 Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Dale Mulcahy, Matt Zaglin and Scott Hepburn. Coming up on DTNS, Jen Briney tells us what it takes to be a digital nomad, why some LED street lights turn purple, and Twitter. Twitter. We have thoughts. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, December 16th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Red, and I'm Sarah Lane. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, Ohio. I'm Len Peralta. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And I'm very excited to have the host of the Congressional Dish podcast back, Jennifer Briney. Welcome. Hello, thanks for having me back. Yeah, thanks for coming back. I can't wait to talk digital nomad stuff with you. It's very fun. Yeah, it's cool. And you're in the middle of a digital nomad moment, because you're headed right to the airport as soon as you're done with us, right? I am, and I'm recording from a hotel room sitting on the floor. Yeah, there we go. That's how it's done. That's all you need to know, but there's more. We'll tell you more. All right, let's start with the quick heads. HTC will announce a new flagship mixed reality headset at CES on January 5th. Its global head of products, Shen Ye, told The Verge it will be a small light all in one headset. The company also claims it offers color video pass through two hours of battery life with controllers offering six degrees of freedom and hand tracking. No word on price as of yet. Yeah, about time MetaQuest got some competition there. The US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, that is the name of a thing, said on Thursday that for the first time it has gained access to audit documents on companies in China and Hong Kong. And the reason that's significant is it means it means it may not need to delist about 200 companies from New York Stock exchanges. Companies including Alibaba, JD.com were among those 200 companies it was looking at. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement, it will continue to promote audit supervision cooperation with the United States. The mobile games market may decline this year for the first time since smartphones became a thing. Gaming data company at Nuzo estimates that revenues will fall by 6.4% this year to $92.2 billion rather than the 7.3% growth of mobile saw last year. And back in 2020, it saw 25.6%. A lot of people are staying home. A lot of people are playing mobile games. Amper analysis also downgraded its forecast for the year to a 6.4 decline as well or $6 billion less than what mobile raked in in 2021 due to weaknesses in the US, the Chinese and Japanese gaming markets, which are the largest. Amper called it a wake up call for the industry. Good morning industry. Seven members of the US Congress, including representatives Lori Trahan of Massachusetts, Katie Porter of California and Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, send a letter to a bunch of game companies. Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Epic, Interslav, Microsoft, PUBG, Riot Games, Roblox, Sony Square, Take Two Interactive, Tencent, Ubisoft and Valve. They all get letters. Isn't that nice? It's probably it's like the holidays. A little Christmas card inside this Christmas card from these US Congress people is a request for information about how video game companies deal with reports of extremism. The letter cites a report from the Anti-Defamation League that found a rise of extremism in online gaming communities and asks for details on reporting in game harassment. The science of teams dedicated to those kinds of issues and any data on disciplinary actions taken against players for inappropriate behavior, among other things. So the significance here is what has been happening to social media looks like it may be starting to happen to video game companies. Waymo announced that it's expanding its driverless car service to include airport trips, at least, you know, for now, a few places. Customers flying in and out of Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport may now be able to hail one of the company's rider-only vehicles to and from Waymo's Phoenix Coverage Area. That coverage area is also getting bigger. The company is more than doubling its service area in Phoenix and also expanding its service in San Francisco. Hey, look at that. Actual cars that drive themselves. So Twitter. We've been walking the tightrope here at Daily Tech News Show of not overcovering what's been going on with Twitter, but trying not to ignore it. Thank you for your understanding as an audience as we try to balance all that. The last 24 hours have seen what we think are significant events, but we're going to try to break down as we always try to do what actually happened, regardless of how any of us may feel about it. Since June 2020, a Florida developer named Jack Sweeney has run multiple social media accounts, one of them on multiple platforms, and he calls them on all the platforms ElonJet. ElonJet takes public data from the ADSB exchange and then posts and therefore makes more accessible and easy to find when Elon Musk's private jet takes off or lands. Sweeney also runs similar tracking accounts for other high profile people. That