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Ed & Stefano Unleashed: ISPs to Become Copyright Police? Google’s War on F-Droid, Red Hat Breach
Ed and Stefano are live to discuss the alarming Cox Supreme Court case that could turn ISPs into copyright police, a massive Red Hat breach, and why Google's new developer rules threaten F-Droid and software freedom.
The episode kicks off with major security and privacy concerns, including the massive Red Hat GitLab breach that exposed data from 800 organisations, and Microsoft's strange new AI face recognition limits in OneDrive. Ed and Stefano also dive deep into the Cox Communications Supreme Court case, expressing serious concern that it could force ISPs to become copyright police and threaten the future of VPNs. They also cover Google's new developer verification rules, which pose an existential threat to open-source app stores like F-Droid. Ed also shares a personal discovery about a long-standing issue he's had with Docker container networking and Nginx, explaining why case sensitivity can cause unexpected problems for self-hosters.
On the hardware and industry front, the hosts discuss the worrying trend of lock screen ads on budget smartphones, a scary incident with a swelling Samsung Galaxy Ring battery, and the massive 10-gigawatt AI chip deal between OpenAI and Broadcom that highlights the huge power demands of modern AI.
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Unraid Merch Store
Red Hat GitLab Breach
Microsoft OneDrive AI Face Recognition
Cox Communications Supreme Court Case
Australia Implements World's Strictest Social Media Age Ban
F-Droid Faces Existential Threat from Google Developer Registration Requirements
OpenAI and Broadcom Announce 10 Gigawatt Custom AI Chip Deal
Spotify Partners with Record Labels for AI Music Tools
Waymo Announces London Driverless Taxi Service for 2026
Samsung Galaxy Ring Battery Swelling Incident
Lock Screen Advertisements Coming to Budget Smartphones
Jamf Acquired by Francisco Partners
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Right, hello everyone, and welcome to another episode. So another Saturday, it's the 8th of November, and we've got a properly packed show today. We're going to be starting with some awesome Unraid updates, including the 7.2 release, and then we're going to be diving into some genuinely, I think, concerning security news, a bit of regulatory chaos, and of course the usual collection of AI nonsense and tech industry nonsense. And also, I found out something this week that I never knew about before concerning Docker and Nginx, reverse proxies, and all of that kind of thing. And I'm going to be sharing that all with you guys. And so we've got Stefano here as normal. So how have you been doing, Stefano?
SPEAKER_01:Really good, man. How about yourself?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, not too bad. So um got back from the United States okay. It was great seeing you last month. It was live. I really enjoyed coming over to Alabama. Um, I actually did a little studio tour of your studio, didn't I, Stefano? Um I'm hoping to actually finish editing that this weekend. And so, all of you guys, if you want to check that out, um, you'll be able to see where Stefano does all of his magic.
SPEAKER_01:I'm kind of excited to see it myself, to be honest. Even though I live here.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. But yeah, so anyway, um, we're back doing a remote one today. Um, but I think let's before we kind of get into everything, I really want to just come into the Unraid updates and start with our home team news. Some excellent updates from Unraid this month. And if you've been holding up, holding off from upgrading, I think now's probably the time. Um, 7.2 is now available, um, has been for I think about a week. So it's a significant update. We've got RAID C expansion for CFS pools without needing to actually fully rebuild your pool. So that's a really nice new feature. The web UI has got a complete overhaul and now has generally responsive on mobile devices and tablets, so you can actually manage your server from your phone without wanting to actually throw it at the wall. So that's a pretty cool new thing. Also, we've got built-in API now, so that's going to massively help with plugins and automation and that kind of thing. And also support for NTFS, XT4, XT3 and 2, I think as well, and XFAT as array file system. So you can drop those drives in and actually be able to import them into your array. So if you've got a bunch of say old XFAT drives with photos on, you could actually pop them into your array, add a parity drive, and they'll all have parity protection on those old drives. So personally, I think that's pretty cool. Very cool. What are your thoughts on that, Stefana? Yeah?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think it's very cool. Um it's crazy though that it just like works like that. Have you tried it yet yourself?
SPEAKER_00:I have, yeah. It's it's pretty cool. One thing you have to kind of watch, in my opinion, is don't go and like put them into an existing array and then just start up the array because it will format them. So what you have to do, you have to break the array first, make a new configuration, tell it to kind of keep the configuration exactly the same, then put the drives in, and then it will rebuild the parity as if it's a fresh build of parity. But if you put it in and a parity is already good and you add two new drives, it's thinking, hey, I've got these two new drives, he wants to expand his array, so let's wipe them clean and add them to the array. So you want to have no parity when you add them, if you're adding them to an existing array. So um, I did mention that in a recent video, um, which you can check out on your own car show, everyone, um, where I do take a look at 7.2. Um, also, what you mentioned, I've forgot to mention in my video actually, having um OIDC support for logging in. So I think that's pretty cool. So you can log in with your unray.net account and other um OIDC providers into your Unraid server rather than just having to use your username and password. So I think that's a pretty cool quality of life improvement.
SPEAKER_01:Not only that, but like it just kind of helps bring it like I see potential for business use cases now, uh, just with that little addition, you know, because one of Unraid's problems is like, you know, how does it break into the business user space? And uh I know a lot of businesses like having OIDC for multiple users, uh, especially their administrators. So it's a it it's a nice ad addition, I think.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, definitely. Um also there's a new account app that's gone live, I think, just a couple of days ago. Um, it's worth having a look. Um, links will be in the show notes, hopefully, after this has gone live and we edit it. Um, but just go across onto the Unraid website and um you'll be able to check it out there. It's in the blog post there about that. Um, and in other news, there is gonna be our annual Cyber Weekend sale, and it's gonna be happening from the 28th of November to the 1st of December. This is our biggest sale of the year. Um I can't really say what's gonna be there, but check out, you know, sign up to the newsletter and get you know details about that. Um, there. So we know for sure just in time.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I was gonna say if we know for sure that there's gonna be uh sales on the unleash license, right? Yep. And uh starter licenses and upgrades.
SPEAKER_00:Yep, there is something else as well that you may be getting with that, but I'm not sure if I'm actually allowed to say, so I'm gonna keep quiet.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so was it a free picture of you with every purchase of a license?
SPEAKER_00:It is, yeah. How did you know?
SPEAKER_01:I read the notes. All right, okay. Signed underwear.
SPEAKER_00:But as well as huh? I know.
SPEAKER_01:We're not we're not going that, you know, um No, I mean like Unraid sells un underwear, and then you sign it and send it off. Not like OnlyFans.
SPEAKER_00:Well, we're joking we were joking once, like um at a recent offsite actually about having some cool merch, yeah. So everyone knows the slogan for Unraid is like unleash your hardware. Yeah, putting that on the set of box some boxer shorts, hey? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Unleash your hardware 100% do that.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, talking about merch, just in time for the festive season, we've got some new holiday jumpers, and I am going to try and actually show you them. Let me see if I can share my screen here. Now, hopefully you guys can see that. It's so ugly. I love it. So, the self-hosting, this is the season to self-host. You've got to have Christmas jumpers, it's it's awesome. You know, um, nothing says I self-host quite like a Christmas jumper with tech references my relatives will never understand. So that's what I like about it.
SPEAKER_01:Um true.
SPEAKER_00:Um, and other ones as well. Um, uh come all you self-hosters, but my favorite, I love this one, Cashing Through the Snow. Yeah, that's very clever. Um I really like that. So that's gonna be the one I'm gonna be wearing on Christmas Day for sure. And I'll definitely be having my mum asking me, Ed, what the hell does that mean? So anyway, I'll tell her to come watch this episode. Right, let me stop sharing the screen for the moment.
SPEAKER_01:I imagine you kind of you know have you watched the movie Limitless?
SPEAKER_00:Um I have, but a long time ago, so I couldn't really tell you.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, it's fine. So, like there's a there's a scene in there where um he's trying to describe his book. This is before he starts taking those magic pills. Uh he's trying to he's describing his book to like a just a couple of guys at the bar, and he's just like blah blah blah, like just going on and on about the book. I imagine you doing that with uh with your significant others at your family Christmas party, and everyone's just kind of like watching you talk about caching and they still have just no idea what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_00:You can explain it to them, and afterwards, like you know, they're they're all nodding going, oh right, right, right. And you go, so you understand that, yeah? And they go, yeah. And you go, Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So anyway.
SPEAKER_00:Well, what did I what did I what did I just say? Explain back to me, and they go, uh, I wasn't really listening. Yeah, I knew it you weren't. This is why you never love you. Right. Excuse me, everyone. I just want to just check the stream is working correctly because there'd be a lot of things. It looks like it's working.
SPEAKER_01:Actually, I I think uh we so we have Marcus in the shower, while showering himself while watching us, enticing.
SPEAKER_00:Oh hi Marcus. Um how you doing? Um I know Marcus um had like his cat was injured and is having an operation this Tuesday. So um unfortunately his cat, I believe, was very horribly shot and injured its leg and has to have its leg amputated. So from all of us here, Marcus, you know, we wish you and your family all the best and Leo the cat, a speedy recovery. Okay, so anyway, um I was saying that I discovered something um recently that's kind of bugged me for years, to be honest. So I'm not sure if you guys have ever been using things like swag um as a reverse proxy, or for those of you who use various containers that speak to other containers. Now, I'm not going to actually say what those containers might be.
SPEAKER_01:Don't get us banned.
