633: Brie Break
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ello, Goodbye; Layoffs at eBay, Alphabet, Microsoft & TikTok; more doomed crypto firms; sneaking porn onto Wikimedia & Instagram; France fines Amazon over employee tracking accuracy; facial recognition leads to wrongful jailing; Meta Oversight Board remains useless; cool medical science; EVs need new tires shockingly often; Lift; Death and other Details; the Brothers Sun; Ultraviolet; Jon Stewart back to the Daily Show; more Apple+ sci-fi; Masters of the Air flies; Netflix kills lower ad-free plan; Screens 6; Paste; Tesla working on compact crossover; Apple car still coming; the Artifact; Slow Productivity; office poop etiquette; Eufy security cameras; Amazing Ring does something good; Apple stolen device protection.
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IN THE NEWS
eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce
Alphabet is cutting dozens of jobs at its X moonshot lab
Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox Staff One Day After $3 Trillion Valuation
TikTok is reportedly laying off workers to cut costs
Doomed crypto firm Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy in the US
How to Upload Porn to Instagram
France fines Amazon $35 million over ‘intrusive’ employee surveillance
Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit
Meta’s Oversight Board raises concerns over automated moderation of hate speech
6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
Florida EV Buyers Shocked To Learn Their Cars Eat Tires
MEDIA CANDY
Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ as Host
Apple just dropped a mysterious trailer for its latest sci-fi series Constellation
Netflix, hungry for more growth, signals more price hikes
APPS & DOODADS
Tesla is reportedly building a compact crossover codenamed 'Redwood'
The Apple car apparently still exists, could debut in 2028 with reduced autonomy
AT THE LIBRARY
The Artifact (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras
Amazon’s Ring App Will No Longer Make It Easy for Cops to Get Video Footage
Apple releases iOS 17.3 with new Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Porn Star Jesse Jane Dead at 43 After Apparent Overdose with Boyfriend
Playboy, Maxim Model Masuimi Max Dead at 45
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason |
| 0:06.7 | de Philippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
| 0:10.3 | who's to blame? |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. And I'm Brian Shalmeister. |
| 0:21.0 | You okay Brian? I might take a nap in the middle of the show. Okay. My son, his |
| 0:30.1 | tonsils are massive, they grew. |
| 0:33.0 | And apparently, we spoke to a few people about this. |
| 0:37.0 | Apparently, tonsils can grow at a different rate than the rest of your body. |
| 0:41.0 | His tonsils grew faster than I guess whatever you'd call that |
| 0:44.8 | system, your mouth. The side effect of having large tonsils is snoring and little did one know that not only the seven-year-olds can not only |
| 0:56.7 | snore cutely but they can also snore like a 350-pound drunk man. |
| 1:01.3 | Okay. And... and uh... a... |
| 1:05.0 | he's been storing so loud he wakes himself up comes into our room |
| 1:09.7 | and then he proceeds to wake me up. |
| 1:14.0 | I think I had like two hours of sleep last night because then, you know, I'm scrambling, I'm moving around, |
| 1:19.2 | I'm trying to go to sleep on the |
| 1:25.0 | sleep on the couch and it's just been a nightmare and you know luckily the doctor's like oh |
| 1:24.4 | don't worry this will this will resolve itself in about six to |
| 1:29.5 | six to twelve years it'll be fine like great |
| 1:34.0 | so that's our living hell right now. |
| 1:36.0 | How are you? |
| 1:37.0 | I would like to propose a technological solution for you. |
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