346: A Honeycomb and a Jackass

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Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister. Brian, some interesting things happened yesterday. Okay. Well, I had to edit a ton, a ton of audio and put a couple of shows out, but I did it all. I got back on my treadmill desk. It's been a while since I did it.

And I spent four hours on my treadmill desk. I did 20,000 steps and like almost eight miles. It was great. I can't recommend these things enough. Yeah, I did. We're still vaguely connected via our Apple watches and the Apple tracking stuff.

So for health stuff. And I saw that you actually did quite a bit yesterday compared to your normal. So maybe you should keep that up. Well, the interesting thing is I shut off sharing, so you shouldn't be seeing that anymore. And that's odd. Yeah, that's very, very odd. And I only, it only counted like the watch didn't count anywhere near the steps I did.

It's like, right. Because my hands are on the desk most of the time. Right. You got to be swinging that, swinging that thing. Yeah. Yeah. You get steps from masturbating. Yeah, you do. I guess I can rub one out in a four minute mile here. Yeah. So I had an interesting experience this morning and it made me, I have a bit of a revelation, I guess. I thought much like you thought you had turned off sharing.

I thought I had turned off auto updates on my laptop because I don't like auto updates on. And I went for a bike ride and got back just in time for us to sit down and start recording only to see my Mac updating. Oopsie. Shouldn't have had turned on, which is fine. That's no big deal. We're here. I'm only starting about 15 minutes later.

So, but I did notice that Mac updates are much like basketball games. Okay. How's that work? Time passes normally until the last two minutes, which takes a fucking half hour. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or it could go the other way, other way around.

Sometimes it starts off slow and then zips at the end, but you just never know that whole like time remaining thing. You'd think by now they would have gotten it. You'd think they'd have that dialed in. Yeah. They do not. No, they don't. Like why bother even saying it? Because it's never accurate.

Yeah, seriously. It's like, oh man, Windows was the worst. Like on Windows 95. It was just like, they're just guessing. They're like, eh. We have 72 hours remaining. Now three minutes remaining. Well, back to 70 hours. Yeah, seriously.

It's like, what? Come on, guys. You can do better than that. No, they can't. So I got a little follow up on one of the things we talked about in the past, which was Adobe working on their Photoshop for audio. Yes. Where you can basically put in like 20 minutes of somebody's dialogue and then just type in what you want.

And it will spit out basically the person's voice sounding pretty damn close. Well, somebody's beat them to it. A new company called Dessa. Right. I don't know why it's called Dessa. I didn't really care enough to look. They have made an AI that basically sounds exactly like Joe Rogan.

Right. I don't know why they picked Joe Rogan out of all the people that they could pick. Well, tons of tons of audio to shove in, I guess. That's true. There is a lot of learning source material there. I wonder if they're giving him, I don't know, any royalties for that.

But interesting topic there. But they put up a video of everything that is being said in the video was never said by Joe Rogan. Did you get a chance to watch it? I did. But to be fair, Joe Rogan says just about anything. So I wasn't sure if he'd never said that or not.

That's the yeah, that is kind of true. That is kind of true. Yeah, it's weird. It's scary. It's we've been kind of screaming about this for a while now. It's here, I guess. It is. It really is. It's coming faster than we thought. So we got to figure out how are we going to how are we going to fix this or at least be able to know that something is real or not, you know?

Yeah, I don't know. It's going to we're going to have to have some sort of validated. Thank God there's the blockchain. Nope, that ain't going to ain't going to save us. What's next? Yeah, we're going to have to have something. But on the plus side, pretty soon you and I will just be able to type out scripts for our show and we won't actually have to sit here and read them.

That would be nice. That would be very nice. I don't I don't even have to show up. Yeah. In the news. Some interesting news from Google's camp this this week.

Google is apparently using receipts from things you buy in Gmail to track your purchase history. Interesting, eh? Because there's a page that you can go to on Google in your account called purchases and it can go back to 2012.

