338: Everything for Everything

About this episode

The episode discusses various technology and political news headlines, including AMD's HDMI support for Linux and Microsoft's open-source efforts.

Somehow the news just keeps happening, so we're here to round up and chew over another handful of headlines this week. Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases, AMD bringing true HDMI 2.1 support to Linux, Microsoft's latest efforts to open-source its history, the trend of small hardware makers releasing source assets for their devices, the long-awaited arrival of Wildcat Lake, and more, plus fun digressions into printer tracking dots, the era of DOS before MS-DOS, and more!

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith

Topics covered

• technology
• politics
• open-source
• hardware
• history
• culture

Keywords

• canary traps
• political databases
• open-source
• hardware makers
• printer tracking dots
• DOS
• MS-DOS

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AMD, Microsoft

Products: HDMI 2.1

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