### Issue 1676 - Monday 22nd August, 2022

## In Today's Issue

- Google shitcans father's account & call cops due to mundane medical photos of his son
- Government to make a "token map" of the Australian cryptocurrency market
- John Carmack's new AI startup, Google to improve search quality, Tesla FSD gets a price increase
- How to use Slack and not annoy your co-workers
- Cheap Raspberry Pi case, TerraMaster 10GbE NAS, Tenda smart wi-fi powerboards, Nvidia Shield TV Pro, Edifier speakers, Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick, 75" Aldi TV, Dell Ryzen laptop

## The News

### Google shitcans father's account & call cops due to mundane medical photos of his son

The New York Times has a story about a Dad who took a photo of his son's penis on an iPhone and send it to the "health care provider's messaging system" as instructed by the nurse helping them. Now he is in a world of pain because somewhere in that chain, Google's child porn bot saw the image, along with some earlier ones of his kid doing kid things, closed down all his Google accounts with no recourse and then forwarded his details on the San Francisco police who investigated him. The investigation was quickly ended after the police saw the communications between the father and doctor, but Google has still banned him and "stands by its decisions" despite the police saying there's nothing to see here.

### Government to make a "token map" of the Australian cryptocurrency market

The Australian Treasury is going to "token map the Australian crypto market" according to a press release from the Treasurer today. This work will "help identify how crypto assets and related services should be regulated" and they reckon it "hasn't been done anywhere else in the world, so it will make Australia leaders in this work". The point of this "token map" is to "identify notable gaps in the regulatory framework, progress work on a licensing framework, review innovative organisational structures, look at custody obligations for third party custodians of crypto assets and provide additional consumer safeguards". I don't know what a token map is and Google has no hits on token maps except for articles referencing this press release, so good luck to everyone involved.

### John Carmack's new AI startup, Google to improve search quality, Tesla FSD gets a price increase

- John Carmack has a new startup. Keen Technologies is working on artificial general intelligence and got US$20m of funding. He is still devoting 20% of his time to consulting Meta on VR stuff. Carmack said he could have paid the $20m himself, "knowing that other people's money is on the line engenders a greater sense of discipline and determination".
- Google is launching a "helpful content update" to its search engine that'll "help make sure that unoriginal, low quality content doesn't rank highly in Search". They're also going to "show more helpful, in-depth reviews based on first-hand expertise in search results". Good. If they don't do something to fix search they're gonna get decimated by TikTok and Insta eventually.
- Tesla is increasing the price of the "full-self driving" option (that doesn't allow a car to drive itself) to US$15,000 in the USA. Elon reckons the latest version of FSD dropping on the 5th of September is a "major code change" and a "big step forward", so the price goes up to reflect that. The Australian price probably won't change as we don't get the "full-self driving" beta here.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### How to use Slack and not annoy your co-workers

Slack has a large chunk of documentation explaining how not to be a dickhead using their popular collaboration tool that honestly, applies to Teams and whatever collab tools people use at work these days. Write fewer messages (a paragraph instead of a stream of half sentences - a sin I am guilty of), make them easy to scan (dot points, text formatting), use threads, use emoji reactions, take advantage of status messages, talk in public rather than DMs. Good advice.

## Bargains

- FLIRC Raspberry Pi 4 Case - $18 from Amazon
- TerraMaster F4-422 10GbE 4-bay NAS - $448.99 from Amazon
- 2x Tenda SP15 smart wi-fi powerboards (3x sockets, 2x USB ports) - $48.95 from Shopping Sqaure
- NVIDIA Shield TV Pro - $278 from Harvey Norman
- Edifier P17 passive (i.e: they need an amp) bookshelf speakers - $67 from Amazon
- Echo Dot 4th Gen - $44 from Amazon
- Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max - $59 from Amazon
- Bauhn 75" 4K UHD Smart TV with webOS - $799 from Aldi
- Dell Inspiron 16 5625 laptop (Ryzen 5 5625U, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) - $959.20 from Dell's eBay store

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