268: Fiddlesticks

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Tech news overload; Uber background checks; Twitter's lack of "bandwidth"; Apple autonomous cars; AI decision learning tree bullcrappery; Prime Day; Google fined; Moviepass copycats; Facebook's many problems; facial recognition; Samsam, election, IoT attacks. Show notes at http://gog.show/268 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	This episode is sponsored by Privacy.
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0:18.0	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo
0:22.8	discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:30.8	Welcome to Grumpy old geeks.
0:32.8	I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.
0:35.3	Brian, you've been traveling a lot.
0:37.2	Yes.
0:37.8	And I've been doing the bulk of the work on getting all the articles in for the show.
0:43.6	And this week I went through about 6,000 titles in my RSS reader.
0:51.3	And because I got my system down with my iPad and reader now and flipping through,
0:55.7	okay, this one goes to pinboard, read them later, all that stuff.
0:59.0	And I have noticed something profound.
1:01.4	What's that?
1:02.1	I read the same fucking headline nine times.
1:05.6	Yes.
1:07.2	Yeah, I've started calling everything.
1:09.7	I'm like, okay, so,
1:11.2	Engagitor Gismoto doesn't matter because they're going to give me the same stuff.
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