okay everything's done sorry for that awkward beginning i just wanted to make sure
everything was correct Linus isn't here and we weren't perfectly on time which
disappoints me because usually we've done a really good job it's partially my
fault i will take blame for you no it's actually lions fault because when it's
you and i we're on time yeah Linus is in the building and he may take over and
it's because we waited for him that this is lazy yes that is fair yeah that's it
anyways beyond all of that kind of stuff gonna be a great show we have some
fantastic topics some that'll make you sad some that'll make you happy you
might cry or not i actually uh
had a little emotional moment when i was writing the show notes yeah it's it gets
pretty deep anyways we're going to talk about galaxy s9 possibly coming in
february we're going to be talking about Intel possibly
doing steep cuts to the Intel inside program and what kind of show would it
be if we didn't at least address the net neutrality buzz this week as well as
disney's giant 54 million dollar acquisition
of parts of fox 20th century fox just by
the world just buy it all anything that makes media
buy it then you own all the media the walmart of hollywood
hey i didn't write it i saw someone else wrote it
but i like it it's pretty good
at least they saved us
there we go moss yes
tesoro tessaro tesoro and freshbooks dress books
yeah it's slightly harder to move the little
sources around on obs than it is on exploit not much but slightly that's
like a coke and pepsi thing hey uh yeah yeah well most of the comparisons
between the two are like pretty major that one's that one's a little coke and pepsi
first topic we're going to talk about is uh title two being
dunzo's so you have some specific comments on
here yeah but you should go you should go first so okay you probably know a lot
of more about this that i okay so i actually don't know about the like title
ii specific stuff and i don't know a lot about the exact implications i have a
lot of ideas of how companies and how people are going to react to things and
how it's going to affect things but i don't know the word of the law and
i think this is actually uh i think you echo the sentiment that a lot of people
have um before we get into like
maybe we just explain what happened uh so yeah in a three to two vote
the federal communications commission or the fcc
declassified internet providers as a title ii common carriers situation now
in my opinion it seems like the entire world thinks that tomorrow
you're going to have to like pay to use facebook i don't think that's gonna
happen um i i think it would be
interesting if they went super hard and just wrecked people immediately uh
because that would probably get it re-thrown over super fast
but that's not what's going to happen it's going to happen slowly
before anything directly affects users i think the first things are going
to happen is a lot of like kind of inside
uh industry deal kind of stuff making
netflix pay them so that they can actually distribute their content
properly uh blocking content of certain
people on on different isps or on different
devices or whatever so they can push their own products that are similar yeah
a lot of that kind of stuff is what i suspect is going to happen that did
happen in the past at one point yeah exactly they got reprimanded yes but as
okay this is where i could totally be wrong as far as i know this was in place
to try to stop uh to make it easier for the reprimanding
to happen and this being potentially sort of gone now the title
two thing is gone now not the entirety of it i know that um
makes it easier for them to do those things and not get reprimanded
as far as i understand so
everybody likes net neutrality there's like i don't think there are
many well maybe i actually know some people maybe these businesses but like i
think we can all agree that nobody wants to have a situation uh
like the one you're describing my problem is how this whole issue is
being framed like all the articles today like the verge in particular
it's like the fcc votes to kill net neutrality net
neutrality's done like the world's over
uh and there's no distinction being made that like actually net neutrality isn't
over uh it's just title two that's over
i don't think this debate really and the fcc guy who always gets quoted
like the evil guy pie i believe i don't really think he's
evil i think he's just like answering a different question the
question has been framed by the media as do we want net neutrality
whereas the the question that's actually happening with or being answered with
this vote is how do we want net neutrality to be enforced
and they've decided that title ii isn't the way to do it and it
comes down to the two different ways that you can regulate so there the one
approach is called ex-ante which is regulating something kind of proactively
so mistakes don't happen and that's a really great way to do it when the stakes are super super super high where
if it's like if this nuclear bomb gets dropped the world's over so that cannot happen i
think i think it also um i'm gonna let you finish
one thing i'm gonna drop in is i think the the stakes being super high is a
little bit of a perspective thing there's a lot of people that are running
uh companies like we are both through
Linus media group and Floatplane media uh that could be severely hurt here
people could lose jobs people could lose livelihoods people could lose entire
companies that could in some people's opinion end their life um so agreed
there's some scale going on there but yeah i will let you continue now i agree
with that uh but i i think that uh those things can
be um thwarted by the other type of regulation
which is x post which is when you you're
more reactionary with the regulation which is what we had before
prior to 2015 prior to title ii um
which is where isps would try to do stuff like promoting their own products
first and then they would get reprimanded for it and then after that
happened no other isps would make that mistake again
so yeah there's like people's livelihoods
online but then regulators step in and slap their wrists
and or sue them or whatever and then it seems to be enough and the reason that
you even have to make the choice between one of the other um seeing as the title
ii version seems way more safe is because in
theory it costs a lot more and that would in theory kind of put a damper on
innovation and we want innovation because we want there to be better broadband tomorrow than today but then
there's also the situation where like now i'm jumping into something that's
not in the notes and i don't have the exact name for but people talk a lot
about how the american populace
paid through tax dollars um
huge ludicrous amounts of money to get fiber laid out and then nothing was ever
