sil
December 14, 2017, 12:02pm
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[00:02:30] Apple buys Shazam , for reasons as yet unstated... Nintendo have sold 10 million Switches in nine months... Windows's AFD.SYS, the "Ancillary Function Driver", was actually named when one of the team leads of the Windows network team learned they had to write a driver in kernel mode and said, "what? Another f***ing driver???". LOL, etc... The French government is planning to ban students from using mobile phones in the country's primary, junior and middle schools... A six-year-old makes $11 million reviewing toys on YouTube ... 129 million Americans only have one option for broadband internet service in their area , which explains some things about the whole net neutrality debate... The man program no longer says "gimme gimme gimme" after midnight ... Hilarious extra wrinkle to the "Uber get hacked, pay blackmailers to get the hacked data back" story: to further conceal the damage, Uber executives also made it appear as if the payout had been part of a "bug bounty"...
[00:31:50] In show 2x01 we gave our predictions for what would happen in 2017. Now, let's look back and see how we did in our role as Cassandras. Place your bets now on who did best: Jono, Stuart, or Jeremy!
Download from badvoltage.org/2x23
@sil Another big problem, right here .
just hope you ejected the hoodies from the podcast this week.
sil
December 14, 2017, 12:57pm
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er, there don’t appear to be any images there?
adw
December 14, 2017, 1:22pm
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Hey, been waiting for this!
But did something wrong happen, because the episode I get from badvoltage.org/feed/mp3 (through my podcastmanager) is the previous one, 2x22. The YouTube link is good though.
philgq
December 14, 2017, 1:24pm
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Same here on dogcatcher. It’s the episode after Alan Pope was on.
sil
December 14, 2017, 1:35pm
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We apologise for the inconvenience. Stuart especially.
Fixed.
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It only became inconvenient once you stopped talking about Slackware!
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oldgeek
December 17, 2017, 2:19pm
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My prediction for 2018 is: There will be a slight, but measurable, uptick in the success of the predictions of the BV team. Wait, what would be a 100% improvement from 2017?
Sorry, 100% improvement would still be zero. On the upside, any improvement in 2018 is infinitely better than 2017! That sounds even better than 100%.
tobi42
December 18, 2017, 12:55pm
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Awesome, very funny & entertaining show.
@jonobacon for me you are the winner of hearts for those weak attempts to bargain.
You knew they would mock you even harder, but still did it, for listeners’ entertainment (right…?).
True wrestling
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I think this is a +1 for @jonobacon
As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening its nascent social VR platform to run on headsets that the company doesn’t build. Today, a VR exec at the company announced that Facebook Spaces would be gaining support to run on...
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danfolkes:
Facebook opens …
the real community is google plus , dude.
… and … still going.
MattJC
December 19, 2017, 10:13pm
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@sil
I think the phrase you were looking for was “not even wrong” RE: the predictions I have a book with that title
hillsy
December 20, 2017, 1:43pm
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Hmmph. Still not fixed on Pocket Casts. I want to hear how terrible your predictions were.
/me goes off to dig through app settings
tobi42
December 20, 2017, 2:50pm
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But for the record, I think most of us prefer interesting predictions over correct ones
( at least within this show )
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sil
December 20, 2017, 6:51pm
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HA HA HA HA HA HA
https://webkit.org/blog/8042/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-46/
“we’re excited to enable Service Workers by default in this release”
and it is 2017 still!
Point for me
tobi42
December 21, 2017, 6:50am
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jonobacon:
Dan, you are a legend.
sil:
HA HA HA HA HA HA
From my personal POV it’s like this:
neither did my wife (who uses facebook almost every day) hear anything about VR in facebook so far,
nor does any of my apple-using friends use any feature, function, app or whatever that is related to safari service workers
So imho, both news items are too little, too late to get you a point
(actually i could really use :smug_grin: emoji down here )
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