includes Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and the president of the United States. He tracks Air Force One. Musk has argued for years that raising the profile of such information, even though it's already public, makes him and his family less safe. However, he has also used that fact that he hasn't removed ElonJet from Twitter as an example of his commitment to free speech, even if you don't like it. Yeah, so on Wednesday afternoon, Twitter announced an update to its privacy policy and also media policy. These policy described what kind of private information can't be disclosed on Twitter, may not, and going forward anyway, sometimes referred to as the doxene policy. The new addition to the policy reads, live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to third party URLs of travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person's location, regardless if this information is publicly available. A couple hours later, Musk wrote on Twitter, last night are a car carrying little X, let's I assume one of his children in LA was followed by a crazy stalker thinking it was me who later blocked the car from moving and climbing onto the hood. Legal action is being taken against Sweeney and organizations who supported harm to my family. And that is merely where the fun began. Yeah, exactly. So, so basically, a stalker jumps on the hood of a car. It scares a father and that father then somehow causes the company he owns to put in a policy that says you can't give out that kind of information on Twitter. And very shortly thereafter, Sweeney and his Twitter accounts are suspended. Then Thursday, several people, including many journalists at mainstream media outlets, you know, we're talking CNN, New York Times, Business Insider, were also suspended. Musk has said that they will be suspended for seven days, though messaging to some of the suspended accounts indicated the bans were permanent. That could be a change of heart, it could be a mistake, it could be a lie. None of the suspended accounts reported receiving the usual warnings. Usually Twitter warns you before they suspend you. Nor did they receive an explanation of what rules they broke. That is more normal. A lot of times you get suspended. They don't tell you exactly why. Musk says all of the suspended accounts shared real time location, though many of the holders of the accounts dispute that all of them had either linked to or written about the Elon jet accounts. So among the accounts suspended is the join mastodon account, which promotes the mastodon Fediverse, which is an alternate short messaging social network, similar to Twitter is one of it's one of a few, but it's getting a lot of attention these days. You also can't post links to many mastodon servers on Twitter. If you include a mastodon server link in a Twitter post, you'll receive a message that the link has been identified by Twitter, or our partners as being potentially harmful. Yeah, and some people are suspecting that's because there is an Elon jet account on mastodon and the join mastodon account pointed that out. Thursday evening, several of the people who had suspended Twitter accounts found out they could still access Twitter spaces, Twitter's audio discussion feature. So they started getting together in there and talking about all this and Elon Musk joined that Twitter space briefly said his piece, then left, and then the space stopped working shortly thereafter. Twitter spaces is no longer allowing users to start new conversations or join existing ones at least last we checked it may have changed by the time you hear this. So here we are. We're all caught up. I guess the only other thing I've noticed is that Musk ran a poll about reinstating the suspended accounts and then deleted it and then did a poll with fewer options. Let's not dwell too much on all of this, though, round the horn. Just a quick, what do you think about this? And, and Jen, I'm sorry to do this. We'll start with you. What do you think? I mean, who would have thought that a billionaire with a massive ego to the point that he thinks he needs to personally repopulate the world would buy a social media company and then do whatever he wants with it? Like it's, it's his own little fiefdom. And I just think that if we want free speech, we need to have an actual public forum, which Twitter is not. And this is one of the symptoms. Yeah. So, so unsurprised is how you are. Yeah, yeah. Sarah, what about you? And I'm kind of with you, Jen. I there's, there is a lot of the daily back and forth that like Tom mentioned a few minutes ago, we don't always cover on the show because a lot of it isn't really a tech story. You know, we don't really know what it means for the future of Twitter, people who use Twitter. It's a, it's something else entirely. And this feels like well, it feels like something else entirely, but it, but it does feel like, wait, I'm getting to the point now where I am watching people that I like and trust very much on Twitter, who are more, you know, Twitter users than I am saying, you know, I don't know about all this, it's just getting too weird. And I, you know, I, we've, we've, we've talked about it on the show that, you know, people will flounce out