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Grumpy Old Geeks

164: NerdWatch 2016!

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

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

WWDC; Napster’s back; Microsoft’s LinkedIn & Twitter’s Soundcloud folly; telecoms want love, too; internet makes you dumb; Swedes go cashless; Olli & Watson; Russian DMC hack; gadgets in naughty places; we come around to VR & AR, Smashmouth & Guy Fieri. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/164 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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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 who's to blame.

0:16.5

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks for June 17th 2016 episode 164. I am Jason DeFilippo.

0:23.7

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. How you doing Brian?

0:26.4

I've got a bit of a soccer hangover. USA USA.

0:31.2

Okay. What happened? Hey, man, you know, they beat Ecuador. That's, I know to most Americans are like,

0:36.8

of course, we beat Ecuador. No, no, no, no, no. It was a big upset. So awesome.

0:42.4

I think by saying most Americans, I think you're giving most Americans a little bit more credit

0:47.2

about caring about the footies. Well, they don't care at all. So, you know, that's fine.

0:51.6

How about a little follow up? A little follow up last week from my blue apron experience.

0:58.8

Okay. I'm trying to, you know, get rid of hideous accounts. Calerodrick, friend of the show,

1:04.4

and a host of the morning show, which hasn't done an episode in like a month or so. So I guess

1:09.1

maybe ex host of the morning show. As soon as a tweet and said, I've used just delete.me to find out

1:15.0

where to go to delete accounts and cancel subscriptions. I'd never heard of this site. I checked it out.

1:19.6

It's awesome. It's massive. There's everything known to man here. But what I really need is,

1:24.9

I need a service where I put in my email address and it goes and finds out all the different places

1:28.8

that have somehow got me in their registries when I'm not. That would be an interesting one, yes.

1:33.7

That would be very useful because, you know, it's all these mailings lists. And when you've had an

1:38.0

email address for 25 plus years, it's amazing what you end up getting signed up for somehow.

1:43.2

Yeah, I'm going to cover this one in security because I had a little little issue this week where I

1:48.3

had to go back and change about 270 passwords. Wow. Unmultiple accounts. And they're all zombie accounts.

1:56.4

Right. Yeah. I one of my one of my accounts got basically pulled in one of these breaches.

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