Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, iMessage vs. green-bubble people, and a gaming PC finally doing what PCs do best.

• Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks
  • TPM
  • yt-dlp
  • DeCSS
  • SGX
  • FairPlay
  • Pirated movie release types
• Follow-up:
  • Printer Murder Rooms
    • John Tsombakos
    • Richard Smith
  • LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida)
• Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Activision Blizzard’s abhorrent culture
  • Prior acquisitions (via Jon Erlichman)
    • Activision Blizzard: $68.7b
    • LinkedIn: $26.2b
    • Nuance: $19.7b
    • Skype: $8.5b
    • ZeniMax: $7.5b
    • GitHub: $7.5b
    • Nokia (phone unit): $7.2b
    • aQuantive: $6.3b
    • Mojang (Minecraft): $2.5b
  • Perfect Dark
• Green bubbles ruin everything 🙄
  • RCS
  • Dithering
  • Snell on iMessage
  • Google/Android interpreting tapbacks
• #askatp:
  • Will macOS last another 20 years? (via Daniel Begqvist)
    • Copland 2010 Revisited
    • POSIX
    • Mach
    • Real-Time Operating System
  • What game system for a casual gamer who hasn’t had a console in ten years?
  • Do programming languages cause problems for people with hyphenated last names?
• Post-show: Marco’s Jerk-Store Moment
  • L’esprit de l’escalier

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