319: The United States of Apathy

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.9 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Facebook fatigue; scooter injuries; Bezos Fire Stick; the Grammies & Oscars out of touch; facial recognition self-regulation; Silicon Valley tax avoidance; Snap, Twitter & manipulating the numbers; bounty hunters accessing GPS data for years; Germany takes on Facebook; screen-recording apps; bug bounties; China's privacy conundrum; bacon, eggs & the 101. Show notes at http://gog.show/319 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.
0:16.3	Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.
0:20.0	I think you gave me the plague through the microphone Brian, you're an evil man.
0:24.0	Who knew that Zencaster worked so well?
0:26.9	I know not great for audio but great for the plague.
0:30.1	Yes, seriously.
0:31.6	Germcaster, that's what I got.
0:33.6	All right, sorry to hear it.
0:35.1	I know it wasn't my fault, I have not seen you in person.
0:38.8	It should theoretically be impossible for me to get sick since I never leave the house.
0:42.5	This is true.
0:43.3	This is true.
0:44.4	Yeah, it sucks I get the studio all set up, I'm ready to move in and then just get
0:48.2	whammyed or I have not been able to move in yet so still in the bedroom.
0:52.2	Yeah, okay, fun times.
0:54.8	Right, well I've got a bit of follow up.
0:56.9	We've obviously been talking about Facebook quite a bit and getting off Facebook and all that
1:00.8	sort of stuff and I have to say I'm definitely on a long, slow but inevitable Facebook
1:06.2	fade out at the moment.
1:07.3	I've noticed that my friends are posting less.
1:10.0	I'm posting less.
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