Tech: Off-topic Mike Elsmore
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Interested in Technology, Development, and all the random stuff around it? So are we! This podcast is the sidebar discussions that you'd normally hear at a tech event but broadcast over the internet for all to enjoy.
I'm Mike Elsmore and I'll regularly be hosting guests talking about the culture and community in technology circles, the tech itself, and have a giggle along the way.
To see it live head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz at 3 pm UK time every other Friday.
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Multitenancy, nerdom, and down with capitalism (even though it's how we earn money) with Ollie Read (@ollieread)
Hello 2024, it's Tech: Off-topic here!
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) has brought in Ollie Read
(https://twitter.com/ollieread https://phpc.social/@ollieread) to talk tech and what's happened recently. However, that barely happens and the tangents are strong. We end up talking about:
Multitenancy in software (you can ask Ollie about that all you want)
RGB & Camera stuff (thanks to tech difficulties)
Gundam, Warhammer, and hobbyist "plastic crack"
Corporations and patent fights https://news.sky.com/story/apple-watch-to-lose-feature-after-us-court-reinstates-sales-ban-over-patent-dispute-13050692
Super rich (plenty of tech money) spending lots of money to build a city...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/tech-billionaire-new-city-plan-california-forever-san-francisco
Pothole robots
https://news.sky.com/story/hertfordshire-worlds-first-pothole-preventing-robot-to-hit-roads-in-test-rollout-13045036
This episode has plenty of side quest adventures so enjoy the chaos
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Stuart Langridge (@sil) is a true wonder of the world, off-topic is default setting!
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable moments than tech discussion. But some of what we cover is:
Elon is against Chat GPT 4+ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/pause-ai-development-open-letter-warning/
Don't deploy on Friday horseshit is BACK https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1637111242610610182?t=EBkSZzQ6-zVpZ0I5lC4s4g&s=19
Dilbert
Twitter outage two weeks ago was because they fired everyone with access to mint certs https://izzodlaw.com/@IzzoD/110001516908481048
You can't avoid politics in tech sometimes https://twitter.com/AlyssaM_InfoSec/status/1637383087020548096
The topics list was a lot longer, and this is all we got to. I think we hit a new level of off-topic with this episode, so enjoy.
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The one where Jim got replaced with Diana
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't bring Jim with him to Japan so we replaced him with Diana (https://twitter.com/dianasoyster) and she was the best co-host/guest you could ask for! The one is a truly off-topic session, so much so that we didn't actually follow many of our starter points. But we did cover:
Bidets
Vending machines
VR influence to save the virtual world https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-64862006
Mushroom clothes! https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64810935
Robot restaurant servers
Square watermelons
Parking garage elevators
Driving system
Enjoy the truly random conversation we had, we enjoyed having it
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What the heck does international tomato trolling have to do with time shares?
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) are at it again, did you miss the tangential chat? The odd directions the conversation goes in this episode are truly off-topic, but our starter topics are:
Trongate, the legendary new PHP Framework
New Relic is hiring! That was an expensive mistake
ChatGPT Articles and Avatar 2 gaslighting - https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202537474
Google wants people to share a desk - https://fortune.com/2023/02/23/google-returning-staff-share-desks-partner-maximize-office-space-tidiness-expectations-rotational-model/
The tomato thing is real - https://www.itv.com/news/2023-02-24/europeans-mock-uk-shoppers-over-tomato-shortage-but-is-brexit-to-blame
What on EARTH did Purple Bricks DO https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64678984
15-minute cities are a MARXIST CONSPIRACY
And the usual off-topic tangents.
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Big biz has been weird this month, let's talk about it
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) missed a few weeks due to life but they're back talking about some of the weird and terrible things that have happened in software land:
Twitter turning off the API with a week to spare https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582615/twitter-removing-free-api-developer-apps-price-announcement
Netlify buys Gatsby https://thenewstack.io/netlify-acquires-gatsby-its-struggling-jamstack-competitor/
Netlfix canning shared passwords https://news.sky.com/story/revealed-how-netflix-plans-to-stop-you-sharing-your-password-12800510
More layoffs, this time PayPal with 2000 and Pinterest with 150
Jamstack man all over promoted Twitter
Microsoft is doubling down on OpenAI https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/
Amazon closing AmazonSmile, one of the actually good things they’ve ever done https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact
Dyson has made headphones with an air purifier… and you WILL look stupid https://www.dyson.co.uk/newsroom/overview/news/march-2022/dyson-zone-announcement
Ring doorbells are terrible for onboarding
And the usual off-topic tangents.
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New year, same noise, but it is shenanigans
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) start the year with shenanigans, and the usual madness covering:
Mastodon rejecting funding https://technology.inquirer.net/120533/mastodon-rejects-funding
Tech salaries https://mastodon.online/@chaosmonster/109545607020550255
CES provides https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/loreal-brow-magic-eyebrow-printer-ces-2023-news/
Salesforce ELT wouldn't understand Slack https://fortune.com/2023/01/05/leaked-slack-all-hands-meeting-reveals-a-strong-culture-clash-and-growing-rift-with-parent-company-salesforce/
AWS nuclear layoffs https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/05/tech_workers_in_the_firing/
And the usual off-topic tangents.
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