Shiny Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Valve”

Episode 35: S2E2 A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing

Shiny Podcast — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:00:00 -0500

I hope you weren't looking for us to actually talk about technology news this episode. We took this snowy, icy morning to just catch up on personal projects, trips, and a few tidbits in the broader world. Rest assured next week we'll get back into the mucky muck.

Episode 34: S2E1 Far Cry: Howard Edition

Shiny Podcast — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 01:00:00 -0500

Video game awards:
https://www.polygon.com/game-awards-tga/2018/12/7/18130855/the-game-awards-2018-biggest-announcements-trailers-tga-2018

WTF Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/08/australias-war-on-encryption-the-sweeping-new-powers-rushed-into-law

RISC-V is alive
https://youtu.be/jNnCok1H3-g

Episode 30: In Which Valve Changes Gaming Forever... Again...

Shiny Podcast — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:00:00 -0400

Intel, you can stop shooting yourself in the foot any time now:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-gags-linux-distros-from-revealing-performance-hit-from-spectre-patches/

Hey remember when we talked about how you shouldn’t use Facebook’s VPN? Welp:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/facebook-violates-apples-data-gathering-rules-pulls-vpn-from-app-store/

Nvidia drops RTX 2080 and 2080Ti:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/22/nvidia-rtx-2080-gtx-1080/
But what are they actually comparing it to?:
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/275961-nvidia-claims-rtx-gpus-are-much-faster-than-pascal-by-deliberately-comparing-the-wrong-cards

Fallout 76 Updates:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/96gqj1/quakecon_2018_fallout_76_panel_information_and/

Sony continues to hold firm on not allowing cross-platform play:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/13/17684172/playstation-4-fortnite-cross-platform-play-ninja

(With a healthy grain of salt EDIT actually a small one)Valve seems to be working towards Windows games running on Linux based systems with SteamOS:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/valve-seems-to-be-working-on-tools-to-get-windows-games-running-on-linux/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/valves-steam-play-uses-vulkan-to-bring-more-windows-games-to-linux/
https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2018/8/22/wine-and-steam-a-major-milestone
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/08/22/valve-changes-everything-windows-exclusive-games-now-run-on-steam-for-linux/#694528dae3fa

Episode 17: Half Life 3: Unconfirmed

Shiny Podcast — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:00:00 -0400

Folks, I'm just going to say it: this episode is long. We opted for a longer news segment and no deep dive because there was a lot to cover but we've got some awesome things to talk about. Microsoft hates recycling, Disney hates movie rentals, you should definitely hate Facebook's VPN, Twitter bots, and more!

Microsoft seeks damages against e’waste recycler Eric Lundgren:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/15/eric-lundgren-e-waste-recycling-innovator-faces-prison-for-trying-to-extend-lifespan-of-pcs/?utm_term=.722f77067106

Disney loses to Redbox in suit over re-selling download codes
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17036932/disney-redbox-lawsuit-star-wars-marvel-pixar-digital-downloads
Disney and Redbox might accidently reshape copyright law
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/judge-slaps-down-disney-effort-to-stop-resale-of-star-wars-download-codes/

Facebook’s VPN service is exactly as intrusive as you (hopefully) think it is:
https://gizmodo.com/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-download-onavo-facebook-s-vam-1822937825

FCC says space startup launched satellites without permission
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/10/17102888/the-fcc-says-a-space-startup-launched-four-tiny-satellites-into-orbit-without-permission

Twitter battles the bot barrage:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/twitter-suspends-thousands-of-accounts-for-bot-behavior-some-cry-censorship/

Anroid P Dev Preveiew 1 Released
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/hands-on-with-android-p-is-this-the-beginning-of-a-new-design-language/

GitHub survived the Largest DDOS attack in history
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/us-service-provider-survives-the-biggest-recorded-ddos-in-history/

Ghostery is now open source
https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension

Copyright vs. Historical Preservation:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/preservation-or-theft-historians-publishers-argue-over-dead-game-servers/

Goodyear develops tires for Electric Cars’ Torque problems
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/goodyear-tire-concept-electric-car-problems-ev/

Linux Apps for ChromeOS
https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2018/feb/27/project-crostini-chrome-os-support-linux-apps/

Artifact “First of several new games” from Valve according to Gabe
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/10/artifact-the-first-of-several-new-games-from-valve-according-to-gabe-newell/

Cellebrite claims ability to unlock ANY iphone
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/cellebrite-can-unlock-any-iphone-for-some-values-of-any/

Vulkan Coming to macOS and iOS, not by Apple
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-macos-ios-but-no-thanks-to-apple/

California Allows Driverless Cars without Human Babysitters
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/california-now-allows-driverless-cars-without-any-human-safety-drivers/