Google's New Gmail Features: Confidential Email and Enhanced Security

Google has announced its upcoming Gmail update, which promises to bring several exciting new features, including confidential email and enhanced security measures. The new Gmail will have a sleeker design, reminiscent of Android, and will be available in the next couple of weeks.

One of the most notable features of the new Gmail is the "Confidential" label, which allows users to send emails that are encrypted and secure. When an email is marked as confidential, it can only be viewed by the intended recipient, and even then, they may not have access to all of its contents. For example, if a user sends an email with sensitive information, they can mark it as confidential, and when the recipient opens it, the sender will receive a notification that the email has been opened.

Another security feature of the new Gmail is the "Confidential" link, which allows users to send emails that expire after a certain period. This means that if someone steals an account or gains access to an email, they won't be able to view the contents of the confidential email. Additionally, the sender can set up a two-factor authentication process, requiring the recipient to enter a verification code sent via SMS in order to view the email.

The new Gmail also has several other security features built-in, including encryption and secure login protocols. These features are designed to protect users' sensitive information from prying eyes, whether it's due to hacking or accidental exposure.

One of the potential applications of these new features is for professionals who need to send sensitive information to clients or colleagues. For example, an accountant could mark an email as confidential and set it to expire in seven years, ensuring that they are not obligated to hold onto the information any longer than necessary.

Google's New Gmail: A Closer Look

The new Gmail has been described as having a "confidential" icon, which is only visible when an email is marked as confidential. The recipient can then open the email and view its contents, but with several limitations. For example, they may not be able to forward or download the email.

In addition to these features, Google's new Gmail will also have some aesthetic changes. It has a sleeker design, reminiscent of Android, which is likely to appeal to users who prefer a more modern look and feel.

The company has promised that the new Gmail will be available soon, but no exact date has been announced. In the meantime, users can expect to see more information about the features and capabilities of the new email client.

Conclusion

Google's new Gmail promises to bring several exciting new features, including confidential email and enhanced security measures. These features are designed to protect users' sensitive information from prying eyes, whether it's due to hacking or accidental exposure. With its sleeker design and modern look and feel, the new Gmail is sure to be a hit with users who value security and privacy in their emails.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay here we go we are live this is uh between two ferns uh the lioness tech tips edition i have laser james with me here today and we're gonna talk about a whole bunch of different privacy news including the whole facebook thing with mark the zuck zuckerberg um amd navi gpu being potentially amazing or not nothing to do with privacy no and other non-privacy news yes there could be a new successor to the chromecast and competitor to amazon firestick i'm actually stoked on this oh stoked okay um and and mostly other privacy stuff but also the ftc says warranty void stickers like warranty voided for move stickers are bs which is awesome that makes me really happy but stay tuned to see that and more on the wan show that is actually going to have an intro today we're doing the intro oh no it wasn't ready colton oh spoiler alert so the answer that question was no and we're dead okay be quiet which you already saw i think synergy 2 and squarespace awesome you're going to put subscribe to the channel it works next time and go like that there we go welcome to the wine show you might be able to tell we've had a little bit of change of scenery we're actually in pretty close to the same area but i can't tell you why things have obviously changed or for how long or if they'll go back or when they'll go back or any of that detail so speculate as you will that's i think that's i think all i can do so good buddy let's go i've been good you've been away i haven't seen you and like i have been mostly awake i was like i'm gonna be in office way more from now on i made it in one day this week it was great wait you were in the city like in the country all week yeah you've been back from pax like that whole time yeah oh oh yeah i thought i was like yeah he's back from packs cool like what happened tell us about it no i i got back on sunday pax was good um i did there was really not a lot of hardware stuff there we used to so like back when i first started working here um i asked lions my first time off request ever was to go to pax okay and i was like just assume that i'm gonna ask for this time off for the rest of my career working with you um and then immediately the next year he was like you're gonna work it just at pax and i was like okay well that sounds like a pretty okay compromise so i started making videos at pax about computer hardware now in retrospect good compromise it was it was it was interesting it was a fun thing to do um i really like pax so i've been to like 15 of them so working some of those was probably okay but there used to be an abundance of new interesting stuff at pounds usually peripherals we get a lot of keyboards we get a lot of mice get a lot of headsets that kind of stuff but we'd sometimes get cases and a few other things there's there was never like a graphics card or something but there was always a lot of technology videos to make sure that slowly started dwindling over the years the amount of potential technology videos that pax slowly started reducing constantly over time but here's my question yes so do you prefer to go as luke or as luke from linus media group i i can't not go as luke from linux media now yeah i guess but like on your third or fourth time there when maybe people didn't know you were luke from linus media group as well okay so you were working there but you weren't like super famous so the that would be yeah there was like one year in that gap um and that that was pretty good it was funny because my dad always does this so okay a little bit of backstory when i go to pax i was born for facts back in the old days i was conceived at the corsair booth my dad's been to a millionaires yeah i know so my my dad brought me pax as a like uh as a birthday present and he brought myself my best friend and so we went from when i was like really young uh and the first year that any amount of people knew me at all which was a very very small amount of people because i think i had been in one wayne show that's it oh wow by the time i went to this packs um that year my dad would like look around for anyone that stared at me for too long and then would go like get them and get them to come over uh so yeah that was pretty cool but yeah no it's i still i really like meeting people um i think the reason why i would have probably preferred the old one was because i liked pax more back in the day but that's not actually that doesn't have anything to do with yeah well that was my question ultimately was now that there's fewer videos to make do you get to enjoy the show more and it's kind of like the best of all worlds i would have if there was more stuff to check out the show overall is just it's much bigger now and when you become much bigger in terms of those types of shows it usually becomes a little bit more corporate a little bit more stale there's more rules now like back in the day a booth would have like a giveaway and everyone would swarm it and they'd like throw stuff out and it was crazy no you're not allowed throwing things because probably someone got hurt which has to ruin the fun and everything um and like i don't know it just it became bigger became more corporate it's not as like niche and nerdy anymore um it's still really cool it's a great event i love going i hope ltx never suffers from that remember how much stuff we threw last year we exactly almost got murked it was like serious it was serious like looking at the size of your eyes biting your finger like that like that was actually too bad that was too far again yeah the case toss yeah we we are in closing at this time that's and that's what i was actually going to say not to promote ltx too much i don't even think we're supposed to on this show but i'm doing it anyways it was amazing the first year we had it was so much fun and i think there were some definite problems like the main stage was kind of under produced and there was a couple others the sound was a big issue the music was an issue linus wore a took and that really bothered me personally i love that that's like you're like the main stage is an issue the sound is big issue linus wore clothing that i didn't appreciate i mostly saw him when he was on stage and every time he came out and he had a touch on i was like who's this like uh opening hip-hop act like who's this guy and then it was latinus and i was like what a chook isn't part of your like he's like never worn not part of your uniform yeah i hear ya i hear you um yeah i don't know i'm really excited for the next one it's gonna be bigger we're gonna have more booths the main stages will be better i'm not gonna let them the enclosed uh case off is gonna be sweet because you can do bank shots and try to damage it more by getting some kind of angle that's not gonna be my strategy okay you know you're gonna try to go off the sidewall or the roof i don't know hi or like roof sidewall ground you don't even have to i guess it's a distance challenge not a damaging challenge because if it was just trying to break the case you could just go completely laterally ready break the whole booth in half like yes i'm sure there'll be some kind of troll shots like that yeah probably anyways we should probably talk about actual news um i think we already introduced a bunch of topics but we can start with probably uh the most yeah expected topic of the week uh is that we learned this week that zuckerberg drinks water like this he's been working on this it's actually pretty good at this point yeah yeah then you gotta do the smile meter thing i can't do it i can't do that smoothly his smile is so granular the steps are tiny it's so good okay so i'm going to let me hold on i got to be linus here for a second which i'm not used to there we go uh facebook users aren't changing their privacy settings despite uproar so this has been a pretty interesting wait a second who posted that in the forum uh shorty 88 junior good job always forget we do thank you very much i appreciate it um yeah so people aren't really leaving people aren't changing their privacy settings apparently people aren't even changing what type of things they share with the platform so there's this like giant uproar well actually i think it kind of speaks to the whole issue because if you watch any of the congress uh i don't even know what you call that the inspection of zuckerberg a lot of it was like um he keeps defaulting to be like okay we do tell them everything our terms of service is all here nobody reads it it's garbage we know that nobody reads it so we also have these these little um dialog boxes that are the top your news feed that tell you like hey in plain english you can share this with the world or not they do all these things to make it transparent what they're doing it's just no one cares though no one cares i like by and large no one cares so i think a surprisingly low amount of people actually care about their privacy there is like and i bet you a a abnormally high percentage of the audience here and i think an abnormally high percentage of tech people in general because uh i think those people actually understand better what's happening when they're putting their privacy out there um i i think the average person sees it as like oh some mega corporation knows that i like uh thong sandals yeah they've got nothing to hide maybe they'll sell me a few thong sandals and they don't understand that like it's going further than that and your data is being picked apart further than that and facebook is selling it to people that you don't necessarily know well they don't sell the data well it gets given away improperly yeah well it still does yeah it really did before yeah so i don't know and like the fact that uh a myriad of platforms get hacked every single year and people's data gets pulled out of that not saying that happened to facebook but it happens to a huge amount of people you can check out uh i think it's have i been pwned.com yeah yeah that's not specifically facebook data no i'm i'm saying i'm talking about privacy in general yeah i actually said specifically i don't think it's happened to facebook like at all correct um but there has been huge companies that have had leaks like that and and those leaks could could make your facebook vulnerable if you're using the same password across lots of sites so what normally happens is like linkedin got hacked so the dark webs has your password for linkedin that gets bought by someone else who takes that password and tries it in a bunch of other sites like your email your bank facebook and if you're the type of person that has the same password everything you might be compromised on lots of sites that never actually got hacked themselves yeah um it's it's and like what i was more getting to is just the idea that people don't understand how their data can spread um and like not just on facebook i mean in terms of using the internet as a whole non-tech people don't necessarily understand how like putting their data in some place or putting their credit card information in some place can result in it getting to other places um but it kind of leads into the regulation discussion here because there's there's yes there's a lot of talk uh about regulating facebook and there's kind of three different ways that that could go the first is what facebook would probably like which is just to self-regulate and that seems more and more basically everybody wants it seems more and more that it's like maybe less likely to me anyway because like to happen yeah okay yeah yeah because there's this awesome article that's been written by zainab what's her last name she's that security researcher i'm really bad with especially last names so she's awesome she wrote this uh kind of article that blew up about like 14 years of facebook's apology tour since the beginning like a lot of people gave uh props to zuckerberg for kind of taking ownership of what has happened at facebook and apologizing for it not like deflecting or saying mistakes were made but the same time he's been doing that for like a decade and a half so at some point it's like stop stop letting him screw up so much yeah so option one facebook self regulates option two they regulate the entire industry that would be really stifling to innovation yeah really if you've ever worked at a company that was undergoing some kind of like um you know we're going to implement compliance for hipaa which is like a a health healthcare security thing that stuff is intense and drains company resources more than you could ever imagine unless you've actually gone through it yourself it's crazy and there's a ton of ton like that so if there was something like that for the social media