Right. And it's got different things in it. Did you try and go to that page? I did. I don't have a Gmail account. Oh, well, that would be. So I am a-okay. You are completely safe. Yes. Well, I went to it on a couple of my accounts and on one of them.

Well, let me rephrase that, of course. I do have a Gmail account. I just don't use it for my day-to-day stuff. So none of my purchase history, nothing. I have never gotten a purchase or anything like that. Gotcha. So no receipts through that. No receipts through that. I have on one of my accounts that is tied to my Xbox, which I use for my Microsoft account.

And I opened that up and I went to purchases. And sure enough, there's all my Xbox purchases and a couple other things in there. I go to all my other accounts and there's nothing there. So apparently, if you do have all the tracking turned off, it will not snarf that stuff in. But if you don't, then it's going to have a list of everything you've bought, which is kind of interesting.

Yeah. Why would they possibly be collecting that? They say they're not using it to target you in ads. Then what are you using it for? What are you collecting it for then? That's what I want to know. This is a no brainer that it would be for targeted ads. Of course, it would be.

Yeah, I really. And this is why I don't have a cheap account. Yeah, that's this is some scary, weird shit. I mean, it makes sense why they're doing it. But own up. Own it.

Tell the truth about why you're collecting this. Maybe. OK, you can say we're not currently using this information to to give you ad based stuff. But we want to at some point we will. Of course, this is why we would do it other than we're just snarfing up everything. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't get it. But it's there. Go check it out. The link will be in the show notes for the episode. If you want to just go straight to the purchase page. Right. I haven't looked on the account that has all my Xbox stuff to see how what my privacy settings are yet, because I just found this this morning. So hopefully by the next show on Friday, we'll I'll be able to track that down.

Right. Yeah. Well, that's fun. Thanks, Google. Thanks, Google. Brieche. Now, in the filed under bad things happening to bad people. All right. To be fair, maybe they're not all bad. But an unsecured database has exposed millions of Instagram influencers. So contact information, phone numbers, email addresses for celebrities, influencers and brand accounts.

According to TechCrunch, this database was, wait for it, posted on an Amazon Web Services and left without a password. Go figure. It contained as many as 49 million records. Each record contained public data scraped from influencers accounts. This was reportedly done by a company called Chutterbox.

Chutterbox. C-H-T-R-B-O-X, a Mumbai based social media marketing firm, which would make sense, of course, that they would want to collect and scrape as much information as possible if they're doing social media marketing. And when they when TechCrunch contacted the company, the database was removed, but they did not respond to any request for comment.

Nope. Nope. So a lot of information out there. I would like that database. I wish I had a copy of that. I would love it, too. I would love it, too. So we'll see what happens. I'm sure it's out there on the dark web. Or the not quite so dark web, the gloaming web, I believe, is what we call it.

Yeah. Yeah. The medium gray web. Yes. Now, the FBI cracked the Gosnum malware case. Is that the correct way to pronounce it? Gesundheit. Gesundheit. Right. And it's a case against 10 men named in the indictment, and it hinges on their online advertisements for their own criminal skills and services, as well as their communications with one another in late 2015 and early 2016.

Just a quick note to the future potential criminals out there, do not advertise your criminal activity on the web. Facebook ads are probably not the way to go when you're trying to be, oh, I don't know, a criminal. Well, they did. And this is how the FBI got them down.

And the good, the even funnier thing about this was it got linked to a token account and an access password for it. And the password was QWERTY123. Yep. You're a cyber criminal and you steal passwords for a living and you use QWERTY123 as your own password.

Because they probably know that it is just futile to have complicated passwords, unless you get one password dot com. That's true. That's true. And finally, in big government weird news, the U.S. government has warned that China may have access to all of your drone data.

