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Hey so we just streamed like 20 minutes of a show the best 20 minutes ever it was pretty great actually it was also to the test channel and not to the live channel that's not you it's the opposite of you guys yeah so so we're back hey how's it goin we got a bunch of great news this week we definitely haven't talked about before are already in a different previous version of the show there's something I've never read before and sigh NCIX had a data breach some of the people we actually know in our lives are really affected by this yeah Wow largely even people that work here also Amazon has new hardware including like a microwave and a subwoofer and some weird weird stuff and guess what China Google's back and they want you to search for stuff using their service but this time they're ready to play by the government's rules what will that mean news at 11 also Vulcan one point one point eight five is releasing with ray-tracing and video extensions which is good even if you don't like ray-tracing because that means that maybe there will be more Vulcan in the world which is good for you and your friend live long and roll the intro we've done this already whoa awesome so starting from the top again we've got the NC X data breach I think this is pretty important to talk about so we're just gonna do the whole thing over again this was originally posted by privacy fly comm it's like the I think it's the only article on their site but I could be totally wrong but you'll see it in the description if you want to check it out if you're watching the vaad and it's it's quite it's quite the adventure we're gonna skim over a lot of it but if you're even remotely interested I would recommend checking out the original article and reading it yeah even if you're not if it's the if it would be the first leak or security thing for which you actually read the detailed description yeah it's a treat this would be the first one to do it yeah yeah it's really cool it's like it's like a story it's gripping it is yeah it's it gets really deep into it as you can see it's like really written out what happened here it all starts on Craigslist naturally yeah Travis during hope I'm saying your last name correctly sees two database servers from ncx for sale on Craigslist asks the guy if it still has the original data on it guy takes forever to respond but does eventually respond with yes original data is intact and it just goes from there it's a pretty wild ride hey yeah yeah we were streaming to the test Channel yeah that sucked for like a long time there's apparently new instructions on how to run the LAN show and the instructions were behind everything so yes hi everyone hi NIC is here and he's happy that Luke's here yeah anyways there was a lot of information in this leak this is not a standard leak usually when you hear like Oh website information leaks there will be a set amount of user accounts or all user accounts but it's usually just the username and password that gets leaked which is really bad to be clear but this is like many many many levels beyond that this was all your credit card information all your payment information in general so if you played with PayPal or something else addresses full names passwords all of it unencrypted all of it in Greece's Social Insurance numbers for employees yes for employees there were Social Insurance numbers T fours oh that's right address data like historically over time all the employment information which is usually pretty heavy in terms of like I'm a steal your life bro all of that was was available o pretty-pretty ooof so the story there was that there was a warehouse that ncx had other junk in and but they didn't own the warehouse there were tenants there so when they went bankrupt there their rent was overdue to the tune of a hundred fifty thousand dollars so in order to try to pay for it they just said just keep all the junk that we have in there so then the landlord has all these servers and desktops like hundreds of desktops computers and he's trying to sell them so then this uh this third party this company comes in and says well that stuff's useful to us because of this project were working on so there's this guy named Jeff that works for that company Jeff that's all we really know my name is Jeff and he's brokering the deal so he he brokers the deal and gets to this company what they want but then he doesn't he doesn't stop there one more thing I'm gonna sell this data multiple time some multiple different people some of these people are come from overseas there's one individual who was supposed to come in December to pick up some of the hardware the guy was from trying it like this is yeah crazy yeah there's actually a tweet that just happened earlier today from the RCMP right which is the police in Canada and they said that they seized the hardware now really yeah that was pretty fast not fast enough yeah sold like seven times for like 35 grand or well it's gone it's super gone I'm just happy that once this article came out which was like a day or two ago they've already got everything I love other tweet doesn't specify it's just like yeah there's a company you may have heard of they're now defunct but they're pretty I said afternoon we opened an investigation into date some people listen so we got a yeah we opened an investigation into data storage devices being sold online allegedly containing allegedly you know dude anyways containing customer data from a defunct but well-known computer retailer we have since recovered the storage devices our investigation is active and ongoing so them recovering the storage devices unfortunately well I'm like oh I'm happy they did that means effectively nothing because the data has been copied multiple times and resold there's actually more places to buy it from now yes and like even the original guy was like do you want to buy all the hardware because I have the important stuff backed up and I'm reselling it anyways so you can buy all the hard way it was way cheaper to buy just the data was 15 grand instead of 35 yeah so the dude was like well no so like yeah the season the hardware like good job guys and you know the allegedly having customer data good job on not being sure yet but it's just so scary how much different this feels to me you've read about hacks like this all the time Equifax was a big one of the