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Grumpy Old Geeks

405: A Graveyard of Good Ideas

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

🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Facebook holds tight on political ads, places ad in Teen Vogue; CollegeHumor decimated; Lime trying to be profitable by shrinking; Uber changes in California; GrubHub for sale; AI trash; military app bans; Ring employees fired for watching videos; Delta Minority Report; red light cameras; Christmas apps & doodads; ball pits; forcing a smile makes you drink; calling bullshit.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason

0:06.7

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:16.0

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister.

0:20.5

Jason, I've decided to use this platform of ours for a cloud cloud

0:26.1

sourcing, crowdsourcing. However, the hell you want to call it, ask about

0:29.3

something here. I think that would be the lazy pod. Like we have the lazy web.

0:33.0

Basically lazy because I did Google this and I just I figured the people that

0:38.6

listen to this show might have some tips for me. My mom found an old

0:42.8

microcresset like the ones that used to put in the in answering machines back in

0:47.5

the day when we had such things and she was wondering and thinking quite

0:51.0

probably correctly that my dad's voice might be on there. And that would be kind

0:55.1

of cool. I would like to grab that and kind of digitize it. My mom wants to

0:58.3

hear it. Unfortunately, obviously I don't have a microc cassette player anywhere.

1:03.0

Right. So I googled and I don't really feel like spending 150 bucks or going to

1:09.7

eat. They're not cheap because nobody really makes them anymore. Outdated

1:14.3

technology when you need to get a hold of it can become pretty expensive. So I

1:17.7

was just wondering if anybody out there knows of a quick and cheap and easy way

1:22.5

to get a microcasset player for digitization. Maybe libraries even rent them. I

1:28.2

don't know, but maybe somebody out there does because I'd rather not spend

1:32.0

300 bucks for 10 minutes. Yeah, this is ridiculous. You're just you're

1:36.4

googling it right now, right? Right? No, I'm just saying Amazon. I just went to

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