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Grumpy Old Geeks

577: Self Driving Twitter

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A two-factor pain; Jason hops on Brian's soapbox; the self-driving Twitter crash; Meta ditches human-curated newsfeed; verification has always been a joke, but this is really hilarious; Amazon pauses corporate hiring; Google buys an AI startup to compete with... TikTok?; Adobe's Pantone, Figma issues; the Peripheral; the Witcher renewed, recast; the Machine; drone swarms for Candy Crush; Playstation VR2; Instagram plans NFT minting; Captain EO, amusement parks and mixed media theater; sharing iPads.

Show notes at https://gog.show/577/

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FOLLOW UP

Fact Check-CNN did not report Trump died on Nov. 1, 2022


IN THE NEWS

Twitter has removed 1,500 accounts following coordinated trolling campaign

Meta to ditch human-curated Facebook News stories globally

Elon Musk’s First Grand Plan for Twitter? Charging $8 Per Month for a Blue Checkmark

Elon Musk wants to make Twitter's edit button free for everyone, report says

Elon Musk reportedly wants Twitter to bring back Vine

Amazon Pauses Corporate Hiring on Economic Uncertainty

Google buys an AI avatar startup to take on TikTok

DOJ takes aim at Adobe's $20 billion deal


MEDIA CANDY

The Peripheral

Netflix renews 'The Witcher,' recasts Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia

The Machine Teaser Trailer


APPS & DOODADS

A swarm of 500 drones will plague New York City with advertising tomorrow

$550 PlayStation VR2 launches on Feb. 22, 2023

Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading Tools


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

National Theater Live

The Met: Live in HD

White Snake Projects

Optimizing Apps for Shared iPad

Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips

Holy Chicken Ship! The full-length "Captain EO" is more brilliant than you can possibly remember

Star Tours


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Boot Up with Jason

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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.

0:16.3

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

0:21.4

Fuck you two factor off. I'm just gonna start off the show with that because I am so sick

0:27.6

of two factor off. Can we fix this please?

0:32.7

No, no we can't. It's actually funny that you mentioned that because we are attempting to secure

0:38.4

cyber insurance for our company which as you can imagine, much more difficult to get these days.

0:45.2

Gee I don't know why. We thought we had done all the paperwork and then sent it in and we were

0:53.0

kind of like basically I've just kind of been prepping my boss saying we're not going to get this

0:57.6

anymore. And if we do it's going to be just the extortionary rates that we can't possibly

1:04.0

afford and they've sent back more paperwork for us to like trying to fill out and basically now

1:08.3

they're just saying like we're only going to give you insurance of every single one of your

1:12.1

employees uses two factor off for absolutely everything. I'm like, you know we're a Microsoft shop.

1:21.5

We use Microsoft 360. They've got their own security. We use that for everything. Fuck off. But

1:27.2

here we are. Okay, fun times. No, it's just like every time I try and log in on a different

1:33.6

different one of my, you know, I've got like four computers. So every time like right right is

1:38.4

I'm getting ready to set up for the show. I'm logging in the quip which we use for our show notes

1:44.1

which is in my sales force inexplicably has two factor off. Every time it's got to

1:50.4

just like see our show notes. I know. I know God forbid that we that somebody gets a scoop

1:56.6

on the news that has already been reported that we are re-reporting days later with just snarky

2:03.4

commentary. God forbid. Yeah, but then I have to open the authenticator app on my phone which

2:11.5

if your phone is I don't know in the other fucking room, you got to go get it. And then of course

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