states that affected many many people yeah didn't affect me so I didn't really care that much but when the screenshots have towns like Chilliwack Whitlam Langley that are right around us something you're looking at you're looking at the at the spreadsheet tracing that line across from the town and finding a name and thinking like oh I might know the name that's right there yeah so here's here's some database snapshots yeah that's of the the top one seems to be of an American database and the second one seems to be of a Canadian database so if someone bought this data what could they do with it to screw you they can do a lot where we're actually getting into a part of this that we didn't get into last time but they they could do actually a lot especially with employees so I'm gonna jump back slightly and cover the different levels of data leak that had happened so for customers like I had already said your full name your address your payment information your password all that kind of stuff plaintext that's a lot there's a lot they can do with that already now I'm gonna jump to other people however as you can see up here someone's t4 leaked there there's social security numbers what is that the right one I always get them confused and I've both social insurance number social insurance is that Canadian yeah so your social insurance number your like your residential history because you have to update that with your employer all the time your first name your last name your middle name like everything that an employer would need to legally employ you which is a lot leaked so that's pretty bad so let's go from the customer standpoint first they could take credit out on your credit card they could cash out your credit card they could do those like terrible check things for your credit now would your the information that leaked it would have to be of a credit card that's still active yes so I think that that is definitely a subset of the data yeah because to be clear as well this data goes back forever but only as recent as 2017 well yeah because credit cards are they went under every years so if your credit card yes but you could renew credit card and keep the number so you could have the same information yeah I'm pretty yeah yeah I'm pretty sure there's one credit card that I have to know now dang which kind of sucks because you like that one well it's just I've just been using it for a long time so there's like some recurring billing on it that I'm gonna have to kill and yeah we set up it's just annoying but they don't have my more important one so hahaha but yeah they could they could mess with your credit if they already have that if if you paid with PayPal they probably have your account information because your account most PayPal accounts that I know of are set up based on the email and you would probably give them the email if you tried to pay through PayPal if your password if you have that if you share that password elsewhere well nothing that's what it's called right they I've been watching that hair in your mouth tried to get rid of it like subtly who's talking I'm looking at it from the side and the way the lighting is I can totally see this long-haired even over Cambridge I mean its longest Lea I even filled this cup and I just took a drink so I'm a little there's this long hair sticking out of his mouth and then he finishes his sentence goes and I can see it's totally inhaled it I was like oh my god okay sorry keep going yeah I know we were talking about we were talking about pass route oh yes stuffing is when let's say LinkedIn gets hacked they take your password well then you can just take that password and assume that someone uses the password in law different sites and they just brute force it on lots of different sites so you get hacked stuff that password and username into everything essentially just because LinkedIn got hacked doesn't mean it's the only target for you to get pwned that's why you should have something like a password manager and have unique passwords for every single service and website owned whatever that you use but anyways so password could be a vector for attack they also have your your full name and your address and stuff so there could be some relatively minor ish but there definitely could be some identity theft going on like they send you flowers on Valentine's Day and just just to screw with your relationship like if they have your full job they have your your full credit card number your full address in your full name it's relatively easy to convince different institutions that you are that person it's actually not that hard because of social engineering there it's it's surprisingly easy to convince people because most people working for a company don't want to do as much work and it's more work to verify that you're the person that you say you are especially when you're like oh it's I they ask you what your address is or they ask you certain information about yourself if you have that and if you have the person's full name if you have their address and you have their credit number you can probably get a little bit of other information and if you get a little bit about other information and you use the right tone and you assert yourself in the right way you can often get access to additional things now it's hopefully you get people who are as judicious as people I've had in the past where they asked me for my postal code and I go I don't know what it is and they're like well sorry and I'm like you realize I can google it you can go online and just kind of the post has that's a service or you just type in an address and yeah address at all and it gives you the postal code I'm like if I'm trying to hone James Drive right I don't actually have a postal code my hand like this is really easy to find social engineering is like a big deal and and this would give someone an insane amount of ammo for social engineering now beyond that if you'd only one who worked for NCIS this is where it gets really bad because they have their social insurance social insurance number I keep on sand ones which having their sin is really brutal because basically no one has other people's sin numbers so in terms of pulling identity theft stuff they have a major vector to screw with you at this point especially if they have your residential history and your sin because as far as I know those two things combined is like what