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🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Web3, NFTs, cryptocurrencies & other grifts; Uber CEO admits they could afford labor protections; shoddy coding; why Tesla is good & why Tesla is bad; Mozilla backtracks; gamifying the law; The Matrix: Resurrections; Nic Cage's massive talent; Amazon's All or Nothing series; Canon's printer ink chip problem; Magic Leap is back; Wordle clones; voice-adjustable dumbbells; caught by Google Maps; open-source developer borks own files; Russian cyber-activity warning; looking for rational prepper advice; mid-life crisis Boba Fett.
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IN THE NEWS
Uber CEO Admits Company Can Afford Labor Protections for Drivers
LAPD fired two officers who ignored robbers to play 'Pokémon Go'
Shoddy coding has some Honda cars stuck in the year 2002
Why Tesla Soared as Other Automakers Struggled to Make Cars
Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta has an ‘assertive’ driving mode that ‘may perform rolling stops’
DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s public self-driving test
Mozilla pauses crypto donations following criticism over climate impact
Kim Kardashian Sued for Promoting Alleged Cryptocurrency 'Pump and Dump' Scam
The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism
Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens
Here’s the truth about the crypto miner that comes with Norton Antivirus
Jack Dorsey proposes a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers
MEDIA CANDY
Nic Cage plays 'Nick Cage' in first look at comedy-thriller The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
All or Nothing: Manchester City
APPS & DOODADS
Magic Leap grants healthcare startups access to its new AR headset ahead of mid-2022 release
It fills me with glee that Canon printers now think Canon’s own toner is fake
Wordle' clones are taking over the App Store
Alexa can change the weight on NordicTrack's adjustable dumbbells
SECURITY HAH!
Italian mafia boss caught after Google Maps sighting in Spain
Open source developer corrupts his own files, impacting millions
Warnings of Russian cyber activity as Moscow continues preparations to invade Ukraine.
Understanding and Mitigating Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
'Huge, huge numbers:' insurance group sees death rates up 40 percent over pre-pandemic levels
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Thomas J Indge - Musician - composer | performer | producer
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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 |
| 0:10.5 | who's to blame. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister and I |
| 0:20.8 | suppose we should start with a brief how you feel in Jason. I feel like I had a |
| 0:24.2 | stroke Brian. Okay. It's about it. We got that out of the way. If I if I |
| 0:29.5 | miss a few words or miss pronounced more than usual, that's why. Okay. And if I |
| 0:34.2 | do it, it's just because I hate everything. So basically we're pretty much |
| 0:37.2 | normal. Pretty much. I'm finishing up my final week of hopefully the thumbs |
| 0:42.9 | or fingers crossed, thumbs crossed, of homeschooling and you know trying to |
| 0:48.5 | juggle schedules with my wife who's working full-time, me who's working full-time |
| 0:52.3 | and teaching full-time because homeschooling means we have to sit there. So |
| 0:56.4 | it's IT slash teaching slash stay on target. God it's just a nightmare. Sounds |
| 1:01.6 | like fun. Theoretically schools are open again here as of Monday and as I was |
| 1:07.0 | I was talking to my my boss briefly and you know giving him the update he |
| 1:11.6 | doesn't have kids but a couple more than a few people in our in our office do. So |
| 1:16.0 | I was kind of letting him know you know those of us with kids can actually work |
| 1:20.1 | again next week and he was like yeah and tell you go back the kid gets on |
| 1:24.2 | the cron brings it home and everybody's sick. I'm like you didn't have to tell |
| 1:27.8 | me that. Yeah but that's gonna happen. So it's all right. Yeah. We all know it's |
| 1:30.5 | coming. So it is. Yeah. It pretty much is you just have to be resigned at this |
| 1:35.3 | point. Yeah. It's gonna happen. Yeah. Keep keep on keeping on. And we got a |
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