234: Degauss the House

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Stats are meaningless; ad-driven dystopia; Google lockouts; social media hearings; Gothamist shutdown; Toothbrush as a service; neural network nightmares; subscriptions, because 2017; Reaper; fooling AI; cheeseburger emojis; take me to the good part. Show notes at http://gog.show/234 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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0:21.3	a section. Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason
0:28.8	de Philippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame.
0:38.4	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason de Philippo. And I Brian Schultmeister.
0:42.3	Happy iPhone day. Is that what it is? I guess I never really became the crazy Mac person,
0:48.2	even though I'm all Apple infrastructure now. Well, if you remember a few weeks ago,
0:52.9	you said that today I would be at the Apple store buying my new $1,000 iPhone, and I told you I wouldn't
0:58.4	be. I just said you'd get it. You'll get it. It'll happen. Yeah, maybe when the 12's out.
1:04.8	Well, I admire your restraint. I do not restraint. I just got a free upgrade. So why pay for it?
1:09.3	And I got I did have to pay for my Apple care plus today, though, which was a that does take
1:14.2	put a little sting into it though that extra 150 bucks. It is a bit of a kick in the ads, but
1:19.6	it's cheaper than getting a screen repaired. There you go. Exactly. Yeah, you get two freebies,
1:24.9	and then after that, it's like 30 bucks. So that 150 bucks pays for itself the first time you
1:29.4	sit on your massive fablet with your fab ass, which happens every now and again with these things.
1:35.1	So I am prepared. I am protected. And I am poor. Yeah, I understand. How about a little follow-up?
1:42.5	We've talked about how stats are meaningless. Meaningless meaningless meaningless. We tell you,
1:47.3	well, turns out my space has found out the hard way. My space, you say, why would they have stats?
1:51.7	Nobody ever goes to my space anymore. Well, turns out that they were trying to do like partner
1:58.2	traffic deals with these little sites that was in traffic to them. Well, somebody decided, well,
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