you need to get your birth certificate reprinted and if they get your birth certificate they can get pretty much any other government ID so they can get driver's licenses they can get whatever and at that point you're screwed over you're done even if they don't have all that and all they have is like the name of an institution that you use and your address you are they already or your email address they can already make convincing phishing attacks oh yeah which are enough to pone most people yeah including politicians yeah it's so this is very bad and and and I guess the original route question I think was what can you do to protect yourself there's a well but okay that's not thought it was but sure okay there's not much left so we'll go there if you're a standard user let's go back from that if you just purchase things from ncx update your passwords make sure there's no other password that shared this password I cancel any credit are you me in the password that you used at like a Nancy I had an insight yeah yeah most people as far as I know we're all mine shoppers so yeah make make sure that you change your change your other passwords if you had other passwords that shared a password with ncx comm but seriously in this day and age you need to make sure you're not sharing passwords across websites this kind of stuff happens all the time get on top of it it's it's too late at this point figure it out outside of that cancel any credit cards that you may have even possibly used there as far as I know you can't like check what one you had well this is my other question is is there a way to figure out whether or not you were leaked right no as of right now no this privacy fly guy I don't know if he ended up actually buying the data set or not it says that they like made in a agreement to buy it and then he like walked out of the building and then that's the end of the story spoilers dude jeez sorry that's a good point what's an interesting sir I would want to read it so I don't know if he has it other people do have it but it hasn't leaked publicly like there isn't in it there isn't a web site out there with all of this stuff publicly on it so there's no way to check specifically if you are in there but like if you've ever bought something from ncx or if you ever worked with ncx you're in there so do you think now that the RCMP have it that they will maybe release a list of names of people who got pwned I wouldn't trust it anyways if you've ever that seems like a fairly easy set of like if statements have you ever worked there no have you ever bought anything from there ever yes well done dry crack in my brain I know I think I may have bought one from a physical location I think I may have bought like an HDMI cable once hmm but then I kind of think I bought it with a company credit card I was doing it for my other job don't know I would I would be safe at a minimum if you're an employee like yeah so if you're a customer change whatever passwords that might be the same cancel your old credit card get a new credit card and forget about it you'll be okay for the most part you might get you might get like there might be people trying to do a minor identity theft to you but that's that's gonna be basically a constant that's just a thing with the internet these days and there's probably no information in there that couldn't be found if someone cared enough anyways so I would be like a a little bit a little bit of heightened awareness over the next little while if you receive any emails about like your password has been reset on some website or something like you know have some heightened awareness for a bit but other than that you should be ok if you're an employee I'm not versed enough in this stuff to properly tell you what to do you need to look into it yourself but think certain things that you can do is what obviously change all your credit card stuff because you probably bought stuff from the store and - I believe in Canada you can get your sin changed I'm not sure I do know you can get a credit freeze which like freezes your credit for about a year I think is the the average time that they do this for and you would still be able to like if you wanted to go buy a house or a car or something like that and you needed credit you would still be able to go get it but like low level credit application stuff is going to be frozen for a year send change is a rough go send change is a very well you're gonna wait in line in those buildings that you don't like going to yeah for a long time you're gonna show up there and finally get to the front line and they're gonna say oh you didn't bring the right ID you have to go back take more time off work do it again but you might want to anyways to be completely honest I need to do some more research but I think they might not have mine because I think I was a contractor and I think my contracting agreement thing was like if no leaks it's in the contract yeah well no like I think it's it's like buy my fake little company name thing which is legal because I didn't make enough money because they underpaid me to an almost criminal level actually to just yeah anyways that's a different conversation I like that might leak but it's not even a real company and there's nothing to look up there yeah like I think I'm mostly okay but like Riley's dead he's we buried him this morning exactly - Ivan a few other people that I know are already left the country there's gonna be work for them in terms of covering themselves from this this is this is like really really brutal it's uh yeah but with that let's finally talk about other news its keynote season baby yeah Apple stuff Amazon stuff Google events coming up that's my favorite one well I'm hoping I'm hoping the pixel three is sweet cuz I need a new phone this is this is my pixel 1 XL ooh I want the mini pixel the non XL yeah I want it this is an s9 plus it's beautiful but it's 2 + do a lot of one-handed and I just want a smaller one in I want to be able to my phone in the front pocket of my jeans again so Chad said stop giving clues to the hackers they're way ahead of us they're way ahead of us that's it and if those are clues like holy crap talk about the pixel no it's got a pixel I think he's talking about yeah but people the names yeah it's all over its known already they absolutely know I imagine there's someone watching this stream you like wait no wait this Linus