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Grumpy Old Geeks

236: Unnecessary Reboots

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Fake news & foreign interference (in)action plans; free money; Communications Decency Act; premium APIs; Robotdog overlords; Dirk Gently & Discovery; Dune, Crow reboots; Face ID & Amazon Key hacks; SkyDong; your phone is tracking you & SafeGraph pwns you. Show notes at http://gog.show/236 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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0:22.4

GOG sent you. Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian

0:29.4

Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the

0:33.5

internet and who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:43.0

And I'm Brian Schulmeister, how's Men Poo land? The disruption land of Men Poo, yes,

0:48.3

I am in San Francisco in the mission and it is well, it was raining the other day. So

0:53.2

there's not that much men who are at least it's diluted men poo. It's more of man sludge.

0:58.4

It is yes, Manorrhea. Lovely. It is. Not a little PTSD driving into town from the airport

1:06.0

looking at all the silly names of all the silly companies on all the big giant buildings

1:10.4

that they soon won't be able to afford. Yes. Just a silly place. This place is just

1:16.9

silly. It's not neat. It is silly. It is silly. Well, I agree. That's why I'm still down here.

1:22.7

How about a little follow up? I've had this article in the show to follow up on for a couple

1:27.8

of weeks now, but we never seem to get to it. It's all for you. It's all for you, Brian, because

1:33.4

it's from venture beat talking about how Google and Amazon are hooking our kids from an early age.

1:37.8

Well, duh. Yeah. Did you get a chance to go through this and take a look at it?

1:42.0

I did. It's definitely something I'm concerned about. Certainly. My son is still much too young,

1:48.2

but even at this point, I've set him up with his own YouTube account and I have playlists for him

1:54.9

and I play them. I'm worried about this, but to some degree, it's same as it ever was.

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