523: More Buggy and Less Stable
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Send us your Satoshis; bitcoin, Pizza and a movie; eggs in space; yep, Facebook is still awful; Rivian announces subscriptions; Bytedance limiting kids to 40 minutes a day; Amazon cracks down on review fraud; AI generated influencers; Count Me In; Into the Night; The Card Counter; Old; Kate; Only Murders in the Building; Fuzz; Apple iOS 15; hubs & docks; get poked on Clubhouse; AI 2041; authenticator woes; industrious criminals; AI controlled machine guns.
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FOLLOW UP
How to do value4value and earn Bitcoin from your podcast
Bitcoin Pizza Day 2021: Some interesting facts about this special cryptocurrency day
AMC says it will accept bitcoin as payment for movie tickets by year-end
The once-sedate astronomy world is quarreling over whether 'Oumuamua was an alien craft
IN THE NEWS
Rivian announces membership plan with complementary charging and LTE connectivity
TikTok owner ByteDance limits younger users to 40 minutes a day in China
Amazon has banned over 600 Chinese brands as part of review fraud crackdown
Amazon will hold a hardware event on September 28th
Apple mandates frequent COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated employees
Social media influencer/model created from artificial intelligence lands 100 sponsorships
MEDIA CANDY
APPS & DOODADS
Clubhouse is developing a new way to invite friends to chat called 'Wave'
AT THE LIBRARY
5 real AI threats that make The Terminator look like Kindergarten Cop
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee , Chen Qiufan
AI Superpowers - China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
SECURITY HAH!
Ireland's data regulator opens data privacy probes into TikTok
Researcher discloses iPhone lock screen bypass on iOS 15 launch day
Man who unlocked 1.9 million AT&T phones sentenced to 12 years in prison
Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
Israel reportedly used a remote-controlled gun to assassinate an Iranian scientist
US officials can't decide if Honor smartphones are a national security threat
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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. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.6 | Brian, we are now a value for value enabled podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | By one, get the second one free? |
| 0:27.0 | Exactly. That's what I'm talking about. |
| 0:29.3 | Bogo. No, it's one of the things we talked about a little bit ago with the new podcast index, |
| 0:37.3 | crypto scheme that they've been working on on the lightning network and you can tip people's |
| 0:42.3 | sectoshis, which is the smallest fraction of a Bitcoin that's out there, which is not a lot of money. |
| 0:48.5 | But over time, it can add up. And I did this and just let it say it got on the, |
| 0:54.9 | it's, they have a search engine now, which lets you see all of the value for value enabled podcast. |
| 1:00.4 | Very few players support it. It's just only the new players, but we got some. |
| 1:05.6 | Okay, somebody actually sent us some satoshis already and even boosted. |
| 1:10.2 | I'll take your satoshis. I don't know what they're worth, but I'll take them. |
| 1:13.7 | Sure. Not a lot. Not a lot. That's why it takes time. But I just wanted to let people know that |
| 1:17.2 | we are now value for value enabled because why not? You know, we've lost most of our advertisers |
| 1:25.9 | because we have dropped through the threshold thanks to the COVID-19 and the Apple download pandemic |
| 1:32.2 | Armageddon that happened. So we are really a listener supported show for the most part right now. |
| 1:38.4 | So we need all the help that we can get. So if you love the show, head on over to GOG.Show, |
| 1:44.4 | slash support and give us a little love. Support. We want to keep the show going. Yes, support us please. |
| 1:51.2 | We really do need it now because you know, we can't plug crap anymore. |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah, seriously. And we do have a little follow up from Raff here. He sent us the Bitcoin Pizza Day 2021 |
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