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Grumpy Old Geeks

308: Merry Crapulence

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

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Holiday cheer & good wishes abound in our final episode of the year; Netflix slides into your DMs; for once, Facebook made sense; WhatsApp moderation problems; Target targets Amazon; Pinterest goes public; copyright infringement; defining cybersecurity; a weasel, a baguette & the glitch in the Matrix. Sponsored by eero! Get $100 off the ‘eero base unit and 2 beacons package’ and a year of eero Plus, by visiting http://eero.com/gog and at checkout enter gog! Show notes at http://gog.show/308 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 of Grumpy Old Geeks is brought to you by ERO.

0:03.5

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0:09.0

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0:10.6

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0:15.2

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0:20.9

Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister

0:24.5

and Jason DeFilippo discussing the finer points

0:27.1

of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:30.2

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

0:34.1

And I'm Brian Schultmeister and this is our last regular show of the year.

0:38.1

Oh yes, yes, sweet blessed relief.

0:41.6

Yeah, I'm pretty.

0:43.2

I was excited until I looked at the calendar and I realized that I am full on Christmas

0:47.2

starting tomorrow and it ain't done until the new year.

0:50.0

Like, I've got something almost every single day.

0:53.0

If it's not a travel day, it's some family thing here or there or some friend thing.

0:58.0

Here or there.

0:59.0

It is a sweet blessed relief from reading tech news, but I'm going to be busier than I am normally.

1:06.0

Yeah, that's the funny thing.

1:08.0

To get some time off for next week, you know, I basically have to work for the next 72 hours straight

1:15.0

just to get everything done so I can stop because the other shows I work on don't do seasons.

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