570: Allegedly
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Patreon drama ramps up, considerably - allegedly; Amazon accelerates robotics; Twitter's innovation vs Meta's; this week in Musk; Adobe's weird Figma play antitrust cough; Starbucks rewards NFTs; Merriam-Webster yeets pumpkin spice; Rings of Power; She-Hulk; Star Wars trailers; Kiki, Pose, Legendary and the power of sub-cultures; Sonos Ray; Apple OS updates generally good, kill Dark Sky bad; iZotope RX 10; Discord adds... forums; the Status Game; Chatter: the Voice in Our Head "I am a Golden God!"
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FOLLOW UP
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IN THE NEWS
Amazon is buying a company that makes pallet-stacking robots
Twitter shareholders approve the $44B merger Musk is trying to get out of
Drivers sue Tesla for alleged false advertising of Autopilot and FSD software
Twitter starts rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribers
Meta is spinning off the Pytorch framework into its own AI research foundation
Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design
Adobe’s $20 Billion Deal For Figma is More Than 50 Times the Startup’s Revenue
Starbucks thinks you'll want to collect NFTs to earn rewards
Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary
MEDIA CANDY
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law | Disney+ Originals
The first 'Mandalorian' season three trailer reunites a favorite Star Wars family
APPS & DOODADS
Apple Releases watchOS 9 With Medication Tracking, New Watch Faces, Sleep Updates, and More
iOS 16's haptic keyboard is the best feature you haven't found yet | Macworld
iPhone 14 Pro Camera Preview: The Hardware Changes – Lux
How to remove the Search button from your Home Screen in iOS 16
Apple-Acquired Weather App Dark Sky Reminding Users That iOS App Shutting Down on January 1
Discord revolutionizes online conversations with... forums
AT THE LIBRARY
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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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. |
| 0:16.6 | Welcome to a Grumpy old geeks, Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister. It's night time. |
| 0:22.8 | It is night time. Right time. The night time is the right time. I am knocking back some |
| 0:28.6 | Laganitas hop. It is a happy refresher with zero alcohol. Oh really? Okay. I've got a glass of |
| 0:35.6 | a lovely red from the vineyard that we stayed at over Labor Day weekend. So I'm going to enjoy |
| 0:42.7 | the show with a little relaxer after a day full of basically every window in our house being torn |
| 0:49.3 | out and being put back in. So good times. Home improvement. Good times. Yes. Let's talk about some |
| 0:55.7 | not good times though. Sure. Let's talk about some not so good times, but not as bad as it sounded |
| 1:01.6 | initially. Maybe this is an ongoing and developing story, but I had tipped eventually for sending |
| 1:06.8 | in this particular link from the verge. Patreon is laying off 17% of its workforce and closing |
| 1:12.4 | offices around a week after it laid off its security team. And as we recall, the security team lay |
| 1:17.7 | off was shrouded in controversy and he said she said postings none of which were verified. So we |
| 1:24.4 | waited to talk about it. And Brian, I have to say that I think that Patreon has succumbed to |
| 1:30.8 | the GOG curse because as soon as we mentioned it, it happens. Well, I mean, right now all we know |
| 1:37.9 | for sure is Patreon is laying off 80 people, which is about 17% of its workforce. It's closing |
| 1:43.2 | its offices in Dublin and Berlin, a post from CEO and co-founder Jack Conte says the cuts are |
| 1:48.5 | happening because the company is changing its plans after trying to rapidly grow during the pandemic. |
| 1:53.4 | And failing. So, well, yes and no, I mean, every other tech company in existence is also |
| 2:01.2 | pink slipping people. So this is not unusual in the sector at all. And in a downturn. |
| 2:08.1 | And in a downturn. So everybody's doing it. Why not Patreon? Now, as far as their five-person |
| 2:14.0 | security team, and by the way, five-person security team, that was pretty small to be good with. |
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