and then they'll come back because that's where everybody else is. And I'm, I'm just now sort of wondering where, okay, where is everybody else going exactly? Mastered on is an option. There are others. There are quite a few others really, you know, I don't know, go back to group chats if you really want to everybody. But we, we're, we're getting into an era of Twitter where I'm like, okay, this is going to be really different. And it's up to all of us individually, unless we're kicked off of it to decide whether or not it's still a fun safe place. Yeah, this, this, this last bit about Mastered on links is the one that's really tested my ability to keep balance. I try to imagine not what are they thinking, but if they were sincere, would this, would this make sense? Even if I don't agree with it? And a lot of what has been done, I could say like, okay, yeah, I could see a world in which this could be sincere. So I'm not going to get too riled up about it up to an including banning the journalists. If the journalists all did break the policy, then maybe they should be suspended for seven days. And we can have an argument about whether they really did or not. But there's there's nothing in that principle that's that's actually wrong. So you know, benefit of the doubt sort of situation, if you're going to give it, which I'm not saying any of you have to. But if you were going to give it, you could find a excuse there. I really don't see how banning all Mastered on servers from being linked to and I've checked this myself, I've tried to link to Mastered on servers. And I get the notice that it is malware. It's not malware. It is not a harmful place. That to me is the one where I just can't I even if I want to excuse it really bad, I'm like, that's that's just not I did no, that doesn't make any sense. And you may laugh at me for taking this long to get to something that didn't make any sense. But you know, I'm trying to reach balance here. And it does now really feel like this is just not this is never going to balance itself out. I'm probably wrong about that. It probably will. I'm sure it will. But it really this is the one that finally got me like really just banning all the links to Mastered on that's that really is just random to me. Alright, folks, on our subreddit, we have a palette cleanser for you kv87. Thank you so much on this day of Twitter news for posting an article from insider.com by Adam Rogers about why faulty street lights are turning cities purple. It's a it's a well researched article. If you have some time to read it, absolutely worth it. We'll have a link in the show notes. The short version, though, is that cities around the world, British Columbia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, New Mexico, California, even some in Ireland have all reported that recently installed LED street lights recently over the last couple of years suddenly started shining with a purple tint, which is great for fans of Prince or BTS, but maybe not so great for seeing where you're going. Yes, Rogers did a lot of work to figure out what is happening here. Before we explain though, let's start with why we have LEDs in street lamps in the first place. LED lights are preferable because they have extremely efficient and therefore use they are extremely efficient use less energy overall. You get more light at less costs. And municipalities love things like that. The street lights cities by usually glow at 4000k. That's a shade of white similar to what would be in a high end sports cars lights. Pretty bright. It's also the cheapest LED to make. So when these lamps first started showing up, folks had to get used to that change from the sort of sodium yellow to something that was a little bit more, you know, in your face. But they did. And then those lights started to turn purple. So why did this happen with some LED lights, but not all of them? Yes, it was Prince. No. First of all, white LED lights are usually using blue LEDs. The blue goes in a yellow glass lens that is calibrated so that the combination of blue and yellow is just the right combination. to appear white to our eyes. There are lots of different ways to package the blue LED chip and the yellow glass together. Different companies do it different ways. And at different costs. That's kind of the key to understanding all of this. Rogers found that all the lights turning purple had been bought from a company called acuity brands between 2017 and 2019. This is the legwork that I respect here that he went and like found out. Okay, where'd you what all these cities where'd you buy your lights from Most of those came from an acuity sub brand called American Electric Lighting or AEL acuity says that what they call the blueing but but really appears as purple happened in a small percentage of AEL fixtures that it no longer sells. And it has gone and fixed those for the municipalities that told them about it. Essentially, the glass in the AEL lights was yellowed with a phosphor coating. That's pretty common. That's not the controversial part. However, the phosphor on the AEL lights was delaminating a K a peeling off in some of these lights. And as it peeled off the carefully calibrated balance of blue and yellow stopped