380: Echo Chamber
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Adventures with Apple; Goop isn't science; Facebook gives up on fixing itself; Uber looking for a pivot, still bad; Amazon wants to write facial recognition rules; tech unicorns not doing well; Match sued; burner emails; right to be forgotten, forgotten; Doordash hack; Ring wants in; DNA data guidelines; all the Alexas.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Hover. |
| 0:01.6 | Go to hover.com slash GOG to get 10% off your first purchase. |
| 0:08.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason |
| 0:12.0 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schulmeister. |
| 0:26.0 | Herd you had a week today, Brian? |
| 0:27.8 | I've had a week as anybody that listened to the previous show knows my laptop went boom |
| 0:32.8 | thanks to some spilled water on it and I had to do the show at your place because I didn't have |
| 0:38.5 | anything to do it off of and off my iPad and good times. |
| 0:42.9 | So let me start with the non-tech stuff that's going on that you know because it's the Grumpy old |
| 0:47.8 | geeks law that you cannot have a computer disaster occur at a convenient time when nothing else |
| 0:52.3 | is going on in your life. |
| 0:53.4 | Well, that's how it goes. |
| 0:54.3 | Yes. |
| 0:54.5 | That's just how it goes. |
| 0:55.9 | So that all happened on Monday. |
| 0:57.9 | I went to your place on Tuesday. |
| 1:00.2 | On Tuesday, my wife found out that a close colleague of hers had passed away unexpectedly in |
| 1:05.4 | Toronto. So she took the red eye last night to fly out for a memorial, which meant I'm on |
| 1:10.9 | daddy daycare, duty full time. |
| 1:12.8 | And I usually don't do the morning shift with my son and boy, oh boy, it takes an extreme amount |
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