industry you can basically guarantee yourself that there would be no new upstarts like that's hard enough to to make a new social network is hard enough given that network effects are such an important part of it like you need to have a bunch of users before it's useful to people if you're going to have this other layer of compliance you're basically solidifying facebook's position and all incumbents positions so that's yeah i don't i don't think you're guaranteeing that there will be no challenges um but i haven't seen even without this i haven't seen very many successful challenges to facebook at all anyways google plus completely failed um and anyone that really tries just gets bought and consumed anyways well that's what was funny when that one senator was like who's your biggest competitor it's like you don't understand network economies because but by virtue of way they the way they work there are no competitors it's like it's a win winner take all such a situation where like everyone's on this platform therefore everyone's using this platform you can't split them there could never be half people here in half there yeah with com completely overlapping functions it doesn't work that way option three for regulation would be um if facebook itself just has a like dedicated third party or agency that only regulates facebook like some kind of steward of the data um to me that's like the most likely situation but this one too enshrines facebook's current market position because if it's the case that facebook has so much data about you and they regulate such that that data can never leave facebook then no one else has no upstarts have access to that data in the way that um the developers on the facebook platform did in the past and that's how cambridge analytica came to get the big data that leaked anyway so if no one has access to that then they're just sitting on this gold mine of data that no one can compete with so you're kind of in a pickle any either way so i'm going to make a straw poll here which is how should facebook be regulated or not um you need four bro yeah it it self expands oh oh oh watch this dude it self regulates wait oh oh i think i have to fill this one out maybe and then hit enter uh not regulated self-regulated third there we go nice congratulations but like dedicated like they only regulate facebook uh i can't type on this keyboard for some reason probably because it's way over there it's just a really weird one you know like it's this qwerty layout i don't know i'm used to divorce i know it's been around since the 1870s but whatever okay so we have not regulated self-regulated third-party regulations specifically for facebook and government-wide spanning regulations are going to put a troll on sir no donkey balls donkey come on nope last week it was donkey balls we've been regulated internally self-regulated okay so check that straw pull out hit us with the feedback i want to see what you guys think um i kind of have my own opinion but ooh do you have a while we wait for that let's fantasize about some kind of future epic uh social network startup that's all blockchain based where every individual's data is completely owned by them is on a blockchain so that the entire internet is modular so that you can switch from one social network to another and bring your data with you and release to each social network exactly what you want that would be the most beneficial to new innovation because you could start up your own social network and people could come to it and be like here's all the data and here's all the connections here's all the people i know and suddenly you'd have like this really thick market and strong network effects right away someone said it's called steemit wow i don't like that platform but i is that how that actually works i know that platform is blockchain based but is it like what you're describing i don't think so i have no idea but what i have heard is that all the current social like blockchain-based social media projects are junk yeah i heard it on a podcast i don't actually know i haven't tried it myself pied piper i wouldn't put steam in my title sounds like steaming pile you know it's like it's like s-t-e-e-m-i-t or something like that i don't remember exactly how it works um i'm going to check in on this straw poll actually let's see okay wow okay not a meaningful split at all really oh donkey second place oh okay that plays into what we were saying earlier where it's like honestly most people don't really care um or even in our car but they just don't know well that's fair i should have had a like i don't know and then i don't care that should have been that's donkey i guess the two together but yeah that's the problem is that they're both together so right now oh right i'm not on the screen right now we're looking at 25 for third party regulations specifically for facebook i'm kind of surprised by that um do tell i'm just kind of surprised by that because in that situation you're putting a weight on facebook which i don't think anyone's going to care about but you're putting a weight on facebook so that opens the door to more other platforms but then those other platforms are probably going to have the same problem and then do you at that point once they're big yeah take the regulations specifically for facebook and then push it on them or like so do you just let people run rampant with other people's data at the beginning and then go like you shouldn't have done that but we didn't tell you not to so it's okay but now you have to stop yeah it kind of sounds like you need to have a hybrid approach where there are certain ground rules for everybody to begin with but there already is existing laws plus you also have to consider uh users choices right not like because this is happening let's just there's a societal shift where people are prioritizing and caring more about this kind of thing right so if a new upstart comes knocking on your door asking you to become a user you're more likely to ask like well what kind of data like what are you guys doing what do you want from me yeah so in that climate then like maybe a light touch regulation is enough i don't know and then uh people the the next highest category that wasn't donkey was government-wide spanning regulation which i'm not super surprised was up there not regulated i'm honestly pretty surprised that that even got 13 percent um but then i guess there are well those are the people who know how to set the permissions the way they actually want they're just like it's going fine just read the tos yeah people who are going to actually like manage it properly themselves um which unfortunately isn't everybody which is i guess the problem i have with it because like my mom is not going to understand what to do hi mom what she's listening she's probably watching but like i'm not saying that she's sitting there nodding she's like yeah yeah like it's it's my mom's actually surprisingly good with some things but she can also somehow manage to send emails with her text messaging program without any of us being able to figure out how for like months at a time um like it's it's there's there's people that have a special touch with technology and there's people that when they use it it falls apart magically um and like as far as i can tell it has nothing to do with being her fault but anyways i love you um but like i don't know there's people that are super in the know in a platform and there's people that aren't and it varies i took my socks off right before the show but now i want them back on why my feet got cold oh my goodness you're having cold feet about this regulation platform idea yeah changed my mind uh if we could get like four more people to vote for donkey that would be great because then it would be in first place and then we can just be done with this straw poll uh but i think we're probably done with this topic in general meanwhile amd nabi gpus yeah rumor mill time let's uh let's get away from don't come through this way go away please thank you uh let's jump down to amd navi navi is the next generation of architecture from amd gpus and it is a seven nanometer architecture and the rumor these days is that it's not gonna it's not gonna be the source of the next wave of enthusiast cards it's not going to be the next vega in fact it's going to be a what they call the mainstream uh lineup which or mainstream tier which right now is the rx 580s those guys also thank you ryujin 2013 on the forums yeah so what they're saying is that when these cards launch in 2019 they're gonna have a comparable performance to a gtx 1080 which came out in the end of may basically june 2016 but it'll cost about 250 bucks which is nice well because buying a 1080 right now is more than that msrp 250 bucks who knows what it'll actually cost fair mining stuff is going down a lot because bitcoin's super down right now well it's going up in the last day or two oh has it yes oh no it's coming back again yes it's back baby back again oh dear da nana and then with new cards that are high performance for lower dollar value it might become more profitable so we'll see but yeah msrp has not been a realistic thing for actually quite a long time um especially on the amd side we've seen accidental artificial whatever uh uh spawned from bitcoin inflation whatever you want on gpus for quite a long time even well before it was identified as being a bitcoin mining problem uh we had inflation and graphics card prices all the way from back to the launch of these cards which was well before mining bitcoin was like super trendy well the gtx yes yeah okay yeah i thought when i first read that and i i read that they were aiming navi at at this particular market segment i thought are they doing that like to satisfy shareholders is it just more cost effective and they're gonna it's a bigger addressable market because stop it max you're doing that thing you said you're gonna just get out of here all right there's just more people who have the money to buy a cheaper but like still good like well 250 is a really nice price point for a graphics card around 300 bucks is fairly reasonable for a quite a large amount of people for a graphics card yeah 250 bucks is pretty good still if if you can like pcs aren't going to get here realistically but if like at least not in the short term but 300 bucks in like 2013 was like the golden i remember there was articles about it all over the place where like 300 for a relatively high ticket item was really good for consumers because a lot of people could gather that much money in a reasonable amount of saving time this should be uh comparatively cheaper than because with inflation and everything with inflation and it's 250 yeah uh but it isn't the full component for a computer but it's a nice upgrade it goes all over so it's a sound business it's a good product if they're just doing this strategically that would make sense but then i learned that actually history is repeating itself here because this is a new what they call manufacturing node this is a seven nanometer uh part the lithography that is they can't get the yields on all their wafers uh at a at a rate or a quantity that makes a lot of sense economically for them so that was really convoluted let me just say what i actually have written down from a manufacturing point of view it is not feasible to produce a large gpu like a 1080 like a big one or a vega on a brand new cutting-edge process like seven nanometer early in the nodes life cycle because it's just a new technology and they haven't ironed out all the manufacturing kinks yet so once they do it's conceivable that in the future maybe in 2021 that they could use the seven nanometer lithography to make bigger cards yeah makes sense the more you know hooray it's it's i don't know this is good uh for a lot of reasons amd needs to keep doing well they're doing quite well right now uh one interesting observation that i had at pax we were talking about pax earlier on in the show intel did not have a booth there that was weird intel's had a booth at pax like every pax as far as i know for the last five or six years uh and video wasn't there that's not super surprising they used to be at every pax then they started dwindling off but okay no intel no nvidia asus booth was much smaller than normal amd had a fairly big booth that was poppin the whole event it was full there was queues for all the different stuff they had they had vr setups but there was vr setups multiple other places on the show that didn't have a line but the line at amd was full all the time it was an interesting experience to see that the community has kind of opened up to amd as a whole if you look back into like 2014 they were actually the very much so underdog that like the underground people were like yeah i'm gonna buy one of these even though like you know maybe it doesn't make a ton of sense i'm gonna get it anywhere my money is just a donation name yeah basically but now it's actually a lot more logical to go for their stuff which is really cool and it's it's really cool to see them coming back um it was a pretty awesome moment to see their booth packed at pax yeah because even at pax west which was i guess in the very beginning of september 2017 um the amd booth was not that packed so you're saying now that this hasn't even been that long now that there's no competition their booth is popping well it helped i guess um and like they did a much better job with their booth which in a way kind of sort of not really but kind of indirectly maybe there's a lot of caveats there i keep drinking water not like zuckerberg he's gonna work continue um oh he's got it he's got it sorry i'll ignore it i don't know um it it kind of shows success in the company they have the money to flaunt at an event spending way too much money on a ridiculously small roi of having a booth as a shareholder that angers me yeah yeah that makes sense it's if you look at the roi of a booth you're actually not showing to that many people and it costs a ludicrous amount of money you're probably gonna end up giving a whole bunch of product away uh you're probably gonna have to pay a bunch of staff like it's a really expensive thing to do but it's it's to cater to your super fans and the the roi is hard to describe but it it reaches um and then it is branding's huge in this space and you're you're making yourself a constant part of the conversation and you're trying to spread that roi beyond just that event that's kind of the idea so i don't know it was really interesting to see that i'm very happy about amd's fairly recent success and i hope they keep going and i hope this is part of it because if you can get 1080 performance off a 250 card that breaches people into a way higher level of gaming yeah but this is three years after the fact though like a year from now you're gonna have a 1080 yeah which is like and we'll have to see like if mining does crash super hard and people start selling mining cards for dirt cheap then it might not matter because you might be able to get 1080s for around that price anyways they would just might be kind of sketchy um but you're just the most tired car yeah or you might just got some games in me you turn your computer off it just falls apart because it's like i've been running for so long the dust was holding me together um or you might get 1080 tis for that price or whatever else right who knows but if mining does stay up there and the price of this does inflate that might still even be helpful who knows she's just trolling you man she's trolling me there's a door that's open here for people who don't know yeah max's loitering we like have to have the contact because if i go to close the door oh i