done with it i've done some research on that that's not exactly how it worked um
it was actually way worse uh what happened was the telecommunications
companies of whatever sort were able to put a fee
like government is okay with this fee on everything and that fee was supposed to
directly and solely contribute to the rollout of fiber across all over the
place and it's easier to do it in cities but the city people would have to keep
paying the fee so that the more difficult places would be able to be developed that was part of the idea that
has not been acted on at all um
and that fee is oops i'm broadcasting my screen and that fee is still going on
uh and as far as anyone can tell there's no intention of that ever becoming a
thing anyways so i don't think there's
when you talk about the inspiration to innovate in somewhere like up here
usually you have like two options or
sure maybe three maybe probably not four depending on
where you live there are technically some places in vancouver where you can get like a lot of different isp options
but it's really uncommon um out here usually you get two it's telus or shaw
in a huge percentage of the states there is no option you have one isp there is
no uh incentive to innovate not because
they can't charge more they're charging a lot for one uh internet is extremely
expensive in america and for two they have this freaking
uh it's not a tax but a fee thing that's
put on all of their charges that is supposed to directly be like the
american government being like here innovate and they're just not doing it
because they're like here money pocket
no do anything sounds good um so i
i understand the like you need to be able to charge more so you can have
money in the bank so that you can innovate um from a company perspective
like for Floatplane media for example uh the
fee that we take like if we ignore the the amount of
money that goes to the creator which is not a thing they're getting money for
doing work that's how that works but our fee some of it is to cover our current
overhead in terms of staff and in terms
of uh like building and chairs and
tables and computers and whatnot and part of it is so that we can have a
little bit of extra money that we can put in the bank then we can sit on that little bit of extra money and if we need
to buy a piece of software to enhance
our service or add more troubleshooting or if we need to hire another person we
can go like okay this is fine we have this money here we can innovate in this
way we can spend the money making the thing we can do the thing that is
important but they've already had an extremely great example of that which
is that consistent fee for every single person in america that is subscribed to
a internet service as far as i know um
and they're not innovating
america still has like actually pretty bad internet you go to like anywhere in
europe or pretty much any asian country that i've been to and you go to like hotel
lobby wi-fi and it's like holy crap if i could have
this as like the dedicated line into my house i would be so happy it's not like
just a factor of the size though like i think that in some of the urban centers
in the states it's as good well not maybe like japan level but it's there's
definitely wrong places but yeah yeah it's just not consistent across the
nation you can get gigabit in some places for sure and you can get gigabit
in vancouver even as well and it's not just google fiber that is definitely
true but there is also a lot of places where you can't
where you absolutely should be able to and most of those places is where
there's no competition usually where you actually see something like fiber is
because these telecommunications companies haven't been able to sue a
small company into the ground um and
forcing them to not be able to compete
which is a thing that has happened a lot in the us and there's definitely like
like if you look at somewhere like taiwan
most of the country super easy to get internet too it's a fairly small
island essentially and you can network the whole thing
it's a lot easier to do than like canada
but canada's problems are almost more
understandable than america's
because we are so spread out but then at the same time if you look at canada's
population across the map it's like empty empty empty empty empty empty mdm
tmta this is the border to america empty empty mtmt everyone is like right here
so we're all kind of in a thin line and like population centers it's weird
whenever i hear people talking about the us when they talk about more than one
significant city in a state because it's like almost not a thing up
here we have like a couple provinces that have more than one city that are
like major but if you think about outside people everyone's got two
what other city in bc victoria
uh it's like okay the definition of major
yeah is different no what happens in victoria
there's a school and and there's retirees calgary and there's
edmonton yeah there's montreal in quebec city yep there's in ontario there's a
butt load like it's like ontario
those are all but it's it's like barely st john's in quarter brook
was alex walking by with his maritimer nova scotia law knowledge there but it's
just like we if you're trying to run networking across canada you kind of
have like a corridor to like blip like laughs here's a whole bunch of people
not very much here's a whole bunch of people not very much there's a lot of that going on there is obviously
um some that's not true situations where cities
like much higher up like like calgary and america yeah and and what not but
it's like it's not impossible and
luckily up here the the fact that there's almost always definitely not
true for all situations but almost always two isps fighting we've seen
quite a bit of innovation shaw recently tried to screw around and say that they
were sending fiber to people's homes when they were actually sending fiber to
the node and then copper to the home so telus was like no we run actual fiber
to the home and then they took like a whole bunch of market share because of that there was a
little fight going on between them we need them to be fighting exactly
i don't know but like you were saying this is not necessarily the end of net
neutrality this is its title ii status yeah i
basically said my piece because i really don't know that much i don't want to look like fool um yeah i have heard that
the ftc the federal trade commission is the entity that ought to be regulating
this type of thing not the fcc i think it's just a big question mark
that just like will they do it right yeah
i don't i don't know the america has so many different
government agency things i i don't know and we're just canadian
idiots yeah we need john down here to yeah american and schooled in law
yeah i don't know it's an extremely complicated situation