looking white and started looking like what blue and yellow look like when you mix those colors in Play-Doh together purple. So the question then becomes why did the phosphor peel on these Tom glad you asked. So phosphor coatings can peel off of glass if the LED inside heats up too much. There are a few reasons that that could happen, including mistakes in assembly, maybe mistaken installation. Sounds like the case of AEL. It was likely a problem in the assembly because it just happened to a lot of different lights that, you know, were made around the same time acuity sources, its parts from several vendors overseas. So, you know, again, might be might be a few companies that that were at fault here. If you happen to be a purple hater sounds like maybe though they bought some of the parts Bates on price alone without knowing how good that that particular factories quality control was going to be. Because they're trying to put a lot of lights in a lot of places, sometimes something that they seem to have rectified, at least in many cases. But if you've ever run into a purple light on your street and you say, huh, strange choice, why? Now you might know. Yeah. So they, after 2019, this stopped happening. So they obviously fixed this part vendor. They're not releasing any details about which vendor it was. It'd be very interested about that. But yeah, Jen, are you surprised to find that lights were turning purple around the world? Not at all. It's just so funny that, you know, these were constantly looking for the lowest cost thing. And it's like, you would hope that at some point they would look at the lower price and be like, why? What's the catch? And so I guess we're lucky that it's purple light and not just like no light. If you want to look at the silver lining and it's easy to replace. I mean, I have to think that depending on where you are and what time of year, it could kind of be cool. It's obviously lights that are not acting. Yeah, it's not intentional, right? Yeah. But I don't know. If anyone's sort of taken like a nice sunset scene with purple lights by the river, do send it our way. Love to see it. Yeah. Let us know if you've had purple lights on your street. And now you can be the smarty pants in the room who's like, well, let me tell you why that happens. Yeah. Phosphors. Indeed. Folks, if you want to hear us talk about stuff on the show, do what KV87 did. Let us know on our subreddit. You could submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Last month we covered a story on restofworld.org regarding Malaysia's attempt to lure digital nomads to their country to help boost the economy. We talked about how a lot of countries are doing that. Wired has an article out on Friday about Portugal's island of Madeira. Wired seems less than impressed with that particular effort. But Jen Briney was impressed by her stay in a different part of Portugal and was nice enough to record a bit about it when we covered that Malaysian story a while back. Portugal isn't the only place you stay. In fact, you are one of the few people, Jen, I know who are truly a digital nomad, so we had to have you back to talk about that. Let's start with picking where to go. How do you decide? So this whole digital nomad lifestyle was my choice. And so I kind of, since we started this, I kind of let my husband take the lead on where we go. And so what I have found is that we have been chasing good weather because it's much easier to pack for warm climates than cold climates. You know, the jacket can take out your whole carry on. And so we've been doing that. And then we're also looking at, like if it's a busy time of year, trying to go somewhere off the beaten path. So we're not paying like $400 a night for hotels. So it's very like season dependent. Having done some travel on, you know, what I would consider shoulder seasons, you know, monsoon stuff where you're like, well, we might get lucky, you know, because prices are lower. But we also might incur the wrath of weather. Have you had any surprises? No, we've been really lucky in that regard. Because we did Portugal in the winter, which was really mellow. And then we were in Poland for the summer. And so we had a couple pop up thunderstorms, which was I was thrilled with that. So no, weather hasn't really been a factor. There is one factor, though, that for us specifically, we're also picking places where our dog is allowed to go to travel with a little eight pounder. And she would have to be quarantined if we went to any island nation. So even though the exchange rates are so favorable in places like Malaysia, our little scaredy dog would not survive quarantine. So we're waiting until she crosses the rainbow bridge and then we'll go to those places. So do you pick on other, do you consider other things like cost of living or how good the internet is or even language? So not language as much. I've traveled in enough places where I didn't speak the language to not be afraid of that. But internet is definitely a factor because both of us need it to be excellent to do what we do. And so we have found that it's we're not picking countries based on the internet since especially in Europe and we've traveled in Mexico, like the internet's