can't there's a sandbag in the way but if i go to close the door it will it will block the camera well not entirely actually you just have to look through like a fire rated window i would like to end the show that way actually by closing the door yeah i'll crawl under there remove the sound back okay okay i'm down wait wait till the end of the show that's going to be your easter egg it's going to happen yeah so anyways there's a weird a bunch of documentation showed up this is the next topic okay a bunch of documentation showed up uh uh at a random i mean to to our ears rise anyway people who aren't in the know of these things a random seeming manufacturer in china has the documentation that describes like specs out this new mysterious google branded dongle which is like a 4k android tv dongle as you can see yeah and some people might think this is boring because they're like yeah okay it's a roku or it's an amazon yeah i was wondering why you care so i'll tell you why i care so much i have a chromecast at home okay and i also have a google home okay those things work together they're attached to my tv which is a smart tv the smart tv has a remote and i use that remote and that smart tv to use apps like youtube a lot the problem is that google home and casting by voice is incompatible with my remote when i cast if i'm like google play the latest linus tech tips video on the tv and it plays it i can't then grab my remote and hit next video and start scrolling around and stuff like that because my smart tvs youtube app is a different app than the app that gets used when i cast things by voice i basically have two youtube apps on my tv with this you're going to be able to do that just like when you have a amazon fire tv stick they actually the microphone the excuse me the remote is a microphone you can talk into it this remote is the same deal it has a dedicated google assistant button on it so this is the remote he's talking about by the way and presumably i'm going to be able to say googstar play this video on i don't want to hotword people i know i was going to say you guys got to appreciate that he didn't include the first word yes when he he's paying attention play the latest video i'll be able to watch that video and then i'll be able to just use my remote and then back and forth and that is gonna be sick that's huge for me hey google play the hipster song with the whistling i had to i'm sorry continue hey you don't want to leave those alexa play the hipster song with the whistling people out is that going to work though because i think that's a fairly specific keyword for google play no that that or sorry the key phrase oh the hipster song with the whistling because they put that in an ad and i tried a whole bunch of other descriptions for songs that i thought were pretty good it didn't work at all oh did you try the one the russian guy that goes does that work yes we've done it even on land show before oh that's awesome yeah yeah okay it's awesome okay sweet that's cool i'm surprised that works actually that's a great song you know the song i'm talking about it's called like seventh element by vedas get out i think that's that was my choose that's what i wanted so people in chat are saying that it's like basically a shield tv but in a small compact dongle but i think it does a little bit less and plus the price point those things are over 200 bucks oh yeah so this is probably gonna be way cheaper the shield will also be able to like cast games to your tv which is like you're you're you're in a little bit different of a of a range there the shield also has a voice controllable remote and the easiest way to think about it is going to be there are already android tv boxes it's just going to be that with google assistant integration and voice remote people in chat i'm guessing that the price point will be like what 120 130 bucks is that how much a fire tv stick is let me search the american internets yeah where these things exist oh my god while you do that fire truck no they know it from last tech tips what did you guys think about the fire pole video good god it's thirty dollars fire tv stick with alexa voice from 30 bucks that's really cheap even the 4k one is only 50. a 4k chromecast is like 70 usd isn't it i don't know hold on let me google some more do it do it you can get a chromecast on amazon now can't you wasn't that the whole thing that they argued about before can you do it now though because i know they're arguing about it but i don't know if it's like already an option oh that got pretty settled it auto filled i don't see it i see a shield they sell nvidia shields for 200. it comes with a gamepad though yeah because you can play android games on it some of them i guess yeah i'm totally going to sell my chromecast and get one of these donald if it comes out they're probably going to announce it at i o i o is in a month it's in may google i o it's going to be sweet can you work on this heck yeah yeah okay i thought so so while you're looking that up i'm gonna do a little float plane moment 70 bucks i was right i have to 70 okay okay so it is a little bit more expensive uh floatplane has awesome stuff on it kyle from bitwit currently has cool cooler is cool what happens if we if we remove the fans it's a be quiet cooler that should be a pretty interesting video also he has a 32x9 gaming setup that he wants to show off in a different video linus tech tips has a wearable coast house a merged keyboard and mouse it is a cause i like it that was by accident but i'm kind of down with it uh it's so can you tell me a tiny amount but what this thing actually is so it's these rings that you wear on your fingers yeah if you lay your hand on a table okay it's a mouse if you don't and you just put your wrist on the edge of a table and you tap on a table it's a keyboard and it can know based on like if you stretch your finger or whatever it's not uh spatial it's not like a is over here and p is over here okay you actually have to learn a bunch of gestures like it's his own language like that's a that's n oh that's r yeah okay i learned it all can you type properly that way i can type how fast uh i can survive like probably dial up like i could describe it as okay okay that's cool though i don't know it's sweet i like it a lot and it's good at what it's doing like it's it doesn't register i'm not gonna give away the video no yeah don't go any further perfect uh there's also uh the continuation of the apple fiasco with the imac pro um buying a video card without getting screwed and some other cool stuff like the history of the motherboard i haven't seen that video i'm going to watch that video because i grew up with these super janky weird motherboard setups and i grew up with like my dad's computer where basically to build the computer you had to have a whole bunch of add-in cards because the motherboard was so bare and it didn't have like like you didn't have onboard nick okay he didn't have on-board lan for ethernet connection so he had to have a nic card in order to have connections i remember when we bought our first uh computer my like i remember being in the shop when we were buying it and it was like for hours and we like bought a sound card yeah like that's just totally integrated didn't have audio on board probably yeah so like that i'm 100 certain that that is going to be a sick video so be sure to check that out check out floatplane you can go to floatplane.com and sign up there or you can do it through the forum but we are moving over to floatplane.com and honestly the payment system on floatplane.com works way better so if you want to have less issues i would probably go there um but it only supports credit card right now we will be supporting uh paypal in the future but cryptocurrencies kitties yeah well you can get a year of flow plane for a single crypto kitty what is a cryptokitty what you don't know what cryptokitties is it's nothing worth describing it's like come and gone this is like a four month old is it like a meme it's like a it's like a ethereum based game where you trade digital kitties you just zuckerberg are you telling me to zuck off uh i just there we go i think we've completed our ritual we didn't get to watch that but i think we were in sync i think so yeah i noticed when mine was like going down that yours was going down at the same time and stuff and i was like i saw it in the corner you were doing that smile yeah yeah oh you did the smile meter thing yeah it was later there okay so as long as we did do we just become best friends okay that movie was amazing i just have to say that uh let's get back on topic though actually no let's do ad spots we might as well synergy yes yes correct synergy two synergy is a mouse and keyboard sharing software so you can have multiple computers even multiple different types of computers like a laptop and a desktop and you could have like linux on one of them and windows or mac or whatever and you could share your mouse and keyboard across all of them it doesn't even matter which mouse and keyboard you use you can even use a cause yeah yes i want to make that a thing um and now with synergy one you had to have like one of the computers set up as a 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it's weird thanks guys i thought it was a typo at first like i was like oh it appears more than once oh you didn't account for people saying this out loud but okay um web often has won near final approval from the world wide web consortium which is the governing body for these kinds of standards so what this is is on your phone you're unlocking your phone with face id or with your fingerprint all the time right but you don't do that when you go to facebook.com or basically any other website all recipes for them you enter in just a password um setting up a face a biometric um a password on all different websites would take a long time you'd have to not only would they have to implement that that technology but then you'd have to like do your all those different finger taps on every different finger for every website and that'd be really annoying so what this is is it's an api an application programming interface that all the different websites will will hook into and then you only have to set up your biometric passwords once and then the whole web can rely on them which is going to be be a name yes so for hackers all you really need to do is break one system yeah and then you get all of them yes sick i might be wrong but this is how i think it works because the i had to do some some digging beyond uh just what was found on the forum the forum post by the way was posted by matthew valencia thank you very much thank you matt you sound italian what valencia that's spanish sounding to me i'm really bad at that so you're probably totally right it could be really hard it could be either uh yeah i don't know it sounds like it could be cool it sounds like it could be a single point of failure it just depends on i guess how they exactly implement it you can require something like a yubikey which i think is actually pretty cool so if they if they add power to the user in terms of like oh i'm okay with fairly weak authentication and you want to go that route that's fine i don't care if someone doesn't really care about their accounts that's okay if you have one password for everything and you think that's okay that's fine um as long as it's in your control to amplify that and have more security if you want to go to like having two factors still like a yubikey and something else that could be pretty cool um well you kind of already have a single point of failure like if someone were to get my phone which they would unlock with fingerprint or if they were to get my laptop and unlock with a password then i have all those autocompletes set up so they kind of have everything anyway see but then that's that's uh an in your control thing yes mine doesn't if someone got my phone yeah yeah they have access to not very much i would have access to my email which is pretty bad um and i guess they would have but they they don't have access to like my password trove and nothing autocompletes but they would have my email so they could probably reset most things um but like yeah i don't know but even if even if you're the kind of person who like doesn't care about things um wouldn't those like how are they gonna get a hold of your of your biometric information isn't that just hashed isn't it totally yeah but okay so the there's there's different types of of hacking so you could find a vulnerability in the system that no longer requires you to use those sure yeah okay right there's like things yeah it's and and someone will probably find one of those okay uh whether it ends up on zero day and gets solved or whether it gets sold or what happens with it who knows and having one central system if it's open source uh and you have a whole bunch of huge companies working on making sure that it stays secure could be really awesome and could like really lock things down um one thing that's awesome about this is if you're not even that savvy or serious about your privacy um you're more protected with this because you can't be phished with this because your password is like a secret that you know and just because no one else knows it doesn't mean that they can't get it just by asking you what it is which is what phishing is my wife actually got an sms recently that was like your your telco has given you a refund or your isp is giving you a refund of 114.61 click through you click through and it's got tiles for each of the common banks in canada totally branded looks totally professional looks awesome and you just you click on that and it's like you enter your banking credentials and then boom they have everything if she didn't explicitly know like uh this isp never texts me they never text me and they have no reason to give me a refund but like how tempting is that like oh free money free money yeah anything's possible sms people get fished all the time so you can't get fish with this you still totally could because if it would just be done in a different way because you would have to have it capture your authentication i guess so because you're saying this is a general api for everyone right so they would be so you would go to the phishing site and it would be like scan your fingerprint and you'd be like click when you have to when you get like it on android or ios when you get a a permission prompt that was like share your fingerprint with this website and you'd be like that's weird i already did that and then even if you did say yes to that they'd scan your fingerprint it would just be once which may not be enough to like totally get super dangerous may not be enough i don't know it still might work its potential you could also algorithm it out to like angle it slightly to try to make it slightly different um and honestly i would honestly think most people would go like oh yeah go away to any prompt that's like do you want to share this with the website could be um it's it's still possible there's there's phishing attempts that succeed that are super garbage all the time uh and there's actually some people who intentionally make things like fishing uh attempts that are really bad because they don't want to get savvy people ah so they actually weed out savvy people by making it fairly obviously fake so if someone does fall for it they can probably get way more from them that's because they're really gullible yeah there's there's oh that's amazing the the world of of people trying to benefit off of other people uh is vast and well-educated that actually is a pretty good segue into another thing that happened which is this ransomware that asks yeah