SPEAKER_00:But sometimes you sometimes you have a container that might send something to another container that may download something, and you have to put in into that container either the IP address and port number of the container that does that, or the actual name of the container if you're using a custom Docker network. So, custom Docker networks for those people who don't know, um by default we use like a bridge network, which just bridges the host network, and you can't, you know, one container can't actually ping the name of the other container with that. But you can make a custom bridge where by Docker we'll be able to resolve the name. So if you have a container called Maria DB, you know, the container can ping MariaDB. You could put in just MariaDB, the name of the container, and it will be able to connect to the database. But here's where it gets kind of pretty crazy, I think. And this is something I'd never knew before, and I always wondered why this happened, but never bothered to check the following. Sorry, I'm waffling a bit here, Stefano, but bear with me, okay? So say you've got Schwag, you have a config file, and Schwag is made basically to resolve the name. So you're reverse proxying, say Nextcloud, for instance, and it's got the name of the container, Nextcloud. But if you've got your container and it's has a capital letter anywhere in it, um, say Nextcloud with a capital N or MariaDB and you've got, you know, capital M, or any of your other containers you might use for media and it's got a capital letter in it. Well, what Nginx will do is it basically normalizes it and puts it all lowercase. So Docker is case sensitive, but Nginx will normalize things to be lowercase. And that's why sometimes when you put in a container name, on some, you know, I've noticed on some systems it doesn't work, and that's because people using a capital letter in their Docker containers, and then you know, some containers will have an Nginx like front end, and you put in the name of the container you want to connect to, thinking you can use the custom Docker bridge and use names to resolve, and you think, oh, it doesn't work, that's really weird. But it's probably because it's actually changing it to lowercase, and that's why it doesn't work.
SPEAKER_01:I never would have guessed.
SPEAKER_00:So, you know, you know, engine, you know, swag's built around Nginx, so that's why you know sometimes people find it doesn't work because they capitalize the beginning of their containers because it looks nicer to have that that then they edit their config file, put a capital then, and then it doesn't work, and they end up having to put the IP address and port number instead. But yeah, anyway, so I just want to let everyone know my little discovery this week. Um so I thought it was pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I'm glad I uh I always try to stick with lowercase everything, like out of habit. Maybe I I mean that's how we were taught to use computers back in, I don't know, 15 years ago to like, oh, just lowercase everything. And then if you absolutely have to have two words, just capitalize the first letter of the next word. So I've just always naturally done lowercase.
SPEAKER_00:Me too, exactly. You know, me too. Like, you know, I always had my kind of containers always better talk to each other through name resolution, and then I'd have friends and they'd go, Oh, Ed, can you lend us a hand? Like, this isn't working, and I'd type the name of the container in. I'd just cop literally just copy and paste it out of the web UI of the Docker template, paste it in, and it's not working. I'm thinking, this is really weird. Like, what is the problem with your system that this doesn't work? It works fine on mine, but it was just the name, so yeah. I thought that's I don't know if anyone in chat has had that type of um issue ever before.
SPEAKER_01:It looks like maybe.
SPEAKER_00:Let me have a look at chat. Right. Anyway, um moving on to our various kind of news, tech news we have this month. Um, the sources we've gathered, I think, really show the technology landscape is being fundamentally redefined. You know, I think we're kind of witnessing um the contract between us and our devices being rewritten like in real time. Um, it's a real huge expansion of the technical frontier, AI, new custom hardware. Right alongside that, we've got these urgent legal and corporate attempts to, in my opinion, establish control. The central theme of all our source material today is that as tech gets more powerful and more intimate, you know, who actually gets to set the rules? So that's the kind of theme of our stories today, I think, Stefano. Um, but before that, I know we've got a story that you're interested in, Stefano, being about Red Hat, is recently um, have you seen the Red Hat breach? Because it's pretty bad. Um, I think it was a cybercrime group. Were they called Crimson Collective?
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Um, yeah, so they managed to um breach Red Hat's consulting GitLab instance and exfiltrate, I think it was 570 gigabytes of compressed data. Let me see if I can share my screen.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's pretty wild. So, like some of the uh some of the like customers that were affected were Bank of America, IBM, and the US Navy. I'm surprised it just stops at the US Navy because a lot of the Department of Defense agencies uh or branches of the military very heavily use Red Hat uh for their Linux infrastructure. So it's so it's probably more than just the US Navy, but who knows?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And it's and it's not just source code either, is it? It's um you know sensitive customer information like infrastructure configurations, security assessments, and authentication tokens, I think for about 800 different organizations.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the the authentication tokens I think worries me the most.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. But yeah, I was pretty surprised to hear about that. In fact, you know, this is actually a little bit old news. It was at the beginning of October, but we didn't speak about it in the last podcast, so we thought we would mention it here. But you know, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:What's interesting is like, so if you like Red Hat's actual page there, it says that it only affects consulting companies. But then, you know, if you from other sources or they directly name you know Bank of America IBM and US Navy, it seems a little odd to me that the US Navy would be consulting for Red Hat. I could understand maybe IBM. I don't really understand Bank of America. Uh, but yeah, it says consulting cups, it says uh consulting customers, if you are a Red Hat consultant customer or analysis is ongoing, or something, whatever it says right there in the middle. Um yeah, and then what's even more fun is that OpenShift AI, there's another vulnerability there that was also just announced uh previously. So it's like you know, double whammy for Red Hat right there. 800 or I'm sorry, 570 gigs of uh compressed data was stolen from 28,000 repositories, and then they had that other CVE there with their OpenShift AI, um, where you could uh so like let's say um a non-privileged user was accessing Jupyter or something like that um through their non-privileged account, they could escalate and then gain access to the cluster, the OpenShift AI cluster. And uh I mean I well, I guess if you've escalated your privilege.
SPEAKER_00:What what what is what is OpenShift for everyone listening, including me?
SPEAKER_01:I I I honestly don't know because uh haven't read Red Hat's marketing material. Um I think it's like uh like maybe like a container management platform and uh like an application management platform, but don't quote me on that. I'm not a Red Hat. Like if there are other products they offer, I'm just not familiar with them. And I think Red Hat does a very poor job of like just keeping it simple and just telling you what OpenShift is or whatever. So you have to like read an entire book just to figure it out. I'm like, nah, I don't got time for that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, I've really got a feeling that this month I'm gonna be on my soapbox quite a lot during this episode. So I apologize to you, Stefano, and to everyone listening and watching this podcast. But speaking of privacy nightmares, let's talk about Microsoft's latest bit of nonsense. Um, so you've heard about Microsoft rolling out AI-driven facial recognition in OneDrive, Stefano, yeah?
SPEAKER_01:I have heard about it, and I have no idea what that implies.
SPEAKER_00:Right, okay. So Microsoft have rolling out, let me again share my screen, guys. So preview users, as it says here, you can see, um, have noticed that OneDrive's AI-driven face recognition setting is opt-out and can only be turned off three times a year. So, you know, because nothing says you control your data, quite like Microsoft telling you you can only change your mind about facial recognition three times annually. You know, that's one less than the seasons in case you're counting. But anyway, so what it is is the feature is enabled by default and it just scans all of the photographs with AI and is meant to use biometrics to work out who's who in all of your photographs that you upload. Now, Microsoft hasn't explained the weird limitation about you can only change this three times a year. Some people reckon it might be about deleting biometric data as expensive, like especially over here in Europe with GDPR. I think when you say you don't want the biometric data anymore, it has to be deleted. And some people are saying Microsoft thinks that's going to be expensive. Um here's a counterpoint real quick.
SPEAKER_01:So Microsoft spent all the money developing the software, and now they're worried about it being too expensive to delete all of the biometric data. So what if you just did not do that and then you wouldn't spend any money or worry about losing any money?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I guess that makes too much sense.
SPEAKER_00:But you know, what I don't like about it is it's is it's um opt-out and not opt-in. So everyone's gonna do that. And also, you know, think about think about OneDrive. It's so pushed by Microsoft. Like, you know, do you want OneDrive? You know, a friend of mine, you know, called me last week and said, Oh, I've got loads of stuff on my desktop that um that I don't know where it's come from. And um and I and they said, you know, can you have a look? And I said, Yeah, no problem. So I had a look, and what it was is they were running Windows 10, and their computer wouldn't run Windows 11. So you can actually opt into extended support with Windows 10 to keep you going to October um next year, October 2026, I think 13th of October.
SPEAKER_01:Do you have to do that every three years or every three three times a year?
