307: I Hate Smishing

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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Smart Phone, Society & Culture, Ios, Apple, Amazon, Smartphone, Tesla, Tech Pod, Tech, Phone, Technology, Space, Android, Google, Microsoft, Science, Videogame, Video Game, Games, Electric Car, Techpod

4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

A handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least favorite subject, SMS spam, one involving an organized crime ring and the other vulnerable everyday infrastructure. Then we move on to a recent blog post by one of iRobot's founders, in which he expresses extreme wariness about the safety of humans interacting with humanoid robots. Lastly, with only a week and change to go until Windows 10 EOL, we look at Valve's ending support for the 32-bit Steam client (and the end of 32-bit Windows in general) and some predictions for how things might go when the deadline comes... assuming Microsoft doesn't blink at the last minute.

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0:00.0	Brad, I posted a podcast from the sky this week.
0:03.3	What brought that on?
0:04.8	Well, Linux, I guess, technically.
0:07.2	Okay.
0:07.6	I mean, Linux is probably at fault for just about everything.
0:10.0	Look, I set the podcast to upload on September 30th, and I scheduled it, and I hit the button, and I walked away from the computer and went did some packed up because I was on a trip and then I didn't check to see that it actually saved and uploaded and I just closed the laptop because I was like oh a laptop's asleep must have finished and then I didn't think about it until the next afternoon when I was on the airplane and I was like oh hey let's see what people think about that podcast episode I was like there's no channel in the discord And then I went and looked and I was like, oh, it didn't post. And then I went and looked at the Patreon page, the back end SMS. CMS. And it was like, yeah, no Patreon. No Patreon episode. So I uploaded it from the sky. Well, I guess technically first I downloaded it from my Dropbox and then I uploaded it from the sky.
0:54.5	Wow.
0:55.2	Two-way communication.
0:56.5	It was not a fast internet connection.
0:58.2	I was getting like 200 kilobits per second.
1:00.5	I bet not.
1:01.1	My paranoia about everything leads me to triple check just about every form before I submit it.
1:06.4	I usually I do that, but I was a little distracted as I was packing and trying to get other stuff done because I was on a trip.
1:15.1	So yeah, I can't talk about what I saw, but I was at the Intel Tech tour for their new processor launches that will be coming at some point in the future.
1:24.9	I'm excited to hear about that.
1:26.1	But for now, yeah, how fast was the
1:28.7	download on the airplane? It was, the download was okay. The download took about eight minutes.
1:33.8	The upload took pretty much the rest of the two hour flight. We're talking, is this the MP3
1:38.3	I sent you for that podcast? This is the, it's a 60 megabyte file. I got to know each and every bit, uh, as I was downloading
1:45.9	and uploading. So I was like, it's a patron episode. How big can it be? It turns out 60 megabytes.
1:50.6	61 megabytes. I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, 200 kilobits per second, uh, download upload.
1:56.2	Upload. It took a minute. Yeah. by a minute, you mean several minutes?
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