worked at NCIX hold my beer oh my god or like what they could do with the data dude if they're gonna spend like 15 plus thousand dollars on some data they're probably gonna know what to do with it and they've probably done that kind of stuff in the past we said we're moving on damn it so the point was Amazon somehow snuck up and a hardware event that was a bit of a surprise there were like some leaks but ya caught most people off-guard and what I loved about their approach to hardware is this is just a total shock gun blast yeah they don't it's like there's a spectrum of we care a lot and try not to release junk that's Apple on that one end that's why I put the word try in there and then summer and then further along down you've got Google it's like yeah they care a lot and then on the other end you've probably got like Xiaomi Xiaomi and and and Amazon with Amazon's like we're just trying junk we're just gonna put a screen on this one this one's gonna have a big subwoofer on it they release like 10 different new things and it's what I think is cool is that they're back they're like guinea pigs like cuz then a year later Google release like a copycat version of one of these yeah so let's just go through some of the stuff it starts off pretty tame you start off with some echo dots which is just like a really small echo no equi dots all of those well there's a couple things that they upgrade it it looks like yeah maybe upgraded versions or newer versions but then immediately you get into like what the heck the echo echo auto and in-car accessory that allows you to integrate Alexa into your car so here's the weird thing you can plug it in two different ways you can plug it in with a 3.5 millimeter aux jack or by connecting over a smartphone's existing Bluetooth setup to the car but you cannot just directly your Bluetooth the device to the car okay apparently there's a slight catch it's not ready and it's only available by invitation well yeah these the different items on this list have kind of a staggered rollout some things you can pre-order right now some things you can't even pre-order yet this this auto one it gets powered by a cigarette lighter like one of those cigarette lighter yeah adapters that goes into you like a mini USB so you've got that one cord for sure and then then you also have to either do the Bluetooth through a phone but if you don't do that you've got the 3.5 millimeter jack so then that's possibly two cords coming out of this thing into your car but if it's okay if it's how does it bridge onto the Bluetooth of your phone because Bluetooth can only connect to one thing yeah I don't know it's weird and then it's it's just Alexa capability in the car like it's maybe hain 50 bucks because you really can't not talk to Alexa for like you're just driving to work you know what I need more toilet paper now this set all my best thinking's done in the car alright let's not dwell we've got like nine things to go through Amazon echo sub if you've got a lot of different echo devices in your house and you have them hooked up in like a multi room speaker array well it's time you had a six inch 100 watt subwoofer to go with those so this is a sub u sorry hold on there's a super chat thing which sorry guys we're not gonna read all these hold the phone what's the difference between tech linked and tech quickie they seem the same why have both have you even watched them thank you for your $5 donation one has an orange and blue background yeah yeah there has a white background it's so different like seriously guys one is a Daily News show where they look at the news of that day at a report on it in a quick fashion that's tech linked and then one is a video of explainers these videos tend to be more evergreen in that you might look up the definition of HDMI today or three years from now that content it's kind of like an encyclopedia of tech definitions the idea behind that's tech quickie originally was last night we're talking about how like our mom or a friend or someone might be in a store or be shopping for something and see a name of something like HDMI or Core i7 and be like I don't know what that means I don't know what value this brings to me and we wanted to make more or less a repository of information on those types of things that's why a lot of the original videos were as basic as what is HDMI and it's gotten into a little bit more higher level topics over time because you run out of those things pretty quick but it's it's explainers it's if you ever ask yourself kind of a tech question of like how does this work why can't I use that why can't I use my phone run him on the airplane yeah that kind of stuff as long as it's in the tech realm then tech work you might have it then Tech linked is Daily News they're like really really wildly different thank you for your super chat though and you would subscribe to everything yeah let's continue so we have the echo sub 130 bucks for one that's quite a lot that's a lot that's a lot and it's a 6-inch sub it's like it's gonna be this big yeah that's a lot and you have to pair with other echo things so I don't know does that mean you can talk to it like does it have a microphone or a oh I think so and all that and if it talks back is it just like write a word loop they should have like the only voice that can speak through it should be like Morgan Freeman or like Earl Jones yeah yeah I am the subwoofer there's other sound companion things because there's the echo link app the echo sub and the echo input the echo link amp that thing is sorry actually if I'm in the Google ecosystem and mostly because the the Amazon stuff comes to Canada way later and and whatever yeah that's probably one I would want that because you can as far as I can assume is you can still plug in all your own speakers and stuff that's right so yeah for me I have really old like from the 90s clips towers great yeah they're wicked yeah and I wanted to have a cool-looking amp for them to going cuz I had a JVC one that I got for Christmas as a kid and they had lots of buttons on it and I had like I was going whose hair is this I wanted a s'more stylish amp fruit for my you know the shelf in the living room that's all hip looking yeah but there's just too many knobs of and it doesn't it doesn't look nice so then I ended up having to go to like I went online I was like can I get like a you know the old look the vintage