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Grumpy Old Geeks

544: Men of a Certain Age

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

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Amanda Palmer Method; Truth Social stumbles; Heardle through the grapevine; wings in the metaverse; Amazon Basics tied to forced labor; Twitter launches Tor service; Limewire is back... with NFTs; Musk is a free speech absolutist; executive order on crypto; Star Trek; After Yang; the Cure & Eddie Izzard; Upload is back; Dekalog & Three Colours; Dropbox drops update for macOS; Clash Royale anniversary; A.G. Riddle; more iOT rants; Samsung hack; RadioShack; Obi-Wan and Star Wars Galatic Starcruiser; Things Dave Likes; disco number twos.

Show notes at https://gog.show/544/


FOLLOW UP

I quit my dream job in TV to become a TikToker, and it was the best decision I've ever made

Donald Trump is furious about the stumbling launch of his social media app Truth Social, report says

'Heardle' is like 'Wordle' for the musically inclined


IN THE NEWS

Wingstop has filed a trademark to sell chicken wings in the metaverse

Amazon suppliers reportedly have ties to forced labor camps in China

HBO hit with class action lawsuit for allegedly sharing subscriber data with Facebook

Twitter Launches Tor Onion Service Making Site Easier to Access in Russia

LimeWire is back... as an NFT marketplace

Musk says Starlink won’t block Russian media outlets ‘unless at gunpoint’

Tesla violated labor laws by blocking union organizing, judge rules

Biden's executive order on cryptocurrencies zeros in on 6 priorities and 'urgency' in exploring the creation of a US digital dollar

Cryptocurrency Is No Fix for Russia’s Sanctions Woes

Coinbase blocks over 25,000 Russian-linked crypto addresses


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Picard

A Small-Scale Sci-Fi Film That Asks the Genre’s Biggest Question

After Yang

BitTorrent is Still the King of Upstream Internet Traffic, But for How Long?

Robert Smith just told us The Cure’s new album title at the BandLab NME Awards 2022

Eddie Izzard - Wunderbar

Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill

Upload Season 2

YouTube offers popular podcasts $50K in cash to pivot to video

Common Sense 323 – Gas Up the Cold War

Dekalog

Three Colours trilogy


APPS & DOODADS

Dropbox releases official update for its macOS app with M1 support

Google says the latest Chrome on Mac outperforms Safari

Jason’s Character in Clash Royale

A Book of Secrets: Finding Solace in a Stubborn World by Derren Brown


AT THE LIBRARY

The Extinction Trials by A.G. Riddle


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Dave’s iOT update - Kind advice via Twitter from Kyle Correa

Homebridge

HOOBS

Stacey on IoT Podcast

Samsung confirms hackers compromised its systems and stole Galaxy source code

Don’t celebrate RadioShack’s crypto pivot — it’s just a Tai Lopez scheme

Grippy Textured Non-Slip Microfiber Cleaning Cloth Wipes (6"x7") Premium for Glasses, Camera Lens, Cellphone, Phone Screen, Glass, Eyeglasses, 3-Pack

Pluto Pillow

LumiLux Toilet Light with Motion Detection Sensor - 16-Color LED Bathroom Toilet Bowl Light (White)

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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.

0:16.4

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:21.0

Brian, I wanted to start off this show by letting people know that if they do go to

0:25.2

GOG.show slash donate from there, they'll find a link to Patreon. And if they are so inclined,

0:32.4

they can sign up to support the show at Patreon and every week they will get an ad-free

0:37.5

version of the show in high res. No, no, listen to it on your Pono player. That's right.

0:44.0

If you want to get poned, get that Pono. So I just wanted to let everybody know.

0:48.3

So check that out. GOG.show slash donate, please. We would appreciate that.

0:53.2

And in exchange, we will give you nothing because we're taking off next week.

0:56.7

What? What? Yep. Yep. I have my child is now of school age, which means I am being

1:02.9

slaved to the rhythm of the school calendar. And next week is a spring break here.

1:08.4

So I will be off doing family things and what nots and just let's be honest, we all need God

1:14.7

damn break. How many big you always need a break. You're always bitching about the breaks.

1:19.9

Come on. That's right. I'm tired.

1:21.4

This kid's not tired, though. I'm putting this in here because there's so many.

1:25.3

This hits so many nerves for me. This kid Josh Harman.

1:30.3

He was, he was an intern at the today show or whatever they call those kids.

1:36.3

And he was there for a year and then, you know, COVID hits and he decides to go full time

1:40.4

onto the TikTok. And now he's Mr. Big TikTok star.

1:44.1

And, you know, before he was, you know, kind of an intern and then he gets on Jimmy Fallon.

1:50.6

For the same network and he's like, look, anybody can do this.

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