Shades Of Brown

We are turning five this week so we take stroll down memory lane and then try and come up with some words of encouragement to other people making stuff online and questioning where the validation comes from. We still do not know what we are doing, thank you, and bless you for being around to listen these past five years. Chapters: 00:00:35 - Talking About The Old Days 00:29:15 - Words For Other Pe...

We laugh at Microsoft, one of us has feelings about weapon sunsetting and the other has feelings about games writing and press cycles. Show Notes: 00:02:09 - Microsoft Forcing Folks To Use The New Microsoft Edge 00:21:00 - Destiny 2 Weapon Sunsetting 00:54:41 - The Last Of Us 2 Press Cycle And Games Writing Damnit Microsoft: Microsoft is forcing Edge on Windows users with a spyware-like install Vi...

Microsoft tries to bury the news of Mixer dying under WWDC, and then we spend 72 hours talking about WWDC 2020. Show Notes: 00:00:34 - RIP Mixer 00:10:42 - WWDC 2020 Format Thoughts 00:16:08 - Developer Stuff 00:27:08 - iOS and iPadOS 14 00:51:13 - Encrypted DNS in iOS 14 and macOS 11 00:52:28 - A Conspiracy Theory On 4K Youtube 00:55:31 - watchOS 7 01:01:03 - macOS 11 01:18:32 - The ARM Transitio...

Hey! There's a new email app but really we try and break through horrible rules for in app purchases, and then talk about the EA Direct. Show Notes: 00:00:02 - Hey! 00:05:43 - App Store BS Policies 00:57:52 - EA Direct Hey: HEY - Email at its best, new from Basecamp. Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp Apple, “sup”: Apple rejects Hey.com App Store updates, man...

We address some feedback from last weeks episode, bubble out into the Android 11 Public Beta, and then make fun of gamers who think easy modes are bad while appreciating the drip of the PS5. Show Notes: 00:00:34 - Follow Up 00:07:47 - Android 11 Public Beta 00:46:35 - PS5 Reveal Event Feedback from our prior episode: Our example of Wordpress is problematic as Wordpress is corporate funded Selling...

An objective look at how free culture has failed to bring upon meaningful change to marginalized folks, a discussion of great Black albums, and we then try to escape to bizarro Final Fantasy land. Show Notes: 00:00:00 - The Failure Of Open Technology During The BLM Protests 00:29:54 - Backxwash - God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It 00:33:09 - RTJ4 00:45:03 - Final Fantasy 7 Remake...

DOOM Eternal is booted from Ring 0, we conference in to Microsoft Build^Powered By Microsoft Teams™, and then the system security is a little bit problematic in macOS. Show Notes: 00:00:51 - DOOM Eternal Anti-Cheat Followup 00:04:30 - Microsoft Build 00:42:34 - Apple Mac Security Drama Of The Week Followup: Doom Eternal reverses course, will remove kernel-level Denuvo anti-cheat [Updated] Microsof...

This week we talk about another video game DRM fiasco, bullshit video game marketing, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Ghost of Tsushima, and Halo 2 for the MCC. Show Notes: 00:00:54 - DOOM Eternal Adds Anti-Cheat In Patch 00:18:01 - Microsoft's BS Marketing and Assassins Creed Valhalla 00:30:03 - Ghost of Tsushima 00:45:22 - Halo 2 Released For The MCC Games: Denuvo says its new kernel-level anti-cheat...

Panos is pumped, our long national keyboard nightmare is over, Google thinks we won't take a chance to dunk on them, while Facebook is server side crashing apps. Show Notes: 00:00:43 - Surface Audio Announcements 00:09:40 - Surface Go 2 00:15:02 - Surface Book 3 00:25:32 - 2020 13inch MacBook Pro 00:35:20 - Google Unifies Messaging Strategy Under New Leader 00:40:18 - Facebook iOS SDK Causing Apps...

Intel's node process is lackluster, ICANN like most American organizations wants to sell out to the highest bidder, and we use recent gaming stories to trash gamer culture*. *There are mentions of machine learning as maybe as useful utility here, please be nice and know that 127 episodes of this show has proven us to not be hacker news bros and give us some nuance if you can. Show Notes: 00:01:22...

Riot released a game but Riot is a bad company, a cool new build of Minecraft with RTX was released, and we talk about and low priced phone and a high priced phone. Show Notes: 00:01:05 - Valorant Anti-Cheat 00:20:10 - Minecraft RTX 00:28:48 - iPhone SE Second Generation 00:47:32 - OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro Valorant: Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure go too far? Why anti-cheat soft...

We try to stay objective about the DualSense controller and then take a quick bite of Quibi. Show Notes: 00:00:01 - DualSense 00:27:41 - Quibi PS5 Controller: Sony reveals the PlayStation 5 controller, the DualSense Quibi Quit trying to make Quibi happen Quibi Contact: Cristian Online Sadiq Online Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Overcast| Pocketcasts | RSS

Apple does some gross stuff, Intel does some confusing stuff, and then we take another look at DOOM Eternal but in the worst way possible. Show Notes: 00:00:56 - Apple Giving Amazon Exception To IAP Rules 00:14:03 - Apple Bought Dark Sky 00:23:21 - 10th Gen Intel CPUs and New Nvidia GPUs for Mobile 00:38:37 - DOOM Eternal On Stadia Apple does some weird and questionable shit Amazon and Apple Strik...

