550: We Don’t Build Anything
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Coachella & Revolve; becoming a Gigillionaire; masks off; web scraping is legal; unionization is in the air, but $30 an hour for retail; Netflix stock drop, taking a page from Spotify; quantum computing and Rydberg polaritons; Romancing the Stone & Ghostbusters; the Batman; Picard disappointments; #Adulting; sexy backpacks; label created is not shipped; Honey; salt, salt, salt; the Broken Room; Roland; CNN+ shutting down; hot cable talk; revisiting smart home problems; DNS options; cyber security advisory; the wolf of Crypto; Elon Musk is back in MOTW; Binance's unfortunate branded hashtag.
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FOLLOW UP
Revolve Festival likened to “Fyre Fest 2.0” by influencers “stranded” for hours
IN THE NEWS
Uber and Lyft drop mask requirements for US drivers and passengers
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
Instagram enables product tagging for everyone in the US
Apple workers at New York store call for minimum wage of $30 per hour
Netflix plans to offer cheaper ad-supported subscription tiers
An Ancient Namibian Stone Could Hold The Key to Unlocking Quantum Computers
MEDIA CANDY
Obamas to Leave Spotify, Seek Podcast Deal Elsewhere
Star Trek Picard - No More Reviews, I'm Out
APPS & DOODADS
The lickable-TV guy created electric chopsticks to make food taste saltier
AT THE LIBRARY
The Broken Room by Peter Clines
Roland celebrates 50 years of music gear with glossy new book
PUSH: J. Grant Brittain - ‘80s Skateboarding Photography
SECURITY HAH!
CNN+ Is Shutting Down Just Weeks After It Launched
5 Eyes issues joint cyber security advisory
MORON OF THE WEEK
If Wolf of Wall Street were about crypto
[Exclusive] Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Gigafactory interview
Binance adds a branded hashtag to Twitter that closely resembles a swastika
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 |
| 0:06.8 | 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. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. |
| 0:20.7 | Call me old, I guess, because I am, but it's not just that. |
| 0:26.6 | This weekend in lovely Los Angeles, it's probably empty of Instagrammers and influencers |
| 0:33.6 | because they're all, they were all out of Coachella last weekend and they're all going |
| 0:37.1 | out to Coachella again next weekend. |
| 0:39.1 | It's the first Coachella in what three years because pandemic canceled two of them |
| 0:44.8 | and now it's back. |
| 0:46.1 | And boy, I used to go to Coachella, Jason. |
| 0:49.0 | I went for the first 10 odd years of Coachella and I'm not sure what it is anymore. |
| 0:55.3 | Nobody seems to really know. |
| 0:56.7 | There's been a lot of reviews about it. |
| 0:58.5 | Apparently it's just an influencer jerk fest. |
| 1:02.6 | That's all it is now. |
| 1:03.6 | It's not about the music anymore. |
| 1:05.0 | There's lots of articles coming out about it. |
| 1:07.0 | How music is completely secondary. |
| 1:09.2 | But again, call me old fashioned, but when I used to go to a music festival, it was about |
| 1:13.1 | the music, Jason. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah, well, you know, times change, times change. |
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