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Grumpy Old Geeks

539: Apology Not Accepted

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 February 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Meta stock plummets due to reduced growth, generally being Meta; HitPiece "starts a conversation" about blatant theft; we're really, really over "nefts"; Wordle gets bought by the NYT, nothing changes; Tesla's estimated percentage of defect; Joe Rogan, Spotify kerfuffle continues; gaming consolidation; Super Pumped; House of Gucci; Manifest; Janet Jackson; new Wi-Fi standards; Noom is a scam; IRS, facial recognition & ID.me; GDPR consent popups now unlawful; full-frontal Luke.

Show notes at https://gog.show/539

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IN THE NEWS

Shares of Facebook parent Meta plunge 22% on lower profits

Facebook isn’t growing anymore

HitPiece Wants to Make Every Song in the World an NFT. But Artists Aren’t Buying It

Even Ye hates the NFT

The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’

The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster

It’s pronounced “neft”

Wordle, the game everyone's obsessed with, gets bought by the New York Times

People Are Downloading the Next 2,000 Days of Wordle

Tesla recalls 53,822 cars because they won’t stop at stop signs

Teen wants $50,000 to stop tracking Elon Musk’s private jet

Dorsey Says Zuckerberg Should Have Focused on Bitcoin, Not Diem

Joe Rogan apologizes to Spotify over backlash and promises to 'balance things out'

Sony is buying Destiny studio Bungie

Dating app Grindr disappears from Apple's App Store in China (updated)


MEDIA CANDY

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (2022) Official Trailer | SHOWTIME

House of Gucci

Janet Jackson

Aziz Ansari Nightclub Comedian

Manifest


APPS & DOODADS

Netflix's 'Continue Watching' queue gets a huge quality of life improvement

This upcoming Wi-Fi standard will give your router motion-sensing superpowers

I found out why metaverse avatars don’t have legs

Why Noom, The Weight-Loss App, Is A Scam

Atomos Shinobi


AT THE LIBRARY

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


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

IRS plan to scan your face prompts anger in Congress, confusion among taxpayers

ID.me

GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show – Episode 243


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

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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 who's to blame.

0:16.4

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. I was it up there

0:20.7

in the Great White North. Cold, white, North. There you go. I'm tired of it. We got through a

0:27.2

blizzard two weeks ago and barely got rid of enough snow to get my car out of the garage and

0:33.5

it's snowing again. I'm going to show you exactly as much sympathy as you gave me when I lived in

0:37.8

Chicago, which is none. I'm not expecting any. I'm not asking you sympathy.

0:44.8

You move there. It's how you do. Don't good. Doing good. Good. Good. It is the Canadian equivalent of

0:53.5

winter down here. It is 55 in my studio. Cold enough for cold enough for podcasting. I can see my breath.

1:00.5

Excellent. I understand that one of our topics that we touched on in our last podcast became a

1:08.3

wordal word. Yes, yes it was moist. I'm still the only adult in the room not playing, but my wife

1:17.9

has started playing and told me that the word was moist, which was very. Yes it was. All right.

1:23.6

And something we talked about on the show last week got a lot of people asking me about where the

1:28.3

link in the show notes was for the paintball gun that the bitner bought and that you were

1:32.9

considering getting. So that'll be in the follow up links and I've sent it around to the people

1:36.6

who asked if I missed you. Sorry, it's in the show notes. Now there's two links. One is to the

1:41.6

tipman Tpx paintball pistol starter kit black. This is the same gun that you can get from the

1:48.4

salt supply company which will sell it to you for generally more money, but that's where you also

1:53.2

can get the pepper spray rounds. A lot of places won't let you ship pepper spray round. So if you

1:59.1

just want the paintball gun and want to get the PVC rounds, go with the Amazon link. If you want

2:03.7

the one, if you live in a place at least where you can get the one with the pepper spray, go to

2:08.9

salt supply company. Otherwise have somebody order the salt supply that lives in a state that you

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