fine, but it's hotel by hotel. So we have found even though you get a less authentic experience, we are trying to stay in corporate chains when we're overseas, like especially Marriots, because we just know that their standards for business level internet are going to be acceptable for us. And we also look through all the reviews before we book something to make sure that we can work there. That's a really important thing for us. Yeah, that's a good factor is, you know, does the place have the ability for you to be digital when you're being a digital nomad, right? What about things like speaking of work like documentation? Do you, you know, are you able to do a travel visa even though you're working from the places you're going? Does that make things complicated or do vaccinations? I mean, COVID obviously, but even non-COVID vaccinations play into this. How does that all work? Well, so we're relatively new at this. And so the way I see it is there's 195 countries in this world. So we're just going to the easy ones first. Yeah. And so what we've found is that on a tourist visa, the fine print says that you're not supposed to work when you're overseas. But I know the intention of that rules, those rules are more like you're not supposed to be taking a job from a local. So like working under the table to wash dishes, like that would be against the spirit of those laws. But me doing my podcast from the road, like I really don't even worry about that. And we've just been traveling on tourist visas. And so like when we go into the Schengen area, you can stay and it's Schengen is pretty much all of Europe at this point. You can stay in for 90 days and then you have to leave for 90 days. You can be in for 90 days and 180 day period. So we just kind of plan around that. Like we'll look at our calendar and be like, okay, we have to be back in the States for this conference. So we'll leave for three months and then come back for the conference. And we're just kind of playing with the calendar so that we don't have to apply for visas or do any of that work. And so far that's been pretty easy because there's a lot of places to go in the world. What about driver's license? Do you even worry about that? Or do you just take cabs and public transit? We're big on public transit. I would say more than Internet. When I look at infrastructure, I'm looking for places that I can get around on my feet and on public transportation. Because the language isn't that hard when you're being a different language, when you're ordering food or something like that. But if you're looking at street signs in a different language, that can actually be dangerous if you're behind the wheel of a car. So we do everything we can to not have to drive in the places we travel to. BeBastar wonders if you use a VPN that you're always on these other people's networks. I definitely do. So I was using YouTube TV to watch football last season when I was in Portugal and eventually YouTube caught on to me. So it's not working that well for those purposes. But for like doing my research back here in the States, I'll set it to Seattle. And that way Google's giving me the results that I'm looking for. And it's also great when I want the perspective of other places in the world. So just for security reasons and for access to information reasons. Like the Ukraine war started when I was living in Portugal. And they made it impossible for people in the EU to watch Russia today on the Internet. So because I had a VPN, I was able to go through another country in order to get the Russian side of the story. So yeah, VPNs, they're so useful in my life and I'm very grateful to have it. What about money? Do you just use credit cards? Do you exchange money regularly and also related to money taxes? How do you file your tax when you don't live in a particular place? Well, so I'm a Washington state resident. And what's great about Washington state is it's a zero income tax state. So you really don't have to worry about their state taxes all that much. Makes it much more simple than if we had stayed in California. That does sound nice. And it's wonderful. And then for federal taxes, I mean, we just pay them. Yeah, right. There's kind of a way to get out of paying your federal taxes on your first $200,000 or so of income. But you would have to be out of the United States for about 11 months out of a 12 month period. And anytime you're in transit. So like if you're over the ocean, even on the other side of the world, if you're in transit, you're technically in the United States for that tax day. So to hit that 11 months, it's really tough to do. So I just pay my taxes. Yeah. Better safe than sorry. Exactly. The one lesson we learned with money though, I mean Visa and Mastercard are accepted everywhere. And we have a bank account that allows us to it's a 100% online bank. And so they pay for the ATM fees, both the bank's fees and the ATM that you're using. Yeah. So that saved us quite a bit of money because overseas like you can pay 20 bucks just in AP ATM fees and they wave all that. So that was key. And then the one mistake I made that now I know is that when you do the two factor authorization for your bank accounts, you have to make sure that