526: In Over Their Cleggs
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Toxic environments on the Enterprise; FB & IG, down again; Instagram wants teens to "take a break" but not sure how; Nick Clegg's vacant words; Magic Leap is back & raking in the cash; Twitch leak reveals full source code, financial data; you oughta get in twitching; celebrity crypto shilling; GM wants you to subscribe to their cars; Apple Developer Academy; tech startups lie; Foundation renewed Storytime with Seth Rogan; Dave Chappelle; the Expanse; Apple TV 4k; iPhone vs Android privacy; Twitter recommends you not go on Twitter; do you or don't you need a VPN?
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Blue Origin delays William Shatner's spaceflight to October 13th
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IN THE NEWS
Facebook and Instagram are down for the second time this week
Instagram will encourage teens to 'take a break'
Facebook’s Oversight Board will meet with the Facebook whistleblower
Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation
My First Year at Magic Leap and the Opportunity Ahead
Twitch's source code and streamer payment figures have been leaked following hack
Twitch Data Leak Confirms The 100 Highest-Paid Streamers
Celebrity Crypto Shilling Is a Moral Disaster
GM aims to build Netflix-sized subscription business by 2030
Lifestyles of the Rich and Gullible: Theranos and Ozy Edition
MEDIA CANDY
‘Foundation’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple
Watch the first trailer for The Expanse season 6, arriving December 10th
Baking Impossible: The great nerdish bake-off for the engineering set
APPS & DOODADS
iPhone apps no better for privacy than Android, Oxford study finds
Apple now requires all apps to make it easy for users to delete their accounts
Twitter will now warn you before you participate in a conversation that could get heated
Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law
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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. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister and |
| 0:21.6 | happy Canadian Thanksgiving, hey. Hey, yes and turkey, early in the year. I did. I made a turkey |
| 0:27.6 | with bacon. Ooh, that was good. You know, because you have to add bacon to everything. That's |
| 0:32.1 | the rule. That's right. But so is it Canadian bacon when you're in Canada? No, well, I mean, |
| 0:39.2 | there is Canadian bacon, it's you know, p-mail, but that's a different beast. |
| 0:43.2 | Okay, yeah, what is multiple bacon types? Okay, I got you. I didn't know if it was just a |
| 0:48.4 | location thing. Like they just make a bacon and send it here. Okay, okay. No, no, there's different |
| 0:53.2 | types. Google p-mail, you'll see. Okay, no, I won't. I have a Canadian to ask these things of now. |
| 0:59.6 | I don't have to Google all my Canada shits going on you now. Okay, speaking of Canadians, |
| 1:06.2 | Blue Origin has delayed William Shatner's space flight to October 13th. First off, he's actually |
| 1:11.6 | going. This is true. It's not it may just go down as the most expensive book slash album slash |
| 1:17.4 | whatever he's doing promo of all time, but he is going. Yep. Yes, there is weather conditions, |
| 1:23.2 | which is they're saying is the main factor. Of course, the lift off will also just come weeks |
| 1:28.4 | after an essay described a toxic environment. Blue Origin, including an alleged reluctance to deal |
| 1:32.9 | with sexual harassment, as well as poor attitudes towards safety, the environment and basic internal |
| 1:38.2 | criticism. That's right. At the alley for Captain Kirk. I was about to say this seems pretty spot |
| 1:43.6 | on for the enterprise NCC 1701. Yes, it is. All right. An environment he's used to. I hope |
| 1:51.5 | there aren't any green ladies working at Amazon. No doubt, no doubt. Yeah, I was bummed to see it was |
| 1:57.4 | pushed off. I got up this morning ready to go and no bummer. Yeah, well, you know, the weather |
| 2:02.8 | thing is important if they're going to attempt safety. Attempt safety, the illusion of safety, Brian. |
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