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Grumpy Old Geeks

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Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2013

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In this pre-holiday run up we clear out our libraries and dump our brain buckets on you. Books may be the new TV but we talk some TV too. Zombies tech takes leap forwards and Snowden is still chillin in Russia. Basically, the usual, but fresher! For shownotes please visit http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/38 and to support the show please visit http://tugboatyards.com/gog 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, like a microphone, and the internet, like to go wrong.

0:19.6

Grumpy old geeks, episode 38.

0:21.4

I am Jason.

0:22.4

I'm Brian.

0:23.4

How you feeling this morning, Jason?

0:25.4

Oh, I'm feeling okay.

0:26.6

I noticed some fun stuff happening on the social networks last night because I usually shut

0:30.4

it down around seven or eight o'clock at night because I've been online all fucking

0:34.0

day.

0:35.0

Took a little gander right before I went to bed and explosion.

0:37.9

Yeah, I got in kind of a little pissing match with Matt Mullinwag over the, what would

0:46.5

you call that?

0:47.5

The wisdom of forcing auto updates for WordPress 3.8 onto the masses.

0:53.2

And yeah, I'd had a cocktail or two.

0:56.0

So I noticed, I tried to get Matt on the show to defend his position, but he mysteriously

1:03.0

stopped tweeting after I invited him.

1:05.2

So Matt will not be joining us today.

1:08.8

My point was that forcing updates on people who are running legacy versions of WordPress

1:15.6

is fundamentally a bad idea or you can't force people to do that and people have built

1:20.9

custom stuff.

1:21.9

I mean, I was a little worried about that myself when they announced that auto updates would

1:25.3

be a feature blah, blah, blah, blah.

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