SPEAKER_00:It wouldn't surprise me. But you anyway, you can opt into this extended support, so you still get updates for Windows 10 for another year. So, you know, a lot of people are doing that. And so, you know, I I told my friend, well, you can you can do that, and and but you do have to log in with a Microsoft account. If you don't do that, you you basically can't enable it. So you have to log in with a Microsoft account. And so he logged in with his Microsoft account and it somehow logged him into his OneDrive, and he ended up having loads of stuff from his desktop synced from when he had OneDrive before, and that's where it came from. But anyway, that was a bit of a side tangent to this, but um, you know, I think this is a real big kind of privacy issue because when you're collecting biometric information about people, you know, what about kind of government warrants searching for specific faces across everyone's photo libraries? So it's not just about whether you want Microsoft scanning your holiday photos and stuff, it's about you know who else is going to get access to this data. Those are the type of things that worry me. Um, so yep. So I was saying, so you know, self-hosting, you know, don't use OneDrive, use Nextcloud, and use image local AI on your own server. That will scan your photos, it will group, you know, you know, group people, and you'll be able to find all the pictures of your kids and and your mum. Huh? Oh, yeah. Well, we're not even gonna entertain that idea that that's gonna happen. Not with image, no. But so talking about everything going bad, that's an excellent segue to our next. Oh, sure. I feel like that all the time, to be honest. You know, um, so many people, you know, all of us watching this show, we all know the score. But you know, trying to explain to, you know, the normies on the street, they just really don't care. You know, they would rather have all of their data, you know, they just don't understand. Like I was I was saying to someone the other day, you know, about ChatGPT. Um, I was saying, you know, why do you think it's free? Like, why do you think this is a free thing? It said they're just collecting so much data about human beings and how they talk. You know, all of the things that people put into chat GPT, I think there was um recently it was something like a million people on Chat GPT were talking about unaliving themselves. Um, in I'm not sure what the time period, I think it was a week, you know, it was a short period of time. But all of the things that people say to AI that they would never say to anyone else, you know, because they feel safe. And it's like, oh, that that's such a good idea. Stefano, you're so clever. How did you think about that? I love that idea. And they get, you know, they get into this kind of mindset where they feel, you know, very happy talking to it. And all of this data, you know, is just being collected and it's being trained on all of the data. You know, a lot of people I kind of mentioned this to friends and family. If you think about the amount of data that's collected by social media, and then you kind of analyze that with AI and all of the chats as well. Say you you wanted to invest in something, yeah, you could easily see, you know, potential markers of crazes that might be coming in from, you know, kind of kids and teenagers and stuff. Then you buy the shares in that company. So you're front-running it basically. You're, you know, you're um, you know, because you know about the company really before anyone else does due to kind of analytics and AI. So you can buy massively invest into those companies, and as you see the crazes kind of going or something, and like things are moving on to everything else, you basically dump all your shares before they crash down and the market goes. So all of this data, it's extremely valuable just from that point of view. So yeah, you know, it's pretty wild. Yeah. Yeah, but the thing is, Steph, the thing is, Stefano, I'm not that interesting, so I don't care if they know about me. You know, you know, I'm not doing anything wrong, so why do I care as well? You know, and I you know, no one's gonna want to hack me. I'm you know, um I'm just no one, you know, no one cares. That that's what you hear all the time. Yeah, you're you are looking very um 1980s VHS cassette at the moment. Oh wow. I just want to ask chat, you know you know, is the live stream still showing properly? It's just I haven't seen any anything come up in chat for a little while. Have you just switched um network now? Because you've just literally your picture's gone perfect again. Uh, you know, from from my end now. So anyway, okay, let let's let Stefano switch live and like see if it actually I I think this might go terribly wrong, Stefano, but I'm gonna let you try and do it. So, anyway, guys, the next news is all about kind of regulation, and there's a massive Supreme Court case in the US coming up involving ISPs and Sony music. Now, I'm not gonna talk about it till Stefano gets back, but it's got massive implications, I think, for the whole of the internet as a whole. So it's a really important test case, and I hope Sony lose. But anyway, let's wait for Stefano to come back. There we are. He's definitely dropped off now because the stream has gone from there. Oh, Marcus, you are an OpenShift administrator. Um, saying in chat here. I'm just letting him back in. I'm back, baby. Here he is. You're still a bit pixelated, Stefano.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I actually I realize since I cleaned up my network rack, I uh can't switch internet providers that easily. So it just went back to where it was.
SPEAKER_00:I I reckon you're probably just downloading like the latest um update from Escape from Tarkov at the same time, and it's taking all the bandwidth. That's what it is, guys. You know, you know, he's um he's gonna be playing that when when he's finished on his fancy 4090.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. You got me.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, talk talking of networks. I actually switched from PF Sense to OpenSense. Um I think it was not this week, but last week. I had like PF Sense, there was an update. I thought I'm gonna do an update. And normally I always do a backup before I do an update. It was getting late and I just couldn't be bothered. And um the update looked like it was okay. It rebooted and wouldn't boot into pfSense. And the thing that really annoyed me is you know, pfSense runs off CFS. Why doesn't it make a snapshot before it backs up? The the data set that was meant to hold the config, it was just totally empty. I just thought it's not really cool. And I kind of feel that pfSense are moving further and further away from you know the community, the community kind of open source version. You know, even to download it, you have to set up an account now. Um yeah, big surprise there. I feel like sense. And I thought I'm going open sense. It feels like like and I'm I'm pretty happy with it.
SPEAKER_01:Every company is just doing whatever they can to just destroy themselves. And I don't understand this whole okay, there's two things I don't understand. One, we're like entering the AI apocalypse, kind of like how we had the adpocalypse before. We have the AI apocalypse, so everything has to have AI, whether it's useful or not. It's kind of like um like what one why does OneDrive need AI? Well, it doesn't for us. It's just something that Microsoft is doing to collect data for God knows what reason. But I mean, it's just like it's silly. Like, oh, your calculator has AI. Why does my calculator have AI? Why does everything have to AI? It's it's the same thing with ads.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I I'm looking forward to when the AI bubble bursts. Okay, it's like, you know, it's it's pretty crazy.
SPEAKER_01:Unfortunately, like even if the AI bubble does bust, like I still think companies are gonna try and push AI in every facet of of what so uh this is an interesting statistic, and I don't I don't know how true this is or how accurate it is, but um have you ever have you ever heard of Gartner? They're like this huge company that works with other huge companies. What are they called, sir? Gartner.
SPEAKER_00:Gartner, I don't think I have no.
SPEAKER_01:Uh let me here, let me put it in chat just so like everyone can read it. Pretty sure this is how you spell it. Pretty sure. So anyway, um I think they they had a study where um like ever every company that they've ever talked to or worked with or have a relationship with who has implemented AI, um, 30% of all companies have successfully implemented AI to some degree uh in their workflows or or whatever it might be. Uh everyone else has failed and wasted money. And we're not talking about just like, you know, thousands of dollars. We're talking about potentially billions of dollars.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, I really want to move on and talk about this because this is something that is, I think, quite a worrying thing. Um so Cox Communications have a Supreme Court case on ISP copyright liability. So the US Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could fundamentally pretty much change how much responsibility ISPs have for copyright infringement by their users. So this goes back, in fact, over a decade to 2013-2014. Sony basically uh sued Cox for music downloads, people downloading, I don't know what they're using then, things like probably Napster and things like that. And they basically said they basically said you're not kind of um terminating people's internet connections for downloading. So you need to pay us damages of one billion. And it got to court, I think, in 2018. These things, I didn't realise how long they take to go through court. They take absolutely ages to go through court. Court. So they basically were told, you know, a billion dollar verdict. They appealed about it. And it was kind of said, well, you're going to have to pay something. And that amount wasn't ever agreed on as to how much it was going to be. And then Cox tried to say, we don't think we should have to pay anything. And that was overturned. They said, no, you should have to pay something. And now the court case is on the first of December. And basically the core issue is whether an ISP is liable just by knowing about the infringement, or they have to actively encourage it. Because it was always you have to actively encourage it was a thing before. But a ruling in favor of Sony could force ISPs basically to monitor user activity, and basically they'll be our copyright police and potentially terminating connections based on accusations alone. So think about that. University dormitories, you know, you're an owner of a small coffee shop and you have, you know, all of these things can get you cut off. And also, what some people haven't thought about, maybe, and I was thinking about this over the last few days when prepping for this podcast, is VPNs. Okay. So if this goes through, there are apparently there are loads of other court cases stacked up on the back of this. So if Sony basically get win this case, Cox will be the first um ISP that will be hit with huge fines. And then all of them will. And then they're going to basically pass those costs on to us. So internet will go up a lot. And they will become the internet will lose its neutrality. But also then the VPNs, they, you know, VPNs, a lot of people use it for, you know, stopping their ISP knowing what they're downloading. And so then people like Sony and when these court cases have been gone through and set a precedent, then they're going to be able to turn around to a VPN and say, hey, you know, you you know about this, and so you're going to have to terminate accounts. And in the end, it's going to be too expensive for VPNs to run. I feel that this can be used as an attack on VPNs because think of the backlash there would be if governments and things said like, we're going to ban a V VPNs. They were talking about it in the UK. They've been talking about it, yeah. Yeah. So this is a backdoor way of doing it. And I just think, you know, I really need a tinfoil hat to wear at the moment. But I always think these stories, they don't happen, you know. We always think that stories happen in total isolation. We hear one thing on the news, that's that. We hear something else. But sometimes they're not in isolation. It's just funny, isn't it? Like all of this goes back to 2014. And now, as soon as, like, you know, my country has brought in these rules, so you have to be kind of 18 to go on certain websites and certain social media things, and you have to use, you know, facial recognition to be able to do that. You can use a thing and it scans your face, and it an AI will work out. Do you look like you're over 18? So collecting biometric data. Um, the way around it is using a VPN, so you can go to the website a different way. But this can be used to basically kill VPNs, commercial VPNs, but it won't make the VPN protocol illegal. So companies can still use VPNs point-to-point, but what it could do is it can make VPNs so you know they're gonna be using an ISP to exit their traffic. So if this wins, I would say VPNs might become a thing of the past, you know. What what are your thoughts, Stefano? Do you agree with my tin foil hack conspiracy theory?
