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Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other. When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a 4 liter jug. When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.
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Oh come on.
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They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia Trip Planner to collaborate on all the details of their trip. Once there, Mike still did more laps around the pool.
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Whatever.
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You were made to outdo your holidays. We were made to help organize the competition. Expedia made to travel One way you.
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Can know we always keep it real on this show is the fact that I forgot to write an intro for this one. I'm just going off the cuff here. Just telling you straight up. Isn't that endearing? You just read that off the prompt. The YouTube viewpocalypse, as some have called it, may not be YouTube's fault, despite some commentators basing entire jokes on that very assumption. In their blog Post On Monday, YouTube mentioned the possibility that updates to ad blockers may have caused some views to stop being counted. And YouTube YouTube's own liaison Rene Richie reiterated that YouTube didn't change anything. And turns out he was right. As explained on Twitter by YouTuber and former expert troll Theo Joe, he's changed his ways. On August 11, a URL filter was added to EZ List, specifically its affiliated EZ Privacy List, which is used by multiple ad blockers to let them know what to block. But this change appears to have inadvertently blocked YouTube's method of counting views. Fellow YouTuber and Extra dad, in case you need one. Jeff Geerling also drew attention to this with a blog post, with much additional discussion taking place in this GitHub thread between him Thiojoe Yuki, the volunteer who made the change on August 11, and who we love and appreciate for their work, even if they accidentally kicked all this off, and Scratchy, who did a lot of investigating and made a guide for how users can override this change so creators can benefit from registering their views properly while still protecting their privacy. You dropped this king. Can you put a crown there? Yeah. Thank you. Hold on. Wait a second. Privacy? Yeah, you see, while any AdBlock user could go and manually remove the easy privacy filter from their adblocker settings, they might not want to do that, even if it would mean allowing YouTube to count their views. Because the main reason many people use ad blockers is to protect their privacy. Because, fun fact, most ads are also trackers. Isn't that fun? Why not? Both? So where does all this leave us? Well, another update to EasyList has apparently made it so that only third party hit counters will be filtered out, which should mean YouTube's view tracking should work properly again. So at the end of the day, it looks like YouTube wasn't the immediate cause of this change. But that doesn't mean they can't mess up the platform in other ways, like announcing that today they're integrating their VO3AI video and audio generator directly into shorts because the Internet doesn't have nearly enough slop yet. More slop immediately, please. Tell you what we need. Slop block is what we need. Okay, somebody get on that. Not me though. Google is launching something that's either terrifying or very useful, depending on how much access to your computer you like to give to third parties. It's Google's new app for Windows that helps you find what you need faster. Just install it, hit alt space, kinda like the shortcut on Mac for Spotlight, and let it sift and search through all of your local files as well as Google Drive, your installed apps and the web. Now, if you're intrigued by the idea of anything that could be even slightly better than Windows Search, it's available now, but only in the U.S. still, somehow I managed to download it from Google Labs and yeah, it searches your files. But if you're expecting something better than Windows Search that doesn't have web search involved, I mean, it very much is still involved. Sometimes it could find specific files when I search for the file name, but other times I just got web results. So I don't know, maybe it'll get better over time. Windows Search sure didn't. Windows Search couldn't even find today's sponsor, War Thunder. The game that immerses you in intense combat with more than 2,500 incredibly detailed tanks, planes, helicopters and ships. And one of the most sophisticated vehicle damage models in gaming. We're talking individual components, models like engines, fuel tanks, weapons and even crew members. This is still a video game, so they are a component all susceptible to damage or disabling by enemy shells or missiles, different types of which behave differently according to the type of armor you have equipped. This is basically the Matrix. You can learn about how all those things interacted to cause you to blow up using the X ray view, which would be great to have in real life. Maybe they'll make that someday. Join a worldwide community of over 70 million players in one of the most comprehensive vehicle combat games ever made. Check out War Thunder for free today on PC, console and mobile using our links in the description. And I don't know, it's just like. It's just sad because most People watching the show, they don't have any quick bits when the show starts. So then I'm like, I gotta. We should give them. We should give them quick bits, right? Cause it's just. Oh, it's recording. Oh, you just found a natural moment. Oh, Mark. Aw. What? Okay. All right. A couple huge VR events were happening this evening. One is the Meta Connect event, which I think is happening as we're filming this right now. Cause of course they scheduled it for 5pm Come back on Friday for coverage of that. They probably released some new smart glasses. Please ask Mark to run the event earlier next time. Mark Zuckerberg. Not this. Not Mark. I'm sorry, Ralph Gaber. Okay, then there's a bunch of prominent VR content creators who have been heading to Seattle, possibly to get a sneak peek of the new Steam frame. But I wouldn't know for sure because Gabe didn't invite me. That's okay. Maybe next time. Sounds like we'll find out more soon, so stay tuned. That was. You're like, what was the news there? There was no news. That's the problem. Tesla has settled another wrongful death lawsuit due to its autopilot technology. This One comes from 2019, when a 15 year old riding in a truck with his pops was hit by a Model 3 going over 60 miles per hour. That's almost 100 kilometers per hour for the Europeans out there. Tesla has of course argued that it's the driver who's at fault, not their trusty autopilot. But they lost a similar case in Florida last month. That's gonna cost them $243 million. They don't wanna lose another $243 million. So now they're settling out of court for an undisclosed amount. Can't win em all, but you could try to settle em. What's the. No, you can't. But AMD just won another battle in the eternal CPU war against its blue rival, Intel. See, Team Blue likes to release two generations of CPUs per motherboard socket over two or three years, while AMD likes to release at least three generations over nine years. How do they do it? By releasing a clock down version of the Ryzen 55600 and calling it the new 5600F. Is it the best upgrade if you're still on AM4? Not really, but people just like options, you know? But sometimes you pick the wrong one. SK Hynix and their DDR5 DIMMs are in some hot water for remaining vulnerable to a variant of the Rowhammer exploit called Phoenix or if you're cultured like me. CVE20256202 okay. Researchers from ETH Zurich and Google found a blind spot in the refresh sampling logic and used one of two patterns to flip bits on 15 different on die ECC memory modules made between 21 and 2024. Hey, that's the Casio's Mofflin launched, and I'm telling you that now because it's finally coming to America. It's a fuzzy, cuddly, cute AI robot thing that is surprisingly, maybe unsurprisingly, selling out in Japan. So the Tyrell Corporation, I mean Casio decided it was time to spread the love. Pre orders are already up for the gold or silver fuzzball, and it costs a lot for a smart companion designed to support, reassure, and grow with you through life's everyday moments. Who needs that? And with two axes of movement, operating temperatures of up to 35 degrees Celsius, and an included Mofflin bed, it sounds like I'd be dumb not to buy one on October 1st. And I'd be dumb not to make more tech news for you to watch on Friday. So I guess I will. Hey, see you then. And thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe. Okay, bye. It'll do.