548: N(ot) F(or) T(rek)
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jason's new office; Facebook's misinformation fail; Amazon union; TikTok's scraping "growth hack"; Pinterest calls itself bold & brave; Elon buys stake in Twitter, gets on board; Jack misses the world he destroyed; Moonfall is unbearably bad; Star Trek seems to be moving in the right direction except for that NFT stuff; Somebody Feed Phil returns; Wyze security debacle; Cash App breach; FBI removes malware without asking; DOJ, German dark-web takedowns; Google bans data-harvesting software with government ties; it's Opening Day, Orioles fans!
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FOLLOW UP
A FACEBOOK BUG LED TO INCREASED VIEWS OF HARMFUL CONTENT OVER SIX MONTHS
IN THE NEWS
America finally gets an Amazon union
Amazon's planned worker chat app would reportedly ban words like 'union'
Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch
TikTok owner ByteDance scraped content from Instagram and others to push predecessor app
Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform
Elon Musk now owns a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter
Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors
Twitter confirms it will test an edit button
Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web
Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet
MEDIA CANDY
The entire ‘Next Generation’ cast will appear in 'Star Trek: Picard' season three
The latest ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ trailer promises a return to form
FFS. "Star Trek gets into NFTs"
'Somebody Feed Phil' Season 5 Release Date Announced at Netflix
SECURITY HAH!
Cash App breach impacted over 8 million users
Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them
DOJ seizes $34 million of crypto from the dark web seller
Germany seizes the world's largest, longest-serving dark web market
Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software
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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. What up |
| 0:20.6 | they're my favorite COVID canuck. Not much here. All better. Everybody survived COVID. |
| 0:29.3 | Sent the kid back to school and he immediately came home with a stomach flu. |
| 0:33.0 | Okay. So that's good times. Great. It's been a long week, but back in school now and yeah, |
| 0:40.0 | it's a by all accounts. It's not going well up here. They're doing the waste water testing |
| 0:46.0 | and all of that. And we're going through sixth wave and COVID cases are rising again. And |
| 0:51.3 | yeah, who knows. I don't know what's going on. I know my kids' class is normally 26 and |
| 0:55.9 | there've been 12 to 13 kids in class. Oh, wow. So all kinds of things are going on. |
| 1:01.9 | Just normal illnesses because decreased mask wearing and increased COVID and whatever. We'll see. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay. Things are going down here. I don't know what you guys are doing wrong. Yeah. How do |
| 1:11.3 | that we're rocking it. I think maybe maybe we've been hit by the latest new variant first. So we'll |
| 1:16.4 | see what happens. Okay. Well, all of this COVID talk got me to a point which was I was tired of |
| 1:22.6 | being home through this whole thing. And I talked on the previous episode. I'm like, I'm going to |
| 1:27.4 | get a warehouse and we're going to start a company and all this stuff. Remember that? Yeah. |
| 1:30.9 | And I thought you were crazy. Yep. Everybody did. It was a dumb idea. So I ended up getting a |
| 1:37.2 | WeWork style co-working office. Please tell me you did not go with WeWork. Oh, hell no. I didn't |
| 1:42.4 | go with WeWork. What do you think I am? No. No, I went with spaces. Okay. You know, another generic name. |
| 1:48.8 | But I got I've been moving in all week and we're recording starting to record a little late this |
| 1:54.5 | morning because I kept taking everything over. And what I did take was the my home interface. |
| 1:59.8 | So I'm setting up this morning. I'm just like, oh, oh, really? |
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