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🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Slow week in tech news; we get Meta-stasized; Apple getting into the headset game; Wendy's PR team wins; Facebook takes down Nicaraguan troll farm, but verifies a fake Elon Musk; Snap being investigated for securities fraud; Uber offers up Teslas through Hertz deal; creator coins; companies leaving China; don't tweet after death; Star Trek: Prodigy; delays on screen wipes; music gadgets; being negative; get your notch; the Book of Boba Fett; Trojan Source; Facebook's cringe-worthy internal staff video.
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FOLLOW UP
A Reddit user found a 'black hole' on Google maps, and users couldn't figure out what it was
IN THE NEWS
Facebook just revealed its new name: Meta
Meta working on new smartwatch with built-in camera to compete with Apple Watch
Apple’s first headset will focus on “high-quality” games, reporter claims
FACEBOOK 'META' CHANGE - Trademark Applicants Will Sell to Zuck ... FOR $20 MILLION!!!
Facebook takes down government-run troll farm in Nicaragua
Facebook verified a Bitcoin scammer pretending to be Elon Musk
Uber will offer up to 50,000 Teslas to its drivers through Hertz rental deal
Patreon may let you reward creators with crypto
CNN: Squid Game crypto plunges to $0 after scammers steal millions of dollars from investors.
As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits
Digital end-of-life services are a booming business — not everybody says that's a good thing.
MEDIA CANDY
APPS & DOODADS
Oculus Quest VR headsets to eliminate mandatory Facebook account log-in requirement
Apple's worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth
Belkin BOOST↑CHARGE PRO 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with MagSafe - Black
Fender is buying studio gear company PreSonus
Music wearable Mictic raises $2.5M to get you shredding, scratching and strumming
I wish anyone other than Kanye had made the Stem Player
SECURITY HAH!
Now, Even Older Macs Can Have a Notch
Why macOS updates might brick your Mac, and what you can do about it
The Book of Boba Fett | Official Trailer | Disney+
Trojan Source and Why It Matters
MORON OF THE WEEK
Facebook’s internal staff video is worse than anything revealed by whistleblowers
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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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. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:19.7 | Happy after Halloween. Happy after Halloween. Did you have fun with the kiddo? |
| 0:23.5 | I stayed home and passed out candy. I don't know if I'd mentioned this to you but |
| 0:28.1 | we moved on to a street in Toronto that is so in Halloween that they get permits |
| 0:33.3 | from the city to shut the street down to car traffic and most of the city comes |
| 0:38.6 | to our street. I handed out over 800 pieces of candy in less than two and a |
| 0:43.2 | half hours and we had to shut off all the lights and close the doors because we |
| 0:46.1 | were out of candy. That sounds like hell. It was actually a lot of fun. It was it was really great. |
| 0:50.3 | I enjoyed it a lot. So it was a good time and the kid ran around and got tons of candy |
| 0:54.1 | in his throat. So it was fun. It was it was normal. You know, he this is the first |
| 0:58.3 | because he's five years old, right? So oh yeah. Pre-COVID, he wasn't old enough to |
| 1:03.1 | really get what Halloween was at all and then COVID hit and we couldn't do |
| 1:07.3 | trick or treating and had to make shit up like hiding candy around the house. So |
| 1:10.6 | this is this was his first experience and he had a be edible haste. Oh, that's |
| 1:14.3 | cool. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. Halloween here ends on October 30th because we |
| 1:19.6 | have like, you know, we have a really nice big display that we put up in the |
| 1:23.1 | front of the house for all of October and then October 30th. It all just goes back |
| 1:27.9 | in the in storage and we shut off all the lights, lock the gates and call it a |
| 1:32.5 | night at six o'clock and say, stay that L.O.A. Now it mainly just because we have |
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