406: The Internet of Starch
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
TikTok security flaws; Steph went Away & now she's back; pink slipped robots; "living" robots aka xenobots aka pussbots; WB goes all in on AI; Google eats your 3rd party cookies; leaving a rising ship; trolling CES with a potato; Spotify does not have it all; Robby Chieng; Ricky Gervais; Succession; upcoming premieres; Star Trek changes timeline; Tim Draper loves blockchain; yes, the vagina candle.
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.8 | Got a bit of personal follow-up. Thank you to all the people that wrote in about either having a |
| 0:25.3 | microcressette recorder or sending links to cheap ones on eBay. Luckily, a friend of the show, |
| 0:31.0 | Brian, who also knows Jason, happened to contact me after hearing it and said he randomly happens |
| 0:36.1 | to have one. And since he lives close, relatively close, well, let's be honest, he lives in Hollywood, |
| 0:40.7 | I'll never fucking see him. But we will get together and have a beer or something like that, |
| 0:45.3 | so he will be able to loan me one. So thank you everyone. I'm going to got that sorted now. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, excellent. And over the weekend, I got my mom a new computer because hers was running down, |
| 0:57.6 | starting to have some problems. And, you know, desktop PCs are so dirt cheap these days. |
| 1:02.4 | It's almost ridiculous, but it's been a long time. They still sell them. Boy, do they? There's |
| 1:07.5 | lots of them out there and they are cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. Got one, set it up for, and it's been |
| 1:13.1 | a long time since I've set up a Windows system, Microsoft. What? The actual F? |
| 1:21.1 | That process is so Byzantine and man, there are so many things you need to opt out of. |
| 1:28.6 | It's insane. Yeah, it takes a while. It takes a while. I was not expecting that. That was supposed |
| 1:33.6 | to be a relatively quick trip down to my mom's to set up her computer and I was there for quite |
| 1:38.0 | some time. Yeah, I can imagine because I set up one, I don't know, maybe, geez, like two, |
| 1:46.2 | three years ago with Windows 10, I bought a laptop off of Woot. Right. I got a nice laptop off of |
| 1:53.4 | a Woot for like 200 bucks and it's been $600 on upgrades. Put in a bunch of RAM and SSD. And |
| 2:00.3 | it actually, it's actually a pretty fast little laptop now. But man, setting that up every |
| 2:05.4 | couple of weeks, I just take it out of the closet and boot it up and run the security updates. |
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