Recap Time Newsletter: Oversimplified Stuff, Spoiler-Ahead-Because-Gildedguy-Origin-Story, and more!

After days of drafting the first issue and procrastinating for weeks, we got into this. Welcome to the first issue of Recap Time! Expect we may not keep the newsletter fresh every two weeks. Also please be reminded that this was crafted from March 6 to 27, with additional 1–2 days for peer review and handling publishing stuff to Medium.

Highlights

• Gildedguy Story #0 is expected to be released by March 31 (April 1 in PHST). Read on or maybe watch the announcement on YouTube. to learn more.
• Some of tech news we handpicked are now baked for your consumption. One of them is the possibility of iMac Pros getting discontinued and investigations against racism inside Facebook’s hiring process.
• As The Pins Team keeps expanding the online footprint, we had successfully arrived Mastodon (for bringing updates and stuff) and Launchpad (for mirrors stuff) with Framagit soon.
• As we kick off our Medium publication this 2021, we had some memes and possibly your-favorite-digital-creators-went-out-of-context, especially the one who oversimplify One and Skid (Michael Moy did that lol).
• ICYMI: Hyun’s Dojo Community YT channel reached 2 Million subs, so are you ready for THIS? (Actually Michael Moy teased us about this in Twitter, and surely the 2 million dance video went into coconuts.)

Some Tech News

We try to pick what we deem important to discuss in this issue. So, if we missed some and want to see them in the future issues, send us an GitLab issue as we’ll look into it. As usual, keep coming back into your favorite tech news site or watch new TechLinked uploads every MWF for more stuff.

• Looks like Apple pull more iMac models ahead of its possible M1 refresh. No more 512GB and 1TB SSD configurations for the 21.5 inch iMac. Maybe Apple is stopped producing products due to the same global shortage in the tech industry.
• As this non-SolarWinds-related attack is ongoing since January, over 30,000 organizations (governmental + commerical)’s emails got hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws. If your org uses Exchange Online, this doesn’t apply to you. Otherwise, update as much as possible.
• Are loot boxes look like gambling bull$#!t? If so, Germany may restrict games with loot boxes to people above 18. This may raise some games’ age rating into 18, or go to the usual geoblocking-slash-age gating.
• Looks like Trump plans to launch an social network in 2–3 months, but whether or not he got some tech partners are what his another matter he need for now. (don’t forget the US Capitol riot last January 6)
• USB-C is cursed, and non-USB-C users want correct plug orientation. (seriously, this is not an tech news, but pardon us)
• Companies in US don’t like unions?Looks like an David and Goliath battle in Bessemer, Alabama to watch at night, right? But nah, they don’t know Bessemer too much.
• Also, Microsoft wants to acuqire Discord, worth over $10M+. If Discord will not go public instead, please expect some ads (we don’t think so) and maybe Mr. Clippy and friends will jump over your server. (don’t forget to say hi to them).
• Here’s more on why should you update your OS: there’s a WebKit (the browser engine that powers Safari) vulnerability, discovered by security researchers at Google’s Project Zero and it looks like an universal XSS through processing maliciously crafted web content, which may actively exploited.

Some Gildedguy Story #0 Updates

…and some stream memes for grins and giggles, but our editor-in-chief prefers to place it in the Memes section of this issue.

Okay, March 31 will be the worldwide premiere date on both Twitch and YouTube. The hype is gonna keep up until we broke our measurements in the unforeseeable future. (Depending on your timezone and the time of premiere, some of you may went to the wrong side of the road, AKA April 1. Please no more “Watch premieres at 3 AM” again, YouTubd.)

4 more future stories confirmed, but the fans at Discord are still under heavy debate if Story 10 will be an Gildedguy vs. SPOILER KENSORED. (Michael’s comment on the Erase Humanity Part 2 may hint about the possiblity of Story X.)

From YouTube tho

From Discord

But, the premiere has been moved to this summer (for people in Northern Hemisphere) for unknown reasons Michael didn’t allowed to say. Follow this GitLab issue and possibly join his Discord server for updates.

Okay, enough screenshots and updates. Let’s scroll to our curated picks section.

Curated Picks

Picks from us and the community from your favorite creators that’s currently inside and outside of our watchlist (pardon us, but ping us on Twitter and on Mastodon if you want that article toget featured), plus more stuff. As the newsletter matures, we move open-source stuff, among others, in their own sections soon.

• New to Dream SMP (or just curious about the fandom)? An The Verge article cover the essientials and the feels of an fan can help.
• What if “trust fall” can be simulated (or even programmed) to an robot? If that happens, the robots can also stop its fall but the aspects needed to develop an physical trust and releationship between humans and robots are still missing. (Please don’t ask Elon Musk somewhere in YouTube if robots replace humans in the future.)
• If you don’t careful, your multi-billion NFTs can go to the graveyard. And while IPFS can help, you might need to wait months as you know, decentralized platforms need to seed and cache content across multiple nodes, and in case of IPFS across planets (if humans ever lived in the moon or even on Mars).
• Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress and Mark Johnson are now connected to your mind for community news and events for everything Ubuntu, Mark are migrating away from an command line utility to Bitwarden while Alan is busy upgrading his home server from Ubunth 18.04 to the latest LTS version 20.04 and more in the Ubuntu Podcast March 25, 2021 episode. They also rediscovered Keybase and a lot of blogging in March 18, 2021 episode. (This is not Alan Pope’s official Blog Post Podcast, yet.)
• Why there’s the disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Days and due diligence? Well, it’s chaotic for us to answer. If you want to invest with us on Patreon, go ahead and pick the tier, we recommend tiers with $50+ (we’re not sure if $50 is fine for corporate patrons, but let us know in the comments) Otherwise, please wait as we write the document for investment stuff. With your due diligence required. (listen to related TechCrunch Equity podcast episode)
• Wait, GameStop selling GPUs? Linus said yes because people need yet another retailer fighting over graphic cards’ stock.

Memes Stuff

The memes we considered as an mess in other sections shall fall here. Don’t worry, we review all if them ahead of time before they even get published on our Medium and possibly to Dev.to soon.

Last March 6, Michael Moy oversimplified his characters, and even Oxob, One and Skid. We’re not doing some One and Skid $#!tpost here.

Yes, these are all cursed as you’ll may say. Is this all started because of Mozilla oversimplified the Firefox logo?

Let’s dig around the chat archives we had, and eat these:

• Don’t worry, there will be no oversimplified Lilian as of now.

• Is this yet (some crappy) CN reboot of The Amazing World of Gumball?

• That’s not Fry, either

• Actually, Andrei Jiroh suggested Michael to oversimplify Oxob, but he’ll not do it again next time.

That’s it for now! Come back in the next issue for more stuff, and as always, consider supporting us finanically on Patreon and follow us on Twitter and Mastodon for updates. If you want to help us publish the next issue or found some bugs in this issue, consider contribute on GitLab.