# Grindr-in-Chief

URL: /show/coder-radio/536/
> The painful side of making video games, Grinder's big problems, and Google's sneakiest trojan horse.

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 536
- Date: 2023-09-20
- Hosts: chris, michael
- Duration: 00:42:47
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/b44de5fa-47c1-4e94-bf9e-c72f8d1c8f5d/30d89575-77a6-4b41-b36b-bf2d6dc9ad71.mp3



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### Episode Links

  * [⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web](https://getalby.com/ "⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web") — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 
  * [🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org](https://podcastindex.org/podcast/487548 "🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org") — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.
  * [Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?](https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/16fu7o0/why_isnt_dotnet_core_popular_among_startups/?share_id=O2Z8vRJBz0u4bc7-BYb_Z&utm_name=androidcss "Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?") — Is there any specific reason why startups, at least here in India, don’t tend to use dotnet for backend especially now dotnet is also open source and cross-platform. 
  * [Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit](https://futurism.com/the-byte/grindr-remote-work "Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit") — Grindr seems to have played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting.
  * [Santiago on X: "I fired somebody cheating"](https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1700848050153890170 "Santiago on X: "I fired somebody cheating"") — Around that time, I stumbled upon the idea of overemployment. A whole movement dedicated to helping people work several full-time jobs at once.
  * [Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/ "Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly") — Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
  * [Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting](https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/06/google_privacy_popup_chrome/ "Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting")
  * [The Privacy Sandbox](https://privacysandbox.com/ "The Privacy Sandbox") — Billions of people around the world rely on access to information on sites and apps. To provide this free resource without relying on intrusive tracking, publishers and developers need privacy-preserving alternatives for their key business needs, including serving relevant content and ads. 
  * [Major programming faults discovered in Starfield's code by VKD3D dev - performance issues are *not* the result of non-upgraded hardware](https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16ewupt/major_programming_faults_discovered_in_starfields/ "Major programming faults discovered in Starfield's code by VKD3D dev - performance issues are *not* the result of non-upgraded hardware") — What really grinds my gears is the fact that the open source community has figured out and came up with workarounds to try to make this game run better.
  * [Starfield Is Great—Unless You're on Nvidia or Intel](https://gizmodo.com/starfield-runs-better-on-amd-than-nvidia-or-intel-1850825127 "Starfield Is Great—Unless You're on Nvidia or Intel")
  * [Venn on X](https://twitter.com/vennstone/status/1701178256332878301?s=12&t=E9EIlRX-vHxbQ8g23lQU3A "Venn on X") — While it may not be optimized for PC, it will be optimized for #Linux.
  * [Todd Howard Tells Starfield Players To Upgrade Their PCs](https://kotaku.com/todd-howard-starfield-pc-optimized-settings-xbox-1850818022 "Todd Howard Tells Starfield Players To Upgrade Their PCs")
  * [Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water ](https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft-f551fde98083d17a7e8d904f8be822c4 "Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water ") — In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
  * [Nissan, Kia 'collect data about drivers' sexual activity'](https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/nissan-kia-collect-data-about-drivers-sexual-activity/ "Nissan, Kia 'collect data about drivers' sexual activity'") — The foundation said most car companies can comb through a variety of sources to glean personal information about drivers after they pair their smartphones with a vehicle’s connected services.