One of us has a secret thing for Doomslayer X Isabelle ships, we chat app discourse, and then the other one starts playing a Love Live! gacha game. Show Notes: 00:00:48 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons 00:14:51 - Doom Eternal 00:28:03 - Streaming Games On Discord 00:46:16 - Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS Sadiq's Video Game Corner: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Tom Nook is a crook Breakab...

New game console specs, new MacBooks and iPad's, and us being blissfully ignorant of everything else. Show Notes: 00:01:53 - Xbox Series X 00:26:31 - PS5 00:45:50 - Macbook Air (2020) 00:55:26 - iPad Pro (2020) Game Consoles: Digital Foundry -- Xbox Series X Complete Specs + Ray Tracing/Gears 5/Back-Compat/Quick Resume Demo Showcase! Digital Foundry -- DF Direct: PlayStation 5 - The Official Specs...

An iOS 14 build leaked, and we bring back Hot Tips™ to talk about working from home. Show Notes: 00:01:00 - iOS 14 Leaks 00:37:26 - Working From Home Hot Tips Apple Rumors: iOS 14 Rumor Roundup iOS 14 to include new homescreen list view option with Siri suggestions and more Leaked watchOS 7 code reveals new ‘International’ watchface Sleep++ Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include ‘Infograph...

343 drops Halo CE for the Master Chief Collection, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake demo drops, publishers are dropping GeForce Now, and Sadiq finally drops his anti-Mac Pro agenda. *There are no chapters or metadata embedded in this weeks file due to a crashing bug with the software used to master the episode. Apologies about that and hopefully it will be fixed for next weeks episode! Show Notes: 00:00...

A story about file syncing gone wrong, an accidental cosplay of the environment*, Jeff from the Overwatch team invents a new game mode, plus Bungie had some news about Destiny. *That's a STAR reference Show Notes: 00:00:38 - In Which We Complain About OS Integrity 00:38:19 - LG Has A New Phone But We Just Make A Joke 00:40:13 - Overwatch Triple Damage 00:46:18 - Trials Of Osiris Returning To Desti...

Google releases a new developer preview, everything that that folds and costs over 1k seems to break, and then we discuss how pro-capitalistic Animal Crossing is. Show Notes: 00:00:01 - Uhhh 00:02:15 - Android 11 Developer Preview 00:30:04 - Folding Phone Durability Drama 00:40:53 - Nintendo Switch Cloud Saves & Animal Crossing Android News: Google cracks down on location-tracking Android apps...

Microsoft finally gives us more info on Windows 10X, we examine predatory coding schools, Sadiq finally pivots away from analog books, and Samsung goes full hypebeast at Samsung Unpacked 2020. Show Notes: 00:00:34 - Windows 10X 00:22:35 - Coding Bootcamps 00:42:19 - Sadiq Got An Ebook Reader! 00:52:58 - Samsung Unpacked Windows 10X: Windows 10X in images: Microsoft's new OS is gorgeous Design Flow...

The iPad announcement turns 10 so we take a chance to spend 40 minutes talking about the good old days of information density, subscriptions are tiring us out, and then we 1v1 Neil Young in the audiophile arena. Show Notes: 00:02:48 - iPad Announcement Turned 10 00:39:17 - Subscription Fatigue 01:08:14 - Let's Laugh at Neil Young The iPad turns 10: Daring Fireball: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 Dari...

We get extremely crypto and politics heavy this week and then immediately swerve out of that into Overwatch. Show Notes: 00:00:12 - Apple Vs The FBI, Again 00:43:26 - Overwatch League Now Youtube Exclusive Apple, iCloud and Encrypted iPhones Unable to unlock gunman’s iPhones, the FBI (once again) asks for Apple’s help Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sour...

We talk about unions in games, congressional hearings on abuse of market power in tech, and then turnstyle into Quibi. Show Notes: 00:11:17 - Cyberpunk 2077 Delay 00:11:24 - Games Unions 00:26:35 - Congressional Hearings on Big Tech 00:46:53 - QUIBI Games: Cyberpunk 2077 still needs crunch time to complete, CEO says Game dev union leader: “Dream job” passion “can open us up to exploitation” Techpo...

This week was CES, you know it, we know it, let's get uncomfortably close to branded experiences and try and make it out ok. Show Notes: 00:00:39 - CPUs 00:19:49 - Gaming 00:29:16 - PCs 00:55:01 - New Bluetooth Standard Update 01:02:20 - TVs 01:09:30 - Vaporware CPUs: AMD’s third shoe finally drops at CES 2020—7nm Zen 2 mobile CPUs Put a Tiger in your Lake: Intel’s next-gen mobile CPUs pack a punc...

Continuing our apparent pivot into a games podcast, we talk about games of the decade and then pivot back to tech to make fun of failed products. Show Notes: 00:00:39 - Sadiq's Games Of The Decade 00:43:54 - Cristian's Games Of The Decade 01:25:35 - Talking Trash About Failed Tech Products Of The Decade Games of the Decade (2009-2019) Sadiq's games of the decade Assassin's Creed 2 Overwatch DOOM (...