pubg get this ransomware it's like your data is encrypted the only way to get it back is to play this video game like we're not affiliated just play it because it's awesome or if you don't want to do that just enter the password that's actually written right here on the screen so it's just like just like a joke i don't know maybe someone just wanted to play it maybe it's a viral marketing campaign it's obviously like bad and stuff viral it's a viral it's a virus i like that i didn't pick up on that right away first um it's it's obviously like bad and stuff but i think it's hilarious i i think this is very funny um just play pub g for one hour and apparently you don't even have to if you just launch the game at all it just that's what happens yeah when you launch when you launch it and the or restore code is and you can just type that in i think it's i think it's funny um it's it's i mean i'm not condoning it it's not a good thing all that kind of stuff but i just i think it's hilarious i was like kind of hoping it was going to happen to me just because i'd be like well i guess i gotta play pubg right honey luke it's date night ignore that code i have to say that i have to save the pictures although all the family pictures are all super important yes family pictures my family videos my family vr videos yes of course so apparently warranty sticker stickers that say if you remove the sticker you're going to your buoyancy is ward you know what i'm talking about this was posted by steve uh grabowski on the forum and the previous topic was posted by no one hey grabowski thanks for the topic yes warranty void if removed that sticker apparently is and illegal so the ftc is cracking down they've sent letters to six major companies they haven't said who these companies are but they're rigged yeah and they're in the sectors of their car manufacturers of cars they are did i even write it down video yeah here we go automobiles cellular devices and video game systems uh makers like i'm pretty sure they're big companies like so yeah yeah so they've sent warning letters to these companies writing that statements that consumers must use specified parts or service providers to keep their warranties is actually illegal and it has been since 1975. and we've kind of always sort of known this to be completely honest okay okay um but it's been so ah okay maybe i shouldn't say we have but like a lot of people have been on this side and kind of known this for a long time but that being said because there hasn't been a big public statement that's super easy to point out like this there's you can point at like really old laws and whatever but most companies just act on the idea that it that it is enforceable so we'll make it a nightmare to actually get your stuff repaired to the point where it's not worth it uh i think even if even if the case was that like you know i'm gonna take the sticker off and there's nothing the company can do and they're gonna have to uh honor the warranty anyway just the fact that they have a sticker on there and are deterring a large part of the population even that is getting cracked down on right which is good because that sticker like you're right deters a huge percentage of population basically almost everyone and then uh even if it doesn't like i love breaking those stickers uh if i did want a warranty repair for something that i broke the sticker on uh it would be a nightmare and probably not worth my time and it would probably never end up happening and to get it fixed i'd probably have to take them to court which is not going to be worth it so this being enacted is awesome i love it it's great this is good one quote that i like here is from thomas b paul acting director of the ftt ftc's bureau of consumer protection he said proficient provisions that tie warranty coverage to the use of particular products or services harm both consumers who pay more for them as well as the small businesses who offer competing products and services you know like if there's a say a mac store that's not max certified but the people that are yeah they know how to fix them those people should be able to start businesses and fix up these computers yeah i completely agree they're right to repair you know let's not waste as much stuff sounds good to me homebod homepod no i mean like that's dude no i know let's do it i'm down uh this is this is interesting apple hasn't what's the last thing that apple released that was a new product um airpods okay yeah no you got me immediately well that goes out the window um i was thinking like they're they're watched it hasn't done very well their homepod now hasn't done very well but you're right airpods have done great but they're okay they are well headphones the watch game's steamed has everyone knows it's the best smart watch out there i mean it's not safe okay but do people care about yeah exactly do people care about smart watches no no the category is is still yeah pretty niche so here's the story with the home pods um when it was when the pre-orders went out that weekend the the sales of like the pre-orders there for the home pod accounted for 73 of all smart speaker sales that weekend and for the first month i believe it was ten percent of the market basically the market share of homepod relative to other smart speakers like the amazon echo and google home is abysmal and shrinking had a depressing rate if at first it looked like the homepod might be a hit pre-orders were strong in the last week of january it grabbed about a third of the us smart smart speaker market in unit sales but by the time homepod arrived in stores sales were tanking during the first 10 weeks they had 10 of the smart speaker market but three weeks after launch sales slipped to about four percent that it didn't help that they missed the entire holiday season and that when they did ship they were missing two critical uh features that they're gonna have to wait for apple airplay two uh before they have which is gonna be like july or something all that not withstanding uh the end result here is that apple has actually slashed the quantity that they're ordering from their suppliers now from 500 000 units to 200 000 units and the people who are working like anecdotally i guess the yeah employees at apple stores are saying that like yeah we sell like 10 of these a day like they're not really flying off the shelf which is interesting because at quite a few stores 10 a day would be pretty good so i don't know what yeah who said that because if that was at pacific center like in vancouver it's like damn yeah they sell like 10 iphones a day yeah yeah yeah exactly but yeah and like yeah there's a little apple section of the local best pie and like if they sold 10 home hots a day they'd so it really like i don't know if they have 10 customers a day at that apple thing they're stoked so like it depends on the scale um of where you're dealing with but essentially they're not selling very well so there's a rumor here i believe it's just a rumor i mean it's definitely just a rumor i just don't know how how like authoritative that rumor is but yeah people are saying that apple could be considering making a smaller homepod i guess it would be cheaper because i mean it's a pretty competitive market yeah this isn't a bluetooth speaker but bluetooth speakers are totally uh totally commodity by now and the thing with smart speakers is apple's the only one that's not decoupled from their own proprietary device like you can get sonos to have or you will be soon someone else to have google assistant in them yeah you can get someone to have alexa in them there's some devices that have amazon alexa as well as google assistant in them oh i actually didn't know uh sonos is going to be like that soon and i believe there's a company that i think it's called the wand and it's on its way here that does that how cool is that to address alexa and then address i said it to dress her and then address google home like for whatever you want like that's awesome anyway um here's a few reasons why i don't think it's true that apple is making a smaller homepod and maybe i'll be wrong but i don't think it makes very much sense because when you make a speaker that's cheaper like if you think about the echo and the echo dot everything with the google home and the google home mini the thing that makes it cheaper and smaller is that they've compromised on sound quality like the google home mini doesn't have the speakers that the bigger one does but with the homepod that's the only thing that the homepod does well is the sound quality so if they got rid of the sound quality all you'd have left is all the reasons why homepod isn't doing well you'd have a crappy assistant that doesn't do that much stuff yeah so why would you buy that you wouldn't so it doesn't make any sense i i think if they are doing that uh i think it would speak to the like post steve jobs apple and like i don't know if they are doing that and if they're not i think that would make more sense so i'm not saying this is necessarily what's happening but old apple with steve jobs not old old apple without him or older apple with him i mean like the the like third one uh not the fourth one that we're currently in um they would have demanded no this is the right way to do it if they make something they would have been like no this is what people should have and people will learn that we're right eventually or whatever and everything that they would make would make tons of money and make sense and even if it didn't sell a huge amount the first time they made it they would just make another one which is a linear improvement as well from there i think you can categorize that by arrows and attribute to steve jobs but i think a lot of it is more attributed to just the maturation of the that particular market category and now there's lots of different iphones because the smartphone market is just way more mature in terms of speakers though like their their market strategy now is like we're a hardware company whose principal product the smartphone is under attack at all sides and being commoditized so what we're going to do instead because we can't get more iphone customers is we're just going to get more money from our existing customers through all these kind of uh ancillary products like airpods and the homepod so we're going to make a speaker that's really good and we're going to get another 350 from each of our existing customers that's wicked i don't think they're going to compromise on that i don't think they're going to say you know what instead of getting 350 from our customers we're going to get 150 with this like weak ass homepod yeah because then who's going to get the expensive one it makes a lot more sense to me for them to spend their resources on making the home pod that already exists more attractive why don't they just make it you know focus on the ecosystem focus on the the uh integration with more smart home stuff makes siri better make siri better if you can at this point yeah and that's gonna affect all your other products as well i think focusing on the ecosystem for them is is what they're gonna do it's that's consistent with their strategy that they're using today i think this rumor is bunk i think the first person to make a very personalized assistant is gonna start winning me over pretty fast when it's like actual conversational oh yeah that would when it's scarlet like sup like you mean from is that is that that's heard her yeah yeah okay have you seen uh why him uh why him yeah yeah with that it's a james franco movie no i haven't yeah yeah there's a uh there's a virtual assistant in that movie that's totally totally colloquial like it fights with you and stuff yeah perfect yeah like i i'm careful no seriously though like i i want it to be like you're late wake up yeah yeah then when i'm like no i want to get up and like because it gets used to the fact that i have a hard time waking up so it becomes a little bit more aggressive so it tries to get me up like i i want one that learns who i am i would honestly mostly prefer that it was local and didn't have to call back to outside servers and would just use my own stuff so if someone makes one of those i'll spend exorbitant amounts of money and i'll make that work if it's like good uh but they won't so that's okay um but yeah well that'll happen eventually come on scotty i mean if we're talking like super long term but yeah what do you mean this isn't this is 10 years 10 years until you have a local one that's actually as good as the other ones i'm talking yeah i'm talking like okay conversational will definitely happen yeah and i'm but knowing about you and dealing with you the only data they need for that is data from you so why wouldn't that be local because they want all of it though i got confused for a second but it's because they want all of that data so they can train the rest of their their devices and stuff and so they can take things from it for the most point but yeah because they want that data ooh there's another like just get let's get one more in here okay uh speaking of google basically there's some leaks of where the heck did i put this there's a new gmail coming in the next couple weeks and it has some cool new features yeah someone data mining is profitable basically yeah this looks awesome uh not only does it aesthetically looks kind of cool or more android but it has this new feature of like confidential email so there's like a little lock icon you can hit and when you hit that lock icon your email gets all these new properties such as the recipient can no longer forward that email they can't download it they can't print it obviously they can take a screenshot because you can take a screenshot or even if you somehow block that because of their native os they could just take another thing and take a picture yeah sure sure for sure you'll never get past that um it disables copy and paste and it lets you make it explode so you can make the email itself expire after like a week or a month or a year or multiple years and when that happens so there are other services that have these kind of properties already the notably is protonmail if a proton mail user sends an email or a message to another proton mail user and it's exploding message when it explodes it just disappears from both of our boxes it's like just gone the way it works or is probably gonna work with the new google one is if you're the recipient you're gonna get an email looks like a normal email you're gonna open that email and it's gonna have a link to the confidential email so when it expires i think it's just that link that expires and the email like line item will still be in your inbox when you click that link you're gonna have to enter your google credentials again which is pretty sweet because then if someone stole your laptop and just had access to your email because you left it open they still wouldn't have access to that that confidential email and you can also stipulate that they need to enter like a two-factor thing like a sms when when they get that email too just increases security someone steals your device and figures out your pattern or your code or whatever and can get into it like we were talking earlier like my passwords would still be locked but emails auto login so if all my emails had this thing or all the important ones had this thing uh that would add a lot of security and you can make it so that the expiration date like you're saying it explodes you can make so the expiration date is like multiple years so if it's something that that person's gonna have to go back to it multiple times yeah well you could make it so that the expiration date is like way way down the line uh it