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Grumpy Old Geeks

247: Thoughts and Prayers

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Here we are, again; Doggie DNA; Apple glass accidents; cryptomining instead of ads; Magic Leap’s some amount of money; Amazon layoffs; Berlin bans Airbnb; facial analysis bias, informed consent & data ethics; Star Trek; Smashing Pumpkins; Mac viruses. http://gog.show/247 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 who's to blame.

0:16.2

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

0:20.1

I'm calling you today for my living room. No good. Why is that? Not my wonderful studio that I've

0:25.3

spent so much time setting up because last week I told you that I you know got a PC to run

0:29.1

the studio. Yes. So I turn it on and you know there's usually windows updates that come out of

0:33.7

those things usually. Yeah. Yeah. Could take quite some time if it's a machine that's been

0:40.1

sitting in a back room somewhere for a while before you bought it. 16 hours. Yeah that sounds about

0:46.9

right. 16 hours. Multiple multiple reboots and downloads and start all over again. It's like

0:56.6

too many. Crispy. I don't think this machine is that old. And man you know the picture just

1:01.6

doesn't do it justice on Amazon. It is so much uglier in person. Oh is it really? Oh it's

1:07.5

hideous. Yeah that was a fantastically bad looking machine. So send me a photo of that. We'll put

1:12.3

that up on our Grumpy Old Geeks Instagram this week. You don't really get the majesty of it

1:17.2

until you see all the rainbow lights on the front. Yeah. It has rainbow lights on the front.

1:23.2

It's an ugly machine. It's a very ugly machine. It's a it's a gamers Republic machine. It's

1:28.4

meant for gaming. But right. Unfortunately for that I've had to use my downstairs. I'm actually

1:35.2

talking to you today. So if I sound a little echoey, I apologize. And if you hear cars and everybody

1:40.6

else outside, that's the reason. There you go. And a little follow up on my Twitter followers. Yes.

1:46.7

Every day coming in the morning, they'll be like say 3,700. By the evening, there's 2400.

1:53.7

By the time I go to bed, there's maybe 3000. And then I come back today and it's like 2300.

1:59.6

And then it's just it's it's it's schizophrenic. It's what it is. It's a battle right. It's at least

2:05.6

we know Twitter's doing something because it's the battle of the the bot followers versus let's

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