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Grumpy Old Geeks

236: Unnecessary Reboots

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

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 104 minutes

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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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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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