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Grumpy Old Geeks

225: A Beacon of Light and Hope

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Broadly 23 & Me; #hashtag; Ikea’s smart home; tin foil tents; Uber’s new CEO; WhopperCoin; Echo sync; Defenders; the Tick; Depeche Mode & KMFDM; Netflix & toke; Little Snitch; suing Yahoo; Messenger virus; security cam roundup; Harvey Manfrenjensenden. Show notes at http://gog.show/225 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.

0:16.3

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Canadian Brian Schultmeister.

0:21.2

I'm very relaxed. I will mention that briefly that unplugging has been

0:25.8

absolutely glorious. I've avoided news altogether. The Cheeto and Chief have

0:30.6

avoided. I've been happier than I've been in months. I've followed absolutely

0:34.7

nothing. It's been great. Yeah, good dinofire. Yeah, I know. I've heard it's been

0:39.4

quite wonderful down there recently. Yeah, I'll be back on Tuesday to help. So

0:43.4

Oh, thanks. Yeah, just what we need. Another another has been program where to come

0:48.4

save the day. That's right. Now, Brian, before we talked about some 23 and me

0:53.1

action and I said that I signed up for it. I got my results. Yes. Yeah, they make

1:00.0

no sense whatsoever. That seems to be the consensus. This is a this is a bad

1:05.0

thing to happen in the world of social media these days because everybody's been

1:08.3

posting their crap and going, what the hell? So my dad comes back at 44% Italian,

1:13.7

right? Uh-huh. I come back at 6.8% Italian. Right. And we're pretty sure that he's

1:20.8

the daddy. So how the hell do you get how how does that happen? Yeah. Well, because

1:26.7

it's low to crap. I think that's just about it. Yeah. There's the the science on this

1:30.6

is is not quite there. Um, you know, the categories are hilarious. I mean, I think both the French

1:36.2

and the Germans would take Umbridge with being lumped in together as French and German.

1:40.2

Broadly Northwestern European. What the hell does that even mean? Yeah, it means I mean

1:44.2

it means I'm 33.7% British and Irish lumped together. I am 13.5% French and German lumped

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