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Grumpy Old Geeks

612: TwiX are for Kids

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 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Threads is Twitter; Twitter is TwiX; Instagram preparing AI labels; META begins Canadian news blackout; NFT sales continue to decline; China considers more limits on kid's smartphone usage; Worldcoin offers up their digital ID service, no one wants it; Uber fatal self-driving case, turns profit for the first time ever; what Bores in Vegas; NASA loses contact with Voyager 2; Star Trek sings; Loki 2; Foundation Season 2 is horrific; Good Omens; 65; Shazam; Guardians of the Galaxy; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Apple subscriber growth; Sprite Max-tape art generator; billionaires: the pros, the cons, and mostly the cons; hop on the GOG Super Yacht!

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FOLLOW UP

Boot Up with Jason

Swapping a Twitter Habit for a Threads One

Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X

Tesla Owners Have Soured on Elon Musk, But Still Love Their Model 3s


IN THE NEWS

Instagram seems to be working on labels for posts 'generated by Meta AI'

Facebook and Instagram Begin Their Canadian News Blackout

Monthly NFT sales fell for fifth consecutive month to $495M in July

China considers limiting kids' smartphone time to two hours per day

Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system

Worldcoin and Kenyan Argue About Who’s Breaking Up With Whom

Uber safety driver involved in fatal self-driving car crash pleads guilty

An Uber change of fortunes

Connected car data privacy under investigation by California regulator

About CPPA

Elon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers for allegedly scraping data from Twitter

X Blue subscribers can now hide their checkmarks

The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas

NASA ACCIDENTALLY CUTS CONTACT WITH VOYAGER 2


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek Strange New Worlds

How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’

Loki season 2 looks like a race through time and space in new trailer

Foundation Season 2

Good Omens Season 2

65

Shazam: Fury of the Gods

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3


APPS & DOODADS

Apple surpasses 1 billion paid subscriptions as active devices are double that

Rumor: Apple Watch Series 9 to be available in new color option alongside black titanium Ultra

Sprite Mix-tape Art Generator


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie

Billionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s Why

Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Paul Reubens dead: Pee-wee Herman actor was 70

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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.

0:16.5

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm the Canadian version of Brian Schultmeister.

0:21.8

I'm glad you're back home. I'm so glad to be back home. Nice to be back in my house. Nice to be

0:27.0

back up in my attic loft studio slash workspace. It's good. Yeah. Yeah. No, whatever, whatever weird

0:35.1

sorcery is at your mother's house with the electrics cause no end of consternation for us

0:40.4

technically last time. Look, it's been a lifelong struggle. Electronics always blow up there.

0:47.2

Nothing ever makes sense. I blame the wiring. I think they're poltergeists. They're ghosts in the

0:51.6

machine to quote sting. All right. All right. Yes. So maybe move your mom to Canada

0:59.5

because that place might be haunted for sure or reels. Anyway, it's got a quick follow-up on

1:06.3

boot up. Thanks for everybody that popped over and started listening. I appreciate it. There will

1:10.5

be some changes next week because the biggest complaint I've got is timing. So what's going to end

1:18.4

up happening is I'm going to let my ass to the office the night before record it. So it goes out

1:24.6

for the drive time early for the east coast folks. The west coast has many, many pluses timing is

1:30.8

not one of them. Nope. No, not at all. But it works out with my schedule quite nicely. Now that I

1:35.7

have this nice little studio room where I can walk in literally press record, speak into the microphone,

1:41.8

press stop and go home. It's fantastic. Right. So yeah, check it out bootup.show if you're

1:48.8

interested. Tech news in 10 minutes or less. It's fun. I'm enjoying doing it. So it's the numbers.

1:55.6

It's funny. I do read off how many people listen to the previous episode at the beginning of the

2:00.0

show because I find it funny. But it wasn't funny as the numbers kept going down and down

2:05.2

last week. Wait a minute. This is now that supposed to work. It's supposed to go up. Yeah.

2:11.5

Then profit. The line goes up. Damn it. Oh well. Yeah. Got some more follow up. We've been talking a

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