also says etc so i could see a potential situation where it just doesn't ever explode but it has all the other security features like you have to go through that link you have to re-log in yeah all that kind of stuff so you can do it you could do it for just high security emails in general which is really cool um it doesn't just have to be stuff that is gonna delete if you're an accountant you could tell your clients like hey send me your your stuff just make it explode in seven years because you i don't need it legally after that time and i don't want to be holding your data in my storage sure yeah i mean it wouldn't be theirs anyway but yeah whatever i think that would be cool it's friday night and speaking of friday night i think that's the end of the show i'm out of zuck juice yeah that means it's over i am too so rip that's it thanks for watching uh check out our sponsors synergy be quiet squarespace which i'm actually supposed to do it this way so we're gonna have the intro now but you can still hear me i think the set might look different next week uh but i'm not gonna tell you why or how or when or if so you can figure that out on your own uh yeah we're actually going setlist we're gonna be a setlist paperless office oh my god we're gonna be a vr channel only and meet us in vr thank you squirrel oh man it's not working there we go thank you squarespace thank you synergy and thank you be quiet we'll see you guys next week bye oh wait we didn't do the thing we got to do the thing oh yeah hold on wait wait hold on hold on oh goodbyeokay here we go we are live this is uh between two ferns uh the lioness tech tips edition i have laser james with me here today and we're gonna talk about a whole bunch of different privacy news including the whole facebook thing with mark the zuck zuckerberg um amd navi gpu being potentially amazing or not nothing to do with privacy no and other non-privacy news yes there could be a new successor to the chromecast and competitor to amazon firestick i'm actually stoked on this oh stoked okay um and and mostly other privacy stuff but also the ftc says warranty void stickers like warranty voided for move stickers are bs which is awesome that makes me really happy but stay tuned to see that and more on the wan show that is actually going to have an intro today we're doing the intro oh no it wasn't ready colton oh spoiler alert so the answer that question was no and we're dead okay be quiet which you already saw i think synergy 2 and squarespace awesome you're going to put subscribe to the channel it works next time and go like that there we go welcome to the wine show you might be able to tell we've had a little bit of change of scenery we're actually in pretty close to the same area but i can't tell you why things have obviously changed or for how long or if they'll go back or when they'll go back or any of that detail so speculate as you will that's i think that's i think all i can do so good buddy let's go i've been good you've been away i haven't seen you and like i have been mostly awake i was like i'm gonna be in office way more from now on i made it in one day this week it was great wait you were in the city like in the country all week yeah you've been back from pax like that whole time yeah oh oh yeah i thought i was like yeah he's back from packs cool like what happened tell us about it no i i got back on sunday pax was good um i did there was really not a lot of hardware stuff there we used to so like back when i first started working here um i asked lions my first time off request ever was to go to pax okay and i was like just assume that i'm gonna ask for this time off for the rest of my career working with you um and then immediately the next year he was like you're gonna work it just at pax and i was like okay well that sounds like a pretty okay compromise so i started making videos at pax about computer hardware now in retrospect good compromise it was it was it was interesting it was a fun thing to do um i really like pax so i've been to like 15 of them so working some of those was probably okay but there used to be an abundance of new interesting stuff at pounds usually peripherals we get a lot of keyboards we get a lot of mice get a lot of headsets that kind of stuff but we'd sometimes get cases and a few other things there's there was never like a graphics card or something but there was always a lot of technology videos to make sure that slowly started dwindling over the years the amount of potential technology videos that pax slowly started reducing constantly over time but here's my question yes so do you prefer to go as luke or as luke from linus media group i i can't not go as luke from linux media now yeah i guess but like on your third or fourth time there when maybe people didn't know you were luke from linus media group as well okay so you were working there but you weren't like super famous so the that would be yeah there was like one year in that gap um and that that was pretty good it was funny because my dad always does this so okay a little bit of backstory when i go to pax i was born for facts back in the old days i was conceived at the corsair booth my dad's been to a millionaires yeah i know so my my dad brought me pax as a like uh as a birthday present and he brought myself my best friend and so we went from when i was like really young uh and the first year that any amount of people knew me at all which was a very very small amount of people because i think i had been in one wayne show that's it oh wow by the time i went to this packs um that year my dad would like look around for anyone that stared at me for too long and then would go like get them and get them to come over uh so yeah that was pretty cool but yeah no it's i still i really like meeting people um i think the reason why i would have probably preferred the old one was because i liked pax more back in the day but that's not actually that doesn't have anything to do with yeah well that was my question ultimately was now that there's fewer videos to make do you get to enjoy the show more and it's kind of like the best of all worlds i would have if there was more stuff to check out the show overall is just it's much bigger now and when you become much bigger in terms of those types of shows it usually becomes a little bit more corporate a little bit more stale there's more rules now like back in the day a booth would have like a giveaway and everyone would swarm it and they'd like throw stuff out and it was crazy no you're not allowed throwing things because probably someone got hurt which has to ruin the fun and everything um and like i don't know it just it became bigger became more corporate it's not as like niche and nerdy anymore um it's still really cool it's a great event i love going i hope ltx never suffers from that remember how much stuff we threw last year we exactly almost got murked it was like serious it was serious like looking at the size of your eyes biting your finger like that like that was actually too bad that was too far again yeah the case toss yeah we we are in closing at this time that's and that's what i was actually going to say not to promote ltx too much i don't even think we're supposed to on this show but i'm doing it anyways it was amazing the first year we had it was so much fun and i think there were some definite problems like the main stage was kind of under produced and there was a couple others the sound was a big issue the music was an issue linus wore a took and that really bothered me personally i love that that's like you're like the main stage is an issue the sound is big issue linus wore clothing that i didn't appreciate i mostly saw him when he was on stage and every time he came out and he had a touch on i was like who's this like uh opening hip-hop act like who's this guy and then it was latinus and i was like what a chook isn't part of your like he's like never worn not part of your uniform yeah i hear ya i hear you um yeah i don't know i'm really excited for the next one it's gonna be bigger we're gonna have more booths the main stages will be better i'm not gonna let them the enclosed uh case off is gonna be sweet because you can do bank shots and try to damage it more by getting some kind of angle that's not gonna be my strategy okay you know you're gonna try to go off the sidewall or the roof i don't know hi or like roof sidewall ground you don't even have to i guess it's a distance challenge not a damaging challenge because if it was just trying to break the case you could just go completely laterally ready break the whole booth in half like yes i'm sure there'll be some kind of troll shots like that yeah probably anyways we should probably talk about actual news um i think we already introduced a bunch of topics but we can start with probably uh the most yeah expected topic of the week uh is that we learned this week that zuckerberg drinks water like this he's been working on this it's actually pretty good at this point yeah yeah then you gotta do the smile meter thing i can't do it i can't do that smoothly his smile is so granular the steps are tiny it's so good okay so i'm going to let me hold on i got to be linus here for a second which i'm not used to there we go uh facebook users aren't changing their privacy settings despite uproar so this has been a pretty interesting wait a second who posted that in the forum uh shorty 88 junior good job always forget we do thank you very much i appreciate it um yeah so people aren't really leaving people aren't changing their privacy settings apparently people aren't even changing what type of things they share with the platform so there's this like giant uproar well actually i think it kind of speaks to the whole issue because if you watch any of the congress uh i don't even know what you call that the inspection of zuckerberg a lot of it was like um he keeps defaulting to be like okay we do tell them everything our terms of service is all here nobody reads it it's garbage we know that nobody reads it so we also have these these little um dialog boxes that are the top your news feed that tell you like hey in plain english you can share this with the world or not they do all these things to make it transparent what they're doing it's just no one cares though no one cares i like by and large no one cares so i think a surprisingly low amount of people actually care about their privacy there is like and i bet you a a abnormally high percentage of the audience here and i think an abnormally high percentage of tech people in general because uh i think those people actually understand better what's happening when they're putting their privacy out there um i i think the average person sees it as like oh some mega corporation knows that i like uh thong sandals yeah they've got nothing to hide maybe they'll sell me a few thong sandals and they don't understand that like it's going further than that and your data is being picked apart further than that and facebook is selling it to people that you don't necessarily know well they don't sell the data well it gets given away improperly yeah well it still does yeah it really did before yeah so i don't know and like the fact that uh a myriad of platforms get hacked every single year and people's data gets pulled out of that not saying that happened to facebook but it happens to a huge amount of people you can check out uh i think it's have i been pwned.com yeah yeah that's not specifically facebook data no i'm i'm saying i'm talking about privacy in general yeah i actually said specifically i don't think it's happened to facebook like at all correct um but there has been huge companies that have had leaks like that and and those leaks could could make your facebook vulnerable if you're using the same password across lots of sites so what normally happens is like linkedin got hacked so the dark webs has your password for linkedin that gets bought by someone else who takes that password and tries it in a bunch of other sites like your email your bank facebook and if you're the type of person that has the same password everything you might be compromised on lots of sites that never actually got hacked themselves yeah um it's it's and like what i was more getting to is just the idea that people don't understand how their data can spread um and like not just on facebook i mean in terms of using the internet as a whole non-tech people don't necessarily understand how like putting their data in some place or putting their credit card information in some place can result in it getting to other places um but it kind of leads into the regulation discussion here because there's there's yes there's a lot of talk uh about regulating facebook and there's kind of three different ways that that could go the first is what facebook would probably like which is just to self-regulate and that seems more and more basically everybody wants it seems more and more that it's like maybe less likely to me anyway because like to happen yeah okay yeah yeah because there's this awesome article that's been written by zainab what's her last name she's that security researcher i'm really bad with especially last names so she's awesome she wrote this uh kind of article that blew up about like 14 years of facebook's apology tour since the beginning like a lot of people gave uh props to zuckerberg for kind of taking ownership of what has happened at facebook and apologizing for it not like deflecting or saying mistakes were made but the same time he's been doing that for like a decade and a half so at some point it's like stop stop letting him screw up so much yeah so option one facebook self regulates option two they regulate the entire industry that would be really stifling to innovation yeah really if you've ever worked at a company that was undergoing some kind of like um you know we're going to implement compliance for hipaa which is like a a health healthcare security thing that stuff is intense and drains company resources more than you could ever imagine unless you've actually gone through it yourself it's crazy and there's a ton of ton like that so if there was something like that for the social media industry you can basically guarantee yourself that there would be no new upstarts like that's hard enough to to make a new social network is hard enough given that network effects are such an important part of it like you need to have a bunch of users before it's useful to people if you're going to have this other layer of compliance you're basically solidifying facebook's position and all incumbents positions so that's yeah i don't i don't think you're guaranteeing that there will be no challenges um but i haven't seen even without this i haven't seen very many successful challenges to facebook at all anyways google plus completely failed um and anyone that really tries just gets bought and consumed anyways well that's what was funny when that one senator was like who's your biggest competitor it's like you don't understand network economies because but by virtue of way they the way they work there are no competitors it's like it's a win winner take all such a situation where like everyone's on this platform therefore everyone's using this platform you can't split them there could never be half people here in half there yeah with com completely overlapping functions it doesn't work that way option three for regulation would be um if facebook itself just has a like dedicated third party or agency that only regulates facebook like some kind of steward of the data um to me that's like the most likely situation but this one too enshrines facebook's current market position because if it's the case that facebook has so much data about you and they