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[violetvapours]

When an airline accidentally does a singularity 😬

[renderprism]

A lot going on this week

[bluisgayandmoregay]

I'm just gonna say it. Linus Media Group is just another shitty company owned by another shitty rich white guy. Maybe Linus is "nicer once you get to know him" or some other bullshit like that, but everything that has happened and has been happening with them is down right sad.

No one should ever be dismissed or told off or belittled or shamed for coming forward about assault in the workplace, hell anywhere, and Madison deserved much better when coming forward to higher-ups.

If LMG responds to Madison's allegations the same way they've been responding to all the inaccurate videos callouts and the whole Billet Labs controversy, then Terren should consider taking a long hard look at who he employes while he gets situated as CEO

On related topics, first my opinions about the "mandatory meeting" video from

this link (credit u/Nitazene-King-002 on Reddit. It was originally posted 6 months ago around when Madison left, however the comments on the original post are upsetting).

This is the most corporate bullshit response Linus could've given. I've heard some of these exact phrases a dozen times working for Big Corporate™ before.

The fact that barely anyone knew about an internal anonymous reporting feature is highly concerning as that implies no one told them either purposely or accidentally. And either way is shady.

James's "joke", while maybe funny to some of a certain inner circle, was very clearly poorly timed and disgusting given the circumstances of the meeting itself.

Second, my opinion about the Billet Labs waterblock prototype scandal.

In LTT's video addressing the data inaccuracies and "how the company will move forward from this"

(credit: Linus Tech Tips on YouTube)

They say that they simply misplaced and mislabeled the waterblock and auctioned it off at the LTX convention, and, after finding out that it was supposed to be sent back to Billet Labs, handled refunding the auction in a very unprofessional way.

Third, my opinions on the inaccurate graphs and lazy post production fact checking.

While LMG is certainly not the biggest tech company trying to give people data on products, they most certainly have the time, money, and effort to fact check everything in their videos, despite what Linus has said on both the LTT forums and the WAN show. While they do address and focus on this topic in the above YouTube video, it is once again filled with corporate copypasta phrases and empty feeling promises as they try to calm everyone down. The video feels half assed and like most of them aren't taking it seriously as they insert inside jokes to the script. (but that is just my opinion)

Fourth, my opinions on Madison's allegations.

A link to Madison's thread

(credit: @suuuoppp on Twitter. It's a long read and heartbreaking, but worth it if you still believe LMG is a good company)

explaining everything that happened to her while working for LMG, and exposing higher ups for how they dismissed and belittled her for feeling attacked by other coworkers.

In my opinion this thread alone should be enough to tell people that something is wrong at LMG. She did not deserve anything that was mentioned there, whoever dismissed her cries for help should be fired for putting an employee's mental health in danger.

I believe Madison without a doubt, the behavior of some of her coworkers is completely unacceptable.

All in all, I expected better from LMG. I feel bad for Terren for having to deal with this right as he joins, but perhaps he's going to be part of the problem later.

I hope some of the smaller teams in LMG like TechLinked/GameLinked and Mac Address come out ok. Maybe Riley takes the linked writers and an editor to make his own tech news channel, or Horst can do the same with Mac Address.

And I genuinely hope the best for Madison. She was a wonderful part of any video she was in and never deserved anything that wronged her during her time there.

(Small explanations for certain parts:

Remember that these are opinions about facts, while I do literally state that Linus "is another shitty rich white guy", that is my opinion. I've never met him nor anyone who I'm hating on in this post.

It is entirely possible that Madison is lying, but knowing what it's like to be a woman in the corporate tech industry. Right now I believe her 100%.

I am aware of and have seen Gamers Nexus's video calling out LMG about the inaccurate graphs and lazy fixes and the Billet scandal. This post is essentially in tandem and agreeing with their video, while also adding Madison's allegation.

And for those confused as to why James's joke "Are you gonna dance on that table, or just stand on it?" is bad. That line is a reference to someone performing in a place like a strip club, and the way it was said was (in my opinion) satire on the way people in a club might say it in a demeaning way to a performer. I'm not sure who he said it to or why he said it in the first place, but closing a meeting about discussing assault or harassment in the workplace with that line is very disgusting.)

And of course I don't know everything, I'm just putting my opinions on the Internet™. If I've missed anything you know about you can reply/reblog/send an ask and I'll edit/add it on. Same for if I've gotten anything wrong.

#tl;dr I think Linus Media Group sucks right now.

Love,

Brie

[river-taxbird]

Linus Tech Tips is covering this, holy shit. I wonder if Alexander Hanff was talking about this before I pointed it out to him lol

Here is the article they reference but it looks like it hit the media cycle in the last few days. Big shoutout to Hanff for initially doing the research and responding to my tweet. https://searchengineland.com/youtube-crackdown-ad-blocker-breaking-eu-laws-434400

And the original article with The Verge

Cool interaction I just had on twitter! It's not easily enforceable, but it seems like the thing youtube are doing where they detect if you are using an adblocker is not only economically unviable, but could actually be illegal in europe under GDPR! It requires determining if you have specific software available on your computer, which legally you can't do without consent under GDPR. I really hope someone is able to fight this! I know it's a longshot but it would be super cool.

Link to Alexander Hanff's original tweet showing a legal letter from the EU that re-enforces this point: https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/722861362607747072

[boyapologist]

living a curse where I watch a techlinked video just to stare at riley murdock's cute face and then I get actually interested in the device he's testing and it's like man. do I really need AI glasses or do I just think riley murdock is hot?

[the-art-of-thumbnails]

Google is splitting

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[brudiza-spudnik]

watching the latest techlinked and seeing them talk about "the coolest murder bot by far" and report on quadrupedal robot development interspersed with jokes about their potential for lethal force. as if they're not being tested right now on the fucking civilians of Palestine. people have been saying since the very start. these were always going to have guns on their backs. they say they're for search and rescue and then they taste that filthy fucking army israel nypd money. these machines are for death. man fuck

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[btrandkittens]

Riley is so omfg gorgeous

TechLinked 09/09/2019

https://youtu.be/KLiAYa44Bao

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that’s a spicy tech news

[renderprism]

been a wild coupla days in tech

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Air Force Offers Malicious File Detection Software To Private Sector Via "TechLink"

Air Force Offers Malicious File Detection Software To Private Sector Via “TechLink”

“C4ISRNET” “In a first for the Air Force’s new information warfare entity, the service inked patent license agreements with the private sector for code it developed in house to detect software vulnerabilities. The software, called Whiddler, scans files on a network and calculates the probability of whether a file is malicious. It looks for suspicious items that don’t have a signature and…