of fiber optic networks that span the entire globe although like internal land
connections at extremely secure facilities using this could be pretty
cool that would be pretty cool yeah um
basically i mean
hmm so okay so most of it is kind of what we
covered earlier yeah the rest of it is like pretty techy speak but pretty much
pairs of particles are linked together through unique properties or states
and then that means that only the two parties who have the entangled particles
can read the information sent between them which is pretty cool hackers trying
to eavesdrop would introduce detectable anomalies and the two parties could
abort their communication so this is the kind of thing that i see
being more like a military thing
within any kind of like reasonable period of time reasonable period and
i i don't know if it would ever make its way to like your wi-fi router for a
number of reasons um so don't just consider like oh rob these guys are
saying that technology isn't going to advance like that's not necessarily what
we're saying there could even be legal reasons the government likes to have
ways to sniff on your stuff so they literally might not make this
possible for you they can sniff my stuff anytime they want it won't smell good
but that's their problem it might smell good we just get a shower it's all right
all right this is freaking hilarious um
so incredibly not surprised haven't we been saying this for so long
i i actually it's you know what it's not something that we've like ranted on but
it's definitely something that we have talked about internally a lot yeah turns
out facebook was inflating their video
view stats for two years
miscalculation uh likely led to an overestimated viewing time of 60 to 80
percent oh my god
that's insane
this was according to a letter sent to an ad buying agency that was reviewed by
the wall street journal so basically
facebook has been trumpeting that they are the the next
destination for online video that they get x number of
views like you look at any video on facebook it has a view counter under it
and they've been saying that yeah so they've been saying that they are like
like you know closing in on youtube for the most
viewed online video platform and nibbly blobbity blub but the truth of the
matter is that the way that they're counting
is ridiculous i mean they auto play the video
as you scroll through and i can't remember actually nick light is the
expert on this stuff i kind of wish he would come down and take my spot here
because he'd be able to say a lot more about it than i would but i think that
facebook so so youtube counts a view after i think it's something to the tune
of 15 to 30 seconds facebook is almost immediate facebook's is like two seconds
so youtube is kind of looking at it where they've had a lot of data over the
years finding out uh how long it takes to capture a viewer
and if you watch for under that amount of time it considers that you didn't
capture the viewer yes so that's not a view and it doesn't count it yeah if you
watch for a significant enough time so you're past the average
time that people would bail if they're not that interested then it counts as if
go ahead you got my chair i was literally i literally just finished a meeting and turned on the lan show and
Linus looked i wish nick would come downstairs and take my chair
okay sure so anyway what do i need to talk about uh facebook
views compared to youtube views how they're calculated
it's funny because i've been saying this forever no i know yeah like because you
you have it standard that adds or that videos autoplay
make people disable it so grandma watches every single video that's on her
timeline watches um because technically i'm not
exactly sure how facebook counts a view
i know on youtube it's something to the tune of a number of seconds i don't know
what the number of seconds is but if facebook is saying that one
second is one view and they're auto playing on
pretty much anyone who's not slightly tech savvy's timelines
then that's a lot of views that are not actually views
so anyway it's just like it's something that i've been talking
about internally here for a long time um
that i was speculating essentially that facebook may have been over inflating
their view numbers and it appears that that may have in fact been allegedly
correct yeah by by the tune of 60 to 80 apparently
which is hilariously awesome because i i actually personally hate
facebook video and that's not just because like we're youtube people it
just sucks it's just like the amount of times that i'm like oh okay i actually
do want to watch this and then the player just like fails
it's like what oh and that's like
sorry is it 60 to 80 percent inflation
on view number or view through duration
do we know
estimated viewing time of 60 to 80 percent
like how and like that's the main metric that youtube is even going for right now
what's actually great about that is that that doesn't even address the ridiculous
view counts then yeah right so view counts could be 300 percent
higher yeah a thousand percent higher so like i was saying if they're counting
every single second if if every person who watches the video for one second
counts as a view
you could easily be looking at hundreds of percent inflation on view numbers so
this is all speculation and allegedly and
disclaimers i'm sure they're not going to exactly publish all this kind of stuff but this is how it feels like it
works from like affirmative the second i saw that they started to do autoplay i
was like oh they're trying to push up numbers yeah
that's the only reason yeah i mean i guess they could argue that
it's for convenience sake i would actually love it if facebook became more
of a legitimate video sharing platform it'd be great because we kind of need
something that properly competes with youtube we we tried doing it consistently for like
a while and we should still be doing it consistently
but um we're not always doing it consistently um
and that is a lot in many cases due to the fact that it's
so sporadic yeah like it's so dependent on
not only just keywords and and likes and all that like it is on youtube um
but it's so dependent on whether people are sharing it
because if you don't get a share it's like well this video got three hundred views
yeah and if you get a couple of you get a share and that person has 400 friends
and all their 400 friends scroll down their newsfeed then it's like oh wow there's 400 more views even though one