SPEAKER_01:Uh I think that's I think yeah, I mean, yeah, overall, I think I would agree. And honestly, so earlier you said that, you know, internet's gonna get more expensive. Personally, I I already think internet's already there. So in the United States, anyway, ATT they just did this, okay? So I was paying$60 a month for 300 megabit per second, which is you know, pretty expensive, I would say. What they did is they're like, oh, hey, we don't offer 300 megabits anymore, but for just five more dollars, you can have 500 megabits, which is their new lowest tier. Well, I don't want 500 and I don't want to pay five more dollars. In fact, I think I should be able to pay for 100 megabit per second, but they don't offer it. And so what makes it more egregious is if I wanted to um so the government has a program where ISPs are legally obligated to offer cheaper speeds and programs. Now, in order to do that, I have to prove that I'm essentially poor, right? I don't make enough money to afford or I don't make enough money, so therefore they should provide me a cheaper service. And I don't see like why that's a thing. Like it that seems so unfair. Like I should be able to just have cheaper options available to me, but I can't. And so I think like if this definitely kicks off, you're right, they're gonna pass the costs off to customers, it'll be even more expensive. And you know, like uh there's there are some days, Ed, where I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna cancel my home internet altogether because it's getting egregiously expensive. And um, like if you look at like uh a mobile carrier like Verizon or ATT, so just for two lines, we used to pay$183 for two lines. It's so expensive. And for what? So we can use the internet, so we can call and text. So so we we finally switched to a different uh provider. Now it's it's$50 a month for both of us, which is significantly cheaper. But you know, how long before that becomes more expensive? Or how long before this? Well, I was downloading, maybe maybe I wasn't downloading, maybe it was like at a like a coffee shop, like you said, and now you know, uh, because somebody else was downloading data, you know, my my plan's gonna be more expensive because Sony was like, oh, we're suing, you know, your new provider, um, and that's gonna increase cost for you, right? Like that that's basically I think that's like perfect. Like what you said was perfect. And I don't I don't think it should be the job of the ISPs to do it. And I think Sony needs to just no stop trying to they probably waste more money trying to fight copyright infringement. And you know, like in some cases, I totally understand. Yeah, somebody totally shared a YouTube video or I'm sorry, a movie over YouTube or whatever, totally get it. But how much money do you are they realistically losing to piracy? Yeah, I think it's so insignificant that you know it doesn't really matter.
SPEAKER_00:And also all of this data goes back to 2013, 2014. There weren't even streaming services like Spotify then. You know, who pirates music nowadays? No one, because the streaming services for music are really good, but the streaming services for video are getting worse and worse because you have to have about a hundred different streaming services to watch everything you want. But um, I think as well, you know, the the internet nowadays is pretty much an essential utility for a lot of people. And in 2014 it wasn't. So, you know, you can cut someone off now, and it can really be have serious reperc repetition for people, you know, sorry, repercussions for people.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You know, you need it, you know, you know, submitting tax returns. Um, everything you have to do online nowadays, it's like, oh, you know, go go on online and do this. Go on, you know, you cut someone off, you know, you could really be affecting their life in a in a serious way, and that could be just because one of your kids' friends came over and downloaded you know some copyrighted material and it was nothing to do with you. You know, I'm sure there would be some kind of strike system, like you know, it's not gonna be oh just one thing, but hear me out.
SPEAKER_01:They have a strike system, but it's handled by AI. And when you go to um to fight back about that copyright strike, you don't talk to a person, you talk to another AI who analyzes everything, and it and it decides on your behalf whether you're right or wrong. And if it decides that you're wrong, then you have to submit another request for uh a complaint or whatever to fight it. But unfortunately, you have to get in queue to talk to a person uh and it could take months and the entire time you have no ISP. Wait a minute. That sounds awfully familiar, kind of like YouTube.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well, I'm not gonna rant on about YouTube again. Um and my poor little video that was banned for no good reason.
SPEAKER_01:Um oh, but um But you did hear about all those channels that just recently got banned, right? Off YouTube?
SPEAKER_00:No.
SPEAKER_01:I think this just happened like yesterday. Like 300 channels were banned off YouTube.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01:Let's see, YouTube banned 300, and by AI, which makes it worse or the algorithm.
SPEAKER_00:It's gotta be it's gotta be accurate. I've got a love-hate relationship with AI, I'll tell you. I do love AI and I hate it at the same time. I mean, well, it's reminds me of an old girlfriend I had.
SPEAKER_01:It would be the I think the what makes AI great is that it's a useful tool. The problem is companies are just throwing AI at the wall to see what sticks, and then they're just like it, they're not they're not taking the time to actually do it correctly. They're it's more like a break-fix thing. Hey, we did this thing, oh, it broke these things. All right, we'll fix it. Now it broke these things. Like they're they're just rushing these things out the door to try and make money.
SPEAKER_00:And also, like it I think with AI now it's got to a point where the kind of algorithms can't be improved much more, and the AI arms race is now coming down to infrastructure and hardware. And the problem is, is then the best models, like it's only certain, you know, kind of companies and stakeholders that can actually compete. And that that's the kind of worrying thing. But I'll move on to that later on on a different story, to be honest. But did you manage to find out which about the 300 people banned off YouTube?
SPEAKER_01:Um, I I did Google it. Um, and it looks like that did happen yesterday. Uh, but I'm having trouble finding something that lines up with what I thought. The first thing that came up was from some company, but this one says like YouTube bans multiple channels over link to unknown accounts, which isn't what I would I what I've been reading. So maybe this is something different. And have you you've heard of vidIQ, right? Do you use vid IQ for your YouTube channel? Yeah, so vidIQ.
SPEAKER_00:But um Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Well, anyway, they I guess they were like somehow involved in this. I haven't really read this, but anyway, whatever the case uh seems to be that AI is driving the ban on YouTube, and it's just I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. You know, like when my video got banned, um it was banned within under an hour of being up. And um the video I think was something like 34 minutes long, and I appealed the ban, and then within half an hour, the ban was the appeal was like, Oh no, your appeal is not successful. And I'm thinking, well, obviously no human looked at it because I got the result or got the result of the appeal in less time than the video runtime is. But what one good thing is is that is um Linus actually spoke about it on um the WAN show, and I was very happy that he spoke about that. And my video being for that, I thought, yeah, thank you, Linus. I love you. Nice, that's awesome. That was that was pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01:Um, so Eric in chat says, you know, companies will spend millions to save a dollar, which is a hundred percent true, and that kind of goes back to Sony, what they're doing.
SPEAKER_00:What my grandma used to say to my granddad, because my my granddad was a real kind of miser, like he would, he would like turn the TV off when going out of the sitting room, and if you kind of didn't turn the light off for a moment, and then he'd kind of waste money on kind of like buying something ridiculous out of the back of this magazine we used to have called the Reader's Digest. I don't know if you ever had that in the in the US, but they had little adverts you could buy kind of little little model cars for about a hundred pounds, which in the kind of 1990s was a lot of money. And my grandma always used to say you're pennywise and pound foolish. So an American translation would be you're cent wise and dollar foolish.
SPEAKER_01:And I think like, you know, um well and the way so you gotta save those cents.
SPEAKER_00:That's very true, yeah. Uh anyway, moving on to our next story. Um, I'm going to Oh, wait, can I interrupt you one more time? Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_01:To kind of talk about ads. So you heard about the Samsung refrigerator having ads on it, right?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like, I'm surprised it took this long. I like I've known this would be a thing for a long time, and they finally started rolling it out. And it's like, what took you guys so long? I want to know what people I want to know what the common man thinks. I need to talk to a common person and see what they think.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, come on. No one, no one must like it. You know, the only time someone would like it is if they could buy the refrigerating for a little bit less and have some adverts on there, then they'll go, okay, I'm happy for that. But what they don't realize is, you know, the company would just say, Oh, this is normally fifteen hundred dollars, but you can buy the ad-supported one for thirteen hundred and save the money. But you know, um, it's like a fake price drop. Yeah, I mean, so like make the price higher to drop it, you know. That's what I agree with you. You know, look at Amazon now. Honestly, look at the Amazon prices now before Black Friday, and you will probably find they will go up just before Black Friday, then they'll drop them down to this price and go, hey, you know, was this and now is this?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and speaking of Amazon, everyone that shops on Amazon, make sure you go to camel cam. This is not an endorsement, by the way. Undray doesn't support this or endorse this, but a good price tracker is camel camel camel.com. I use them all the time personally for any of my Amazon shopping. But so Ed, you're saying you know nobody likes it.
SPEAKER_00:What? I was gonna say, talking about Amazon, have you heard that Amazon is suing perplexity for um AI agents that do shopping on Amazon and they're kind of making a big fuss about it?
SPEAKER_01:Really? I love using AI to shop. AI is really good at shopping.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Well, Amazon doesn't like you doing it, so don't do it, Stephanie. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Um so so you you mentioned like nobody's gonna like ads, right? Uh on their refrigerators and things, right? If nobody likes ads, then how come so many people are willing to pay for service like Hulu that at has ads, or to pay for television that has ads?
SPEAKER_00:Because they don't have an alternative.
SPEAKER_01:That's that is true. That is definitely true, but it's like I think the the convenience factor of just like, well, I just won't pay for television is so great that that's why they put up with it. But it's like it it's unfair, man. It really is unfair because your refrigerator shouldn't display ads to you just just so you can save some extra money. All that means to me is that they could make the product cheaper, but they're trying to offset any any cost where possible with advertisements, and they're preying upon people who have no option to opt out.
SPEAKER_00:Right. I'm gonna show you something, Stefano, because about ads and opting out of ads. Are you using Brave Browser yet?
SPEAKER_01:No, I'm not using Brave Browser.
SPEAKER_00:I you promised me you were gonna try. When I came and saw you in the States, you promised me you were gonna try Brave. Yes, you did.
SPEAKER_01:That doesn't sound like something I would say.
SPEAKER_00:It's all locked up up here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Look, it's just a matter of time before Brave Browser gets bought out and becomes in shit if I'd like everything else. So I'm just I'm just not gonna use it. I don't have to worry about it.
