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Grumpy Old Geeks

512: It Has a Hole!

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

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Your class-action duty; more Bitcoin exchange disappearances; Facebook may be evil but it isn't a monopoly; words matter; ethical investing; medical algorithms unsurprisingly getting it wrong; your health data is being sold, but hey, it's de-identified; Amazon buys Wickr; everyone wants to work from home; Dune, delayed; Foundation, Ted Lasso coming; LFG; the Dave Bittner orchestra; WD drives; Dreamhost leaks; Peloton demands membership for treadmills; AirTags without holes & Chipolos with holes on thars; drone TRUST certificates; smile!

Show notes at https://gog.show/512

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

Birch Communications Settlement

Drizly Settlement

IN THE NEWS

Founders of South African Bitcoin exchange disappear after $3.6 billion ‘hack’

A judge dismissed the United States’ antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, saying the FTC failed to show that the company was a monopoly

FACEBOOK CAN BE HELD LIABLE FOR SEX TRAFFICKING, SAYS TEXAS COURT

A Major New Index Fund Should Unnerve Climate-Skeptical CEOs

A hospital algorithm designed to predict a deadly condition misses most cases

Hospitals are selling treasure troves of medical data — what could go wrong?

Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr

Many people don’t want to work unless it’s from home

MEDIA CANDY

‘Dune’ release gets pushed back another three weeks to October 22nd

Foundation will debut on Apple TV Plus in September

A new ‘Galaxy Quest’ TV show is in the works

‘Frasier’ Revival Release Date Teased by Kelsey Grammer

Kim’s Convenience

Workin’ Moms Season 5

LFG

APPS & DOODADS

Peloton’s mandatory treadmill memberships show how you never fully own your connected devices

Keep AirTags away from children for safety, warns Australian regulator

How your power company can remotely control your smart thermostat

iPod interface for Apple Music and Spotify by Tanner Villarete

The Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST)

Chipolo’s One Spot isn’t quite an AirTag, but at least it has a hole

Canon Uses AI Cameras That Only Let Smiling Workers Inside Offices

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

How Disney Mismanaged the Star Wars Universe

Not Safe For Work by The Organ Grinders featuring Dave Bittner

Dave Bittner and his K.M.O.X Orchestra

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

DreamHost database leaked 814 million records online, including customer data

What is AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out

MORON OF THE WEEK

The Fan Who Caused A Massive Tour De France Wreck Apparently Fled The Country

A Narcissist With Sign Caused A Huge Pile-Up During The Tour De France

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee dead after prison suicide: report

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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

0:06.7

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:15.5

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

0:19.8

Shit is getting real Jason.

0:21.5

Woo! I am getting rid of everything.

0:24.4

You and me both buddy.

0:25.7

Not quite Spartan like you, but I'm packing up a bunch of stuff.

0:28.8

It's been crazy.

0:31.0

I mean, this is my last month here and then I moved to Toronto and the wife and I have

0:36.5

been kind of slowly going through things over the past few months and then we woke up and

0:40.2

went, oh shit, we only have like four more weeks.

0:43.3

Ah yeah, well theoretically moving to Toronto because if you don't hurry the hell up,

0:48.4

you're going to be stuck here.

0:49.6

Well we'll see about that.

0:51.9

You know, yeah we'll see.

0:53.2

But yeah, my old company storage unit is now gone.

0:57.2

It's been sitting around forever.

0:59.4

My Vespa has taken its final ride and it's been delivered to its new location and we've

1:04.7

given up the ghost on trying to keep our place looking normal and we're just surrounded

1:08.0

by packed boxes everywhere now.

1:09.8

So good times.

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