look where they were just they were just aluminum just polished and there's just one nice big knob and that's about it who doesn't want that and so I ended up having to go to a vintage store I've got refurbished stuff in order to get one because there's just no I couldn't find any new stuff that that had that kind of aesthetic this kind of does it's kinda it's black it's not silver but it's black and it's really clean I know you use that it does have her just white yeah and you could it's kind of like the only weird thing about it is that it is just one single of a big knob because usually they would be like wider and more boxy this one has some curves to it and it's just the knob instead of all the other inputs and funds but it's still metal but it but it does a clean-looking sort of you can plug your old speakers into it and you've got basically this smart speaker setup you've got all the Alexa abilities on your awesome older speakers yeah oh that's cool yeah and then they've got this the input the in okay so the input is basically an echo dot with no speaker so the echo dot is is like the Google home mini it's really small it's like the size of a puck it's got a speaker that sucks you can talk to it answers you it's 50 bucks this new one is fifteen dollars cheaper get rid of the speaker you've just got this microphone puck that you plug into an existing speaker and piggyback off of that which is cool what I actually really want so the this thing is the echo link or the echo link amp it's two versions which are physically the same thing I'm guessing one of them is just not actually an amplifier and the other one is I'm assuming because the echo link amp is the same thing as the echo link but with a 60 watt stereo amplifier inside so the other one doesn't have that and even when it doesn't have the amplifier it's 200 bucks and with the AM it's three 300 bucks yeah some user hmm man some of these devices are serious investments like the Google home max isn't that like an Xbox yeah holy crap sorry to cut you off yeah but the Google home max is like 500 bucks so expense like you can get a good speaker like in the Google home max is a good speaker but you can get some good speakers for that it's like it's it's crazy and the the input is 35 like where's this Delta it's so weird what I really want is something even more slim down than the input I want just a microphone seriously I'm in my house and in my house the Google home can hear me anywhere if it's in the middle of night I can be in my bed and whisper it can but if I'm a foot away from it with music on high so I wanted to just have like the smallest possible form factor just a little microphone that I can just I can just be like Nixon and just hide them around my house amazon firetv recast a DVR box that can store TV shows and movies for viewing at home or on-the-go will release on November 14th and start at 230 bucks Wow why are they all so expensive I can't even see that in here by the way I don't think that's in this article but I believe it that's crazy some of these have funny names too ring stick up camera they bought ring ring is a home security come your doorbell that goes to your phone and you can this is a security camera so you can you can look through it you can talk to people through it you can make a siren noise if you want all through your phone and 180 bucks for one of those camera the ring stick up camera set to release on October 18th unless you see here and speak to people from your tablet phone PC here's a nun with a funny name Amazon smart plug that's me adds voice controlled anything plugged in and will cost 25 bucks when released on October 11th so it's you plug it into your wall you plug another thing into it like a dumb thing yeah like a lamp that doesn't have a Phillips u in it yeah yeah and then you just turn it off and you can do schedules too so you can hook up a bunch of crap like that into it and then say after six o'clock turn off or you can be it be at work oh I left that on so I'm gonna shut it off and remotely they released an analog wall clock with echo so yeah so what that thing I know I there this is what I like about them the just like why not this is the most shotgun approach the best it's 30 bucks and it basically is a visualization tool for the timers that you said yeah so one of the most useful things on any of these assistants is hey set a timer for 30 minutes yeah and what I usually do is I see I say hey how much time left on the timer it'll be 18 minutes left with this you don't need to ask again you can just glance up and the clock it's like look it's like a countdown analog wall clock that you'd now have again like those clocks at the swimming pool that have like all the different yeah it just gives you a visual countdown I guess it's a smart looking smart clock would you buy a smart clock he said no okay speaking of which the microwave the Alexa enabled microwave is actually the best thing I think they kind of botched some of the coolest things about it so Amazon's amazonbasics microwave with Alexa voice functionality will cost 60 bucks when released on November 14th so originally I thought this is kind of cool because a lot of people want to add these assistants to the kitchen but it always takes up more space like you're gonna have like one of these tablets on your kitchen countertop and I don't have that I'm gonna interrupt you again wired has been trying to link to these things the whole way through I'm pretty sure cuz they're trying to get affiliate revenue but they links to the microwave but it's not on Amazon yet so the you click on the microwave and it tries to like their automatic link identifier thing tries to bring us to dot CA and it just lists like some random black & decker microwave which has like three stars out of five I like people even like that much it also costs 772 dollars cuz there's only one used one for sale and the pricing is just broken so I was like okay I'll just you know what they're automatic link thing you just derped us I'm gonna switch that to comm did that nope just a whole bunch more random microwaves I thought this was all like news links but no no it's just affiliate links okay sounds good thanks guys so you want an assist in your kitchen you usually have to add some extra device on your counter space that sucks so I don't know you can just buy a whole new micro in your it's in your microwave that's