Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

It was a pretty momentous week in US politics this week with a historic midterm election outcome that inspired us to sit down and discuss our media consumption on election night, including the Kornacki Cam and the Giant Bombification of the Internet, plus algorithmic social media bubbles and more. We also caught up on some recent news we've been meaning to get to, like the touchscreen MacBook Pros, (minor) problems with the iPhone Duo, Reddit moving to a logged-in-only site, and the end of the Cybertruck. Lastly, we touch on some low-cost 10 gigabit network hardware and Steam Frame insert optics that we've been hands-on testing. It's a pretty packed podcast!Notes 'n links: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-364-kornacki Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Last week was a rough one in the annals of cybersecurity, with a major vulnerability in the PHP language that runs the majority of the web, and a grossly negligent lapse in the certificate chain of trust that validates the identity of major websites. There have also been very serious exploits in Plex, the Linux kernel, and plenty of other stuff lately, so we put on our amateur infosec hats and try to make sense of all this chaos, what's driving it, how you can protect yourself, and where this all might be going.Show notes and links: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-363-cybersec Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

The year's most horrifying crop of questions has arrived (accompanied by some fun spooky usernames), and we bare our fangs as we address such topics as: 5AM air travel hacks, what to do with decommissioned Ring cameras, extending your devices' lives in these uncertain times, home VPN options in a world of rapidly increasing security issues, choosing a monitor refresh rate, Halloween candy rankings, the AI-driven Eternal September, whatever happened to the Optimus keyboard, launching your own CubeSat, and a bunch of other stuff. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Inspired by the recent 30th anniversary of the Nintendo 64's release in North America, we decided to do some reading this week and try to gain at least a layperson's understanding of how the system worked under the hood. Join in for a mostly structured discussion about the N64's unique hardware architecture, the forward-looking 3D graphics techniques it used years before Nvidia's Geforce, the origins of SGI's involvement in the consumer games space, the hype around Rambus, and a bunch of other stuff.Show notes and links: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-361-n64 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Brad's on the road this week, so we shook up another potpourri of mini-topics to discuss, including DIY VR mods, the questionable wisdom of working remotely on a brand new laptop, backing into creating a site-to-site VPN, a those vibe-coded clones of Adobe apps like Photoshop and Lightroom, high-tech tire technology, baby's first attempt at Nix (or in this case Lix), and a bunch of other stuff. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod