519: Can Someone Loan Me a Toddler?
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Back to Windows; Mr. White Hat returns the stolen crypto; Elon jokes about Tesla Autopilot failures; California gig worker initiative unconstitutional; Facebook admits misleading COVID info is top performing content; purge your Tweets, people; Netflix gets clickbaity; the Hustler; Grace & Frankie; Gimlet's been a bust for Spotify; Nextdoor, for business; Jobs NFT; Cybersecurity resources; Microsoft Power App data leak; iPhone zero-clock exploit; skateboarding, same as it ever was; NFT dining; forgetting CAPS LOCK sign of intelligence.
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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. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.2 | This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks is brought to you by Hover and Butcherbox. Hover is the place |
| 0:24.7 | to get the best domains with over 300 top level domains to choose from. Go to Hover.com |
| 0:29.1 | slash GOG and get 10% off your first purchase. Butcherbox is giving new members a special offer |
| 0:34.0 | of three pounds of chicken, two pounds of burgers and one pack of hot dogs for free. Sign up at |
| 0:39.3 | Butcherbox.com slash GOG. So Jason, I got all my stuff. There are boxes everywhere still, |
| 0:45.9 | but my studio is set up so you can now hear how Boomey the room is in even better quality. |
| 0:51.7 | Uh, yeah, you sound like you're in a freaking cave. Well, yeah, there's no wall hangings or anything |
| 0:57.3 | up yet. Just stuff. Okay. Well, somebody will be using Isaac to date to clean that up. |
| 1:02.8 | Uh, there goes the afternoon. Yeah. Uh, I also got my work PC this week. It has been a long time |
| 1:09.7 | since I used Windows. Uh, yeah, it's not bad. I've just uh, now fully indoctrinated into the |
| 1:15.7 | cult of Mac and I finally have all the key commands as second nature. And now I have to go back and |
| 1:21.2 | figure out Windows. Okay. It's not that hard. It'll take you an afternoon, really. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:26.8 | It's, uh, I had to go through the whole process of because it's also not just like a personal PC, |
| 1:31.2 | like I have to do the whole corporate sign ins and installs through different things and blah, |
| 1:35.6 | blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, that is stuff I haven't had to do in 20 plus years. Yeah. |
| 1:39.6 | And I have to say the process has not gotten any easier. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. That's what, |
| 1:44.3 | that's what happens with, uh, Microsoft. Yeah. Yeah. So good times. Uh, we have a bit of |
| 1:50.4 | follow up here. The poly network, uh, cryptocurrency heist that happened, uh, this decentralized finance |
| 1:56.8 | platform that saw a hacker named Mr. White Hat exploit a vulnerability in its code and stole over |
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