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Grumpy Old Geeks

546: Jrumpy Old Jeeps

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

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We're back to normal; reflections on nostalgia; Vimeo is sorry; how to commit fraud properly; open-source developer burnout, sabotage; US data collection transparency bill; Bored Apes Yuga Labs ridiculous valuation; Andreessen's crypto obsession; regulating Musk's tweets; de-platforming doesn't always work; which Trek is most Star Trek; Upload; drunk on a plane movie reviews; TV shows keeping Jason sane; Dropbox drops a bomb; Amp; Citizen; iPad annoyances; RIP, it's pronounced JIF.

Show notes at https://gog.show/546

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IN THE NEWS

A former Apple employee has been charged with defrauding the company out of more than $10 million

Open-source developers are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects — and it's putting the entire internet at risk

Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus

Bipartisan bill would expand US data collection transparency requirements

‘Bored Apes’ NFT startup Yuga Labs raises at monster $4B valuation

Biggest Bored Ape Whales Move Their APE to Exchanges

Worldcoin to Raise $100M at $3B Token Valuation: Report

US regulators say someone really needs to monitor Elon Musk’s tweets

Demonetizing ‘problematic’ YouTubers isn’t effective, researchers say


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Picard

Upload Season 2

Friday the 13th The Series

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Tournament of Champions 3

The Julia Child Challenge

Guys Grocery Games

Alex vs. America

Tiny Food Fight

Killing Eve the Final Season

Barry

The Boys

The Umbrella Academy

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (revisited)

Legoland: California


APPS & DOODADS

Amp

The saga of Punkin’ Donuts

Citizen may test an on-demand private security service in Chicago

iPadOS now lets any iPad match the new iPad mini volume button orientation feature

Apple iPadAir with M1

Sonos One SL

Twitter for iOS now lets you easily create GIFs using your iPhone camera

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CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died

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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

0:10.3

who's to blame.

0:15.5

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

0:20.5

Trying to breathe. It's a little dusty in here. I dusted it off the garage studio.

0:25.3

And that's supposed to remove dust geeks. Well, I know, but it just seems to have

0:30.3

gotten some in the air. My swiffer is broken. Damn it. I don't know what it is.

0:34.4

So, but it's nice to be back out in the garage. It's nice here in Southern

0:37.5

California finally. I know because I was just there. You're just here. And it was

0:42.6

very nice. I came back with a tan and I only wore shorts the entire time I was

0:47.0

there. It was wonderful. I will say that when I got back all the snow had melted.

0:51.2

So it's still chilly, but it's not white anymore. Well, it's Canada. It's pretty damn

0:56.2

white. Sorry. Back. Well, not Toronto, man. Toronto is way, way, way more of a

1:02.8

melting pot than anywhere in the good old racist US of A. And if I think we're

1:07.3

not racist, just, you know, go ahead and tune into that Supreme Court nomination.

1:12.6

Stuff that's going. Okay. Okay. Hey, hey, hey, hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up.

1:16.4

Roll it back. Roll it back. I can hear the unfollows. Stop it.

1:21.1

Okay. I finally got beat by wordle. All right. It was it was embarrassing. I can't

1:28.3

believe it. I got it's a beat. I know, but I was I was on like a two-month streak.

1:33.8

I'd never been beat, which was the word the beat you. I can't even remember. I can't

1:38.3

even remember it was I was so angry. I was so angry. So somebody recommended I do hard

1:43.8

mode instead. And I turned on hard mode and gave it another shot. I haven't been beat

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