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🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Crypto Scammers & NFT Developers; superconductors & nuclear fusion; PayPal's crypto coin; opting out of TikTok's secret sauce; X sensitivity settings; Zoom wants people back in, not on Zoom, except for the rest of the world; blocking OpenAI's crawler; Lyft, robotaxis; supermodels & Instagram, oh my; Jason is Bourne; Good Omens, Star Trek cliffhangers; Tetris; Disney+ prices rising; Google, record label deepfakes; Callsheet; Flash games; JustWatch; Charles Stross Singularity Sky, Season of Skulls; Peter Cawdron First Contact; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Dirty Laundry; Eufy; steam mopping; the Empire Strips Back.
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IN THE NEWS
Scientists have reproduced last year's nuclear fusion breakthrough
PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin backed by the US dollar
TikTok Users Will Be Able to Opt Out of the Algorithm in Europe
X hopes ‘sensitivity settings’ will bring back advertisers
Twitter fined for belatedly complying with search warrant for Donald Trump's account
Zoom tells employees to return to the office, responds to generative AI pushback
Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler
Lyft plans to ditch surge pricing, which riders hate 'with a fiery passion'
Robotaxis get the green light to expand to 24/7 service in San Francisco
Supermodel is 'Terrified' of Posting on Instagram After Photographer Sued Her
Bella Hadid Sued Over Copyright of Photo She Posted to Instagram
MEDIA CANDY
Neil Gaiman Won't Let Good Omens' Story End Like That
Author says the Apple TV+ 'Tetris' movie ripped off his book
Disney+ is raising prices and cracking down on account sharing
Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”
APPS & DOODADS
Callsheet for iPhone lets you look up that actor you recognize without the IMDB cruft
How to Play All of Those Old Flash Games You Remember
Deactivation of Flash may have crippled Chinese railroad for a day
All DJI Apps on Google Play are Frauds and Are Stealing Users' Money
AT THE LIBRARY
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Season of Skulls: Laundry Files, Book 12 by Charles Stross
Wherever Seeds May Fall (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron
Generation of Vipers (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The 9 Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games
Star Wars-themed burlesque show, "The Empire Strips Back," still going strong
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Dev world mourns loss of Vim creator Bram Moolenaar
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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 who's to blame. |
0:16.8 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
0:19.8 | And I'm Brian Schultmeister. Man Maui sucks. |
0:22.6 | It's, it's really sad man. I mean, I hope the Bonnie and Tree survives. Obviously, |
0:30.5 | be nice over a lot of the people survived. Yeah, the counts going up is they're finding things. Man, |
0:35.6 | that is a, that is a, that is a storm. You do not want to hurricane winds with fire on an island. |
0:42.4 | That's bad. Yeah, on an island. I was just checking this morning. I had a friend of the show, |
0:47.5 | Fogarty. I've only been to Maui once and when we were there, we flash mobbed Charlie's restaurant |
0:52.9 | in Saloon. I don't know if you've ever been there, but we went there with the crem de la crem |
0:58.0 | of Irish folk music and just showed up one night because we were on the cruise and the cruise pulled |
1:03.9 | in and we had like literally the, the royalty of Irish music and just popped in and did a set. |
1:09.4 | It was so awesome. It was awesome. I've gone past Charlie's restaurant in Saloon because I've |
1:15.4 | Mama's Fish House is one of my favorite restaurants in the world, which is just a little bit further |
1:19.7 | down that road. So, yeah. So my roommate's, Neeson Nephew are there. She's a photographer and he |
1:26.7 | does a tour boat stuff for, you know, like a deck hand on dives and things like that. They went out |
1:33.3 | for a shoot for her, her business and by the time they came back, both of their places had been |
1:39.0 | burnt to the ground. They literally had what they were carrying on them. It's a mess. It is a |
1:45.6 | mess. But, you know, there's no climate change. None whatsoever. |
1:51.6 | Moving on. Well, we've got a little bit of good news. Voyager 2 is alive. |
1:56.8 | NASA has regained contact with Voyager 2. They use the network of ground-based transmitters to |
2:01.6 | shout a command at the probe telling it to turn back towards Earth. Obviously, this is more |
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