SPEAKER_00:Right. When I shared my screen earlier about, for instance, OneDrive's AI recognition, I'm gonna show you that same page on Chrome. Okay. So I'm gonna share my screen again.
SPEAKER_01:Stop using Chrome.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, but this is like because it's got no uh you know has no ad block in it.
SPEAKER_01:But okay. Well, everyone that jumps shipped to Chrome, I blame all of you people for giving us worse internet, and you should all feel bad.
SPEAKER_00:Look at look at all that, yeah? Loads of ads in it, like War Thunder. Look how far I have to scroll down before I see this this bit here, yeah? Of these things. And so now I'm going to actually um stop this and I'm gonna share my Brave browser. Um, so I've got so many windows open. I'm gonna go back to so there's the same page in Brave. Okay, no War Thunder. We've got this right at the top, everything's stripped out. So, you know, if you don't like ads, Brave Browser is a great tool to use, in my opinion.
SPEAKER_01:That's actually that's actually a pretty neat. Um it's funny because when you brought it up the first time, like I'm I'm so I've grown up with ads. So like I have blinders, right? So when the ads come on, like I feel like I've just gone blind. But normally what I would do for like a website like this, if it was overwhelming, I would just close it and and never go back. Like it whatever information is there is just not important enough for me to see.
SPEAKER_00:But as well, if you know you go, we've all seen like speed tests, no, no ads at the side. It's lovely, you know? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And uh everyone should stop using speed tests, by the way, because your ISP is totally uh using quality of service to make sure that you have the highest possible connection to speed test.net. Just so everyone knows.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. How come that doesn't surprise me, Stephanie?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's kind of like the whole 4G, 5G argument.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, oh don't get me talking about that.
SPEAKER_01:It's not real. 5G is not real.
SPEAKER_00:5GE, which is basically um 4G LTE, and they just brand it. I know like uh it's crazy, right? As well, um I recently um got got a new phone and I got an iPhone. I still got my graphene phone, and I'm using kind of two phones. So I've got my graphene one and I've got this iPhone one here. And the iPhone it it had terrible, it's got really terrible um cell reception compared to the um Google phone. And then I found out that um in Android they changed it so you have like five bars. And Apple you have four. Yes. And I think they can make it so it, you know, in Android it kind of looks like you've got a better signal than you really do. And anyhow, you know, this phone it kind of drops a signal quite a lot. But what I found out, and I'm gonna share something with you guys, give me one moment. Um, okay, let me excuse me, viewers.
SPEAKER_01:I'm just gonna say real quick while you do that. On iPhone, if you don't have full full bars, you basically don't have coverage from my experience.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. But what you can do on iPhone, yeah, dial star three double zero one hash one two three four five hash star. That gets you into a special menu, and you'll be able to see the proper um signal strength. D um 50 dB is a really good signal. Anything under 120, you basically have the you know, it will it will just drop the call pretty much definitely. That's so cool. I did try actually saving this as a contact in in the um iPhone and then clicking dial, then it goes your number can't be completed as dial. But if you type it in, it works. Don't ask me why. And on Android, if you want to check the same, go to settings about phone and sim status, and you can see the real um you can you can see the real actual sell reception you're getting. So it's quite good to do if you're thinking about moving house, you go and like look at the house you're viewing, type that into your phone, or go onto Android and look at the sim status, and you'll be able to see the actual real cell reception you'll get in that place. The the um lower the number, the better, you know, the higher, the closer to like 110, 120, you're gonna have terrible reception.
SPEAKER_01:So I kind of do that with like when I look in a neighborhood, I'm like, I also look to see what ISPs are available in that neighborhood before committing. So it's gonna it's gonna be kind of funny to add this to my uh my thing. I I can show my I'm willing to show my uh my output for my phone for that uh what it looks like, what that dashboard looks like, but you have to change the screens.
SPEAKER_00:I do like what's going on here. Ah, okay. I was pressing the unshare button and I'm not sure. I'm not sharing my um unshare.
SPEAKER_01:Is that a new Unrid product?
SPEAKER_00:My browser. I yeah. New unshare 7.2. All right. There we are, Stefano.
SPEAKER_01:So okay. I don't know if this is gonna focus right, but I'll try. Oh, so that that's what it looks like. I think that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00:That's iPhone, isn't it? That one.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's iPhone.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I've blurred out my number and other identifiable things for my safety. I can't trust you people. Oh, well then.
SPEAKER_00:No, I know your phone number, Stefano. Which one?
SPEAKER_01:I have two.
SPEAKER_00:The one I put on screen and sharing with with everyone.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, okay. Yeah, that's fine. Yep, that's mine.
SPEAKER_00:Anyway, um went off on a little bit of a tangent there. I'm trying to stick to our to our um news topics. So I'm sorry, I'm a distractor. Australia. I'm gonna move on to Australia for all of our Australian um listeners who might be out there. So the next one is an interesting from a regulatory perspective because starting from December the 10th, Australia is bringing in one of the world's strictest social media age bands. So platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube as well. Um, they all must take reasonable steps to prevent anyone under 16 from accessing their services. I again share my screen. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Uh so you know, we were talking about uh how the internet's a utility. I didn't even think about this, but Eric brought up a good point in chat. You you even need internet to keep your cars up to date and also your appliances. Yeah. I didn't even think about cars. Yeah. That's fine.
SPEAKER_00:That's for sure. But I guess with cars, they've they've got their own SIM card in them.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, yeah, but you usually have to pay for it. Well, it depends on the brand, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:I've got a dumb car. My car luckily doesn't have internet connection in it. I heard the um GM, what they're scrapping up Apple CarPlay and they're wanting to build their own um system.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because that goes that'll go great. The problem with like uh traditional manufacturers is they just don't understand infotainment systems, they never have, and I feel like they they never will. Because even when they use Apple CarPlay, they give you the worst possible CPU and stuff, so everything just feels clunky anyway. And it's like, Well, just don't even give me an infotainment system at this point.
SPEAKER_00:So going back to this story here, the social media ban. So basically, people under six under 16 are not gonna be allowed to use you know Facebook, TikTok, edit, YouTube, and even the parents they can't say we're gonna allow our children to do this, um, we're gonna say it's okay. No, it's a blanket ban. So if it's a blanket ban. Oh, and also um companies are gonna be fined up to 50 million Australian dollars if they if they don't basically stop children from being able to go on these platforms.
SPEAKER_01:What is uh 50 million dollar edues in American dollars? Like one million?
SPEAKER_00:Um I I think an Australian dollar is about 40 cents, US.
SPEAKER_01:I'm probably wrong. Sorry, I thought you were talking about million. I was like, wow, that's even worse than what I said. No, okay.
SPEAKER_00:No, I'm not talking Zimbabwe dollars. Um, so so yeah, so one dollar I think is about you know 40 Australian cents, I think. I'm I might be wrong. Um But so basically, obviously, if that's the case, then everyone in Australia, everyone in Australia, they must be kind of using one of those things, you know, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, something they're gonna be using. So that means that everyone in Australia is gonna have to prove that they're over 16. So this is another UK thing. And is it gonna be kind of biometrical facial scans and this kind of thing? This to me is kind of all linking into the same kind of thing that I was talking about. And that's why I kind of say, you know, you know, the the UK is doing this, we're losing the freedom on the internet, and you know, who's putting these people in charge to say that these things can happen? It's just a dystopian age verification system, you know, it'd be interesting to see how this plays out and whether other countries follow suit, you know.
SPEAKER_01:So, you know, it's interesting. Well, so one thing that surprised me with this ban is that even parents couldn't give consent to their children, which is uh a first if I've ever seen it. Uh but what's more interesting too, so like YouTube, they they have a YouTube kids app, so it's a completely separate application uh to watch YouTube. I think they That's okay. Uh well for now, yeah. That's okay for now.
SPEAKER_00:But I think that's not excluded, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, currently. But I think YouTube actually is getting rid of that app, the YouTube Kids app. YouTube Kids app. I'm looking this up right now. I think they're getting rid of it because my kid, he has the YouTube kids app um, you know, to watch like um blippy and other other things, but I think they're getting rid of it. And I was like, wait, wait, wait, you want me to put so you want me to put YouTube, the app, on his iPad where I have to sign into it, and then you can and he's smart enough to just switch profiles. And so if he just switches profiles, he has full access to uh YouTube, right? YouTube's kid app going away? It's be yeah, it's being discontinued on smart TVs. It says on July 2024, but his is his kids app is still working right now.
SPEAKER_00:But but also um I don't know how they're gonna do it with YouTube because you don't even have to sign into YouTube to watch YouTube. Do you think they're gonna make it that everyone has to sign in in Australia and then maybe that will be rolled out? Because you you can go without signing in and watch things, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean, you can't really watch anything except ads, really, if you're not on YouTube.
SPEAKER_00:So Brave browser.
