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Grumpy Old Geeks

171: Faradayspotting

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Peak app; elevated buses; Pokemon mind control; Faraday caged bars; stupid chip payments; uber mapping; Netflix tax; IoT disasters; hacking autonomous vehicles; Australia moving; emoji political correctness; Mr. Robot back on track, stand ups; Matt Damon. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/171 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 who's to blame.

0:16.8

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks for August 5th 2016. I am Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:22.8

How you doing today, Brabri? I'm doing all right, Jason. A couple quick notable things.

0:27.8

On this day in history in 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead. Yes, I know. It's also

0:33.2

National Underwear Day. I did not know that. And a young Jason DeFilippo took his first breath

0:38.2

today. That's right. 1971. Happy birthday. I'm reminded every year of Marilyn Monroe, but I

0:44.3

should have been recording this in my underwear now that I know it's National Underwear Day.

0:47.6

Well, thank God we're not on on any sort of video stream. Yes. Well, no, I have pants.

0:52.9

I have pants. I have pants. I'm actually wearing, it's very fun. I'm wearing my ironic

0:58.6

camouflaged cargo shorts so I could fit in in the Midwest. And everybody's like, why are you wearing

1:02.4

camo, dude? You're not a camo guy. I'm like, they were on sale. So why not? Good enough reason.

1:08.4

Exactly. So man, this was a techno horrible week for me. I lost two four terabyte hard drives

1:16.0

that had everything I had on them. That's that's a lot. Yeah. This goes back to our discussion on

1:22.4

search protection. Ah, yes. Did you happen to order yourself a nice search protector? I am now the

1:28.2

after this debacle in four days of trying to recover my my drives to no avail and losing a month

1:35.0

of very important work, which really sucks and a month of photography, which even sucks even more.

1:39.9

All those dog pictures gone. Then of course, wedding. Oh, well, that's not good. No. So,

1:45.6

fortunately, this somewhere there's a backup of those, hopefully on his machine, but yeah, no,

1:49.8

it was a very stressful week. But I am the proud owner of two UPSs now, one for my router and one

1:57.1

massive one for my desktop. So everything goes through the search protection and UPS. And then it

2:04.2

goes to a firm and power conditioner because my house was built in 1721. It doesn't even have

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