# In This Issue

- TikTok explains why they closed the account of a Chinese concentration camp critic

- It’s official, Jony Ive has left the spaceship

- Government submits legistlation for a tax on non-NBN fixed line internet connections

- Live baseball updates on the command line

- 32 Black Friday bargains

# News

#### TikTok explains why they closed the account of a Chinese concentration camp critic

TikTok has apologised for banning US teen Feroza Aziz, who posted a video raising awareness of China's concentration camps full of innocent Uighur Muslims, disguised as a make up tutorial video. Everyone's first instinct is "oh she was shitting on China so the Chinese app banned her", but TikTok's statement is unusually clear about why they accidentally banned Feroza's account. A few days earlier she posted a picture of Osama bin Laden, a big no-no on TikTok, which she was banned for. She then made a new TikTok account on the same device, which is the account she used for this Uighur awareness video. A few days after that, a human moderator noticed this new account was linked to the old account (same device unique ID) and locked the new account. When TikTok realised what they done, Feroza's account was re-instated and TikTok apologised. No conspiracy! No collusion!

#### It’s official, Jony Ive has left the spaceship

Jony Ive's photo has been taken down from Apple's leadership page, marking the end of an era in Cupertino (look it's Thanksgiving in the US, there's fuck all news going down). I totally forgot Jony was leaving Apple until I saw this article pop up. So long mate, take your shitty laptop keyboards with you. 100% that was Ive's idea, right? Jony will now ride off in the sunset, with his massive pile of money and unlimited street cred for being the bloke who designed the iPhone, to work at his new consultancy LoveFrom with Marc Newson. Can't wait to see what beautiful overpriced baubles they produce together. Apparently LoveFrom will work with Apple on stuff, but who knows what that’ll be exactly.

#### Government submits legistlation for a tax on non-NBN fixed line internet connections

Our big brained government is still persisting with a $7.10/m tax on every fixed-line broadband connection not provided by the NBN. So for example, new estates where developers decide to install Opticomm FTTP or apartment buildings with Spirit FTTB, because NBN services cost too much compared to the private sector. If the "Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2019" passes the Senate, the tax will begin on July 1st, 2020. Government reckons this tax is necessary to fund the economically unviable parts of the NBN (fixed wireless & satellite), but experts reckon the amount raised by the tax won't even make a dent and is really just a fuck you to the non-NBN ISPs building networks that compete with the government's expensive piece of crap. I’m shocked the Liberal party are being vindictive little bitches. Shocked.

# Not News

#### Live baseball updates on the command line

I'm not a big baseball fan, but Playball is so cool I couldn't not mention it here. This little piece of Javascript runs on your terminal and gives you play by play updates on live MLB games in full ASCII glory. If you're someone who lives in the terminal already, it looks way less dodgy having this up on your screen than the MLB website or a video. This could absolutely work for cricket too. I remember many summers sitting in the office at RMIT or Melb Uni, babysitting Xserves whilst looking at Cricinfo's live blog because we didn't have a TV in the cubicle farm. If I had Playball but for cricket, I'd at least look like I'm working! Someone smarter than me should make that.

# Bargains

Just a heads up, all the eBay deals here need eBay Plus to get the full discount. You should sign up for it, there’s a free trial too.

- Elgato Stream Deck XL - $280.08 from EB Games

- 10% off Nintendo eShop gift cards at EB Games

- 64GB SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 USB 2.0 flash drives - $10 from Amazon

- TP-Link HS100/HS110 smart plugs - $15.90/$23.90 from Amazon

- Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 - $479 from Amazon

- Logitech Harmony Elite universal remote - $287 at JB Hi-Fi, Amazon & Harvey Norman

- Yamaha YAS-108B soundbar - $143.20 from Bing Lee’s eBay store

- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU - $267.75 from Shallothead’s eBay store

- Sonos One (2nd gen) smart speaker - $220 from Amazon

- Sonos Sub (wireless subwoofer) - $755 from Amazon

- Segway Ninebot ES2 electric scooter - $524 from Amazon

- Logitech MX Master 3 wireless mouse - $107.92 from Scorptec’s eBay store

- PlayStation 4 Pro 1TB console - $349.99 from Amazon

- Yamaha RX-V685 Titanium amplifier with free Xbox One S - $869 from Radio Parts

- Sony WF1000XM3B wireless earbuds - $300 from Bing Lee’s eBay store

- Sony WH-1000XM3 wireless headphones (silver) - $296.65 from The Good Guy’s eBay store

- ThinkPad E495 laptop (14” 1080p, Ryzen 5 3500U, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM) - $711 from Lenovo and use Cashrewards for a further 11% bringing the total to $632.79

- Voll B50 bookshelf speakers - $110.45 via Voll’s eBay store

- Q Acoustics 3010i 5.1 speaker pack with 3060S subwoofer - $1537.20 from Rio Sound & Vision

- Nintendo Switch console & Mario Kart 8 - $339.15 from EB Game’s eBay store

- Google Wi-Fi 3 pack - $254.15 from The Good Guys eBay store

- Google Chromecast (3rd Gen) - $49 at Officeworks

- Amazon Echo (3rd Gen) - $99 from Amazon

- Beats By Dr. Dre Powerbeats Pro - $261.75 from Amazon

- Oculus Rift S - $568 from Amazon

- Two Google Nest Hubs - $168 at JB Hi-Fi & Harvey Norman

- Nintendo Switch Lite - $253.30 from Big W’s eBay store

- DJI Osmo Pocket - $460 from Amazon

- RØDE NT-USB microphone - $149.99 from Amazon

- Microsoft Office 365 Home 1 year subscription - $76.80 from Bing Lee’s eBay store

- Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 8GB - $126.65 from The Good Guy’s eBay store

- Sony DualShock 4 controller - $44 from Amazon (good for Apple Arcade on the Apple TV)

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