490: 2 Acres of Hope

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

2021, here we are; year-end wrap ups; Ticketmaster used stolen passwords to hack rival; Google workers union; Instacart is a parasite; gig companies seek labor deals in Europe; Chatroulette's AI is still people; AI vertical farming; self-driving cars have a bias problem; Tesla autopilot trip; Dave's no good, very bad Big Sur upgrade; Solarwinds hackers got Microsoft source code; security & your car; Facebook's megascale; holiday movies & TV; holiday apps & doodads; RIP, Flash; McDonald's ashtrays; Complexity Condensed; Obscure Sorrows; some good things from 2020 (a very short list).

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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.
0:16.0	Welcome to Grumpy old geeks on Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.
0:20.5	Well back for 2021 are you ready? See I was watching the special the
0:27.6	other night an old cat William special called 2012 and he's talking about the
0:31.2	Mayans and how you know the world was gonna end oh apocalypse blah blah blah
0:34.9	and I'm like God I hope the Mayans weren't dyslexic and they just got 2021
0:38.6	and 2012 mixed up. Yes and the big meme going around is aren't we all worried
0:43.3	about the fact that it's literally 2021 as in W.O.N. Yes 2020 did win. Yes and it's
0:51.7	also the same year as Mad Max. Yes I need some of those leather pants. Well to
0:56.0	be fair Los Angeles is starting to look a little beyond Thunderdome isn't it? Oh
1:00.0	you have no idea you have no idea I you've seen the the flash mobs the
1:08.2	co-vitiate no-mass flash mobs yeah yeah I've doubled up on my bear spray when I
1:13.5	go out now. Yeah well I'm set to come back in three weeks so. Well at least the
1:18.2	good news there is you can get your damn microphone back happy about that. Very
1:23.3	happy about that. I don't know about you Brian but you know there weren't as many
1:28.3	as they usually are. No because of the circumstances but those year-end
1:32.5	wrap-ups. No there weren't a lot of them this year but they're annoying
1:37.1	anyways well I mean actually I think I may have a different opinion about year-end
1:41.2	wrap-ups than you at this point go ahead tell me yours. Oh no they were all just
1:45.6	everybody was trying to find the the silver lining you know in the in the
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