regulate such that that data can never leave facebook then no one else has no upstarts have access to that data in the way that um the developers on the facebook platform did in the past and that's how cambridge analytica came to get the big data that leaked anyway so if no one has access to that then they're just sitting on this gold mine of data that no one can compete with so you're kind of in a pickle any either way so i'm going to make a straw poll here which is how should facebook be regulated or not um you need four bro yeah it it self expands oh oh oh watch this dude it self regulates wait oh oh i think i have to fill this one out maybe and then hit enter uh not regulated self-regulated third there we go nice congratulations but like dedicated like they only regulate facebook uh i can't type on this keyboard for some reason probably because it's way over there it's just a really weird one you know like it's this qwerty layout i don't know i'm used to divorce i know it's been around since the 1870s but whatever okay so we have not regulated self-regulated third-party regulations specifically for facebook and government-wide spanning regulations are going to put a troll on sir no donkey balls donkey come on nope last week it was donkey balls we've been regulated internally self-regulated okay so check that straw pull out hit us with the feedback i want to see what you guys think um i kind of have my own opinion but ooh do you have a while we wait for that let's fantasize about some kind of future epic uh social network startup that's all blockchain based where every individual's data is completely owned by them is on a blockchain so that the entire internet is modular so that you can switch from one social network to another and bring your data with you and release to each social network exactly what you want that would be the most beneficial to new innovation because you could start up your own social network and people could come to it and be like here's all the data and here's all the connections here's all the people i know and suddenly you'd have like this really thick market and strong network effects right away someone said it's called steemit wow i don't like that platform but i is that how that actually works i know that platform is blockchain based but is it like what you're describing i don't think so i have no idea but what i have heard is that all the current social like blockchain-based social media projects are junk yeah i heard it on a podcast i don't actually know i haven't tried it myself pied piper i wouldn't put steam in my title sounds like steaming pile you know it's like it's like s-t-e-e-m-i-t or something like that i don't remember exactly how it works um i'm going to check in on this straw poll actually let's see okay wow okay not a meaningful split at all really oh donkey second place oh okay that plays into what we were saying earlier where it's like honestly most people don't really care um or even in our car but they just don't know well that's fair i should have had a like i don't know and then i don't care that should have been that's donkey i guess the two together but yeah that's the problem is that they're both together so right now oh right i'm not on the screen right now we're looking at 25 for third party regulations specifically for facebook i'm kind of surprised by that um do tell i'm just kind of surprised by that because in that situation you're putting a weight on facebook which i don't think anyone's going to care about but you're putting a weight on facebook so that opens the door to more other platforms but then those other platforms are probably going to have the same problem and then do you at that point once they're big yeah take the regulations specifically for facebook and then push it on them or like so do you just let people run rampant with other people's data at the beginning and then go like you shouldn't have done that but we didn't tell you not to so it's okay but now you have to stop yeah it kind of sounds like you need to have a hybrid approach where there are certain ground rules for everybody to begin with but there already is existing laws plus you also have to consider uh users choices right not like because this is happening let's just there's a societal shift where people are prioritizing and caring more about this kind of thing right so if a new upstart comes knocking on your door asking you to become a user you're more likely to ask like well what kind of data like what are you guys doing what do you want from me yeah so in that climate then like maybe a light touch regulation is enough i don't know and then uh people the the next highest category that wasn't donkey was government-wide spanning regulation which i'm not super surprised was up there not regulated i'm honestly pretty surprised that that even got 13 percent um but then i guess there are well those are the people who know how to set the permissions the way they actually want they're just like it's going fine just read the tos yeah people who are going to actually like manage it properly themselves um which unfortunately isn't everybody which is i guess the problem i have with it because like my mom is not going to understand what to do hi mom what she's listening she's probably watching but like i'm not saying that she's sitting there nodding she's like yeah yeah like it's it's my mom's actually surprisingly good with some things but she can also somehow manage to send emails with her text messaging program without any of us being able to figure out how for like months at a time um like it's it's there's there's people that have a special touch with technology and there's people that when they use it it falls apart magically um and like as far as i can tell it has nothing to do with being her fault but anyways i love you um but like i don't know there's people that are super in the know in a platform and there's people that aren't and it varies i took my socks off right before the show but now i want them back on why my feet got cold oh my goodness you're having cold feet about this regulation platform idea yeah changed my mind uh if we could get like four more people to vote for donkey that would be great because then it would be in first place and then we can just be done with this straw poll uh but i think we're probably done with this topic in general meanwhile amd nabi gpus yeah rumor mill time let's uh let's get away from don't come through this way go away please thank you uh let's jump down to amd navi navi is the next generation of architecture from amd gpus and it is a seven nanometer architecture and the rumor these days is that it's not gonna it's not gonna be the source of the next wave of enthusiast cards it's not going to be the next vega in fact it's going to be a what they call the mainstream uh lineup which or mainstream tier which right now is the rx 580s those guys also thank you ryujin 2013 on the forums yeah so what they're saying is that when these cards launch in 2019 they're gonna have a comparable performance to a gtx 1080 which came out in the end of may basically june 2016 but it'll cost about 250 bucks which is nice well because buying a 1080 right now is more than that msrp 250 bucks who knows what it'll actually cost fair mining stuff is going down a lot because bitcoin's super down right now well it's going up in the last day or two oh has it yes oh no it's coming back again yes it's back baby back again oh dear da nana and then with new cards that are high performance for lower dollar value it might become more profitable so we'll see but yeah msrp has not been a realistic thing for actually quite a long time um especially on the amd side we've seen accidental artificial whatever uh uh spawned from bitcoin inflation whatever you want on gpus for quite a long time even well before it was identified as being a bitcoin mining problem uh we had inflation and graphics card prices all the way from back to the launch of these cards which was well before mining bitcoin was like super trendy well the gtx yes yeah okay yeah i thought when i first read that and i i read that they were aiming navi at at this particular market segment i thought are they doing that like to satisfy shareholders is it just more cost effective and they're gonna it's a bigger addressable market because stop it max you're doing that thing you said you're gonna just get out of here all right there's just more people who have the money to buy a cheaper but like still good like well 250 is a really nice price point for a graphics card around 300 bucks is fairly reasonable for a quite a large amount of people for a graphics card yeah 250 bucks is pretty good still if if you can like pcs aren't going to get here realistically but if like at least not in the short term but 300 bucks in like 2013 was like the golden i remember there was articles about it all over the place where like 300 for a relatively high ticket item was really good for consumers because a lot of people could gather that much money in a reasonable amount of saving time this should be uh comparatively cheaper than because with inflation and everything with inflation and it's 250 yeah uh but it isn't the full component for a computer but it's a nice upgrade it goes all over so it's a sound business it's a good product if they're just doing this strategically that would make sense but then i learned that actually history is repeating itself here because this is a new what they call manufacturing node this is a seven nanometer uh part the lithography that is they can't get the yields on all their wafers uh at a at a rate or a quantity that makes a lot of sense economically for them so that was really convoluted let me just say what i actually have written down from a manufacturing point of view it is not feasible to produce a large gpu like a 1080 like a big one or a vega on a brand new cutting-edge process like seven nanometer early in the nodes life cycle because it's just a new technology and they haven't ironed out all the manufacturing kinks yet so once they do it's conceivable that in the future maybe in 2021 that they could use the seven nanometer lithography to make bigger cards yeah makes sense the more you know hooray it's it's i don't know this is good uh for a lot of reasons amd needs to keep doing well they're doing quite well right now uh one interesting observation that i had at pax we were talking about pax earlier on in the show intel did not have a booth there that was weird intel's had a booth at pax like every pax as far as i know for the last five or six years uh and video wasn't there that's not super surprising they used to be at every pax then they started dwindling off but okay no intel no nvidia asus booth was much smaller than normal amd had a fairly big booth that was poppin the whole event it was full there was queues for all the different stuff they had they had vr setups but there was vr setups multiple other places on the show that didn't have a line but the line at amd was full all the time it was an interesting experience to see that the community has kind of opened up to amd as a whole if you look back into like 2014 they were actually the very much so underdog that like the underground people were like yeah i'm gonna buy one of these even though like you know maybe it doesn't make a ton of sense i'm gonna get it anywhere my money is just a donation name yeah basically but now it's actually a lot more logical to go for their stuff which is really cool and it's it's really cool to see them coming back um it was a pretty awesome moment to see their booth packed at pax yeah because even at pax west which was i guess in the very beginning of september 2017 um the amd booth was not that packed so you're saying now that this hasn't even been that long now that there's no competition their booth is popping well it helped i guess um and like they did a much better job with their booth which in a way kind of sort of not really but kind of indirectly maybe there's a lot of caveats there i keep drinking water not like zuckerberg he's gonna work continue um oh he's got it he's got it sorry i'll ignore it i don't know um it it kind of shows success in the company they have the money to flaunt at an event spending way too much money on a ridiculously small roi of having a booth as a shareholder that angers me yeah yeah that makes sense it's if you look at the roi of a booth you're actually not showing to that many people and it costs a ludicrous amount of money you're probably gonna end up giving a whole bunch of product away uh you're probably gonna have to pay a bunch of staff like it's a really expensive thing to do but it's it's to cater to your super fans and the the roi is hard to describe but it it reaches um and then it is branding's huge in this space and you're you're making yourself a constant part of the conversation and you're trying to spread that roi beyond just that event that's kind of the idea so i don't know it was really interesting to see that i'm very happy about amd's fairly recent success and i hope they keep going and i hope this is part of it because if you can get 1080 performance off a 250 card that breaches people into a way higher level of gaming yeah but this is three years after the fact though like a year from now you're gonna have a 1080 yeah which is like and we'll have to see like if mining does crash super hard and people start selling mining cards for dirt cheap then it might not matter because you might be able to get 1080s for around that price anyways they would just might be kind of sketchy um but you're just the most tired car yeah or you might just got some games in me you turn your computer off it just falls apart because it's like i've been running for so long the dust was holding me together um or you might get 1080 tis for that price or whatever else right who knows but if mining does stay up there and the price of this does inflate that might still even be helpful who knows she's just trolling you man she's trolling me there's a door that's open here for people who don't know yeah max's loitering we like have to have the contact because if i go to close the door oh i can't there's a sandbag in the way but if i go to close the door it will it will block the camera well not entirely actually you just have to look through like a fire rated window i would like to end the show that way actually by closing the door yeah i'll crawl under there remove the sound back okay okay i'm down wait wait till the end of the show that's going to be your easter egg it's going to happen yeah so anyways there's a weird a bunch of documentation showed up this is the next topic okay a bunch of documentation showed up uh uh at a random i mean to to our ears rise anyway people who aren't in the know of these things a random seeming manufacturer in china has the documentation that describes like specs out this new mysterious google branded dongle which is like a 4k android tv dongle as you can see yeah and some people might think this is boring because they're like yeah okay it's a roku or it's an amazon yeah i was wondering why you care so i'll tell you why i care so much i have a chromecast at home okay and i also have a google home okay those things work together they're attached to my tv which is a smart tv the smart tv has a remote and i use that remote and that smart tv to use apps like youtube a lot the problem is that google home and casting by voice is incompatible with my remote when i cast if i'm like google play the latest linus tech tips video on the tv and it plays it i can't then grab my remote and hit next video and start scrolling around and stuff like that because my smart tvs youtube app is a different app than the