already taking up space sweet but it turns out it's not actually completely built into the microwave the microwave just pairs driven with an echo so it doesn't have mic microphones on the microwave so you still have to have your echo device within earshot or something like that but it ok yeah no that's what I was saying like the reason I Google home can hear me even if I'm in bed he dents in the living room because my room doesn't have a door my house is one room yeah sure yeah but the reason I think this actually kind of works on a microwave is for a few different reasons number one you don't want to learn how to do stuff on a microwave you don't want to learn have you seen a microwave you're like okay how do i how do you set a timer on this thing I don't think that's how ever happened how do you there confuse number number number giant green start button that's for the basic stuff what are you doing a microwave more advanced than that like defrosting a fish and like there's tons of different advanced crap that no one uses and partly because you just don't want to invest that much time into learning how to use it instead you just the guy put in for 30 seconds I'll check it so this has presets so you can put something in and the example they have is hey assistant heat up my feet up once one cup of coffee heat one cup of coffee and it knows coffee please it knows what the item is preheat to 400 degrees Alexa heck yeah you didn't want to get up yeah yeah yeah some micro what are you gonna do pre-heat your microwave dude I'd be way more within with an oven based versions yes even even if you're not on the couch even if you're just in the meal prep stage if you're chopping something up and you're like oh crap switch to broil yeah boom yeah I'm sure it's coming this is just this is number one do it up Amazon get her done oh yeah it's time for our favorite sponsors sponsors assemble half of you were gone because of the anyways that doesn't actually matter but we're gonna come back to us as us now uh let's see yeah that's not my twitter handle there first one there we go Sergey if you're an IT professional or a power user I'm neither uh you're not a power user you wouldn't classify yourself a power user it's a spectrum if you're an IT professional a power user or just person who has two computers or like a computer and a laptop which is that's still at the same time that run different operating systems or the same one I don't know why this is necessarily worded the way that it is you can connect them together and share a mouse and keyboard between the two my favorite use case for this personally is actually one that I've never done and I've done the more hardcore one but whatever is when you if you work with a laptop at work that you bring home quite a few people do this these days a lot of workplaces just have docking stations and you just bring your own laptop in you can bring it home put it on some type of like laptop arm or dock or something like that and synergy will automatically detect that it's there and share your desktops mouse and keyboard to that laptop so if there's stuff you're working on you want to keep working on it or there was something you saw during the day or whatever whatever whatever you could drag it from computer to computer because it has that that functionality just drag and drop from one desktop to the other and it shares your keyboard or mouse between the two it's it's it's super super cool I went off-script there let's note though it's it's very cool I've always liked this for me I had I had to Computers setup I don't even remember why but if you go back and watch the original mineral oil computer video back when I was filming and editing 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care does it make a difference now he's asking if her and I live in the same house we're married and we're under 80 yeah so I'll see you guys all there Oh everyone since my dear to God I was just gonna say no go by the NCAA X data meet me at my place yeah it's only fifteen thousand dollars for anybody call me up anyways google's chinese search engine link searches to phone numbers possibly allegedly maybe Google is taking a second crack at offering its search engine in China we were pulled out of mainland China in 2010 so it's been a little while now after discovering a phishing attack targeting human rights activist this time to comply with the Chinese government censorship requirements google is reportedly reportedly important operative word right they're building a prototype system that would tie Chinese users Google searches to their personal phone numbers Google hasn't which they probably already kind of do so they would just be giving that information to China this time oops Google hasn't confirmed the existence of this project at all also extremely important line right there its previously said that it's only doing exploratory work on a search service in China and that it's not close to launching a search product in the country very specifically around 1,400 Google employees have allegedly signed a letter demanding more information about the project which reportedly runs in partnership with a Chinese company apparently five employees have left because the project I have some questions about this yeah first question how many people are gonna use this given that there's huge search incumbents there notably Baidu who's gonna use Google when you've got a like sign up and get like it's not frictionless like it is here you're not gonna be able go to a new tab Google search before you want you're gonna have to sign up that's why I can put your that's when you're gonna input your phone over but everyone already did sign up for Baidu so right I don't know how much of a footprint they're gonna get there next question this is a more of a statement I that your phone number is tied to like your official government ID there yeah so that's why this for your I'm gonna butcher this I don't remember what it's called but you're like citizens standing which is like a really deep topic that's like a new thing though right new ish yeah alright yeah that's its own thing yeah that's very much its own conversation and I'm not well-versed enough in that at all you know what I am well versed in the first uncensored adult steam game which got banned in 28 countries after only coming out I'm so sorry 14 but it was fast you know what it's still