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Grumpy Old Geeks

535: Consider Your Risk Appetite

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

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

2022, here we go again; the case against crypto; feels like a sea change against crypto & NFTs; the metaverse still doesn't exist; decentralized Web3 is, you guessed it, centralized; DoorDash requires engineers to deliver goods once a month; Uber launching driverless food delivery; everyone's delaying returns to the office, again; Grand Tour; Hannah; Red Notice; Don't Look Up; the Matrix; Salvation; Hawkeye; Free Guy; Jungle Cruise; South Park; Star Trek's feelings; Twetch; Catatouille & the Catellite Dish; the Book of Boba Fett; anything exciting happen over the break?

Show notes at https://gog.show/535

FOLLOW UP

From Bitcoin Obituaries - "Bitcoin is Dead" Declared 400+ Times

The Case Against Crypto by Stephen Diehl

Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs

The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive

In 2021, tech talked up ‘the metaverse.’ One problem: It doesn’t exist.

Fortune Favours the Brave | Crypto.com

web3 is Centralized by Wesley Aptekar-Cassels

IN THE NEWS

San Francisco-based DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food — and they’re furious

Uber will launch driverless food deliveries in California in 2022

Autonomous car developers lobby to defang safety data regulations

Apple joins the ranks of companies delaying their return to office

Comcast won't enforce Northeast data caps until 2023 at the earliest

AT&T and Verizon settle FCC 911 outage investigations

Verizon and AT&T Decline Regulators’ Request to Delay New 5G Services

MEDIA CANDY

The Witcher

Netflix drops a surprise teaser for its 'Witcher' prequel

The Grand Tour Presents... Carnage a Trois

Hannah Season 3

Red Notice

The Matrix Resurrections

Don’t Look Up!

Salvation

Hawkeye

Free Guy

Jungle Cruise

South Park: Post Covid

APPS & DOODADS

Twetch

Halide for iPhone

FiLMic Pro

FiLMiC Creator Bundle

DJI Osmo Pocket 2

Your cat could burn your house down, Korean officials warn after 107 fires sparked by felines

Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Dishes Are Attracting Cats

AT THE LIBRARY

Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923!

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

The Book of Boba Fett

'The Book of Boba Fett' premiere is an abysmal failure on every level

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

What Happens When You Quit Alcohol?

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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 or 2022. I'm Jason DeFilippo.

0:20.0

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. So, um, anything interesting happened in New

0:23.9

Winnerbreak? Yeah, yeah, I got the greatest gift of all time, Brian.

0:27.2

Mm-hmm. I got a stroke. I know. I know. And you know what? We're going to tease that because I know Dave

0:33.1

Bitner wants to be in on this discussion. So, we're going to force people to listen to more of the show

0:37.2

than they maybe normally would. Maybe more than they normally would. Yes. Yes. So,

0:42.8

and other interesting things, guess who's back? COVID's back.

0:49.9

We just announced here in Toronto. We're basically back in lockdown.

0:54.5

Yeah, really? We're going to do that. Virtual school for two weeks. Um, bars closed completely,

1:01.2

no more indoor dining, no more gyms, no more events, stores at half capacity.

1:08.4

You see, if you'd have just stayed here, we have decided,

1:11.2

fuck it. I know. We're doing whatever we want. You want to see the difference between real public health

1:16.2

and the American, uh, fuck it, you're on your own system.

1:19.6

So, here we are again, uh, two years on and nothing's changed. Well, this is a little bit different.

1:26.6

You got to, you got to admit that less, less and less people are dying. That's true.

1:31.0

There are like 40,000 new cases over the weekend and two dead. That's not the way it needs to be.

1:35.5

Amongst the vaccinated, uh, it's, it's, it's really literally is, I mean, yes,

1:40.1

they're break through cases, but they're basically just colds. Uh, if you are vaccinated, uh,

1:44.8

this is very much a pandemic of the unvaccinated right now. And of course, the unfortunate people

1:49.2

that cannot get vaccinated for various reasons. So, yep, yep, yep. Is what it is. So,

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