we're probably not the best ones to talk about it my thing is i i have
an odd amount of information about like the things around it like that weird fee
thing and also that kind of stuff but i don't know the word of the law i don't know what actually like
happens now that it's not title two because i barely even understand what
title two is i'm gonna take the position that
everything's gonna be okay we hope
yeah yeah we hope it's gonna be all right it could be really bad for us up
here um so we're just we're just hoping that everything sort of you know
survives down there it's it's always interesting being canadian because so
much of what happens in america is extremely important to us
so like i know of quite a few canadians that pay attention to american politics
more than canadian politics not only because it's far more crazy
um our our major controversy if you want to see like hilarious canadian politics our
major controversy of this year i think was elbow gate was that this year i
don't know what that is um oh wait a second yeah yeah when he like bumped
into the yeah well what about there's local issues there's a big dam that they
just made it's like a big deal yeah it's 12 billion dollars but we don't have
someone tweeting to another like nuclear armed i don't call him shortened
yeah we don't have any of that kind of stuff so it's not only are you on your
little fireball it's gonna be huge
not only is it more animated down there i'd say but everything that happens in
the state extremely uh strongly affects canada and we often
fall asleep basically picturing trump with like triple h's hair
and like tassels from his elbows coming onto this onto this he's been on wwe
yeah he's walking onto the canvas matt with a microphone like i've been sitting
backstage listening to you run your mouth
oh god cracking some beers together i guess uh speaking of crazy cinematic
experiences like that uh disney to acquire 21st century fox for 52.4 a
billion dollars billion i'm stoked on this
really kinda because a lot of people are you're gonna be the contrary in this
stream that is fun that is good like um anti-trust concerns
uh the concern here i don't i'm not entirely sure what defines that
so maybe uh but i think it's just like they're they're disney's starting to eat
everything up and it's kind of scaring people a little bit
well it depends on the scale you think about um
because on the other hand netflix is eating everything up and they're gonna
and they have been just steadily raising their prices and
like they're taking over the only thing that tv is good for now is sports so
when netflix is all that matters because who cares about prime video or hulu um
hey man they got a lord of the rings series coming on prime video they're
doing they have the grand tour they're trying but we need competition right
yeah yeah um and i think we also need tv to die
so i think i kind of like what what disney's doing here
to make it clear for everybody they're not just straight up buying 21st century
fox they're buying the majority of their properties
so what's not included is fox news
they're not buying fox news they're not buying the fox broadcast
network they're not buying fs1 sports cable channel
um but they are getting a bunch of stuff including um
uh the simpsons homeland this is us
modern family that's all the fox television studio
stuff yeah yeah they're getting television studio stuff which includes 36 different
series which includes those four things i just said um
are also getting the regional sports networks which is a big deal oh yeah so
disney has already announced plans to introduce two streaming services by the
end of 2019. they already own espn so they're going to have espn plus but
which is coming in the spring but espn plus is now also going to have
these regional basketball games and stuff like that so wow yeah so
that's actually huge because like you said earlier tvs
of course there's other things on it but tv is very heavily for sports the only
thing the only reason the other things are on tv is because they're bundled
with sports often yeah yeah um so like
that's crazy and and regional is quite important that's really cool
okay and then all right so then the second streaming service they want to
offer is built around their other properties like disney
marvel lucasfilm and pixar they haven't
named that streaming service yet but it's going to roll out late so that's
why they were pulling the star wars series off of netflix yeah it's gonna be
gonna go on their own and on top of that disney already owned
thirty percent of huli wait i always i've messed this up because of
silicon valley yeah they owned gavin belson's company
hulu they owned they owned 30 of it but now
they're getting more uh through this acquisition so they actually will have a
majority stake in that the other people who own hulu are comcast and time warner
i think among others and that that streaming service is more
for adult audiences or grown-ups boring stuff abc shows yeah
so they're interesting yeah they're going to have a lot of streaming services
there's a quote here from bob iger who's where he said that it's like their
highest priority going direct to consumer is their highest priority
what do you think about it is a crazy cultural shift an organizational shift
for disney who traditionally they've had this content and they need to pimp it
out to as many distributors as possible so that's very horizontally integrated
now they're flipping that so we have this content and we're going vertically
straight distributor and giving it to the
consumer that's like that's an ambitious and like
uh legacy defining thing for us well they're trying to stay on top of it one
of the scariest things for a company like this is becoming that old company
that just becomes behind the times yeah so they're trying to stay on top of it
and it it
i run float planes so this is a little bit of a contradictory thing to say but
while it might not be feel great to everyone to have another streaming
service that they have to pay for to get the content that they want um
um it's it's gonna be interesting and
like maybe it will maybe it will mean more stuff i have no idea hopefully
that's true it's going to be sweet though because the thing with netflix is like there's a bajillion things on
netflix and then you go to watch netflix and you're like there's nothing on
netflix there's a bunch of like low budge documentaries b-list movies hey
man i like low-budget documentaries sometimes like it's obviously getting
better but like for the longest time especially in canada it's been direct
now there's going to be a new service where you can just watch all the simpsons all the family guys right
they have so many awesome properties under their umbrella it's gonna be
wicked the the fox television studio part will be