app that gets used when i cast things by voice i basically have two youtube apps on my tv with this you're going to be able to do that just like when you have a amazon fire tv stick they actually the microphone the excuse me the remote is a microphone you can talk into it this remote is the same deal it has a dedicated google assistant button on it so this is the remote he's talking about by the way and presumably i'm going to be able to say googstar play this video on i don't want to hotword people i know i was going to say you guys got to appreciate that he didn't include the first word yes when he he's paying attention play the latest video i'll be able to watch that video and then i'll be able to just use my remote and then back and forth and that is gonna be sick that's huge for me hey google play the hipster song with the whistling i had to i'm sorry continue hey you don't want to leave those alexa play the hipster song with the whistling people out is that going to work though because i think that's a fairly specific keyword for google play no that that or sorry the key phrase oh the hipster song with the whistling because they put that in an ad and i tried a whole bunch of other descriptions for songs that i thought were pretty good it didn't work at all oh did you try the one the russian guy that goes does that work yes we've done it even on land show before oh that's awesome yeah yeah okay it's awesome okay sweet that's cool i'm surprised that works actually that's a great song you know the song i'm talking about it's called like seventh element by vedas get out i think that's that was my choose that's what i wanted so people in chat are saying that it's like basically a shield tv but in a small compact dongle but i think it does a little bit less and plus the price point those things are over 200 bucks oh yeah so this is probably gonna be way cheaper the shield will also be able to like cast games to your tv which is like you're you're you're in a little bit different of a of a range there the shield also has a voice controllable remote and the easiest way to think about it is going to be there are already android tv boxes it's just going to be that with google assistant integration and voice remote people in chat i'm guessing that the price point will be like what 120 130 bucks is that how much a fire tv stick is let me search the american internets yeah where these things exist oh my god while you do that fire truck no they know it from last tech tips what did you guys think about the fire pole video good god it's thirty dollars fire tv stick with alexa voice from 30 bucks that's really cheap even the 4k one is only 50. a 4k chromecast is like 70 usd isn't it i don't know hold on let me google some more do it do it you can get a chromecast on amazon now can't you wasn't that the whole thing that they argued about before can you do it now though because i know they're arguing about it but i don't know if it's like already an option oh that got pretty settled it auto filled i don't see it i see a shield they sell nvidia shields for 200. it comes with a gamepad though yeah because you can play android games on it some of them i guess yeah i'm totally going to sell my chromecast and get one of these donald if it comes out they're probably going to announce it at i o i o is in a month it's in may google i o it's going to be sweet can you work on this heck yeah yeah okay i thought so so while you're looking that up i'm gonna do a little float plane moment 70 bucks i was right i have to 70 okay okay so it is a little bit more expensive uh floatplane has awesome stuff on it kyle from bitwit currently has cool cooler is cool what happens if we if we remove the fans it's a be quiet cooler that should be a pretty interesting video also he has a 32x9 gaming setup that he wants to show off in a different video linus tech tips has a wearable coast house a merged keyboard and mouse it is a cause i like it that was by accident but i'm kind of down with it uh it's so can you tell me a tiny amount but what this thing actually is so it's these rings that you wear on your fingers yeah if you lay your hand on a table okay it's a mouse if you don't and you just put your wrist on the edge of a table and you tap on a table it's a keyboard and it can know based on like if you stretch your finger or whatever it's not uh spatial it's not like a is over here and p is over here okay you actually have to learn a bunch of gestures like it's his own language like that's a that's n oh that's r yeah okay i learned it all can you type properly that way i can type how fast uh i can survive like probably dial up like i could describe it as okay okay that's cool though i don't know it's sweet i like it a lot and it's good at what it's doing like it's it doesn't register i'm not gonna give away the video no yeah don't go any further perfect uh there's also uh the continuation of the apple fiasco with the imac pro um buying a video card without getting screwed and some other cool stuff like the history of the motherboard i haven't seen that video i'm going to watch that video because i grew up with these super janky weird motherboard setups and i grew up with like my dad's computer where basically to build the computer you had to have a whole bunch of add-in cards because the motherboard was so bare and it didn't have like like you didn't have onboard nick okay he didn't have on-board lan for ethernet connection so he had to have a nic card in order to have connections i remember when we bought our first uh computer my like i remember being in the shop when we were buying it and it was like for hours and we like bought a sound card yeah like that's just totally integrated didn't have audio on board probably yeah so like that i'm 100 certain that that is going to be a sick video so be sure to check that out check out floatplane you can go to floatplane.com and sign up there or you can do it through the forum but we are moving over to floatplane.com and honestly the payment system on floatplane.com works way better so if you want to have less issues i would probably go there um but it only supports credit card right now we will be supporting uh paypal in the future but cryptocurrencies kitties yeah well you can get a year of flow plane for a single crypto kitty what is a cryptokitty what you don't know what cryptokitties is it's nothing worth describing it's like come and gone this is like a four month old is it like a meme it's like a it's like a ethereum based game where you trade digital kitties you just zuckerberg are you telling me to zuck off uh i just there we go i think we've completed our ritual we didn't get to watch that but i think we were in sync i think so yeah i noticed when mine was like going down that yours was going down at the same time and stuff and i was like i saw it in the corner you were doing that smile yeah yeah oh you did the smile meter thing yeah it was later there okay so as long as we did do we just become best friends okay that movie was amazing i just have to say that uh let's get back on topic though actually no let's do ad spots we might as well synergy yes yes correct synergy two synergy is a mouse and keyboard sharing software so you can have multiple computers even multiple different types of computers like a laptop and a desktop and you could have like linux on one of them and windows or mac or whatever and you could share your mouse and keyboard across all of them it doesn't even matter which mouse and keyboard you use you can even use a cause yeah yes i want to make that a thing um and now with synergy one you had to have like one of the computers set up as a server and i think that was the one that had to 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typo at first like i was like oh it appears more than once oh you didn't account for people saying this out loud but okay um web often has won near final approval from the world wide web consortium which is the governing body for these kinds of standards so what this is is on your phone you're unlocking your phone with face id or with your fingerprint all the time right but you don't do that when you go to facebook.com or basically any other website all recipes for them you enter in just a password um setting up a face a biometric um a password on all different websites would take a long time you'd have to not only would they have to implement that that technology but then you'd have to like do your all those different finger taps on every different finger for every website and that'd be really annoying so what this is is it's an api an application programming interface that all the different websites will will hook into and then you only have to set up your biometric passwords once and then the whole web can rely on them which is going to be be a name yes so for hackers all you really need to do is break one system yeah and then you get all of them yes sick i might be wrong but this is how i think it works because the i had to do some some digging beyond uh just what was found on the forum the forum post by the way was posted by matthew valencia thank you very much thank you matt you sound italian what valencia that's spanish sounding to me i'm really bad at that so you're probably totally right it could be really hard it could be either uh yeah i don't know it sounds like it could be cool it sounds like it could be a single point of failure it just depends on i guess how they exactly implement it you can require something like a yubikey which i think is actually pretty cool so if they if they add power to the user in terms of like oh i'm okay with fairly weak authentication and you want to go that route that's fine i don't care if someone doesn't really care about their accounts that's okay if you have one password for everything and you think that's okay that's fine um as long as it's in your control to amplify that and have more security if you want to go to like having two factors still like a yubikey and something else that could be pretty cool um well you kind of already have a single point of failure like if someone were to get my phone which they would unlock with fingerprint or if they were to get my laptop and unlock with a password then i have all those autocompletes set up so they kind of have everything anyway see but then that's that's uh an in your control thing yes mine doesn't if someone got my phone yeah yeah they have access to not very much i would have access to my email which is pretty bad um and i guess they would have but they they don't have access to like my password trove and nothing autocompletes but they would have my email so they could probably reset most things um but like yeah i don't know but even if even if you're the kind of person who like doesn't care about things um wouldn't those like how are they gonna get a hold of your of your biometric information isn't that just hashed isn't it totally yeah but okay so the there's there's different types of of hacking so you could find a vulnerability in the system that no longer requires you to use those sure yeah okay right there's like things yeah it's and and someone will probably find one of those okay uh whether it ends up on zero day and gets solved or whether it gets sold or what happens with it who knows and having one central system if it's open source uh and you have a whole bunch of huge companies working on making sure that it stays secure could be really awesome and could like really lock things down um one thing that's awesome about this is if you're not even that savvy or serious about your privacy um you're more protected with this because you can't be phished with this because your password is like a secret that you know and just because no one else knows it doesn't mean that they can't get it just by asking you what it is which is what phishing is my wife actually got an sms recently that was like your your telco has given you a refund or your isp is giving you a refund of 114.61 click through you click through and it's got tiles for each of the common banks in canada totally branded looks totally professional looks awesome and you just you click on that and it's like you enter your banking credentials and then boom they have everything if she didn't explicitly know like uh this isp never texts me they never text me and they have no reason to give me a refund but like how tempting is that like oh free money free money yeah anything's possible sms people get fished all the time so you can't get fish with this you still totally could because if it would just be done in a different way because you would have to have it capture your authentication i guess so because you're saying this is a general api for everyone right so they would be so you would go to the phishing site and it would be like scan your fingerprint and you'd be like click when you have to when you get like it on android or ios when you get a a permission prompt that was like share your fingerprint with this website and you'd be like that's weird i already did that and then even if you did say yes to that they'd scan your fingerprint it would just be once which may not be enough to like totally get super dangerous may not be enough i don't know it still might work its potential you could also algorithm it out to like angle it slightly to try to make it slightly different um and honestly i would honestly think most people would go like oh yeah go away to any prompt that's like do you want to share this with the website could be um it's it's still possible there's there's phishing attempts that succeed that are super garbage all the time uh and there's actually some people who intentionally make things like fishing uh attempts that are really bad because they don't want to get savvy people ah so they actually weed out savvy people by making it fairly obviously fake so if someone does fall for it they can probably get way more from them that's because they're really gullible yeah there's there's oh that's amazing the the world of of people trying to benefit off of other people uh is vast and well-educated that actually is a pretty good segue into another thing that happened which is this ransomware that asks yeah pubg get this ransomware it's like your data is encrypted the only way to get it back is to play this video game like we're not affiliated just play it because it's awesome or if you don't want to do that just enter the password that's actually written right here on the screen so it's just like just like a joke i don't know maybe someone just wanted to play it maybe it's a viral marketing campaign it's obviously like bad and stuff viral it's a viral it's a virus i like that i didn't pick up on that right away first um it's it's obviously like bad and stuff but i think it's hilarious i i think this is very funny um just play pub g for one hour and apparently you don't even have to if you just launch the game at all it just that's what happens yeah when you launch when you launch it and the or restore code is and you can just type that in i think it's i think it's funny um it's it's i mean i'm not condoning it it's not a good thing all that kind of stuff but i just i think it's hilarious i was like kind of hoping it was going to happen to me just because i'd be like well i guess i gotta play pubg right honey luke it's date night ignore that code i have to say that i have to save the pictures although all the family pictures are all super important yes family pictures my family videos my family vr videos yes of course so apparently warranty sticker stickers that say if you remove the sticker you're going to your buoyancy is ward you know what i'm talking about this was posted by steve uh grabowski on the forum and the previous topic was