496: "I'm Fired"

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

It's time to get things started; regulations; still hacking tractors; Google has an ethical AI ethicist problem; UK slaps Uber with the law; Facebook stops news in Australia, restarts it as Australians abandon it; Facebook caught lying about metrics, again; WhatsApp details privacy change policy; Influencers for health; Hot Ones; Twitch & Metallica; Spotify HiFi; Reply All host hiatus; Amazon's Kickstarter; Think Again; CyberWar & the Lost Colony; Clubhouse concerns; Mac M1 malware; Nvidia anti-cryptomining drivers; Elon Musk & Bitcoin; Gwyneth's COVID long game; 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.
0:16.4	Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:18.7	And I'm Brian Schultmeister. I thought we were going to be able to stop complaining about things
0:22.6	somewhere mid-January.
0:24.1	Hehehehe. It's almost March. Are we there yet?
0:27.6	No, no, no. So tons of things still going wrong. And you know, you and I have been complaining
0:32.2	about California's issues in the last couple of years and how we're basically living in a third
0:36.0	world country. Oh yeah. Texas stepped up and said, hold my Shinerbock.
0:41.0	Hold my Shinerbock. I thought it would have to be like, hold my cores. Shinerbock is a Texan beer man.
0:47.4	I know. Chores is from Colorado. Golden calderado, yes.
0:51.1	I just I think it's smoking the bandit. So when I think of Texas and beer.
0:54.5	All right. Anyway, yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. What a week for them.
0:58.8	Um, I'm not saying, you know, I might have been wrong about the regulations thing.
1:04.0	They wanted their own grid. They got it. Their own grid. They got that.
1:07.5	They didn't want to spend the money to winterize it because, you know, it only happened exactly
1:12.7	almost 10 years to the day. Not almost exactly 10 years to the day.
1:18.3	So yeah. Um, you know, I feel really bad for everybody there. I have quite a few friends that
1:23.1	of course live mostly in Austin, a couple that live in San Antonio and, uh, you know, they were
1:28.9	screwed big time. No water for like five days. Crazy. Well, they can go outside and melt the snow.
1:34.9	That's exactly what they did. That is exactly what they did. They brought in the tubs of snow,
1:41.5	put it in their bathtub and did all that sort of thing just to get by. So, uh, well, well done,
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