SPEAKER_01:Um, but in all seriousness, uh yeah, I don't I don't know how that would work. I think YouTube does have like a rating system. Because like so, you're a content creator, right? And it's like, hey, who is the target audience for this, right? So you can say kids or not kids or 18 plus. So yeah. I don't know what happens when you specifically target kids, but I think there's like age groups in there as well. And I think that's maybe how they do it by default. But I mean, well, actually, no, because then if you're not signed in, then how would YouTube know? Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point, Ed.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it'd be interesting to see. I I just see the internet as kind of like literally being, you know, squeezed and we're losing a lot of the freedom we have and the anaminity, I think I'm saying that correctly. Um, and the next story basically kind of ties into that a little bit. Um, you know, Stefano, remember an Android was supposed to be the open alternative to Apple's wall garden? Well, now Google's busy building its own wall, but they've just painted open source on it in little tiny letters. Because Google plans to introduce a mandatory developer verification requirement in 2026. And the worry is, is this could genuinely spend um spell the end of F-Droid and other open source app stores. The new rules would require all Android developers to register with Google, pay a fee, and submit government ID. So, you know, what F-Droid is saying is like they can't just ask all of their developers to literally prove who they are, because a lot of open source developers don't want, you know, you know, they don't want to, you know, um they they want to be anonymous, you know. And obviously, F-Droid can't kind of take over all of the projects uh, you know, of these things. You know, is this gonna be the end of F-Droid?
SPEAKER_01:Um so you know, so it's kind of funny, okay? Imagine right now if Bitcoin mining and a Bitcoin mining app for your phone had just come out, and uh Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to be anonymous and non-existent, and basically just be out of he wanted just anonymous, he wanted to be anonymous, right? So would Bitcoin be allowed today on Google?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like that's a good point.
SPEAKER_00:No, it wouldn't, would it?
SPEAKER_01:It's funny how you know, certain things like Bitcoin can just you can remain relatively anonymous on, and that's acceptable because it has like a monetary value. But you know, God forbid there's some open source app uh that you know lets you do something ad-free or whatever on on somebody else's phone. So this goes back, you don't own anything.
SPEAKER_00:You don't like you know, a phone is just a computer, and Lewis Rossman says it a lot, you know, your a phone is a computer, you know, in your pocket. Like, why does anyone get to choose what software you can install on it? You know, it belongs to me, not to Apple or Google. And it's only a matter of time, probably before, you know, desktop computers would be, oh, you can't install that. You know, on Apple it's getting harder to install things um that aren't kind of signed and that kind of thing.
SPEAKER_01:Um but but at least on Apple, you know, if you're like, hey, delete this application, uh every time there's an update, they don't just like put it back on your desktop anyway.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And uh and speaking of speaking of which, okay, so I don't I don't know if this is 100% valid. This is my fault. I should have looked it up first. I didn't know we'd talk about this, but this recently became on my radar. So allegedly, conspiracy hat time, allegedly, uh Internet exp Internet Exploder is still in your operating system, but it's so well hidden that the only way to know that it's truly there is if you install like uh data center, like let's say uh Windows Data Center 2022. And when you open up um Edge, it's actually Internet Exploder, but in a sandbox. So it's still using Internet Exploder, and um, you're not actually using Microsoft Edge. Have you heard this? I love it.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know, but I haven't heard it being called Internet Exploder before, and I actually love that.
SPEAKER_01:Really? Yeah, no, you want to blow up your Windows PC using an exploder.
SPEAKER_00:No, all of this, you know, um, you know, Google trying to kind of make a wall garden and have this, it's it's you know, really sad. Like that's why, you know, I guess, you know, use Graphene OS.
SPEAKER_01:How long is Graphene OS going to be allowed to be installed on your uh phone?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, um that's true. You know, we don't know if Google could make it so in future pixels it can't be. But um talking about I want to go and talk about ads again because I was listening to a Lewis, a Lewis Rossman video today. Um I was in the car, so I'm not sure if it was a recent video or an old one, but he was talking about something called ad nauseum. Have you heard of ad nauseum?
SPEAKER_01:I've heard of it, but I don't know what what it is.
SPEAKER_00:It's a blocker, it's an ad blocker, okay. But what it does is it blocks the ads so you can't see them, but also it clicks on every single ad on the page or whatever you go to in order to mess with the kind of advertisers. So it messes up their business model basically, because every single ad gets clicked on and it and it's never followed through. So the more people that use it, it will kind of mess with advertising. And Lewis Rossman was saying he thinks it's great because if you de-incentivize people to have targeted ads, maybe they won't pay what maybe they won't pay to um to kind of use targeted ads. But you know, ad nauseum, I'd never heard of it before, I haven't ever tried it, but I thought that was an interesting ad blocker, how it tries to actually, you know, mess with the advertising companies as well, because they always want you to click on the ad. So this basically does it for you, but you just don't see any of it. So it's interesting. So you need the bandwidth to do it because it will be using bandwidth.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So uh moving on to our next topic. Um, this is a big one. OpenAI and Broadcom announce a 10 gigawatt custom AI chip deal. So OpenAI and Broadcom have announced a massive deal for 10 gigawatts worth of custom AI accelerators. So to put that in perspective, that's enough electricity to power a couple of large cities, not small towns, proper cities. So, you know, isn't it funny that it's fine for AI to use lots of electricity, but um Bitcoin was meant to be the most evil thing in the world because it used a fraction of the amount that AI does.
SPEAKER_01:Well, Bitcoin's not evil anymore because now it's making people money. It's a uh investment, it's that's something you'll add to your investment portfolio to round it out. So it's acceptable.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:The uh what's funny is what's really funny about this actual announcement is um so I think Broadcom uh personally, my my experience with Broadcom has always been very negative. And so I uh imagine that when Broadcom chips start rolling out, it'll be like, oh yeah, we have this AI chip for you know whatever, but it doesn't come with this feature because you didn't buy the super massive ultra version of it. Whereas like a lot of like and I and I specifically am targeting or talking about like um network cards. Um so like Broadcom network cards, they'll typically just omit certain network features. And whereas like if you buy from Intel, Intel typically has almost all the features available to their uh network adapters.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So you know, with with this deal, like OpenAI are gonna design the chips, comm will build and deploy them. With the rollout starting, I think it's in late 2026. This is part of OpenAI's strategy to control its AI hardware stack. And if like what I was saying earlier, is it seems now that it's not the algorithms being improved, it it's the infrastructure, the power, the the hardware, etc. You know, so um, you know, um they're building these more powerful models without being entirely dependent on Nvidia. Unlike Stefano's 2090, which pulls 450 watts to run tarkov at medium settings, this actually requires a serious power infrastructure.
SPEAKER_01:Excuse me, I think you mean 4090.
SPEAKER_00:What did I say 3090 today?
SPEAKER_01:2090.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, 2090, god so all these data Stefano's 4090.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. All these data centers are are that are getting built. Are these the is this the reason why RAM is on short like having a shortage right now?
SPEAKER_00:Yep. Um basically, oh god, don't don't talk about RAM. Crazy prices, man. Absolutely insane prices. Yeah. Um AI is pushing up the price of RAM. And just look at that. This here, 200 pounds for a 32 gig stick of basically laptop DDR5 RAM. I bought this for a little micro PC um about 12 months ago, and I think I paid£70. So um it's gone up quite a lot. Let's see how much of it is at Amazon here. Oh, okay, not quite so much.£125, but still I bought it for 70.
SPEAKER_01:All right, yeah, yeah. Take that link and punch it in camel, camel, camel. I wanna I wanna see some history here.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, let me try that. This is a website I've not used, Stephanie.
SPEAKER_01:You haven't used camel, camel, camel. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00:Oh god, where the hell is the website?
SPEAKER_01:All the all the ads being served to you first. It's just camel, camel, camel.com. Okay. It's better to just use AI to find the websites you want versus just Google searching. You know, remember how before Google existed and you had to know somebody who knew uh like a forum to find information you were looking for? We're kind of getting back to that. All right, yeah, yeah. Look at that price history.
SPEAKER_00:There, look at that bit there. That line goes straight up.
SPEAKER_01:It does.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, there we are. Look, that that must have been the price I bought it at about here, 70 pounds. It's gone straight up to 126. So that's over okay, so it's been high for a month. Yeah, so just just before the beginning of October, it just rocketed up.
SPEAKER_01:That's pretty good timing.
unknown:Yeah, that is.
SPEAKER_01:And I think the uh the price is actually getting close back to MSRP because when you had it on all, I bet that the price that they had listed there um was uh like when it came like when it hit the market back there in November on the far left. Oh, right, yeah. Yeah, that's probably when it released. That is crazy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, because when it released here, look, it was looks like it was 95, then it went up in November of last year. This might not be in the actual stick I bought, to be honest, but it may not be.
SPEAKER_01:And that's 32 gig stick. Um that's why I like pasting the link. Well, that one says it's 32 gigs. Pasting the link is always like uh good. Or you can also just use the search function there to find, you know, like a similar product.
SPEAKER_00:Um that's a really cool website. I really, I really like that, Stephanie. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:It's significantly so everyone was raving about Honey and uh those other price trackers, but you know, I it was silly to me because you know, honey is not showing you the full price history of a product, right? And so I've been using Camel Camel probably for maybe nearly 10 years now. And um, you know, everyone's like, oh, honey, honey, honey, is like you are all idiots for using this because you even honey is not showing you the true price. And so you could when you have the full price history of a product, you can very clearly easily tell if it's a good deal or not. And so this tool alone has probably saved me, I don't know, hundreds of dollars on Black Friday.
SPEAKER_00:Wow, that's really good.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, and it's free, but yeah, because of ads.
SPEAKER_00:It's it yeah, it's it seriously, like AI, it's kind of messing up quite a lot of things, isn't it? Really? Like as I said, I've got a love-hate relationship with AI. I love using AI, it's such a cool tool. Um, I use it in a lot of my videos. Um I use it for music, I use Suno for making music for my videos.
SPEAKER_01:I heard you like making very sensual music for your YouTube videos. Did you see that post on Reddit?