posted by no one hey grabowski thanks for the topic yes warranty void if removed that sticker apparently is and illegal so the ftc is cracking down they've sent letters to six major companies they haven't said who these companies are but they're rigged yeah and they're in the sectors of their car manufacturers of cars they are did i even write it down video yeah here we go automobiles cellular devices and video game systems uh makers like i'm pretty sure they're big companies like so yeah yeah so they've sent warning letters to these companies writing that statements that consumers must use specified parts or service providers to keep their warranties is actually illegal and it has been since 1975. and we've kind of always sort of known this to be completely honest okay okay um but it's been so ah okay maybe i shouldn't say we have but like a lot of people have been on this side and kind of known this for a long time but that being said because there hasn't been a big public statement that's super easy to point out like this there's you can point at like really old laws and whatever but most companies just act on the idea that it that it is enforceable so we'll make it a nightmare to actually get your stuff repaired to the point where it's not worth it uh i think even if even if the case was that like you know i'm gonna take the sticker off and there's nothing the company can do and they're gonna have to uh honor the warranty anyway just the fact that they have a sticker on there and are deterring a large part of the population even that is getting cracked down on right which is good because that sticker like you're right deters a huge percentage of population basically almost everyone and then uh even if it doesn't like i love breaking those stickers uh if i did want a warranty repair for something that i broke the sticker on uh it would be a nightmare and probably not worth my time and it would probably never end up happening and to get it fixed i'd probably have to take them to court which is not going to be worth it so this being enacted is awesome i love it it's great this is good one quote that i like here is from thomas b paul acting director of the ftt ftc's bureau of consumer protection he said proficient provisions that tie warranty coverage to the use of particular products or services harm both consumers who pay more for them as well as the small businesses who offer competing products and services you know like if there's a say a mac store that's not max certified but the people that are yeah they know how to fix them those people should be able to start businesses and fix up these computers yeah i completely agree they're right to repair you know let's not waste as much stuff sounds good to me homebod homepod no i mean like that's dude no i know let's do it i'm down uh this is this is interesting apple hasn't what's the last thing that apple released that was a new product um airpods okay yeah no you got me immediately well that goes out the window um i was thinking like they're they're watched it hasn't done very well their homepod now hasn't done very well but you're right airpods have done great but they're okay they are well headphones the watch game's steamed has everyone knows it's the best smart watch out there i mean it's not safe okay but do people care about yeah exactly do people care about smart watches no no the category is is still yeah pretty niche so here's the story with the home pods um when it was when the pre-orders went out that weekend the the sales of like the pre-orders there for the home pod accounted for 73 of all smart speaker sales that weekend and for the first month i believe it was ten percent of the market basically the market share of homepod relative to other smart speakers like the amazon echo and google home is abysmal and shrinking had a depressing rate if at first it looked like the homepod might be a hit pre-orders were strong in the last week of january it grabbed about a third of the us smart smart speaker market in unit sales but by the time homepod arrived in stores sales were tanking during the first 10 weeks they had 10 of the smart speaker market but three weeks after launch sales slipped to about four percent that it didn't help that they missed the entire holiday season and that when they did ship they were missing two critical uh features that they're gonna have to wait for apple airplay two uh before they have which is gonna be like july or something all that not withstanding uh the end result here is that apple has actually slashed the quantity that they're ordering from their suppliers now from 500 000 units to 200 000 units and the people who are working like anecdotally i guess the yeah employees at apple stores are saying that like yeah we sell like 10 of these a day like they're not really flying off the shelf which is interesting because at quite a few stores 10 a day would be pretty good so i don't know what yeah who said that because if that was at pacific center like in vancouver it's like damn yeah they sell like 10 iphones a day yeah yeah yeah exactly but yeah and like yeah there's a little apple section of the local best pie and like if they sold 10 home hots a day they'd so it really like i don't know if they have 10 customers a day at that apple thing they're stoked so like it depends on the scale um of where you're dealing with but essentially they're not selling very well so there's a rumor here i believe it's just a rumor i mean it's definitely just a rumor i just don't know how how like authoritative that rumor is but yeah people are saying that apple could be considering making a smaller homepod i guess it would be cheaper because i mean it's a pretty competitive market yeah this isn't a bluetooth speaker but bluetooth speakers are totally uh totally commodity by now and the thing with smart speakers is apple's the only one that's not decoupled from their own proprietary device like you can get sonos to have or you will be soon someone else to have google assistant in them yeah you can get someone to have alexa in them there's some devices that have amazon alexa as well as google assistant in them oh i actually didn't know uh sonos is going to be like that soon and i believe there's a company that i think it's called the wand and it's on its way here that does that how cool is that to address alexa and then address i said it to dress her and then address google home like for whatever you want like that's awesome anyway um here's a few reasons why i don't think it's true that apple is making a smaller homepod and maybe i'll be wrong but i don't think it makes very much sense because when you make a speaker that's cheaper like if you think about the echo and the echo dot everything with the google home and the google home mini the thing that makes it cheaper and smaller is that they've compromised on sound quality like the google home mini doesn't have the speakers that the bigger one does but with the homepod that's the only thing that the homepod does well is the sound quality so if they got rid of the sound quality all you'd have left is all the reasons why homepod isn't doing well you'd have a crappy assistant that doesn't do that much stuff yeah so why would you buy that you wouldn't so it doesn't make any sense i i think if they are doing that uh i think it would speak to the like post steve jobs apple and like i don't know if they are doing that and if they're not i think that would make more sense so i'm not saying this is necessarily what's happening but old apple with steve jobs not old old apple without him or older apple with him i mean like the the like third one uh not the fourth one that we're currently in um they would have demanded no this is the right way to do it if they make something they would have been like no this is what people should have and people will learn that we're right eventually or whatever and everything that they would make would make tons of money and make sense and even if it didn't sell a huge amount the first time they made it they would just make another one which is a linear improvement as well from there i think you can categorize that by arrows and attribute to steve jobs but i think a lot of it is more attributed to just the maturation of the that particular market category and now there's lots of different iphones because the smartphone market is just way more mature in terms of speakers though like their their market strategy now is like we're a hardware company whose principal product the smartphone is under attack at all sides and being commoditized so what we're going to do instead because we can't get more iphone customers is we're just going to get more money from our existing customers through all these kind of uh ancillary products like airpods and the homepod so we're going to make a speaker that's really good and we're going to get another 350 from each of our existing customers that's wicked i don't think they're going to compromise on that i don't think they're going to say you know what instead of getting 350 from our customers we're going to get 150 with this like weak ass homepod yeah because then who's going to get the expensive one it makes a lot more sense to me for them to spend their resources on making the home pod that already exists more attractive why don't they just make it you know focus on the ecosystem focus on the the uh integration with more smart home stuff makes siri better make siri better if you can at this point yeah and that's gonna affect all your other products as well i think focusing on the ecosystem for them is is what they're gonna do it's that's consistent with their strategy that they're using today i think this rumor is bunk i think the first person to make a very personalized assistant is gonna start winning me over pretty fast when it's like actual conversational oh yeah that would when it's scarlet like sup like you mean from is that is that that's heard her yeah yeah okay have you seen uh why him uh why him yeah yeah with that it's a james franco movie no i haven't yeah yeah there's a uh there's a virtual assistant in that movie that's totally totally colloquial like it fights with you and stuff yeah perfect yeah like i i'm careful no seriously though like i i want it to be like you're late wake up yeah yeah then when i'm like no i want to get up and like because it gets used to the fact that i have a hard time waking up so it becomes a little bit more aggressive so it tries to get me up like i i want one that learns who i am i would honestly mostly prefer that it was local and didn't have to call back to outside servers and would just use my own stuff so if someone makes one of those i'll spend exorbitant amounts of money and i'll make that work if it's like good uh but they won't so that's okay um but yeah well that'll happen eventually come on scotty i mean if we're talking like super long term but yeah what do you mean this isn't this is 10 years 10 years until you have a local one that's actually as good as the other ones i'm talking yeah i'm talking like okay conversational will definitely happen yeah and i'm but knowing about you and dealing with you the only data they need for that is data from you so why wouldn't that be local because they want all of it though i got confused for a second but it's because they want all of that data so they can train the rest of their their devices and stuff and so they can take things from it for the most point but yeah because they want that data ooh there's another like just get let's get one more in here okay uh speaking of google basically there's some leaks of where the heck did i put this there's a new gmail coming in the next couple weeks and it has some cool new features yeah someone data mining is profitable basically yeah this looks awesome uh not only does it aesthetically looks kind of cool or more android but it has this new feature of like confidential email so there's like a little lock icon you can hit and when you hit that lock icon your email gets all these new properties such as the recipient can no longer forward that email they can't download it they can't print it obviously they can take a screenshot because you can take a screenshot or even if you somehow block that because of their native os they could just take another thing and take a picture yeah sure sure for sure you'll never get past that um it disables copy and paste and it lets you make it explode so you can make the email itself expire after like a week or a month or a year or multiple years and when that happens so there are other services that have these kind of properties already the notably is protonmail if a proton mail user sends an email or a message to another proton mail user and it's exploding message when it explodes it just disappears from both of our boxes it's like just gone the way it works or is probably gonna work with the new google one is if you're the recipient you're gonna get an email looks like a normal email you're gonna open that email and it's gonna have a link to the confidential email so when it expires i think it's just that link that expires and the email like line item will still be in your inbox when you click that link you're gonna have to enter your google credentials again which is pretty sweet because then if someone stole your laptop and just had access to your email because you left it open they still wouldn't have access to that that confidential email and you can also stipulate that they need to enter like a two-factor thing like a sms when when they get that email too just increases security someone steals your device and figures out your pattern or your code or whatever and can get into it like we were talking earlier like my passwords would still be locked but emails auto login so if all my emails had this thing or all the important ones had this thing uh that would add a lot of security and you can make it so that the expiration date like you're saying it explodes you can make so the expiration date is like multiple years so if it's something that that person's gonna have to go back to it multiple times yeah well you could make it so that the expiration date is like way way down the line uh it also says etc so i could see a potential situation where it just doesn't ever explode but it has all the other security features like you have to go through that link you have to re-log in yeah all that kind of stuff so you can do it you could do it for just high security emails in general which is really cool um it doesn't just have to be stuff that is gonna delete if you're an accountant you could tell your clients like hey send me your your stuff just make it explode in seven years because you i don't need it legally after that time and i don't want to be holding your data in my storage sure yeah i mean it wouldn't be theirs anyway but yeah whatever i think that would be cool it's friday night and speaking of friday night i think that's the end of the show i'm out of zuck juice yeah that means it's over i am too so rip that's it thanks for watching uh check out our sponsors synergy be quiet squarespace which i'm actually supposed to do it this way so we're gonna have the intro now but you can still hear me i think the set might look different next week uh but i'm not gonna tell you why or how or when or if so you can figure that out on your own uh yeah we're actually going setlist we're gonna be a setlist paperless office oh my god we're gonna be a vr channel only and meet us in vr thank you squirrel oh man it's not working there we go thank you squarespace thank you synergy and thank you be quiet we'll see you guys next week bye oh wait we didn't do the thing we got to do the thing oh yeah hold on wait wait hold on hold on oh goodbye\n"