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Grumpy Old Geeks

148: Give Me Secure iPhone or Give Me Death!

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Vibe Coding, Elon, Bitcoin, Nfts, Tesla, Meta, Cyber, Google, Palantir, Entertainment, Tech, Music, Lifestyle, Code, Technology, Crypto, Social, Facebook, Ai, News, Internet, Elon Musk, Web, Apple, Tech News, Security, Kanye, News Commentary, Movies, Engineering, Spacex, Scams, Business

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Apple takes a stand against the US Government; Twitter loses Stephen Fry, many others; Snapchat publishing; Moore's Law on the ropes; hospital pays off hackers; new scifi reads; Kanye again; AbFab, PeeWee, Daredevil, (T)error; the great unbundling begins. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/148 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

0:06.8

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:16.0

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks for February 19th 2016. I am Jason DeFilippo and I

0:23.1

Brian Schultmeister. How's it going, Brian? Are you back from the lovely land of Hawaii?

0:27.2

I am back and it sucks. Well, I'm sure there's nothing good about being back.

0:32.9

Of course, especially because you went back to Santa Monica.

0:35.9

I don't mind Santa Monica so much. It's nice. I'm near a beach again. It's just I also have

0:41.2

to deal with work and crappy contractors who, contractors in the digital and professional realm,

0:47.7

there's crappiest contractors in the fixer plumbing realm. So yeah, well, we're contractors.

0:54.4

Yes, but you know, you and I actually follow through and respond and don't bail on projects

1:00.5

like many other people do.

1:03.3

Some of you's having a bad day. Yeah, it's not the best week. But hey, here we are.

1:09.4

I woke up to a flat tire, which you know what, all things considered I'm okay with.

1:15.1

That's true. Maybe if you had a Prius.

1:18.6

Prius still have tires, doesn't matter. There's two tires. I do want a little

1:22.8

this speaking of cars. I want to do a little follow up on the lift thing last week.

1:25.9

Some people may notice that the video that I was talking about is not on the interwebs.

1:30.7

Gio, what do I, that came down?

1:32.8

Well, you know what? Since you're so smart, you tell me.

1:35.6

I don't know. I guess that they probably rectified the situation with you and you didn't want to be a dick.

1:40.0

No, absolutely not. I've never heard back from lift. Their safety division never got back to me.

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