pretty cool yeah for sure it's gonna be interesting because um the
lucasfilm stuff them buying 21st century fox means they have the old properties
for lucasfilm meaning like the original series and stuff like that
interesting interesting you'll just anyone with kids is gonna buy that
like plop it down and your kid can just watch every disney movie ever
like kids only need two disney movies on repeat as it is
we've reinforced that with youtube too they'll just sit and replay the same
thing forever give me sweet yeah you want to do this
one i feel like this is sure this is a loop topic yeah let's go for it pubg creator
says games need better protection from copycat titles
so for people who don't know player unknown battlegrounds is a game kind of
of a newish genre that it's pioneering called the battle royale type of genre
i think i think technically they're not pioneering it i don't remember
they're okay there's always someone who's first it's like apple didn't
invent the computer yeah like they they definitely were the ones that like
exploded it and massively popularized it
etc but i believe again i'm not super
i'm not super well versed on this but i believe there was a game that this guy
even contributed to slightly
this could be wrong sorry mods for armor
and h1z1 okay yeah which were both like
it was an arma mod that was basically this just you don't fly it on a plane i
think yeah and h1z1 which is like basically this but i think you also
don't fly on a plane so maybe they're upset about planes
i don't know we should actually we someone tweeted me or or commented last
time that we didn't uh read out the the names of the forum posters oh geez i
felt pretty bad about that so there's a great thread about this on the forum
i even wrote
that was the greatest segue ever the you want to grab that real quick the the
disney post was posted by d cress jr the uh
title 2 is done so post was by evil cat 70
and i think that's it this one's posted by porina whose name i actually always
love reading and uh i like the accompanying picture it's just a
peaceful name and he's got a little clown fish beside i just like that guy i
think it's perino what oh well
it's a pokemon bias i just go it just sounds more pokemon
that's fair that's right my other favorite uh person's name on the forum is max
settings yeah
max settings anyway in the forum post
they uh perino brings up the fact that before
perhaps before these games there was at least movies uh with this type of
like the movie yeah which is almost exactly this like
you're on an island yeah the the concept itself it's an interesting thing because
uh he they definitely have a point with uh
there's some specific games i know right
here they call up in china there are several titles that have the same
premise gameplay and even graphics some are barely distinguishable from
pubg itself others have special license like a terminator 2 themed version so to
back up the game is so popular there's a bunch of spin-off kind of copycat titles
that are not affiliated at all but kind of just like knock-offs yeah so i
in some ways i kind of agree where like if it if it is
basically exactly the same then
uh sure but they say uh right in here i want
other developers to put their own spin on the genre not just lift things from
our own game different things are going to get lifted from every game if you
look into the history of gaming uh FPS games used to be called uh doom clones
was it doom clones oh yeah cause they all have the same engine yeah and they
kind of felt pretty similar but they were technically different games
and there was slightly different things about it uh like i don't personally find
it offensive that fortnight is it's a little weird that you like
flying on a bus in the exact same way that you're flying on a plane on pub g
that's a little weird well i'm just not gonna lie i want to pose the question
the example you brought up a second ago in those early games like the first
first person shooter yeah it wasn't a lot of potential to do other things yeah
like you know it's not a very big sandbox and that's fair but it is it is
a very different gameplay experience to play the free fortnight uh 50 v 50 or
whatever they call it like battle royale style game i don't
actually know the proper name for it i only played two rounds only playing two rounds it is an
extremely different game i got freaking wrecked because some guy needed to run
up a mountain so he just and it was too steep so he just built stairs and while
he was running up the stairs he was building new stairs he just went rip the
whole way up and i was like i didn't think you could what the and you can
like build fortresses and in the 50v 50 version which pubg doesn't have it's 50
people versus 50 people you still have four man squads and you drop it in your
little squad you're probably gonna duke it out with a couple other four-man squads that are on the other team but
eventually you get in a big group that's so cool ball up and you're all building
like fortress walls together and stuff wow it's a very different gameplay
experience and they have gone after fortnite so that in my opinion takes a
little bit of validity away but then they also do have a valid
argument well the bigger argument here is
there's no intellectual property protection in games this is a quote
in movies and music there's ip protection and you can really look after
your work but in gaming that doesn't exist yet and this is something that should be looked into
pretty interesting yeah um
ip protection stuff gets abused a lot um
you mean there is probably when tom petty or is like
yo your song sounds just like won't back down and then because it's the same
chord production even though there is a finite number of chord progressions in the universe yeah
and like what is that the four chord whatever like everyone is running the
same thing anyways so like and all the songs actually sound quite different but
they are running the same back well yeah cause the chords aren't the whole only
thing you can put that together with a melody which is so the combinations
there's lots of so like when you see like a mobile game that's called like
player unknown
no apostrophe s battle floor and it has like the exact
same pound icon and it's essentially the exact same game but it's like mobile or
something i think there's a lot of knockoffs on mobile yeah that's rough
that's obviously ridiculous if if there's some game in china or a game in
north america that i don't personally know of that is like they say uh same
premise gameplay and even graphics and if by same they mean actually the same
and it has all of those things that are the same that's a problem definitely in
my opinion that is a problem do you think there's incentive for
the app stores to be the ones who moderate that
as far as you know to a certain degree they do the app stores do all right but
