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Grumpy Old Geeks

373: We’re a Happiness Podcast

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

🗓️ 31 August 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jason’s morning security encounter; Apple fires contractors; Uber & Lyft take more from drivers than they say; BeauBer; Peloton’s insane prospectus; iPhones have been hacked for years; crimes in SPPPPAAAAACCCCCEEE; biometric boarding scans; open-source self-driving; self-lacing shoes, with AI!

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Everything hurts so bad. This was Wednesday. Oh God getting old is terrible. Eating fads and ice and you know I do hope you maybe go see a doctor. It's not that it's just it's not like.

0:43.5

I don't need to go see a doctor for this. I need to get 10 years back on my life. It's nothing major.

0:48.6

It hurts really bad. Nothing broken. There's a lot of strained and popped things. I will recover. Maybe you need those robotic pants for old people that we keep hearing about. Keep some steady.

1:03.1

Yeah. Well, I hear the other thing I should do when I go hiking where my hiking shoes. That's a good idea too. Yeah, they made them for a reason.

1:10.4

Yeah, I usually do. In this time, I was just late to get out of the house because it takes like half an hour to get to the trail.

1:16.4

And my buddy was waiting for me and I just like, I can wear my little low low top nikes with no tread on some of the steepest hills and in Los Angeles.

1:26.9

That doesn't work very well anyway. I got a little follow up here. I got a note for Oliver who got the Uber credit card. So I got my Apple card.

1:37.4

And there's actually no number on the back of that one either. So I was talking out of turn on that one. The Apple card is really kind of swanky. It's nice. It's way too heavy. But it is a conversation point when I handed it to somebody that are like,

1:52.4

whoo, I haven't seen one of these yet. So anyway, here's the issue. If you lose your card, you are kind of in a pickle when there's no phone number. Yes, you are.

2:00.9

I was trying to figure out, okay, well, if I lost my wallet and my phone, if somebody stole my wallet and my phone and I could borrow somebody's phone, how would I get support to tell that my card was gone?

2:10.9

Well, on the Apple website, it will take you about 10 minutes to find the phone number for Apple card, but it is there. It is there somewhere. So I'm sure somewhere I tried to go with Goldman Sachs because that's the issuing bank.

2:23.9

Yeah, good luck. I thought it was going to be much easier than it was, but yeah, you can find the Apple card on the Apple site, but it is buried stick those numbers and a little note on your phone.

2:35.9

But the whole point is if you lose your phone, if you have your phone, you just go to the wallet app and press a button and said, my cards, cards have been stolen.

2:41.9

But they just assume that you're still going to have your phone. Yes, it's like, come on guys, think a little bit more outside of the box on that one.

2:49.9

Yeah, but it's just Apple, you know, we can't we can't be bothered with that.

2:53.9

In the news.

3:01.9

Well, since we discovered that unsurprisingly, A.I. is people and everybody everybody that has a voice assistance, actually, you know, is being farmed out to contractors to actually listen to them to improve them because A.I. is people.

3:16.9

I feel like I'm going to say that 7000 times this episode, but I know I'm preaching to the converted already on here.

3:22.9

Yeah, but since that, Apple has decided to fire more than 300 of their contractors in Cork, Ireland.

3:29.9

These were all hired as part of the grading program that reviewed audio recorded by Siri and there you go.

3:35.9

So they've decided to terminate the program after temporarily suspending it apparently.

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