percent of those people were actually interested i think seven gamers has like
over a million views on facebook
because it got shared and some of our normal videos have like
a thousand so like
what am i supposed to do like anyway
oh man so i mean to be clear it's not like they're
getting busted on this and they were still trying to hide it they did come
clean i mean this came from a letter they sent to an ad buying agency
although i wonder if they're coming clean because they needed
some kind of reason for why advertising on facebook video performs so poorly
do you know what i mean maybe they're just proactively kind of
addressing it so that no one digs further and kind of goes
like if a million people watch this and like
one person orders the new dyson miracle vacuum or whatever like
really one out of a million like you know we run banner ads that are more
effective than that really oh that's a dig um
so anyway speaking of youtube though should we jump down to youtube heroes
let's definitely do youtube heroes you know what's so funny about the name of
this is that it's exactly like the condescending
derogatory term that someone would use
for people you're a hero who white knight around on the internet reporting
stuff youtube heroes it's like good job hero
you reported a video that had a bad word in it good for you now to be clear i do
think that the youtube heroes program uh
has the potential to offer a lot of benefit to the youtube
community at large and we'll go ahead and we'll fire up the the youtube heroes
page here so you guys can have a look at it it's a google support page here
but there is also like everything google does like how do
they not oh look they're in
they are the most this needs like this could be very cool if what happened was
when enough heroes flag something it gets manual actual person oversight
afterwards that's not going to happen but if that did happen that could be
actually kind of cool and i don't understand why google doesn't understand
this because they are the internet companyist
of internet companies like
okay no they do have a physical product okay
technically google glass is a physical product in chromecast and chromecast is
okay so they do have physical products audio but all of their physical products are
our internet okay our internet is that even i don't really
think so don't worry about
whatever okay
they're like they were like forged in the fires of mount internet okay
and they've got the internet ring okay
the bring ring bus token ring
i'm trying to bring this back not happening topology
what are we talking about ring topology okay basically there's no excuse for google
to implement things that appear to internet denizens like us
as though they've never seen the way online communities interact before yeah
so people will people will become heroes for the
sole purpose of trolling
the crap out of people h3h3 actually said it in a really interesting way if
you go to the youtube heroes video page and you see the ludicrous amount of
dislikes and then you look down a little bit further and you notice that youtube
has disabled comments on the video
uh ethan pointed out that if you're scared of those people those are very
directly the people that are going to enter this program and are going to
troll the crap out of you and everyone else on this platform
so we haven't actually explained what it is yet which we should probably do so
heroes level up like does this just feel
like an executive with gray hair like
was sitting in a boardroom the kids these days they like the video games and
there's the in the video games there's the hero right and you and the hero
levels up you get experience and then you you yeah you level up and then
becomes more powerful and gains abilities oh interesting yeah we should
gamify the most boring part of the entire platform moderating it yeah okay so
that's what it's for uh heroes also there are other bits and these bits are
cool if you subtitle things
you can get like points towards your hero thing and subtitling things is
awesome and i think there's something else i was going to go through the whole list okay
so here goes level up by doing what he said sharing their
knowledge effectively with other users on the youtube help forum is another big
one um by flagging inappropriate videos that's
where the problem lies and each type of contribution is worth a certain number
of points so accurate reports of videos that violate
community guidelines is one point contributing a subtitle edit that gets
published is another point answering a user question on the youtube help forum
with a comment selected as the best answer is 10
points so they don't have captions in there are they considering subtitles the same as
captions because those are actually adding captions and subtitles to videos
are both um and i know but then it says down below when it says actually earn points
it says contributing a subtitle edit that gets published equals one point
i'm pretty sure they mean captions and subtitles i think for the purposes of i
actually i think there is a subtle difference between them but i don't remember what it is i
think is that captions are native language and
subtitles can be either i think i'm not that sounds right to me that's what i
was going to say i think okay so maybe we're right and if we're not then twitch
chat will yell at us but i'm not looking at it right now so i don't care i'm gonna look i care about you all right so
it's currently in beta it's subject to change um effectively you can unlock
rewards which is kind of here let's go ahead and
unlock rewards so hero levels level one
become a hero zero to nine points you can access the heroes dashboard and join
the community a level two hero
learns at that exclusive workshops and can take part in hero hangouts like can
you imagine that would be even worse than being in like a student government
meeting closed captioning is like listening to a
video for the deaf in subtitles is just
yeah but effectively they're both texts at the bottom they
usually look different so sub closed captioning usually has a black
background and subtitles usually are like uh like a
um a black drop shadow on white text like it's sort of weird yeah it's it's just i
don't think that's enough of an answer but yeah but there you go can you
imagine like being in a hero hangout
like just i'm hanging out with all the people who moderate like i'm not saying that
inappropriate content on youtube is a good thing and i'm not saying like it doesn't need to be moderated and i'm not
