Episode 78: Sliding Scale Of Marginal Shittyness

Sadiq and Cristian talk shit about 2018 for an hour.

Content Warning: Politics, Mild Lewd Talk, Hot Takes

Show Notes:

00:01:00 – Supermicro Bloomberg Story

00:05:48 – Google+

00:10:35 – Facebook’s Trash Year

00:19:53 – Sadiq’s Favorite Video Games

00:41:05 – Video Game Busts

00:51:48 – Gadget Lightning Round

The Best Worst Tech Stories of this year

• Supermicro Bloomberg story
  • Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories
• Google+ shutting down
  • Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+
• Facebook
  • As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
  • Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
  • Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data

Best Games of the Year

• Forza Horizon 4
• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• Spiderman
• God of War
• Hitman 2
• Dead Cells

Worst Games of the Year

• Fallout 76
• Diablo Immortal announcement at Blizzcon 2018

Gadgets:

• Busts
  • Pixel Slate
  • WearOS
  • Facebook Portal
  • Every Windows 10 Major Update
  • iPad Pro Productivity
  • Every Major Social Network
  • Mastodon feature updates
  • USB C
• Good Shit
  • Dark mode in macOS Mojave
  • USB C
  • Xbox Games Pass
  • iOS 12
• wtf, lol
  • Our privacy amirite
  • Intel’s release cycle

Contact:

• Cristian Online
• Cristian on Mastodon
• Sadiq on Mastodon
• Sadiq Online

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