it's not your phone that it's tied to. Because if you're staying overseas long term, most people, if they're smart, will know that you pay a lot less for even better service overseas. And so we always switch the chips in our phone. But that means that we can't go to the same number. Oh, and then you get into a bank account. Yeah. So we've switched all those things. Yeah. I couldn't sign into my bank account for three months. It's difficult. Wow. It's safer to not use SMS as your second factor if you can. It's just frustrating that some services they just don't give you another option, unfortunately. Yeah. Yeah. All right, but we'll talk about this more in the Good Day Internet as well. But last question for Daily Tech News Show. Who is this for? If somebody were like, I don't know, should I become a digital nomad? How would you describe the kind of person that this suits? So I was describing myself to a friend yesterday as a change addict. And I think that's honestly why I love this life so much is that every day is different. And even little stuff is exciting to me now. Like, I need to go to the grocery store. Where is it? So if you like challenges, if you like things to be different, if you don't feel the need to have possessions, like I mean, I'm in a great suite. None of the stuff behind me here is mine. But I'm always comfortable. So yeah, having possessions was less important to me than having constant exciting experiences. And so yeah, that's why this is working so well for me. And I think I'm going to do it for the rest of my life. I'm absolutely in love with it. Wow. That's fantastic. Yeah. Jelly, very jelly over here as a person who loves to travel, but has done very little of it over the last few years, you know, as many of us have not. I really respect what you're doing, Jen. And that whole idea of just being like, okay, what are we going to do today? It'll be different than the last. That is exciting. Indeed. It's very fun. Thank you, Sarah. Yeah. It keeps you feeling straight. Well, Len Peralta has been drawing today's story, but I'm afraid he ran out of purple. So what did you draw instead of the LED light lens? Yeah. Well, you know, that sounds great. Digital nomading sounds terrific. But yes, you know, for this week, it actually is probably the big story of the week, even though a lot of us kind of sigh and say, oh, what's next? But of Elon and Twitter. So that's what I drew here. If you're familiar with the book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Yes. It was kind of, this was Elon's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in a way. It was booed by Chappelle's audience and the assassination coordinates and the rage quit and everything else. So that's what this is. If you are a fan, or even if you're not a fan of Elon, you can get this at my online store at LenPeraltaStore.com or at my Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len. I also want to mention that I'm still taking commissions and I'm still taking orders for my custom drawn holiday cards up until Sunday. So if you want to get in on that, jump on it and hop over to LenPeraltaStore. Fantastic. Jennifer Briney, also such a pleasure to have you with us. Let folks know where they can keep up with where you might be tomorrow or the next day. Well you can hear my main show. It's Congressional Dish, which is about Congress and what they do. It's not about campaigns. It's about governing. And then I'm also the co-host of a show with Justin, Robert Young and Andrew Heaton called We're Not Wrong, where we have a lot of fun. We're nice to each other. And yeah, and apparently we have not wrong political opinions because Justin is snarky and he wrote that. No, I love how sometimes you're one of you. It could be, I think it's happened with all three of you. We'll say something where I'm like, oh man, that's just not right. And then one of the others will bring my perspective in and then you'll all agree like, yeah, but you know, that's okay. We could disagree on this. And I'm like, oh, it's wonderful. It's an antidote to all of the rage out there, so I appreciate it. Yeah. It's my favorite thing about it. You can talk about politics without being mean. Yeah. Yeah. And hold to your own viewpoints. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good way to put it. We also want to thank our brand new boss over on our side of the pond named Catherine. Catherine just started backing us on Patreon. Whatever pond you may live in, Catherine, we are so glad to have you on ours. Yes, indeed. I would like to call you Catherine the Great for being one of our supporters. That makes you great. You certainly are great. All of our patrons are great. We thank all of you for sticking around with us. In fact, stick around for the extended show Good Day Internet that we roll right into after DTNSCon concludes. But just a reminder, if you're not listening or watching live, we do do the show live and we'd love to have you if you, if you, if the timing works for you. We'll see you Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern 2100 UTC. Find out more at DailyTechNewShow.com slash live. We're all going to have a pretty great weekend. 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