i'm also not saying that in the very very long term with properly vetted
heroes this program has the potential to be better than an
automated system so i'm not saying any of those things i'm just saying that
there is so much room for human error
that didn't exist before and people who
sit around and moderate youtube videos might be nerds apparently people a few
people have actually said that we're right with subtitles and captions okay cool
uh level three you get access to super tools and this is where it gets scary
you only need a hundred points how
easily could you abuse the system to get a
hundred points on this an insane thing too is like if you think about it you
could have your friends not to fuel the fire more
you could have have your friends ask a question on the youtube ten questions
that's it you get 10 points and you can even make them look pretty legit as long
as the person just selects best answer and it looks pretty legit
10 points that's right and then you get to mass
flag abusive videos which is like
terrible so we've actually already had some flags come in yeah uh so i think uh
the issue that someone flagged us first completely irrelevant these come in
every once in a while and it's fine because youtube i believe has changed
the procedure on them i used to have to dispute them individually and my
inaction would lead to the video being pulled um but people have said that um you can
flag a video saying that it must have closed captioning
if it originally aired on tv in the united states
that's like a rule so people can flag it saying i think
this video must have closed captioning and it used to be that i would get my
monetization removed if nothing else on those videos if i didn't demonstrate
that my video was not a tv show at some point in time and i'm sitting here going
this is ridiculous so we i think we got hit with a mass flag of those already
okay i'm just kind of like okay that's fairly minor i guess
at level four you get to sneak preview product launches and contact youtube
staff directly which is amazing because it took me until a year and a half ago
to have direct contact with youtube staff that might be bad because it might
call the system uh and getting closer to youtube a thousand plus points means you
can test products before release and apply for the heroes summit which sounds
like the most boring possible place you
could ever go but you know what
power to you if you're into that sort of thing
i mean maybe they'll bring like like celebrity youtubers to the summit or
something so you could meet pewdiepie or whatever like i don't know
youtube has the kind of money that would allow them to i don't
like this though yeah i mean i know pewdiepie needs the
money the super he releases a lot of videos like trolling the crap out of
youtube because they keep doing stupid stuff
yeah fair enough so i mean basically it's
maybe eventually it's like so many you know what
okay it comes back to exactly the same conversation i was having about the way
that they were cracking down on non-advertiser-friendly content
right now it's terrible give it another couple of years and they'll probably
have worked out the kinks but that doesn't change the fact that this is
going to create a lot of unnecessary busy work for people who are just trying
to use the platform legitimately and
running around and pinning like you know
merit badges on people for reporting
stuff that you know might not technically be within the community
guidelines but like come on
just you know it's grow like the community guidelines are
you could pull down a lot of content on youtube based on the community
guidelines and it would in my opinion destroy a lot of you know the things
that people were whining about with the whole uh advertiser safe policies thing
like um like it could destroy a lot of the free
speech and openness of youtube to have people running around flagging anything
that offends them a lot of a lot of community guidelines
are in place so that if you go far enough
they can hit you with a book not necessarily so they can actually be
enforced 100 all the time for everyone yeah
so yeah this is great 53 nt 13 nt great username
uh says hall monitors yes
that is youtube has basically implemented a hall
monitor system which was always terrible which was always terrible
so sjw report system yeah like basically
that seems to be what we're looking at that sounds like the most boring summit
that anybody could be at what would be its purpose do you go around and meet
other people who like abusing moderation powers
i think in the right community getting like
we call them moderators actually like on our community forum but getting together
community leaders is what i would think of them as more like yeah and it could
be cool when you have that it's a contained community that's supposed to
generally be about one thing and you have a relatively small compared to the
entirety of youtube subset of users and there's essentially one category it is a
tech forum yes these guys are just like
go on youtube and look at whatever you want and click the buttons like uh i
don't know like if you don't understand the humor of a channel and they're doing like
satire or something that's a little bit edgy and then you decide to flag it
because you're like this is bad content you don't realize it's a joke
that could go bad and i am not just salty that i do not have any hall passes
okay and that i was not selected for student
body president okay
i wasn't ever student body president
i was only hillary was student body president and i never went and they got
really sad about it but i didn't actually apply they just put me on the student council so i was like i'm not
going and they're like you have to go i was like i'm not going there's no way i would
ever do this i wouldn't even want you on student council why
because rude you'd be all like you'd be all like we need more
more showers at the school we
nope we had enough there you got enough there we don't have enough here we should get showers here ah see
see exactly what i was afraid of let's do ad spots squarespace
you could make a website about a shower if you wanted if we did enough squarespace spots maybe we could afford
luke's shower that is why squarespace no
that is not why squarespace squarespace lets you build a beautiful website that
looks great at your computer on your phone or in the shower similar to how
you would look great on your phone you get out of the shower on the new iphone 7.