on something like Windows there's no you just download the file right yeah so
there's nothing they can really do and Windows tried to solve that and everyone
hated it with good reason because it was terrible
Windows store is not a fun experience it's almost like freedom of speech it's
like it's so good when it's free that you got to put up with bad stuff yeah and then
and but then like
yeah but then profiting off of it is another thing and and like especially
when they try to make the name almost the same yeah because they're abusing
the search terms because like i i have seen i don't remember where it was
player unknown battle something and i think the last word was changed but they
were trying to get with the apostrophe yeah yeah they're trying to be like
people are going to forget that it's unknowns the search engine optimization there is
a big piece of that i'm sure like you're getting so many matched characters there
is it just player yeah it's player unknowns there's an apostrophe s yeah but on the
real one on the real one yeah but uh i don't i don't remember what it was i
don't even know if it's still around but i remember at some point i saw i guess
i'll share myself it's actually the knockout is actually
player unknown
player unknown it's just like jumbled
anagram you know how you don't have to actually read if as long as like the
first and last letter are the same you can yeah just like that
there's just no way to actually tell it would be like dota is a clone of lol
yeah which like if anyone's played the two games
they absolutely know okay first of all defense of the
ancients came out first so you got to flip those get conked come on but if you
played the two games if you played defense of the ancients the warcraft 3 mod and then
uh played league of legends you'd be like wow this is really different and
then when dota 2 came out if you played the first game and then
league and then dota 2 you would be like wow this is really different again
they're very different genres they're they're both
defense of the ancient style games you still have top middle bottom lane you
still have jungling you still have hero selection you still have creep waves you
still have killing minions for money there's lots of those different types of
similar mechanics but they are very different games
and like i think it actually takes a different style of person to play each
one of course if someone's like a pro dota player or league player they can
probably go back and forth to a certain degree with enough time spent in the
game and if you threw like a pro dota player against a noob league player i'm
sure they would wreck them in the noobs game um but like
that transitions over to almost anything i'm sure a pro cod player
versus someone who's like never played shooter games before would be able to
beat the person in counter-strike oh for sure even though they're like
drastically different games they're both first-person shooters
but they're drastically different games that's even more of a split than the
league and dota thing so i'm not trying to pull it that far away i'm not trying to straw man that much but um like i
know what you're talking about we get it
yeah yeah amazon gets it too amazon and
google i i actually have put this story in the wan docs for a couple weeks
because it's kind of been evolving but i don't know if you guys have actually
talked about it i haven't even seen it where which one is it or down a little
bit it starts with amazon okay um so
in that light let's start from the beginning yeah so what happened was
google said hey amazon on your echo show device
we're not going to let you have the youtube app anymore and the reason is
because your youtube app is actually violating our terms of surface service
because it's not delivering a great customer experience because there's features missing on the amazon echo show
which is the echo device that that has a screen on it
they didn't have things like there was no subscribers there was no recommended
next video like these things are pretty core to the youtube experience these
days and for that reason uh google had a nice
so this is it by the way i haven't seen it before even so this is the device
there's a billion different amazon devices now so that
you could watch youtube on that before okay um but then google said yeah you
gotta drop that because you didn't do it right um
then amazon said uh okay we're gonna go behind
google's back and we're gonna implement a new version of youtube that's based on
the web browser it was pretty jank it was basically just like you know when
you're on your smart tv and try to use the web browser apparently it was like
pretty much that bad and they did this behind google's back without their
authorization and then google pulled that one um
but it seems it sounds like it's because of their terms of service but there's a
flip side of the story which is amazon
hasn't sold does not sell google homes hasn't sold
chromecast in two years and stopped selling nest devices and nest is now
owned by google so it's like are they pulling these youtube because
the terms of service violations or are they pulling youtube because they're
pissed announcing it's it's reciprocal right
so yeah so now the situation was that they
pulled when they pulled youtube the second time from the show they also were
like you know what we're also pulling youtube from fire tv
which is the same as like roku like that's a big deal and you need you need
to have youtube on your on these services
so that's the basically the two points of leverage because google would you
can't play with my toy google would love for you to be able to buy at a home
on amazon yeah because like 25 of all
e-commerce is on amazon yeah they would love to be on there so now apparently
they they're having productive talks that's the that's the latest they uh
they're trying to actually make an agreement because it is mutually beneficial for both parties for them to
reach an agreement and something they brought something back
here amazon brought back selling the chromecast
that's the first concession we've seen oh okay we don't know if they're going to start selling nest again we don't
know if they're going to get google home on there i doubt it because amazon really wants
by the way chromecast audio is like sick but sorry continue i love credit cards
audio yeah that's dope yeah anyway amazon really wants uh
to take over the smart home thing with echo so i don't know if they're ever gonna have home on there it's speculated
right now that google may uh rescind their threat to take youtube
off of fire tv because even though they took youtube off of the aqua show
immediately fire tv's cancellation wasn't going to happen until the new
year so hopefully everyone will get everything
