542: The Sneaky Leakies
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Everyone wants a piece of that sweet crypto-chain; inconsistent search sanitization; Meta has a minor problem with a global community development manager; linguistic fingerprints; AI art; more stolen NFTs, NFT gig economy bubble; bye, Hyperloop; John Oliver & Bill Maher; Mrs. Maisel; the King's Man; Tori Amos; mics, bands, Paste and Tots; Time Is, How Long Ago, we're old; Instagram losing daily time limits; Truth Social waiting lists; the Ninties, Chuck Klosterman; Michael Schur; Kanye's back in Moron of the Week; Snowden & Assange; a broken clock is right twice a day; Ukraine and 80s kids fears; AirTag stalking & a mischief of magpies.
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FOLLOW UP
Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto
IN THE NEWS
Meta axes a head of global community development after he appears on video in underage sex sting
Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints
APPLE EMPLOYEES ARE UNIONIZING AND THEY’RE USING ANDROID PHONES TO KEEP APPLE FROM SPYING ON THEM
You can’t copyright AI-created art, according to US officials
OpenSea users lose hundreds of NFTs in likely phishing attack
Sotheby’s CryptoPunk Auction Canceled After Seller Withdraws
An NFT Bubble Is Taking Over the Gig Economy
VIRGIN HYPERLOOP JUST LAID OFF ALMOST HALF ITS EMPLOYEES
MEDIA CANDY
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4
Tori Amos releasing ‘Little Earthquakes’ anniversary comic book & vinyl
APPS & DOODADS
NOMAD - Rugged Band - Black Hardware
Instagram quietly bumps up the minimum daily time limit
Trump’s social network has launched on iOS
AT THE LIBRARY
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
SECURITY HAH!
Snowden was right: Pandemic surveillance is here to stay
AirTag stalking concerns continue; university study underway to measure the problem
iOS 15.4 beta 4 adds anti-stalking alerts to AirTag and other Find My accessories
A mischief of magpies defeated scientists' tracking devices
MORON OF THE WEEK
Kanye West says he’s raked in over $2.2million in Stem Player sales in just 24 hours
The Bunnies Have Left the Mansion: Inside Playboy’s Quest to Reinvent Itself as a Tech Company
MARK ZUCKERBERG’S SISTER POSTS SKIN-CRAWLINGLY HORRIBLE SONG ABOUT CRYPTO
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Mark Lanegan, Grunge Pioneer and Screaming Trees Singer, Dead at 57
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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. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.4 | Uh Brian, it's been an interesting week in the war. Well that too. |
| 0:24.9 | But it covers everything. It's been a very, very exciting week. Okay. Interesting. It's been an |
| 0:32.4 | interesting week. But I'm in the house today. So I just, that's what the only point that I was |
| 0:37.4 | going to make. Who cares about the war? I'm just saying if you hear some dogs in the background, |
| 0:40.8 | it's because it's 35 degrees in my studio and I'm recording from my bedroom today. Sounds |
| 0:45.1 | positively warm to me. It is. It is. It was 35 degrees in my studio. So you got to say that it's, |
| 0:50.2 | you know, that's worthy of going in the house for. Yes, I agree. Even as a Canadian now. Yeah. |
| 0:56.7 | It's, it's cold out there. Yeah. Uh, today is Twin Peaks Day. It is Twin Peaks Day. I didn't |
| 1:02.8 | know if you were going to notice that. Yes. The day that Agent Cooper rolled into Twin Peaks and |
| 1:07.4 | said hello to Diane and it's today. So it seems fitting for a weird week all around. That's true. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah. A little follow up here. There's a great article over in the verge where they interview |
| 1:16.6 | Molly White, who is the, uh, the web person behind, uh, Web 3 is going just great. |
| 1:22.8 | One of my favorite websites that I check constantly because it's just too much fun to watch the |
| 1:27.9 | NFT world kind of implode. So great. Well, it's imploding and exploding at the same time. It's going |
| 1:34.3 | off the chain as the kids say, but it's also still on the chain. Yeah. Can you make Dad bit coin jokes? |
| 1:43.2 | I don't know. I don't know. Um, but speaking of, of the bit coin and the chain, there's an article, uh, |
| 1:51.6 | it, uh, and I found this over at Web 3 is going great.com, which is why I put this here. |
| 1:56.0 | Kickstarter says they won't make changes to Kickstarter without you. And this is after big backlash |
| 2:01.2 | where they said they were going to start putting shit on the blockchain, all the Web 3. And in this |
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