yeah that's water resistant thank you water i appreciate it see that see that
right there that's me listening to you buddy um they
offer 24 7 support via live chat and email it's only 12 bucks a month to
start and you get a free domain if you buy squarespace for the year
all their websites include a commerce module a free online store and cover
pages a feature that lets you set up a beautiful one-page online present in
just minutes maybe your page is like a
shower and as you scroll down you go further down the shower and the whole
time you're like oh my goodness there's gonna be a person and then you have an
iphone underwater that would actually be kind of a funny website yeah just like like
you know those ones where it's like racist like it's a big image yeah and
you just see like this the slit yeah and like it could just go down down down is
there going to be a dick is there going to be a dick is it going to be a dick no it's an iphone 7. yeah
i like that yeah we should someone someone should make that website wrong
squarespace yeah and if they did so then they wouldn't have to pay for the first
14 days because squarespace offers a free trial um that lets anyone try it
see how easy it is to use before buying and deciding to use offer code when to
save 10 when they decide that that website really needs to be on the
internet forever because it's an important piece of artwork
speaking of important pieces of artwork
tools are not really art and ifixit makes tool kits
that someone put away improv someone put away them properly and this is my kit but it
was in the workshop so uh oh i don't know what happened there
are all the pieces there are you gonna have to rage face all the pieces it looks like all the
pieces are good but are they in the right spots i've had people put my kit
back with the pieces not in the right spots and i'm like i'm sitting here looking at
going okay like the kits are great everything is clearly labeled it is you
can you can obviously tell what goes where this is the 64-bit driver kit so
it won't run on Windows xp but as long as you've got Windows vista or later or
actually technically there was a Windows xp x64 edition but it was terrible no
one used it no one used that i actually did run it for a little while did you
did it it worked oh yeah most people i know of that had it it like crashed a
lot and stuff i it was actually stable on my machine cool yeah yeah it was it
was one of those things anyway ifixit has
what do they have they have great they have guides for diy electronics repair
whether it's your whether it's your imac your tablet your phone whatever the case
may be i have saved enough using ifixit guides
to tear down machines and often repair them in ways that cost me very little
money that i could easily have afforded to buy myself an army of ifixit repair
kits not that i need one because all ifixit repair kits are backed by their
lifetime warranty in fact my ifixit repair kit my original one that i bought
over holy crap i've had it for three and a half years now LMG is almost four years
old it's weird right yeah i know it's actually really close to yeah usually yeah like soon anyway my original one
still worked so well that i fixed it had to yell at me and tell me to stop using
it on camera because it's old and outdated and they're supposed to be i'm
supposed to be doing sponsor spots for the new one but my old one still works
exactly perfectly in every way we're getting closer to me
working with you for six years
then whoa then nothing i guess but we're
getting close we're getting close to that i was thinking like all my previous
jobs combined but that's not actually quite true yet we're getting we'll get
there we're gonna get this yeah um also in the pro tech tool kit which is the
one that we actually have these awesome embroidered ones that they sent us which
is why i know that someone put it back in the workshop when they took it from
me yep um so they've got like esd safe
tweezers hey you still have all your covers for your tweezers and stuff
you're doing good yeah they've got little pokers and prodders and prying
tools they've got their other prying tools the suction cup the esd strap that
doesn't look like it's ever been taken out along with the other the little
spatula thing and the other like pry tool that's it's great the tweezers and
stuff have been used but yeah that has never been taken most of what you need
to work on pretty much any small device is included in the kit and i can't say
enough about how much time and money i've saved with ifixit kits and i have
to say the first kit or at least the last kit that we had i don't know if
that's technically the first kit was great but this one is a lot easier to
keep things tidy within the kit and that's actually
really cool so you can get the all-new protec tool
kit it's not really that new anymore but my notes are old and get going on your
next fix hacker rebuild by just heading over to ifixit.com
Linus to save five bucks on a purchase of ten dollars or more and they have a
lot more than just the toolkits they have like replacement gaskets for like
imacs like they have replacement parts uh the things that you'll break when you
take something apart they a lot of the time have stuff that'll allow you to actually put things back together which
is really helpful all right
moving on to our next topic we actually have not covered a lot of topics today
um we've done like three
okay so the original article here is from thedailybeast.com polymer lucky the
facebook near billionaire secretly funding trump's meme machine
yeah so basically he is providing financial
backing and it's apparently he has confirmed this to the daily beast
he is providing financial backing for a group that circulates dirty memes about
hillary clinton even going as far as to buy physical billboard space