yeah i i think there's some weird parts of this like
youtube is very open API kind of situation you can build a website that
just like grabs youtube videos and looks like a video streaming website but just
plays youtube videos and as far as i know it's fine
because you're just embedding youtube videos and you can click the youtube button go to their website anyways
building an app might go too far but i don't think they
actually need like it's all open API stuff they're
just hooking into they're not like hacking youtube and taking the videos
right i think it's because they didn't include some well ostensibly they didn't
include something subscribe button or something right it was there was no
subscribers at all you couldn't subscribe to things and there was no
next video like autoplay predictive which is like all of youtube basically
yeah their algorithm is like the whole thing yeah i mean sounds i think that's what
it was like we don't have this in canada this is just like whatever i've never
even seen this thing before yeah i don't know that's that's interesting
i wouldn't be surprised if it's google or youtube just
net neutrality is bs that's why it's gone no
um that's been i'm going to take a very short aside back to net neutrality and
then i'll be back oh you poked him you poked the bear you
got it if you want to be angry about something like net neutrality um which like by all
means be angry about it try to be angry for the right reasons because if you
just throw out stuff that isn't actually true it invalidates the argument as a
whole and actually hurts the side that you're trying to fight for
another thing that i would say is
try not to just throw out like personal attacks
that are baseless unless you're like
they are x because of all of these factual reasons that are legitimate and
actually make sense in an argument um and making fun of their physical
appearance also doesn't help well even if the
the personal attacks are true that's still on that doesn't help your argument well
it would it would only have to be uh relevant yes yes and it's it's
actually kind of difficult to make personal attacks relevant it's possible
well people did like he is a moral because xyz robert by the p word
yeah can't be president yeah is president yeah
we'll never be impeached no trump's america baby oh my god we don't
get played but just like just just to
like when you see someone and and to be clear i'm this on the side of like heck
yeah i want net neutrality this is a good thing i like open internet everyone
hooray things are good but being like yo this dude has big teeth
just makes you look really petty
and makes it so that the side that is on the side of him just looks at you and
goes like wow our competition is small and
on the internet no one knows your important point yes on the internet no
one knows your dog so you might be talking the person who wrote that might be like a 10 year old who
saw like the trending topic it was just like
it just like it it overshadowed and it's a very quick easy thing for people to
click like on and stuff so it often overshadows legitimate claims so and
there's an issue right now where a lot of people don't actually even know what's wrong with net neutrality they're
just angry because other people are angry there are legitimate reasons to be
angry about net neutrality going away a lot of people don't even know them
because they're like ah this guy that were upset about his
appearance is taking whatever it is away from us
that's bad that's not a good position to be it try to educate people make things make sense
yeah sorry that was a weird aside i just i just wanted to dive back on there
speaking of uh me wanting to dive places
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and it's like this one's like marble oh sweet and it actually looks pretty sick
oh sorry um and i think that's kind of a neat way to mod your keyboard out it
looks like a trick what do you do with this no no okay so okay so it goes on
like the body it doesn't go on the keys oh okay that's sweet that's the opposite
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the the keys are and stuff and it would go on the body around the keyboard to
give the body of the keyboard a nice marble look and then you still have your
like RGB black keycaps black keycaps RGB along with white
marble looks pretty nice oh yeah it'll probably reflect reflected pretty good
keeps the monochrome kind of idea going on so you can pick whatever RGB color
you want i'm looking at the box i'm checking out these low profile keys yeah
man keycaps yeah that's sweet you guys can win one we're giving 10 away uh i'll
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not get owned man working here sometimes sucks you can't enter giveaways yeah
it's like man and then like even if you're allowed to enter a giveaway if
you win everyone's like you're like dude it's legit rigged
yeah luke held the hat up real high i couldn't possibly see whose name was on
the paper i pulled out yeah but
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heck yeah and then we have
moss hmm i don't know if we have one here oh
here it is okay what is that there's one oh bad
there's a bat i like that logo these are actually pretty sharp today
we're talking about the new and improved moss pack and their moss nest bag the
moss nest bag is designed to hold all your essentials without taking up much
space that's this little blue one that he's got
designed to nest inside their outer pocket of their
moss pack that's this guy there's a lot going on in here
there is and okay i'm going to say one thing too this is like this this is even
in the sponsor notes i love it when bags have this type of inside a really really
bright inside oh yeah and if you spill your yogurt in there like this is you can
basically just hold this with a hose and just boom yeah for one it's really easy
to clean but for two like with our blades razor blades okay um if you put a
razor blade in here one it's black you'll very easily be able to see that your laptop's inside too when you're
like oh no where's my power cable well the inside's all bright shiny reflective
orange that's awesome you'll find all your stuff super easily i i love this in
bed i've never had the privilege of a reflective inside button i'm picking up
what you're putting down it's one also picking up this included strap yeah yeah
literally um it can fit a tablet a phone a power bank
snacks headphones water whatever else you need no big deal moss pack is the
backpack you plug in to charge your things i wonder if i can pull this out i
was wondering what that is yeah so you guys can't see it super well but there's
a pa little power bar in here that has a standard power plug which is nice and
two usb ports so you could charge like your laptop off the standard power plug
