610: And You Get a Tent!
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
NFT bros are sad no one cares; Russia bans state officials from using Apple devices; Tesla directors overpaid themselves; Full Service Driving, which doesn't work, will be licensed to other automakers; military email problems; Instagram not liable for copyright infringement; Threads sees a downturn in usage; Inside Man; Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves; Women's World Cup; Netflix sees big subscriber bump due to password crackdown; streaming prices rising; Reddit deleted pre-2023 DMs; Apple Watch 8, AirPod Pro 2 & Amazon Prime deals; 1Password; the US Cyber Trust Mark; RIP Kevin Mitnick, Tony Bennett; cargo shorts & t-shirts.
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IN THE NEWS
Russia bans state officials from using Apple devices over US spying concerns
Tesla directors pay $735M to settle claims they overpaid themselves
Tesla plans to license its Full Self-Driving system to other automakers
US opens special probe into fatal Tesla crash
An email typo has reportedly sent millions of US military messages to Mali
Instagram Not Liable For Copyright Infringement Over Embedded Images
Threads users are already spending less time in the app
The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’
MEDIA CANDY
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
How to stream the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
Netflix added nearly 6 million new subscribers amid password sharing crackdown
Netflix kills off cheapest no-ads plan in the U.S. and U.K.
Peacock’s prices are going up in August
YouTube Hikes Prices For Premium, Music Streaming Offerings
APPS & DOODADS
Reddit Just Deleted Every Message You Sent Before 2023
Photographer Uses Adobe Firefly to Fake a Vacation and Fool His Friends
‘Elusive’ first-gen 4GB iPhone auctioned for record $190,373
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The Biden administration is tackling smart devices with a new cybersecurity label
FREEDOM DOWNTIME - Kevin Mitnick Hacking Documentary
Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96
I Got Lost in Her Arms by Tony Bennett
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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 |
| 0:06.7 | DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister and |
| 0:20.8 | we're booting up. We are booting up. That's right. Congratulations. Oh thank you. |
| 0:25.7 | Thank you. Yes. For people who don't know that my show boot up is now back on |
| 0:30.4 | the air. I found myself fairly unemployed lately. I'm like, hey, you know what? |
| 0:36.8 | I never gave that show the chance that it deserved. Yeah. People seem to like it. |
| 0:40.7 | Jason, good job. Yeah. Do you do a Friday one? Do you double down? No. Hell no. No. |
| 0:46.4 | This is Friday. Okay. People want Friday. I can pay us and get this a little earlier. |
| 0:51.6 | That's the Friday's work. Fair enough. Yeah. I may end up doing a Sunday show though just |
| 0:57.6 | to wrap up with all the stuff we talked about. And for anybody that doesn't know the idea |
| 1:02.3 | of boot up is it's just tech news in 10 minutes, straight dish on the stuff that |
| 1:06.8 | generally that we don't even cover, you know, the boring news. But it's it is the |
| 1:12.4 | links that don't make the show. Yeah. The the unfunny stuff. It's commute friendly |
| 1:20.0 | for so it's only 10 minutes. But I'm it's written. So my dad can understand it. So a |
| 1:26.6 | 75 year old non tech person can get the gist of it. And I explain more complicated terms |
| 1:33.0 | as we go. If there's something that is a little bit more complicated, I will take |
| 1:36.4 | that a little bit of time to explain it. So it is your parents podcast. Jason, what's |
| 1:41.7 | a nift? What is a nifty? Well, Brian, let's talk about nifties for a second. Okay. |
| 1:50.6 | I saw this headline and I just had to just just crack me up. NFT bro laments that nobody |
| 1:56.4 | is buying expensive JPEGs anymore. Wow. Wow. Obviously he did not get he was not on |
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