for a meme about how hillary is too big
to jail and that's the that's the one that's in the uh
the image right here yeah nimble america
now whether or not this is even legal is is
actually kind of a gray area right now because under the u.s tax code something
something nimble america can't spend more than 50 percent of its
resources backing a candidate unless it
also does all these other things or something something etc
but the fact that it's happening at all basically he's so he's putting money
behind an unofficial donald trump group dedicated to posting and
circulating internet memes maligning hillary clinton i mean what is this
i i kind of think that people should
probably put a little bit more
uh investment into these two particular
lines that are actually quotes from him the first one is i've got plenty of
money the second one is money is not my issue i thought it sounded like a really
jolly time if you look back and do a
little bit more deeper searching instead of just taking this article and a couple
other ones at the surface go far enough back there's pro bernie
tweets on his twitter retweets tweets from himself all that
kind of stuff he was pro bernie in the background in the back
when bernie was still running i guess and i kind of think what's happening now
is he's just like welp my horse is out of the race time to just be a supreme
troll and he's literally just doing what he
says in that quote where it says money is not my issue i thought it sounded
like a really jolly good time
i think bernie is out so he's just like
let's burn some fires and have some fun and troll and have a jolly good time i'm
not trying to defend his actions i just think that's helpful right now i just
think that people are taking it as something that it isn't and you can
still be mad and pitch forkey over what i just said i don't care i just think
that that's probably more where it's coming from and it also seems like more
like a thing that he would do let's just troll around
i generally don't like trolling i'm not trying to defend this yeah i'm saying i
think this is the more accurate way to appreciate what's happening this is a
really immature move um
and i mean it shouldn't surprise me that much the guy is really young
and i think his estimated net worth based on some of the articles i was
reading when i was looking into this something like 700 million dollars
i don't think anyone knows exactly how much you got paid from the facebook bio
but it was a lot and
i i think like is he just
is he just like cranky and bored like is that what this comes down to
uh yeah i kind of think so like i don't
actually know obviously because we only have the
quotes that are out there but i think he's looking at
this selection as honestly what it is which is a complete
mess in like every possible way you can look at it uh
rock and hard place yeah and just going like
well let's just screw around because obviously everyone else is screwing
around so i'm gonna do it the way i do it which is by tossing some
money around and having fun with the internet
and you can you can all judge that however you please
oh man yeah the uh the twitch chat is just like
this this is great why don't you guys report on mark cuban who's going after
trump every day no one goes after trump
trump creates the trumpness
like you don't have to go after trump
all right like but then like
yeah i don't know yeah i mean
yeah i think i think i i can't read this person's twitch username because it's
like bright green but the point is to vote for who actually respects your
constitutional rights and is actually willing to defend them and actually
knows his head from his butt and i agree with that and unfortunately
the system is broken enough that that isn't happening
i don't think we need to get way too into politics directly um
you guys can all go watch uh yeah what was it called well there's a there's
going to be a debate coming or that no our thing which thing when we built the
computer oh yeah you can go watch um oh what do we call it what do we call that
uh tech showdown yeah tech showdown episode two i think i think it's a good
name i don't think it's a good youtube name yeah yeah i think it's a good like
tv show name yeah um
yeah so all right so good luck everyone i am pretty sure he's just trolling and
at this point with how the election is going i literally don't think it's going to make
a difference um the too big to jail thing is an
actually very arguable point yep i'd rather
so like and i haven't seen any of the other memes they've made but that one's
really not that bad i don't know i think people do like to
glom on to some of the anti-trump things that i've said and go like oh he's a
hillary supporter i'm i'm not i'm canadian so fortunately i actually
don't have to make a decision on election day which is great which is
great for me i can just kind of point out everything that's completely
ridiculous about both of them um but but trump is more hilarious like i have
never paid closer attention to any
political anything that i have to the 2016 us
election it has been better than
every book i've read every tv show i've ever followed and
every movie i have ever watched in terms of entertainment value that's really sad
it's hilarious i don't find it funny
oh at all really i find it really depressing i to be completely fair i
find this a little bit more funny than how the election's going because this feels like a troll it feels like a joke
i think it's legitimately a joke i think he's legitimately screwing around i
think trump is a living breathing joke oh yeah but like that's a living
breathing joke that might go in office and like control things and
both of them are that i don't agree with either of them okay like so
fair enough when like this is probably literally a joke i could be behind this