and then like a phone or a tablet off of the usb ports which is actually pretty
sweet this is kind of cool there are so many pouches you know what that really
gets me going because i love having dedicated spots for items i really hope
my mom isn't watching i'm serious i hope my wife is watching this i
hate it when things aren't in their spots i hate wasting my precious life
looking for things like where's my keys they belong in the dish they're not in
the dish someone else didn't put them in the dish because i always put them in the dish and because i always put them
in there i know where they are i can find them in the dark this has so many little pockets you can
be like this is the spot for the phone at all times this is the spot for my
charger at all times i can go into a tent just like bam bam
bam perfect love it heck yeah improvements include
luggage pass through on the back for attaching a luggage handle oh that's
cool oh that's sweet i haven't even looked
over at where you're holding that's even cool
yeah there we go perfect um stronger orange lining here we go so it is in the
notes actually stronger orange lining to make it super easy to see what's inside
your backpack it's in the sponsor notes i love that so much i had no idea larger
waterproof water bottle pocket with fly-out mesh pocket to make getting your
water bottle in and out much easier greatly improv improved reinforced top
handle many other manufacturing improvements that's quilted that's all
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do you think it's an acronym moss moss must organize stuff
let's go to their website and see excuse me
it's probably it's probably not it looks like it's just moss their web
yeah it's all moss their whole website is covered in green yeah and stuff we've
looked at we've looked at their cables and their magnet organizer thingies before but
this is the first time i've seen their bags that's super cool okay take this away from me
mine take it and go oh there's a cord in there i'll take this wait you didn't see that
part i heard it but i didn't see it okay
wow yeah you plug that into the wall externally
through this thing it's even soft touch rubber it's not junk so you don't have
to take the stuff out of your bag i like it it's pretty cool
all right back to the actual show
julia from ncx tech tips is back on youtube with mike's computer shop yeah i
did what they made a little trailer this was posted on the forum by stargaze thank
you very much stargaze uh let's go over to
here why was it why did it start finished that's weird
there we go this is crazy because now that ncx is
like gone i've actually bought some stuff from mike's computer shop recently
i feel like i want to do the music for this um
if the sound is on there's there's no talking in this video it's just like bro
yeah hopefully it's not like way too loud it's just cool music
and then you see these big black boots like who's this
that's someone who identifies as a woman wearing those boots you can tell
by by the by the hou by the stride by the way they are boom
wow it was julia long
mcs tech news reviews how to's whoever wrote that
i read that earlier i was like that's that's pretty neat it rhymes that is
pretty neat i like the writing good job impressed
only 525 views we can get more we can
there can be zero dislikes so far
yeah keep it that way good job julia good job mike's computer
shop that's pretty cool what else you know over there
uh i think i've i've met her a couple times at least but i don't like know
her i mostly put this in here because i thought Linus would be sitting here and not me and he'd be like oh cool and he
have something to say because he probably personally knows her knows her a bit better yeah but i i'm just happy
because that whole crew is really cool yeah so and i've seen what another one
of them is doing and i'm not going to say because i don't know if it's public and now i've seen what she's doing and
i'm just happy that they're continuing to be successful i don't want
to see any of them fail or falter because they're all really cool people
um first ever spacex launches reused rocket and capsule i believe this is
just kind of up and down i don't think it's actually no that puppy's going to
iss baby oh really 200 pounds of payload
wow that's sick okay this is posted by no one on the forum this is posted by
james in the dock yeah there we go nobody well actually it could be in the
form i didn't do a search but i didn't see it on the front one or two pages so
so i heard that this wasn't what you're saying it is so that's really exciting
they're just going for google tell me a liar no i'm not i'm saying that i just
like heard random small-time misinformation and didn't actually read
an article about it so that's it well actually it depends on
maybe you heard a first it was a different first
like they've done the rocket launch and land like i think 20 straight times or
something without failure okay and they've done
like launch launch one of these dragon capsules up this is the first time that
a reused like already spent rocket is
underneath an already spent dragon capsule and they're going to nasa and
nasa is going to be receiving an already used rocket and it's the first time for
that they had to do like a big comprehensive review to know whether or
not they wanted to accept that they deemed it a uh
like a marginal increase in risk uh given like the risks that already exist
they said it's basically the same so that's wicked
and it's bringing up real cargo it's actually bringing up a bunch of research
materials and uh equipment for the scientists that
live and work up there that is really cool this is really
exciting i don't really have a ton else to say other than it's really let's just
revel in how exciting that is yeah like yeah
that's amazing like imagine every time you flew overseas on a 747
you got off the plane and it just exploded
how much would your plane ticket cost like it's pretty insane yeah
so now like go going there multiple times going to mars going to the moon or
whatever an order of magnitude cheaper
that's so cool they're actually doing it and if you haven't seen videos of these
rockets these first stage rockets autonomously like landing themselves on
the again autonomous barges that are out to sea
it's so weird you think it's photoshop you think it's fake it's you it looks
like you're watching the video and rewind it's like pulled in by a string
yeah it's always made me think that it's like being pulled in not that it's
controlled falling so counterintuitive so
i don't think anyone watching this knows this i don't think i ever talked about this publicly but i tried to send
uh a little like mini set up okay like a
while ago and i had as an adult yeah
okay and i had like but like this size because at first i was like no she's a
cute kid yeah no i know no i was 25.
