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Grumpy Old Geeks

448: Unplug Everything!

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Legion of bugs mean a billion hackable IoT devices; United Airlines bumped out of NASDAQ by DocuSign; airport security theater; T-Mobile outage not huge DDoS, just incompetence; Germany contact tracing app; Facebook deplatforms anti-racists, thinking they're racists; Instagram to pull back the curtain, maybe; Quibi is a failure; 6 Feet Apart; Knives Out & Clue; Roland's 808; Dave Chappelle; IP Man, come to save the day; popcorn Sci-Fi; 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

0:10.5

who's to blame.

0:15.8

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

0:18.7

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Now Brian, something we didn't talk about when we had

0:23.5

our hey this is our like tips for working from home episode or several

0:28.8

episodes now. Multiple times, yes.

0:31.8

Been doing this a while. Groundhog day syndrome. Do you ever get that?

0:37.8

I don't know what fucking day it is now. Well, that's what I mean. You just,

0:42.6

it's like I go to bed at night and I'm just like, wasn't I just here,

0:46.2

falling asleep the night before and then the next day, it's like, oh, what happened today?

0:50.7

Yeah. I mean, you get you get that in the best of times working from home because you don't

0:56.3

really have much of a change up to your schedule, but certainly now with lockdowns, coronavirus,

1:01.2

et cetera, time has stopped having any meeting. So yes, it's very, it's very difficult.

1:07.0

The only things, my days are broken up by meals. That's the only differentiation on hours.

1:13.5

And as far as actual like days go, like it's only since I've started going to my mom's house on

1:19.7

weekends that I even really notice a difference between actual days themselves. I know I have

1:26.0

podcasts recording scheduled for Tuesday and Friday. There you go. I know, you know,

1:31.4

but still Tuesdays and Friday sneak up on me and I'm like, oh, shit, this is tomorrow.

1:37.3

I on Friday last Friday, I swore it was Tuesday because we do Tuesdays and Fridays.

1:43.7

So I did my normal Tuesday routine because we have things to do around here on Tuesdays because

1:48.8

we have the gardener come and things like that. And I did my whole Tuesday routine until I realized

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