more i guess so i don't know but this literal joke could contribute to putting
trump in office i don't think it's good is it funny
anymore at that point luke i don't think it's gonna change is it funny anymore i
don't think it's gonna change anything i think as of right now no one's really
flip-flopping sides if you've chosen one of them i'm pretty
sure you're there the polls are all over the place i don't know man yeah but the
polls are old like yes yes and no i mean every time every time trump attacks like
a widow and okay not to like aside too
hard it's still first past the post is it not
i don't remember so the election just doesn't matter in my opinion because it's just all anyways so just
everything's you have two crazy people running sounding like trump
you're sounding like trump it's a rigged system man it's a rigged system
system's rigged all right san francisco is getting tiny
self-driving robots that could put delivery people out of a job this is
actually very interesting because while the whole drone delivery thing
is very headline grabby this
is way more practical
safer more economical that is to say if they don't get stolen that often which
i'm sure will be a thing at some point or another um
and way more likely a future than than what
i see what i see happening i mean this
is the way to handle the last mile that
addresses the problems with current couriers like the cost associated with
people driving vehicles around and delivering things the cost associated with
fuel involved in driving those vehicles around if these things could be cheap
and fast enough and easily replaceable enough to have enormous fleets of them
then it could actually become truly more
economical to order things online than to go and pick them up in bulk at stores
and this should be terrifying to brick and mortar retail absolutely terrifying
more so than two delivery people who will still have to be involved in larger
shipments and customs brokerage and that kind of stuff for quite a while moving
into the future um so the startup uh what's what's a
startup called starship technologies yeah it's an autonomous robot i don't
think lioness is saying that he wants to put people out of jobs i think
no i'm saying that it will happen so we better be ready for it yes um and
whether that and you know what you can you can you can cry
um what is it socialist all you want
but at the end of the day like if we create enough technology that
people legitimately have nothing to do
and have all of their of their base needs taken care of
we're gonna have to figure out something there's like there's arguments on each
side there's one that's going like in in no recordable time in history ever has a
new technology wake actually made it so that there's less
jobs it's just changed what the jobs are but then there's a counter argument which i agree with more which is this is
just job removal and mass yeah this
isn't actually like just making your lives easier it's just
directly replacing people i mean let's look at the ice box or uh
so i i love ice harvesting it's like
it's hilariously out of date and it wasn't that long ago
like crazy like like trains of ice
okay like crossing america to deliver
ice from the ice harvesting caves to
people's ice boxes all right like like there was an entire infrastructure built
around this industry and then boom refrigeration yeah but
refrigeration requires jobs maybe more skilled jobs
which isn't necessarily a bad thing because educational standards have by
and large been improving since the early 1900s but overall the jobs were replaced
things that people did were replaced by things that other people did
so net net maybe you even gained jobs like you do
it many times as this whole thing progresses um and it's more convenient
for the people that are using the thing that's right however looking at some of
the automated things that are happening now replacing the person who flips burgers with a machine that flips
burgers replacing the mechanic who changes the oil in your car by hand
because every car is different with a machine that just swaps the battery on
your model s in what was it like 10 minutes it's less than it takes to fill
up your tank of gas something along those lines i don't remember exactly what it was not a lot of time
now we're talking about people who actually just don't have any work to do
um and it's very different end-to-end replacement
not only are you just replacing the guy that flips the burger you're replacing
every other line of cooking that's in there you're also replacing selling
things to people the food delivery you're also replacing the food delivery
you're also replacing the food harvesting to some degree yep you're
also replacing everything yeah yeah
so basically this robotic courier um
picks up goods from a centrally located logistics hubs hub and delivers them to
homes within a two mile radius through a partnership with mercedes-benz the
company is experimenting with loading a bunch of robots into a modified sprinter
van that drops off the delivery bots along its route now when
self-driving vehicles loaded up with it's going to be like
phantom menace man like you're going to have like the the like the the drop ship that like
floats along the street and then it's going to be like unroll the thing and it's going to be like
they're going to like come out and they're going to deliver all the things to the houses they're going to come back
and then it's going to go the next location it's going to be an amazing future we just need to figure out
the role that people are going to play in it it's complicated yeah so like this is
cool and i love it but like my job is still protected for a while
although it won't be that long before you can build an ai
evaluates a product tests every single
that was made by another ai possible yeah that was made by another ai that
