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Grumpy Old Geeks

218: Shaka, When the Walls Fell

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 July 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Net Neutrality Day of (in)Action; What Did We Do; Amazon’s Geek Squad; Snap, Blue Apron stock; ads within ads; Magic Leap’s Mixed Reality; Sous-vide botnets; Twin Peaks; 80s & 90s music love; Laundry Files; Verizon hack; AlphaBay; MOMA texts; Coke’s AI. Full show notes at http://gog.show/218 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 in the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.1

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:18.5

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. How about a little follow-up?

0:21.3

So Brian, what did you think of the net neutrality day of action?

0:24.8

Oh, when was that?

0:26.4

Wednesday, I believe.

0:28.0

Oh, that's the day I got all the pop-up saying an old school like animated

0:32.8

geeks that were like loading, loading on like five pages I looked at.

0:37.7

Yeah, I think I saw like three times at the most.

0:40.7

I went to Google thinking, oh, Google joined the protest, let's go see what Google did.

0:44.1

And there was a Google doodle about a dead Japanese costume designer.

0:48.5

I'm like, hmm, how's this tie-in to net neutrality?

0:51.2

In a very influential one, I mean.

0:53.4

Oh, yeah, yeah.

0:55.2

But nothing, yeah, it was it was a big nothing as far as I could tell again.

0:59.6

Well, there was some action around the globe.

1:03.6

There's a tech branch article that lists off some of the highlights.

1:06.9

So we had, was it two million comments to the FCC website?

1:10.8

That's good.

1:11.6

Yeah, five million emails to Congress.

1:14.1

Okay, that's very good.

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