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Grumpy Old Geeks

390: I’ve Fallen and I Can't Get Up

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Meta, Lifestyle, Palantir, Elon, Ai, Music, Scams, Social, News, Cyber, Vibe Coding, Crypto, Spacex, Tech News, Engineering, Security, Entertainment, Kanye, Elon Musk, Internet, News Commentary, Google, Web, Business, Movies, Technology, Apple, Tech, Tesla, Nfts, Bitcoin, Code, Facebook

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Smart city scale back; Apple moves to more subscriptions; Gawker chaos; 3rd party content moderator calls it quits; Twitter won't take political ads, maybe; Sorkin walks and talks to Zuck; free markets; music piracy down; Will.I.Am's Wink dying; Apple Watch 5 life alerts; car security; VPNs; Echo Buds vs AirPods; cleaning the brain; vampire apocalypse.

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0:00.0

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0:12.2

Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason

0:16.2

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong in the internet and who's to blame.

0:26.0

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks on Jason DeFilippo.

0:28.6

And I'm a very grumpy Brian Schulmeister.

0:31.0

Oh, goody.

0:32.5

I can tell this is going to be fun when I see your name coming in and it's set for annoyed.

0:38.0

I, yeah, I'm annoyed. I think I like a couple episodes ago. I was talking about my battles against

0:42.6

entropy and they are continuing. I'm just so pissed off. I've spent most of this week trying to fix

0:49.2

some stuff around the house and that involved including some fixing on wood floraings and some other

0:56.0

stuff like that. And think, I mean, this is a good thing, but we've had a bit of a wild weather week.

1:01.2

We went from, you know, all of California was burning and it was a hundred degrees and we

1:05.6

had Santa Ana wins two last two days. It's been positively frigid in the morning.

1:10.8

Not so good when you're doing some woodwork because wood warps when it just changed to that

1:15.2

degree. So everything I fixed around the house is now warped. I'm going to have to redo it.

1:20.4

It's so bad. My front door bottom lock won't even close.

1:24.4

Oh my god.

1:25.6

The wood is warped. So if I really want to lock my door, I have to use the second dead bolt.

1:31.0

And that's just the stuff around the house. You should get those birds from the

1:34.2

there outside on your lawn and just pile them in front of your front door at night to know

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