446: The Well Hath Runneth Dry

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Covid Cases are, unsurprisingly, rising; Facebook browser redesign, more resignations; Uber leaves Levandowski out to dry; 75 year old provocateurs; police & your phone data; Michigan's MIDAS algorithmic touch; sensible content moderation plans; Twitch & music copyrights; the Media Candy well is running dry; the Vast of Night; upcoming sci-fi movies; down the music documentary rabbit hole; Last Week Tonight; the Banker; Influencers in the wild; feedback.

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0:00.0	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason
0:06.8	DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:11.4	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:19.0	And I'm Brian Schultmeister.
0:21.0	Jason, somebody out there with a degree in something I like, you know, knowledge that we lack.
0:27.0	He's to explain to me the physics of why the backup battery in a fire alarm only runs out at four in the morning.
0:34.0	I wish I knew that too.
0:37.0	Jesus.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:39.0	Sistently and without fail, they always go at around four a.m. and yes, that used to do.
0:43.0	Yes, they do.
0:44.0	And that happened to me this morning.
0:46.0	These used to be a minor inconvenience that would just bother me.
0:49.0	Then one gets married and wife skit mad at you.
0:52.0	And then one has a kid and a kid wakes up terrified.
0:55.0	So good times around the house this morning.
0:57.0	Yeah, I've had that happen to me with a rotwiler that would hear the chirps and about four in the morning.
1:03.0	And I'm like, what the fuck is that?
1:05.0	And then I ended up, you know, because of course the house that I had in Chicago had all the fire alarms wired into the house power.
1:12.0	And then for some reason, they just stopped in the backup battery didn't work.
1:18.0	And then they would chirp.
1:19.0	Yes.
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