234: Degauss the House

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

4.9 • 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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