427: What’s a Hug?
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Coronavirus Day 7,284... the internet is creaking a bit; more work from home tips; gig workers striking; privacy is dead, governments tracking movements via cellphones; Amazon hid competitors faster shipping options; Zuck puts a drop from his bucket into Gates' fund; Bird lay offs; Altered Carbon; survival playlists; guilty pleasure shows; Quibi launches; Google finally pulls Infowars; feedback.
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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 |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister |
| 0:20.0 | on day 7,842 of social isolation. All right let's get into it. Right so the |
| 0:27.0 | internet is breaking a little from the coronavirus. We talked a little bit about |
| 0:30.3 | this when we were just starting about what people thought was going to happen |
| 0:33.9 | and what wouldn't what wouldn't work. Some things are starting to creak a bit |
| 0:39.2 | under the strain. More and more countries are now instituting lockdowns. And the |
| 0:43.5 | internet hasn't exactly broken but is definitely sparking up a little bit |
| 0:46.9 | Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently told the New York Times. We're just |
| 0:51.3 | trying to keep the lights on over here which he should be able to do |
| 0:54.0 | considering the massive pile of money they're sitting on. He owned all the |
| 0:57.7 | lights with the help. Yes so there is soaring app usage for basically everything |
| 1:02.6 | right now and a Facebook is feeling the pressure. How is everybody else doing? |
| 1:05.8 | Well we talked about broadband. Internet speeds have been declining in various |
| 1:10.7 | hot spots around the world as broadband providers scrambled to keep up with |
| 1:13.9 | sudden spikes in traffic. Who buy the Chinese province that the Wuhan has |
| 1:18.8 | Wuhan as its capital seed mobile broadband speeds fall by roughly 60% since |
| 1:23.3 | January according to U.K.A. and Internet monitoring service in the US declines |
| 1:28.4 | a bit negligible in some cities but dramatic in others. The broadband tracking |
| 1:33.2 | service broadband now found that 88% of the 200 most per 88 of the 200 most |
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