449: Tip of the Tunaberg

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Not our finest hour; some good Coronavirus news; we finally know what line you can't cross with Zuckerberg; Google boots right wing sites from ad platform; Stop Hate for Profit targets Facebook; Twitter rolls out... audio tweets?; Jump exists Europe; Starlink ready for beta-testers; listening via light bulb; caught by tattoo; don't login once you've been fired; real consequences in Big Tuna; FDA approves prescription video game; Snapchat does it again; synth searches.

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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.
0:16.7	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:19.5	And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Starting a little late today, aren't we Brian?
0:23.2	Oh, by about five hours. You think we'd know better, but firmware upgrades.
0:28.0	For your upgrades, yeah. Yeah.
0:32.3	Yeah. Yeah.
0:33.1	And I needed that five hours because I was sick as a dog and I'm still sick as a dog,
0:37.2	but I'm powering through God damn it. Alrighty. Well, let's get to it.
0:40.7	So try to get some sales back in the wind here, but I doubt that's going to happen.
0:45.6	We do have a tad bit of good news on the coronavirus front,
0:49.6	which kind of maybe somewhat combats all the continued horrific news here,
0:54.6	which is mostly human cause in the USA. It's not like we don't know what will work.
0:59.2	We have our lovely governor, Governor Newsom, who was off to such a good start three to four
1:03.6	months ago and it all went to crap, but he's finally decided that we will require by law that
1:09.4	everyone where face masks went out in public now, which of course will not really be
1:14.4	policed at all. But you know, it's something because we know that that's going to help.
1:19.9	Nice. Finally. But in the other bit of good news here, we've got a scientist at the
1:24.0	University of Oxford who said on Tuesday that an inexpensive and commonly available drug
1:28.7	is reducing deaths in patients with severe COVID-19. So if this findings are continued to be
1:35.0	borne out, the drug, which is a steroid called dexamethazone, would be the first treatment to show
1:40.0	to shown to reduce mortality in severely Arab patients. They're saying if they had been using
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