Is Mastodon Right For You? - DTNS 4396
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Shannon gives us the details on MediaTek’s latest flagship SoC. Mastodon, the open source software for people to self-host their own social networks, has garnered increased interest as people look to abandon Twitter. We explain how it works and what you need to do to use it. And as the EU investigates Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard eyes fall on the availability of Call of Duty on other platforms.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work. You can point at it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I can see your face and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners. |
| 0:33.0 | Thanks to all of you, including Howard Yermish, |
| 0:35.0 | John Adwood, and Pat. |
| 0:37.0 | Coming up on DTNS, Shannon Morse tells us why people are buzzing |
| 0:40.0 | about the media tech dimension to your chip. |
| 0:44.0 | And I'm going to give you the scoop on how mastodon differs from Twitter. |
| 0:47.0 | And whether it's right for you is mastodon right for you. |
| 0:54.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, November 15th, 2022, |
| 0:58.0 | and Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 1:00.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. |
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