tests every single possible aspect of it and delivers like
how good is it could it be better
and yeah and then the places making these
products will just have those in their studios where they're making their
products and then the robots that are making the products will know exactly how good it is and
then they'll price it exactly where it's supposed to be so you won't really need the reviewer bots because you'll just
know that everything is price scaled exactly perfect so spend more and it'll be better yeah period yeah
for everything always all right
so we're slightly over time i would like to cover there isn't much oh we already
talked about total biscuits tumor thing right yep sort of cool i mean
there's really nothing else in the notes that we didn't say already it's very good
consumer size is down by 50 that's very good
um AMD's am4 socket has been pictured
okay it has like 1200 pins or something like that i don't know right 24 pci
elaine's which is really interesting so AMD is apparently targeting
squarely between Intel's mainstream platform and their
enthusiast platform just based on that that's all i'm going based on but that
is actually very interesting to me
so dual channel ddr4 which is frankly all we need on the desktop anyway
24 PCIe lanes meaning that AMD seems to
think they're going to be that
better than the mainstream but like enthusiast grade but cheaper
than enthusiast option which is a as a void that Intel has
stubbornly refused to fill over the last four to five years really
interesting because Intel could easily build a more complex quad core or a six
core in terms of the die size cost
associated with that mainstream platform they just choose not to they choose to
put better onboard graphics if AMD comes in and turns the screws a little bit on
Intel we could be in for a fascinating couple of years here apparently it's not
that many pins it's not 1331. yeah 1331 that's more
than 12 whatever that i said i
thought you said something else oh okay i don't know twitch chat's trying to
correct you i don't know what's going on get rekt twitch chat spotify and tinder link up to form a
match made in heaven if your heaven is swiping if your heaven
is swiping people and listening to music for free
yeah i mean i think it's actually not a terrible idea to have people with
similar music tastes sure um
yeah like i mean so you can swipe someone and then just be like justin bieber nope
yeah exactly or justin bieber yeah this new stuff's okay i don't know
i i meant like that's why i said that's why i added the yup afterwards
i don't listen to new stuff i'm old now
i listen to the things on my server now i'm that guy oh yeah or monstercat's
24-hour fm mix because i can stream that
because monstercat's cool and stuff so i either listen to monstercat because
they don't mute my vods or i listen to stuff on my server
and that's it excellent yeah or the radio because i
don't pay attention to it and it's in the background i still listen to the radio too yeah and i actually listen to
it like over the airwaves like i don't have a fancy app like even though the
only station i listen to like you could just listen to it in an app
anyway but i would never listen to it in the app because if i'm somewhere that
doesn't have a normal like am fm radio then i'm just going to listen to music
that i have off my server so anyway you can link your account and the music
taste begins to become part of your dating profile
and you can also pick a song to be your anthem that describes who you are
so that's supposed to be a way to understand a person through a single piece of music which is unfortunate
um don't laugh brandon you know that you
know a single person yeah a single piece of music would have
been enough for for for brandon it's like do they have a song about
taking pictures polaroid picture
okay uh oh our buddies over at lime technology have released the latest
iteration of unraid so all the features that i've been demonstrating since two
gamers one CPU are finally in a stable
release hooray
hooray so they get vlans multiple Ethernet
support no device limit for trial so you can actually try out unraid in a way
that's not frustrating which is oh my god kind of cool everyone's doing
nickelback look at this photograph
yeah that could be brandon brandon could have a bunch of music under his profile uh
they've added dual parity support so if you're worried about two drives failing
at a time and losing data then you no longer have to worry about that they
have a gui boot mode now so you don't have to access it on first boot over the
network which i personally find helpful i find that because like i don't care
you can tell me all day that this should work over the network just type this
into your product no no no just let me plug in a vga port
and a ps2 keyboard and then i would believe that it will work
so that's pretty happy for me um major
updates to virtual machines so i will be trying to do uh like a multi
vr gamers one CPU over the next little bit so stay tuned i'll be looking at
some of the new 6.2 features there you and the point
i think it's point three percent of steam users
well why are you a hater i'm not
okay then
uh oh opera browser unveils a free
unlimited vpn service this this raises my eyebrow because nothing
in life is free and especially user data is a very very
valuable possibly valuable enough that you could
operate a vpn service for free with what that would be worth and i'm
not saying they're doing that and i'm not saying that well opera was relatively recently bought out by some
like i think random chinese company that people don't know a ton about if i
remember the article correctly that we covered on the lan show a few months ago
that's probably not noted in here so it's a free no log easy to use vpn
service available directly in the opera desktop browser
