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Grumpy Old Geeks

507: DoppelBittner

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

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

No free lunches with cryptocurrency; DMV probing Tesla because words matter; Facebook toxic content moderators offered wellness coaches; YouTube Kids problem with autoplay; get ready for in-car ads; Waymo gets confused by construction; WarnerMedia and Discovery merger; Gates McFadden & Sarah Silverman; the Nevers; ProCon; playing with AirTags; NoPhone & NoPhone Air; On This Day In History; the Egg; pinball wizards; DarkSide Ransomware "quits"; buying data; leaky exercise APIs; Venmo is dumb; double-encryption; facial recognition for the people!

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IN THE NEWS

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How YouTube Kids keeps kids watching

Get Ready for In-Car Ads

Waymo had to rescue an autonomous van that was confused by safety cones

MEDIA CANDY

Gates McFadden Investigates: Who do you think you are?

The Sarah Silverman Podcast

The Nevers

Laura Donnelly

APPS & DOODADS

ProCon

Instead Of Traditional Warfare, Chinese Military Will Now Be Trained To Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Troops

Apple AirTag

The NoPhone Original Cell Phone

The NoPhone Air

AT THE LIBRARY

On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell

The Egg and Other Stories by Andy Weir

Effortless by Greg McKeown

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

The Mandalorian Pinball

Fireball Pinball

DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized

The Pentagon is tracking US citizens without a warrant, Senator says

Echelon exposed riders’ account data, thanks to a leaky API

We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone.

Ransomware’s Dangerous New Trick Is Double-Encrypting Your Data

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

This facial recognition website can turn anyone into a cop — or a stalker

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Transcript

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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 and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:20.3

What's up?

0:21.3

Eight in the morning. What do you want to be up?

0:25.3

It is eight in the morning and I'm froggy and coffeeed as per usual. So I'll try to keep

0:29.6

that to a minimum. I'm exhausted. I had a weekend.

0:33.1

What'd you do?

0:34.1

All kinds of stuff, man. It's, you know, we're open, baby.

0:38.2

Oh, yeah, we're totally open.

0:40.0

Not that I'm fantastically comfortable with it or anything, but, you know, we went to

0:44.1

Huntington Gardens all outdoors, you know, kept mass on over the weekend. That was nice.

0:49.0

We went and saw my cousin-in-law sat outside her place and let the kids all play together.

0:55.4

You know, that was nice. And then I stayed in a hotel for the first time.

0:59.8

What?

1:00.8

Yeah. Well, it was my birthday weekend. So this-

1:02.8

I'm happy birthday.

1:04.8

Thank you. I did not hear it from you. That's your birthday present. You didn't hear

1:08.2

from me.

1:09.6

Yeah. So we went out to Ohio and stayed up the Ohio Valley in Resort. So because they

1:15.9

had the convenient, you know, they have like villas. So you can like drive up and they

1:21.2

had contactless check-in and all that. So we, you know, we're never in an elevator

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