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Grumpy Old Geeks

340: Spoiler Alert, Everyone Dies

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

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

How to hide from AI survelliance; Amazon tracking workers; Facebook hit with 3 privacy fines in one day; Twitter Jack meets Trump; Slack goes public; FB $5 billion FTC fine; Instagram & influencers; Musk's Tesla promise; Google Wing drone delivery approved; Amazon Alexa privacy issues; bad passwords; loud restaurants; Cryptokicks; eviction fluids. Show notes at https://gog.show/340 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.

0:18.5

And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:19.8

Man, people did not like it when I was in a mood last week.

0:22.6

They didn't? I saw only positive feedback.

0:25.2

Oh, I got some negatives. I got a few negatives. I haven't actually seen any positive,

0:29.6

so if you got some, send it my way. I can use the Twitter's.

0:32.8

Okay. Now I have to go check those out because I can use a pick me up.

0:37.8

Total rarity for Twitter is there's some positive feedback.

0:40.7

Of course. And the fact that I'm the one that's on there all the time and I didn't see it is

0:45.1

also ironic what you have to do.

0:47.5

So I found this over at the MIT Media Review. There is an article about how to hide from the AI

0:53.5

surveillance state with a color printout. Right.

0:56.6

And some Belgian researchers have figured out a way to print out

1:01.0

basically like a crowd scene that you can have on your shirt or put in front of you.

1:05.0

It will actually stop the YOLO.

1:08.2

Like the, yes, I know we talked about that before.

1:11.6

The open source object recognition system YOLO V2

1:14.7

and stop them from actually picking you up as a person.

1:17.5

Right.

1:18.4

So after reading this, I'm thinking, my God, we truly live in a Gibbs Sony and world right now.

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