um christian calandra senior vice president
of opera browser for computer says if people knew how the internet truly works
i believe they would all use a vpn i don't believe any of them would use a
free vpn if they knew how the internet works yeah um by making our browser vpn
free and easy to use we hope to make it an essential tool just as the locking
key is to your house i also wouldn't put opera in charge of
the locking key to my house someone uh someone in twitch chat said that they
tried the opera vpn and it's terrible so maybe that's how they're getting around
the costs it's just it's just really bad oh okay
well hey maybe i'm maybe my tinfoil hat is too strong today
and i should have just gone with my like general skepticism hat
i use opera as my home browser i've talked about this a little bit before
because i use all browsers that might that's my thing so every like different
computer i use a different browser you'll see i'm using firefox now
i'm maintaining that by using firefox on my laptop
i use chrome on my work desktop use opera my home desktop firefox on my
laptop and then ie on test benches
or edge i guess on test benches but half the time i get too frustrated with it
and switch to chrome anyways because it just doesn't work um
god stupid i still hate how the bar is in the middle yeah
until you type in it's like muscle memory okay
i know where to find the browser bar don't move it
period it's fine where it is or was yes
and don't move it put it somewhere and don't move it if you decide the best
place for the for the url bar is in the middle of the screen
then stick with it and if it's not the best don't put it there ever yeah
because it's not because it's not that you would navigate away it would be right in the middle of your face that's
really stupid yeah and it's no less stupid doing it some of
the time yes um
samsung announces the 960 pro and 960
evo SSD is boasting boastering boasting
blistering fast sequential read speeds of three and a half gigabytes per second
and rights of 2.1 gigabytes per second and something like three plus times
the random iops of SATA ssds we are finally at the point now here
where NVMe ssds are coming into their
own and are going to be legitimately much faster feeling day-to-day than a
SATA SSD how long do you think until we start seeing it um
as a rather common thing for easier for a user to have no
cable-based drives oh oh well in laptops already a thing i
mean razer blade doesn't have a spot for a drive
it has one NVMe slot okay i see what you're saying that's it so in laptops
now yeah in i mean
okay so we're already at the point where that cable NVMe interface is like dead
in the water there's a handful of drives that support it but it's like
unless Intel and AMD both get on board and start building it into the south
bridge like that's not happening um so those dry i mean there's only like
one drive that i'm aware of on the consumer side and that's the Intel 750
series um so either plugging into a pci express
slot or plugging into an m.2 slot on your board wow i think it's going to make way more
sense for performance enthusiasts and by
extension everyone a few years down the road probably out there three years
three years that's my prediction three years
the only thing that makes me worry a little bit there's already a two
terabyte model yeah but how much does that cost
but give it three years so i'm saying two years okay yeah i wish we uh what
could be kind of cool is if we had like a custom calendar just for like claims
that we have on the way i know right so we can like follow them up properly
someone out there is probably doing it that would be pretty cool actually
it's like things that Linus and luke predict on the lan show
like followed up how would that go i think that pretty
much wraps it up americans apparently pay 40 more for tv than they did five
years ago which only proves that americans
should stop paying for tv or that the only people left paying for tv are the
like ones who just aren't aware of the internet
like what was it 30 million americans cut the cord last quarter like some
obscene number they don't watch sports sports can also be streamed online and
it's cheaper to sign up for like nhl center ice than it is to have a cable
subscription that's not necessarily true if you watch multiple different sports
well if you watch multiple different sports i mean okay if you watch baseball
and anything i don't know how you have time for anything else
do you know they played baseball did you know they didn't only play 160 games a
year i did and that's without playoffs what the hell
160 games a year you could literally spend in your home
arena i don't think they call it an arena but i don't care ballpark there in
your home ballpark i think it's a state park calculator
fenway park calculator okay so 80 over 365 you could spend
22 of your evenings in a ballpark if you
had season passes and you actually you could eat a hot dog
one out of every five nights
and that is it for the lan show thank you for tuning in today we will see you
again next week same bat time same bat chat uh i will you will oh yeah i
probably won't be here i will probably have a new baby and i'll be like not in
this country and hopefully that stream works at all we should just have like
nick and Colton host the WAN Show no i hate that guy no
no no
he's cold and shiny from the background charge is over this is not happening
now my understanding hot dogs like legit increase your risk of dying
like but it's like there was a study and it was basically like there's a
threshold like they're actually not very harmful until you eat a lot of them
like over an extended period of time then you like die
because it's like sodium and like
highly processed and like stuff yeah no
nose and like well pig nose is probably good for you
everyone knows that oh god yeah we're still