218: Shaka, When the Walls Fell

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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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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