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Grumpy Old Geeks

529: It’s a Notch, Notch World

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

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

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

Meta

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

Wendy’s Wins

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

SNAP Investigation Alert: Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP is Investigating Securities Fraud Claims on Behalf of Snap Inc. (SNAP) Investors

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

Star Trek: Prodigy


APPS & DOODADS

Oculus Quest VR headsets to eliminate mandatory Facebook account log-in requirement

Tiny Wings+

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!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

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

The Pivoteer

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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.

0:15.6

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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