đź’˛ I'd buy that for $44B and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-29
By goz
It’s taking too long to get to Mars, let’s buy Twitter instead
The big news this past week is that Elon Musk, billionaire extraordinaire, has gotten the financing together to take Twitter private. What this means for Twitter? No one knows. Musk says he wants to promote free speech, but we don’t know what that will look like. The deal won’t close until October, so until then, I’m grabbing my popcorn and will be watching from the sidelines.
It’s only been twenty years!
When a show twenty years ago starts referencing pop culture from 20 years before that, it can be confusing to the Gen Z crowd. Here’s a nice Twitter thread going through some of the questions that arise on re-watch.
Internet Travels
Geek
Retro
- Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest | Ars Technica
- Nintendo Exposed For Using Fanmade Emulators On The Switch | Cracked.com
- Sonic Origins
- An actual working Commodore 65 prototype is being auctioned off for thousands of dollars | PC Gamer
- ZX Spectrum at 40: a look back
- Galaga sequel Gaplus pew-pews into the Arcade Archives on Switch, PS4
Videogames
- How Cuphead's Devs Gambled On A Dream | The Making of Cuphead - YouTube
- Workers at Nintendo’s third-party repair partner were reportedly overwhelmed with Joy-Con repairs - The Verge
Science & Technology
- Honda Orders Big Takedown of Honda-Related 3D Printing Models From Maker Communities
- LinkedIn can’t use anti-hacking law to block web scraping, judges rule | Ars Technica
- NASA's Perseverance Rover Sees Solar Eclipse on Mars - YouTube
- Some chip-starved manufacturers are scavenging silicon from washing machines, as global shortage shows no sign of easing | South China Morning Post
- End of the road: Apple is killing macOS Server, the place where Mac OS X began | Ars Technica
- How Bitcoin mining devastated this New York town | MIT Technology Review
- Microsoft enters “final phase” of disabling SMB1 file-sharing in Windows 11 | Ars Technica
Pop Culture
- CNN Plus is shutting down only a month after it launched - The Verge
- RIP CNN+, March 2022-April 2022 | Ars Technica
- Netflix’s Stumble Could Be a Warning Sign for Streaming Industry - The New York Times
- Each episode of the new Stranger Things season cost $30 million
Pot Pourri
- How tall will Mount Everest get before it stops growing? - BBC Future
- “Oreology” investigates mystery of why Oreo creme filling usually sticks to one side | Ars Technica
- Highway death toll messages cause more crashes