SPEAKER_00:Idiot. I I didn't know.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, dude, somebody posted on Reddit. Whoa, the unraid 7.2 was uh introduction was a very sensual song, and I was like, what? I had to go back and re-listen to the intro, and I was like, at what point is this at all sensual? And I was like, it's a a woman singing? Is that just because it's a woman singing that makes it sense? I don't know, it was it was strange.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but I I love using Suno. The reason being is because I used to use these kind of services where you pay like kind of$250 a year and you've got a whole category of of music that you're allowed to use that they say is copyright-free. I was I was using that, and suddenly I'd like come up with like a copyright thing, and then I'd have to like paste in to say and I thought I just can't be bothered with that anymore. And Suno to be able to just make music that has absolutely no copyright and is only mine, it's just a far better thing. And any content creators out there who are listening, use Suno. Um, I think it's about 10 bucks a month. You can make your own tunes in the style you want, and you can use them in all of your YouTube videos, and you're not going to get any aggro from YouTube about it.
SPEAKER_01:So you know, speaking of um really like it music. So you know how like the music creator uh on on uh studio or yeah, like on YouTube creator app, right? You have studio.youtube.com or whatever it is. So they they have an AI integration now where you can also like prompt it to make music. Uh but that's besides the point.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't know that. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's it's it's okay. I haven't I'm not I haven't really explored using AI for music yet, but that's kind of besides the point. I actually wanted to give some kudos to YouTube. Oh, it's the end of the world, Ed. I'm me actually saying that you know YouTube did something right.
SPEAKER_00:Are you okay today?
SPEAKER_01:Uh yeah, I'm fine. Uh there is not a there is not a YouTube overlord behind the door behind me, and uh everything is great.
SPEAKER_00:Uh but no, and seriously blink it blink blink if you're being forced to say this, Stefano.
SPEAKER_01:Everything is great, but in all seriousness, the mu the music part, you know how like you can uh like you've I don't know if you've used YouTube music for any of your videos in the past, but remember when they switched to like now you can actually pay the creators through YouTube Music to use the music they made and then started adding licensing models and all that stuff. Remember that? The one thing that I think they did good. Oh, okay, okay. Well, the one thing I think they did good was um all of your old videos that had that license or that had that uh music license free. If the creator of that wanted to now force you to have a license or ask, you know, to be paid for their work, um, if it was already done on a previous video, you don't have to pay them a royalty or do anything. It's still free. But moving forward, you do have to pay them. And that was like, wow, thank you for not like ruining potentially hundreds of videos on on YouTube because now like I don't have to. It's not that I don't want to pay these creators, right? It just wasn't a thing back then. Like it was it was just free music, so we're just using it. And so so it's cool that you know we don't have to worry about suddenly, oh, thousands of dollars from all these old videos that use this one particular song now have to be attributed to the creator. And so um that's yes, you didn't hear of it because it's not a problem. Talking about music, uh Eric was like, be careful, don't let the AI copyright your music. You're gonna get a copyright strike because AI is like, hey, I've heard that song before because that's part of my model.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Damn it. Anyway, uh, talking about AI music, um, our next story is about Spotify. And Spotify partners with record labels to create artist-first AI music products. So Spotify's teaming up with major record labels like Sony, Universal, and Warner to build AI tools, which what they're calling an artist first approach. They've laid out principles to guide the work, ensuring that artists have a choice in participation and are fairly compensated.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So from what I understand, this will allow people to kind of like have um some music and they can kind of remix it in the artist's voice if they've participated into it. You know, um, I don't think you're gonna be able to actually kind of say, Hey, um Sony Music, sorry, um Spotify Music AI, make me another two-pack song with these words because he hasn't opted in because he's dead. So it's only meant to be artists that have opted in. But how I look at it is what fun is that to be able to say create some music and then not be able to share it. So how are they gonna do that? Like, and if they say you can kind of share it into Spotify, there's gonna be a million remixes of certain songs, and it's gonna just how are you gonna find what you want to listen to? I don't really know how they're gonna deal with that.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, music's kind of already become that way.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but imagine there's like a song and it's got like, you know, 5,000 remixes of it. And you're doing a search for a song and it does it just, you know.
SPEAKER_01:It's it's funny that they're like, oh, this is not supposed to replace humans, but it's like, well, if you don't want to risk replacing people in the first place, then maybe you should just not allow AI on the platform. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, have you ever heard of the story about, you know, well, the anecdote about boiling a frog in a pot of water? No. Put it in a pot of water when it's cold, and you start boiling it, the frog won't get out. You put the frog into a pot of water that's um hot, it will jump out. So basically it gets accustomed to it. So this is the first step, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01:Uh yeah, I mean it's the same thing with like every streaming service or every service, right? It's like, oh yeah, you know, it's five dollars, now it's ten dollars, now we have different tiers, and the lowest tier is cheaper, but it has ads, and eventually all tiers have ads, and you're still paying lots of money for like 4K or whatever. Yeah, it's the same, yeah, same principle.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Spotify is saying they're quite clear that these tools are intended to enhance creativity and not replace human artists. But we will just be cautious, cautiously optimistic, but very, very skeptical.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, very sceptical.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm gonna move on to the next story here. Um, let me, I'm not even gonna bother stopping sharing my screen for a moment. Is this one's particularly interesting to me because it's in the UK. Waymo is bringing its fully autonomous ride hailing service to London in 2026, which is marking its first international expansion, and they're gonna be using the Jaguar iPaces on London streets in the coming weeks, but they're gonna have, I think, uh, human safety drivers on board for now, so that'll be a bit boring. Yeah. I will wait until they no longer have them, then I can try out being driven around by AI. What could possibly go wrong?
SPEAKER_01:Hey, um, I don't know. It's uh go ahead.
SPEAKER_00:I was gonna say the interesting bit I think is like London, it's gonna be properly challenging for self-driving cars. Yeah, you guys in the States, you've got very nice, kind of like grid cities, and everything's you know, the roads are like really decent, but and the roads are larger streets and windy and yeah, so it'd be interesting to see, you know, how many um people Waymo managed to unalive during the trials or when the human drivers leave the cars.
SPEAKER_01:I I think I think honestly they'll probably just end up causing more traffic um in the cities just because they they err on the side of just stopping right there and putting their hazards on and not moving. I mean, I don't I don't have any personal experience. I will have my first Waymo experience in December. So that will be fun. We could talk about that if you you know see. Oh, yours is in 2026. Yeah. We could talk about our experiences. Yeah, but uh what I'm most interested in is so like I've been I came to visit you, right? And while I was there, we stopped in London. The number of of taxi services is insane there. Uh I love it. I mean, it's great because you can basically just hail a taxi at any point, at any time of day, and it's it's fast. There's like I feel like there's a some sort of taxi service on every corner. Um, so I wonder how disruptive, if at all, Waymo is gonna be, or like maybe these like tax companies that have all of these drivers are just gonna maybe flip over immediately and get rid of all their paid drivers. Like, I I want to know how this is gonna work. It's gonna be interesting.
SPEAKER_00:And have you heard as well, like um I can't remember who it is, but it might be Amazon. Um, they are they've got some kind of like system where it records the person when they get out of the car. They've got some sort of head heads-up display, and it it's not turned on while they're driving the van because they say it's gonna be too distracting. But what it does is when they get out of the van, it gives them a heads-up display and guides them how to get to the house where they're delivering the parcels, and then uses that data. And people are thinking that data's gonna be used in order for fully autonomous deliveries using you know some kind of AI stuff because the actual routes will be the data will be there from the drivers getting out of the car and going up to the houses and into the apartments and that kind of thing. So they'll have all of that data that seems kind of silly.
SPEAKER_01:So the um anyway, um Do you think there's gonna be a a war between the black taxis and then the white Waymo cars?
SPEAKER_00:It wouldn't surprise me. I'm sure have you ever heard of the Blade Runners in London? No. So the Blade Runners for you, um for you guys over the over in the States. We have things in London and other places in the UK whereby you have like cameras, and if you go into certain areas of London, you have to pay a congestion charge. In another bit, like admissions, they say, Oh, your car produces too much um CO2 or something. You literally literally you just get kind of you have to pay like um, I don't know,£20 or something. I'm not sure how much it is for that day. And so obviously, if you kind of work in a certain area and things like that, it ends up being very expensive. And um it it was brought into London, and there's they spent millions of pounds putting up all of these cameras, and there's a group called the Blade Runners, and they go and cut them down. Nice, and and so when you say, Will the black cab drivers fight the way by us? Um, it wouldn't surprise me.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. No, funny. So when I came to visit you, that was a surprising thing. The whole um uh fees for um, I guess like cars that pollute more, whatever. But I remember you're like, Oh, we're not gonna go down this street because I'm I don't want to risk getting fined. So you went like a longer route.
SPEAKER_00:And it's like, yeah, I did more pollution. I know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like it's like that's how the government is, though. They don't think they don't think about that stuff. They're like quick to implement things, and they're like, Well, how what happens? What are the second and third order effects of doing this thing? And inevitably it just make it worse by making people do like go.
SPEAKER_00:It's like but also how how does paying for it stop the pollution? It doesn't. The pollution is still there, but you're just paying.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, it's silly.
SPEAKER_00:And um, and that brings me back to AI with like you know, 10 gigawatts and these kind of like um you know power stations that AI companies are are going to be building. Isn't Meta building some kind of power station?
SPEAKER_01:Uh uh Yeah, allegedly I think that's in the works, or maybe acquiring yeah, acquiring an existing or uh yeah, acquiring existing nuclear power plants. And you know, it's funny too, like I remember when EVs were starting to become I really want I really want Meta to run nuclear power stations.
SPEAKER_00:I think that would be great, you know?
SPEAKER_01:It's probably the future. It literally might be the future. Uh it's funny when you know EVs became all the rage, and then power companies like, oh, we have to charge more money because now more people have EVs and the infrastructure can't support it. And then suddenly it's like these data centers are popping up everywhere with even more massive amounts of power. And it's like, oh yeah, no, this is fine. And oh, by the way, it is actually driving up costs, and guess who gets to pay for it? I do.
SPEAKER_00:Hooray. Anyways, let's move on to our next story, which is a bit more funny, I think. Well, not funny for the person who actually did it, but um um so Sang's Samsung Galaxy Ring battery swelling incident leads to someone having to go to hospital. A tech influencer um reported a scary incident, whereas Samsung Galaxy Ring's battery swelled, and it basically trapped the device on his finger, and he had to go to hospital to remove it. So um I had to actually look up what the Samsung Galaxy Ring actually was and why would anyone want a smart ring, you know. And apparently it's um tracks your heartbeat and it's like a kind of fitness thing, but it seems pretty pointless to me. I'm not sure what your thoughts are about it, Stefano.
SPEAKER_01:But um it seems pointless to me too. I don't I have no interest in that kind of technology. I got a I got a finger right here and I can check my pulse, and that's all I need to be able to do. It's super simple.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I can see someone, you know, you know, you know, wearing a smart watch, but a smart ring, come on, it's absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But you gotta consume. We need to have consumer things for consumer things people to buy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's very true.
SPEAKER_01:Um now, is it cool? Yeah, yeah, it's cool. I just I wouldn't I mean the problem with it is just it's just e-waste, is my real problem with it. You know, like yeah, like they do just enough to make it marketable, and then you know, the next one comes out and it's slightly better, and then everyone's like, well, this one actually works better and actually is better. And then it's like, you know, it's just it's just e-waste, man.
SPEAKER_00:But you know, batteries, lithium batteries, they're a pretty big problem. You know, um, there's been you know cases on catching fire in phones and people's pockets and stuff. Um, and with this ring, apparently, uh what Samsung said about it is it's extremely rare and basically pointed people to the kind of safety documentation. And a safety documentation says if you need to cut it off, you have to cut it. They've got a little mark somewhere on the ring, and you should only cut it in that particular place. Um, because if you cut it in the battery, it can cause the battery to explode. So, you know, at least they did that. At least they did. Yeah, but who reads who reads the safety instructions on these things? I don't think that's a good idea.
SPEAKER_01:No, I wouldn't.
SPEAKER_00:But it made me quite worried because I recently bought my dog a um tracker. Oh yeah. Um poor shadow. So I I was thinking like I you know, it's actually quite worrying me about the battery, thinking because I was charging up the battery and uh and it getting to 100%. I was thinking, imagine if the battery went wrong on her, you know, and kind of burnt, it'd be pretty bad.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that would be bad for Shadow. Um so Tyson uh kind of brought this up. I didn't see this in chat until just now, but uh so I guess in Utah. So due to all the new data centers being built in Eagle Mountain, Utah, I knew another Eagle Mountain once. Uh, they are now thinking of building a nuclear reactor. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, the thing is, I just don't trust any power station run by people like Google or Meta because they're gonna cut corners to save money, and the corner cutting will be safety. Oh, the AI can just run the nuclear power station. We don't need any people there at all. And yeah, what could possibly go wrong, hey? You know, Mark Mark Zuckerberg running. Yeah, it's pretty pretty crazy. And um none at all, to be honest. No. Um my wife, my wife has uh has an Apple Watch, but um I I don't know. Yeah. Um Aaron Good Times um in the chat. He's just um made a comment. Just installed Unraid for the first time. Um, welcome to Unraid. Um best of luck with your server. And he says he's going through your videos for instruction on how to set up a ZFS RAID Z2 pool or array, not sure which to look at. Um I don't know if I've got a video on actually setting that up, but um yeah, basically just add a new pool in Unraid, choose how many slots you need, so um obviously two parity and then how many data drives you want. Um add them in, set it to set it to ZFS. I'd recommend enabling compression. Um you'll probably have faster read and write speeds enabling compression than if you didn't, because it's quicker to um read off spinning Rust drives, compressed data and decompress it in the CPU than read the larger amount of compressed data and sorry, the larger amount of uncompressed data off the drives. And obviously you will be able to fit more on your disks. So it's very easy to set up, but um yeah, um on your Uncast channel, I think these kind of videos they'd be good for new users like you, Aaron. And um, I will put it in my notes of future video to create and make some videos about setting up various different um Unraid storage options. Okay, yes. I'm not gonna say any more than that, but yes, I think you know we we have announced I think last summer that we are developing internal boots, so the answer's yes. Oh, okay. So yeah, um, yeah. You know it's your job to read the um the comments. You know, I can't I can't walk and chew gum at the same time, Stephanie. So you you have to do these jobs. Okay, okay, okay, cool. So you know you were talking about um earlier on the Samsung fridge and stuff and ads. Well, we've got something else like that. No, but to be honest, um I'm moving house at the moment and um I've got like a big fridge freezer here, an LG one. And the people ask if they could buy it, like as you know, when they buy the house as well. I said yes, and now I've actually changed my mind. I'm thinking, no, I don't want to buy a new fridge freezer because I don't want it to be internet connectable and have ads or anything like that. I think I'm gonna keep the one I've got. But anyway, talking about ads anyway, is lock screen ads are coming to smartphones, and there's a brand called Nothing, and so there we are, you know, because you know who doesn't want an ad when they're just checking their phone for the time, you know? Yeah, perfect. So yeah, it is pretty scary, you know. Um they call it um lock glimpse.
unknown:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I love it how they kind of make these special words that makes it sound like, oh, there's nothing wrong with that. Lock glimpse, it's just a little glimpse of an ad. You know, it's not gonna, you know, come into your life much. But the feature shows rotating wallpapers with links to ad field articles and is built um by default for the phone 3a Light AP. Uh Tiroler is partnering partnering with Taboula to push ads through the system app. Both companies claim this helps subsidize the cost of the hardware, you know. Uh that's always the excuse. Yeah. You know, uh, I I would rather pay more for the hardware or buy a secondhand phone. So yeah, it's pretty crazy with all of these ads. Yeah, definitely. You know, they say that you can disable the feature on most devices with these phones, but for me it's a worrying trend for user experience and privacy. You know, today it's optional, tomorrow maybe it won't be. Um it's you know, to me, to me it's classic and yeah, c classic and shittification, really. You know, start with um start with this, you know, the ads on bud budget models, and then it gradually over time expands upwards. Slowly boiling the frog, as I was saying. But you know, all of this as well, like at the same time when Google say you can't, you know, um sort of sideload things in, it just seems everything, you know, is you know, the the the tech landscape's changing, and you know, a lot of people are trying to control what we do with our tech, which I think is a shame. Anyway, um we've only got one story left, as we have been going on for quite a long time. And I think this is one of your stories, um Stephano, that you um sent me a message about earlier in the week. And let me change what I'm sharing. So so let me change screen and I will I will let you talk about this one. Damn it, I've got too many windows open. I'm sorry, everyone. So I've got the YouTube window open um checking the stream and it looks exactly the same as the there we are. So um Jam F to go private following a 2.2 billion acquisition by Francisco Partners, who are a private equity firm. Go for it, Stefano. Tell us all about it, man. Right. I haven't, Stefano. No, what's that? You gotta you gotta what yeah. Um didn't I hear they bought it for about 50% more than what the share price was or something? Like it they paid quite a premium for it, didn't they? Yeah. So so I heard it was like 50% above valuation. You've got to ask yourself why they would pay 50% above, you know. I think they kind of realize that, you know, because a lot of kind of government and lot of companies are shifting to uh to Apple, aren't they? And I think they realize that it's kind of quite undervalued, maybe, and so they were happy to pay that, you know, thinking so there's nothing, nothing else at all, Stephano, at all. Right. Yeah. Yeah, the the track record of private equity acquisitions and tech is not exactly reassuring, is it? You know, so hopefully they won't cut costs and raise prices. Yeah, for sure. I I said, like, hopefully they won't just cut costs and raise prices. But you know. Yeah, mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess we'll have to see how it plays out. Um we'll have to see how it plays out with that, but you know, I'm pretty skeptical about. Add it. Anyway, um, that is our last topic to speak about. But I just want to remind everyone um check out the new Unraid merch. Don't forget to check out the Black Friday sale coming up. Um what's oh hang on, let me I have to actually stop sharing the screen so I can actually see that. Oh, you've got your candle. Um Stephano's got his Unraid candle. Nice. Did you get you you got you got two candles, did you? Did you get the two? Yeah, go on, tell tell me about it. Yeah. Uh have you lit it yet? Mm-hmm. Right. Yeah. I was I was hoping it was going to smell of fresh motherboards or something or circuits. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Would they let you play with fire, would they, Stefano? Wow. Sorry, Stefan. Stefano can't make it this month. He's died from lighting a candle in the server room. It would be very sad. I'd be very unhappy, Stefano. Please don't do that. Anyway, guys, um, that wraps it up for this month. Um, we've covered unraid updates, um concerning security and privacy updates, regardless chaos on both sides of the Atlantic. And if you've enjoyed the show, you know, please subscribe. And if you haven't already, um we'll wait to see you next time. And thanks for listening, everyone. Um, appreciate you spending your Saturday with us. Um, I'm trying to do my outro music.
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