available in the US Canada and UK and that's a lot of the people listening right now it is and now since its banned we all get to talk about it and I see what all the fuss is about and there's a we've we've been yeah that's a good boy yeah because the whole goal we've been talking about this developing steam conversation for quite a while now I think this is the third or fourth time it's come into the show where steam banned a game and then there became the whole topic of like well should they actually be the gatekeepers to what games get to be on the platform because at a certain point you kind of stop like when when you own so much of a space people stop seeing you as a private company and start seeing you as like an essential service last yeah and it's not actually what happens but people start observing your company as that totally it's like when target said that they were gonna have Grand Theft Auto on their shelves anymore it's like yeah there's they thought that was some kind of breach of human rights or something it's like if I open James pizza shop and I want to serve only ham and pineapple yeah I'm allowed to do that it's my shot we do you start to get kind of entitled to be like no Walmart has to have everything a completely comprehensive selection if it doesn't then they're just censoring and and there's some validity there because consumers could just go somewhere else right so they you start being seen as an essential service and then you kind of have to act that way or else people will just bail or you and then hope that you make it anyways but Steve's approach was that will just add filters and you could just not see what you don't want to see and then apparently countries are just gonna ban games anyways so it doesn't really matter yeah so the official statement from steam I believe is like they do not endorse pornography or yeah erotica in games the game still on the store yeah but you're not gonna see it unless you specifically still tell steam that you want to see those things yeah and I'm like 13 and I'm on Steam and I'm just checking that box yeah I am definitely 28 years old that's like this flash game so Mike when you're a kid the internet was new they're like are you at least 18 sure like what year were you born scroll down to the 50s that's definitely old enough dude I used to troll and just make myself like a thousand years old because sometimes they were just in they just pull from like a database of years right so they don't even check input the year you're like 1676 yeah I was born in the 1500 the game negligee loves cherries is the first totally unsettle adult game on Steam it's been banned in all sorts of the usual suspect kind of countries like Saudi Arabia and yeah that's not surprising games been found a number of countries for having uncensored naked anime girls damn cartoon boobies yep they might release future games with a censored edition as the main release with a free or cheap mature content filter mature content release I don't know what to call that the opposite of filter mm-hmm unveiling yeah the unveiling DLC here you go yar checks on yeah way on I think they're a little bit worried RTX on our TX super on the switch is broken just holding the leaver yeah there's a quote here if they find or targeted steam as part of our agreement with steam we this is darker Studios we would be liable for all the costs and damages to steam which would end our company and since we are a small indie developer and do not have resources for such costs while making games that would be a bad thing and that's that's why they're there considering in the future just kind of making it safe by default and then just charging you a bit more having you to opt-in yeah getting the dirty version speaking of things getting banned in different countries twitch has been blocked in China you are trying to block me switch has received an uptick in Chinese leadership over the last few months as audiences flushed to watch eSports matches being played at the Asian Games in Jakarta an event not broadcasted on state-run media in China last month twitch hit the number three spot among free apps in China downloads for the app of the week of August 27th rose 23 times higher than the previous week China performed well during the event and brought back two gold medals but now twitch has been blocked in China with no official statement being released by Chinese authorities because they probably really don't care the steady shutdown of access to twitch was logged via social media in China in China viewers in many provinces reported that the site was suddenly unavailable in their region while it was still up elsewhere but the end of the week twitch had been completely blocked yeah so the way this works I think is that you kind of obviously China they like to control the activity that happens online so if if something there's a lot of activity on a website that kind of gets their attention and so for example streaming is really popular in China but they've got strict rules some of them are really weird like you are not allowed to stream yourself eating a banana because pornography is illegal in China there became a trend of people just doing non-pornographic erotic things like eating bananas in a sexual manner while streaming so then they just said okay eating banana on a stream is illegal so they have rules like this and when suddenly a large portion of the Chinese population so like a voluptuous grapefruit I'm sure you could push it down a banana to plantain it's girthier there's another one you know I'm allowed to wear something you know to wear like I forget but it's silly so that then that you get a foreign website that gets a lot of traction there's a lot of people watching streams and they have no control of what happens on those streams that the population could be watching streamers who are talking about topics that are not friendly to the party and that's no good so they just shut it down and if they think it's a compelling offering that the people are trying to should have in their lives then they'll just get a Chinese cop company to make a carbon copy of it yeah and then they keep the money in China someone in chat is like putting me on blast because I'm not using this opportunity to rep PIAA that's gonna cost you a P is helpful we might be in trouble in China there's a bunch more tops but we could also be sort of done yeah