i was uh let's see probably 24 or 25.
and uh you can you can i know taryn knows because i was researching rocket
fuel um because i wanted to work with a
group in the states that does like hobby
rockets and they've gotten in trouble a lot because it's like sort of
a potential for a long-range ballistics program and it's like just a bunch of
random dudes but really they're just trying to be like this was before spacex
became like really big uh the spacex was kind of around but
they weren't really big yeah yeah yeah yeah so i don't remember exactly we've been around like 17 years now or
something it's been a while yeah uh but
and i was trying to figure out like how much can i pay them to get them to put a
little cubesat up oh and all this kind of stuff and yeah i know it's uh it's
way too much money yeah yeah well that's probably a good thing you don't want it to get so decentralized that anybody can
put anything in space yeah yeah i i yeah we're having a hard enough time having
everybody able to put anything they want on the internet
on youtube that's fair and like clutter around the oh space garbage garbage
it's not great yeah i don't know
i fixed it i hear Linus's voice well this show's over Linus except that we
still need to talk about Floatplane come here and talk about Floatplane
and uh let me go home for the weekend tag me in coach
yay i don't have a thanks
thanks everybody bye bye oh son
hi everyone yeah i was gonna say should we put me in
the thumbnail wow okay we have to do something crazy then because usually i
have an entire show worth of like us reacting to things to pull from
um
perfect done oh that's the worst so the thunder the first the thumbnail aids the
first posed lan show yeah thumbnail yeah and it's probably not even going to be
that great yeah yeah probably not um
what do we have for what do we have for stuff on Floatplane right now
good so good is everything good it looks like it's good it's my thing yeah yeah no it
should be fine it should be fine yeah you got this you got this
we've got uh techwiki how does your web browser
know your location that's actually pretty interesting yep ah actually it's
a and it's a really really cool topic and there's sort of more to it than i
thought because there's some stuff that i know already like the ip leases for
uh for isps are regional so therefore they can approximate your location
but then there's a bunch of other like actually kind of scary stuff
and that's how they know like exactly where you are
without gps yeah which is neat
it's neat to know how it works yeah uh contactless payment technology in a
glove oh that's up on youtube no one liked it okay i mean some people liked
it okay um like two-thirds of people liked it
there i'll quantify who likes outside of youtube statistics that's not bad yeah
yeah there we go we'll take it from that um setting up brand new sets that's cool
yeah so this is like uh the team paints
i rage out because that's what happens when other people paint on vlogs yeah
basically if you liked construction vlog or moving vlog it's
kind of along those lines okay uh what else we got what about the i just seen
studio tour yeah that's the feedback on this is really good so
and you you have talked about this before i don't think on the show at all
because this came up this week so we wouldn't have talked about it earlier um
but it's it's right we weren't going to talk about too much because of spoilers yeah
everything's kind of a spoiler but i'll say this if you weren't intrigued enough to sign
up for Floatplane already i'll try this wrapping paper
wrapping paper fetish what
see now you're intrigued aren't you
okay moving on um just
okay uh how to boost your cell signal yeah that's cool quickie
the dumb blonde of virtual assistants nice the gebo robot the tweet for this
was glorious this thing is so bad like i
can't believe it's on the cover of time they clearly it's on the cover yeah as
one of the top 25 inventions this year they clearly never even looked at it
that like actually hurts my soul yeah like they're not they they weren't even
trying all right all right
and then i think we're we're almost getting back to last week but we've got 1070 sli and a slim laptop that's insane
the question mark in the title is it stupid um yes
yes it is but you can watch the video if you want the longer more verbose version
of that if you want us to explain why texture on candy battle yeah tech
showdown part one is up i don't know if you knew that is it on youtube no yeah
okay so i did know that so part one is on Floatplane uh part two is coming to
Floatplane tomorrow part one is coming to youtube tomorrow okay yeah so tech
showdown has been sort of reimagined um
heavily heavily reimagined it's it's
more like scrapyard wars of modding and less like arts and crafts
though to be clear there's still arts and crafts and we don't buy anything
used but he's not wrong
because it is still kind of yeah i don't know that's actually a pretty good description but there's also the weird
caveats that go against it anyways yeah tons of great stuff on Floatplane and
that's pretty much the show you missed the almost all of it okay i have to go
review the razer phone video with taran okay he just finished editing it so
you're also leaving again yeah all right well
there you go all right see you next week
that are as big as your fist dumb
okay bye guys