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Grumpy Old Geeks

672: Elon or Not?

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

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Cash App class action; Tesla camera-based FSD questioned; Trump Media stock swings; standing desks are the new eggs; Dropbox layoffs; OpenAI Whisper invents parts of transcriptions, frequently; ChatGPT search; post scarcity AI BS; AI coding ouroboros of confusion; Musk crypto scams; Underworld; The Cure; A Man on the Inside; the Diplomat; Instagram throttles video quality; META to fill feeds with more AI; SetApp; Echoes of Extinction; Polostan; the Cube Rule of food identification; Disney hack; this is Halloween.


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FOLLOW UP

Cash App users can claim thousands of dollars in a data breach settlement

Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct


IN THE NEWS

Trump's social media company is now worth more than Musk's X after recent surge in stock price

Trump loses $1.3 billion in net worth after the worst-ever day for his social media stock

Standing Desks Aren’t Just Useless—They Might Also Be Bad for Your Health

Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight

Dropbox is laying off 20 percent of its workforce

OpenAI's Whisper invents parts of transcriptions — a lot

Introducing ChatGPT search

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company's products

Google CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams


MEDIA CANDY

Underworld - Strawberry Hotel

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

A Man on the Inside


APPS & DOODADS

Mosseri confirms Instagram reduces video quality for posts that aren’t raking in views

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

Feds Recall Humane AI Pin Charger Due to Fire Risk

From Goodreads' founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers

Smashing

Sign up for SetApp today!

Mac Geek Gab Podcast

Obsidian

Ulysses

Craft

Apple Notes


AT THE LIBRARY

Destiny: Echoes of Extinction: Book 4 by D. Ward Cornell

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Skeleton Crew | Official Trailer | Disney+

The Cube Rule of Food Identification

A fired Disney employee allegedly altered menus to change allergy markers


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Jeri Taylor, Co-Creator of Star Trek: Voyager, Dies at 86

Teri Garr, Star of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.4

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schoemeister.

0:21.0

Brian, I'm back in my old studio today. Congratulations. Thank you. It's been sitting dormant for months

0:26.6

because I haven't been able to rent it out and I just gave up the ghost. But the other reason was my

0:31.3

roommate pointed out, you know, it's winter and it gets cold in the garage. It went out this morning. It was 48 degrees in the garage.

0:38.9

I'm like, you know, I love doing this show, but not that much.

0:42.2

So here we are.

0:43.4

Well, you're paying for the studio anyways.

0:45.2

You might as well use it.

0:46.6

Yeah, long story on that one.

0:48.2

Got fucked over.

0:49.3

But anyway, let's move on.

0:50.6

What do you got for us today, Brian? Well, be-p-de-p-de-p-de-peep, we've got yet another

0:55.1

class action lawsuit, and we all know my opinion on this. You need to take these companies for whatever

0:59.4

money is offered because, God damn it's your damn job to do it. And quite a few of our listeners

1:05.0

may or may not have used this app, cash app, which I have personally. I have. Yeah, there you go. Well, heads up if you've had a cash app account over the last six years or so, you may now be

1:14.7

able to claim thousands of dollars as a result of a class action settlement.

1:18.8

The company proposed a $15 million settlement earlier this year following the two security

1:22.9

incidents that they've had.

1:24.4

Kind of bad if it's a cash app.

1:27.3

Yeah, it really is.

1:28.6

If you're eligible to make a claim,

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