anyway you want to talk about cuz there's a lot of topics so is there any specifically well no joke here's one that's ten seconds long one plus is making TVs that's all we know we don't know when know how much they cost we can be reasonably sure they're not gonna actually make panels like LG yeah or or or what's the big Chinese one that no one knows but it's actually third oh the TTL C is it know TCL they're not gonna be they're just gonna buy panel from someone else and then put a casing on it and make their own on-screen display in and somehow integrated with our phones I'm sure but that's about all we know yeah but that's cool they think headphones good yeah I don't know anything about this at all but it seems cool Europe and Washington State bands together to tackle the loot box problem and it's a long topic it's cool though because it just puts more pressure hopefully absolutely will be no more loot boxes at all but that gram that doesn't make it freemium somehow they'll find a way money we'll find a way I hate loot boxes see ya my not again honestly my my one of my biggest problems of loot boxes something that isn't being fought for very much I hate that cosmetic items are in it and a lot of people say that it's fine but there's a lot of paid games that have cosmetic items and loot boxes and I think that is horrendous the old Liga Legends model especially then it wasn't even a loot box you just buy it you buy the one you want which is why that's so hard you just get the thing you want but with loot boxes putting cosmetic items in it it removes it we're in my opinion it removes features from the game and I think that's something that people aren't really paying attention to like if you look at destiny destiny when it first came up I've heard the new expansion is good whatever I don't care I'm done with that game but when destiny first came out there was all this stuff to do but it was extremely not rewarding and you would hit like a cap really really quickly and then the main things left to do in the game in a lot of games once you hit the end is to like make your character look really cool and there was a lot of ways to pay for that but there's so many systems in the game where it would have been really easy and absolutely would have happened like ten years ago if there was no loot boxes they would have had maybe not all the cosmetic items but a lot of the cosmetic items that were there would be unlockable through doing something in the game paid full price for this game so having like additional challenges like Oh beating the raid and under a certain amount of time or beating the raid with no deaths or it's not whatever content the raid was already there yeah it's just new incentive to play it a different way yeah and that's that's huge for me personally I love weird challenge modes I'll often like play a game on a not very high difficulty but then make it so that like oh I'm playing a shooter game but I'm never self I don't allow myself to use guns you have to use like like like just a knife yeah I did that in the chaos theory yeah I was only allowed to stun the lights out like EMP them nope well it's at all I missed out on all the shotguns and snipers and all the cool things in that game yeah but it makes it really awesome experience and that's something you can do and the game can also incentivize those types of situations and they often games often do with cosmetic items or unlocks of some sword-like if you remember smash back in the day don't lock all the characters you had to do some stuff what did you have to do I don't even remember but you had to do some stuff I feel like it required an all-nighter it's like you had to do something with every character some crazy thing like that like you it was it was kind of not a lot of games used to have those types of systems and those are really fun and now most of those things I'm not saying the new smash doesn't have this so I don't even know if the last mash had that type of a system I'm not trying to throw a smash under the bus I just remember that was a very legendary one being unlocked the characters fairly core to the game a lot of games used to have systems where if you did something and an advanced level or in a specific way you would unlock something and most of those systems have been removed in order to make it so you pay for those things yeah that's weak that is I hate that so much we love those a new counsel yeah yeah hey are there any more Super chats I don't know how to check like a hundred percent yeah just roll up or something wait in line here they are oh I think hello hi boys notice Luke is the best at responding to super shot - two bucks hi boys just want to say say you're beautiful people my beautiful people what why this is not there please raise mic volume does this thing work September 7th isn't in the playlist by the way okay thanks Gabriel how many Giga raised is Alexis support lol yes s Jo's the NCIS data breach affect anybody in a real first world country okay that person must be from England because how's that a shot at Canada in the u.s. no I'm saying this from someone from cap from the US making a shot at Canada but I think Canada's more first world in the US if there's get at me haters but there's a X u.s. the US database is in there on privacy fly there's people with us addresses because the US database League we're all wrecked together yeah unity unity I'm gonna get my carpool home Ubuntu get bunted turn off slow it's what - but I don't even know how to do that Luke my girlfriend is in love with you what do I do Wow kill Luke and take his his loot equip these items alarm you cosmetic plus three beard of Lisbon - two knees when detectives be doing a collaboration with - tech tips even that's a joke oh you're really behind the times Google home or alexa preference go Google home but haven't really played with Alexa too much but it seems so geared towards ordering stuff on Amazon they don't care exact same story for me also this shirts for sale there's a lot of these yeah are you RTX on enough to support this thing and be swimming in the affections of the people you love you can buy it get it get at it it actually fits pretty good I think this looks great on me alright guys I think I think that's it for the show thank you for tuning in sorry it was like half an hour late because we were streaming to the wrong platform so rip and I'll see you next time