So the Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert saying the Chinese made drones may be sending flight information back to their manufacturers, basically phoning home, and they could be sharing it with third parties or, you know, just the Chinese government in general. Now, you would think, oh, OK, well, that's not good. But what's the big deal?

Well, the U.S. government uses a lot of drones. Right. And that information is now going to the Chinese government. Well, it's not necessarily. Yeah. I mean, DJI says that they don't send it back. But the thing is, it's like, you know, most of the drones that everybody uses are made by DJI nowadays.

You'd think the government would at least have their own, you know, drone department where they could go make their own. One would think. But then again, it's cheap to buy them off the rack, isn't it? It is pretty cheap to buy them off the rack. But DJI does offer drones that don't transfer any data, period. Right. To, you know, back to the company or over the Internet, which is so it's a self-contained loop, which I'd assume.

Isn't that nice? Yeah. Shouldn't all companies do that? Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be? I would pay extra for a Roomba that didn't phone home. Yeah. Yeah. It's called a vacuum cleaner, dude. That's what it is. Yeah. I tell you what. But my son's not old enough to push it yet.

I got to wait another year or two. OK. Yeah. My Bissell, I don't have a smart vacuum. My Bissell works just fine. Mm-hmm.

Media candy. Well, there's no avoiding it anymore, Jason. The vast cultural phenomena that has been rolling for years and years and years and years for now has come to an end. And in this time to discuss that ending, I am talking, of course, about the very last episode of The Big Bang Theory.

OK. There you go. Which also ended recently. Now, I have not watched The Big Bang Theory for years. Years. Because it stopped being funny a long time ago. I will always give it props. It was very funny the first few seasons. Especially shout out, huge shout out to the set decorator and the prop person.

They nailed it. Everything in the backgrounds was always perfect. So I thought, well, my wife and I thought, well, it's ended. Let's go watch the last episode and see how everything wraps up. Even having not watched it for five years or so. Within five minutes, it was very apparent that nothing had happened in the five years of any interest whatsoever.

And another five minutes in, my wife and I were both just looking at our phones, reading things, going, this is boring. I don't care. And we just turned it off. So I have no idea how it ended. Well, you saw all the same jokes in the first couple of seasons. And they just kept recycling them over and over and over again. Yes.

So it is all done. And I could care less. Yeah. Not really, not really big on my list of things. Actually, I'm not even going to bother to go watch it. I thought about it. I'm like, don't, don't. I did it for you. And we didn't last 10 minutes. Okay. That's good to know. We have grown up and moved on.

But I heard the elevator worked in the last episode. Oh, well, there you go. Finally, wait, wait, 11 seasons for that. Yeah, seriously. So I found some new albums this week. One came out a little bit ago and one is brand new. The brand new one is Rammstein by Rammstein. Self-titled.

Yeah. Again, I think they had another album called Rammstein. So this is, it should be Rammstein. It should be Rammstein Zwei. Yeah. Zwei doesn't run with Boogaloo. So you can't do Rammstein 2 Electric Boogaloo. But either way, so far, I mean, I've listened to it a couple of times.

I dig it. It's not as meaty and hearty as it used to be because, you know, of course, they're getting older, but it is, it's a really good album. I got to say, have you listened to it yet? I have not because I've never been a big, huge fan. Oh, man. Turn in your German card at the door on your way out.

Look, just because you have German ancestry does not mean you have to like David Hasselhoff or Rammstein. Yeah. Well, I'm going to skip on the Hoff, but I do love me some Rammstein. And the Age of Unreason by Bad Religion is out. Now, between the two of these albums, the Bad Religion album was more Bad Religion-y than the Rammstein album was Rammstein-y.

I will say that. So it's a Bad Religion album. It sounds like pretty much every other Bad Religion album that's ever been made. But I like Bad Religion, so it's pretty good. I like Bad Religion, too, but to be honest, I have one album in my collection, and that's all I need.

Okay. Well, actually, there are three ages of Bad Religion, maybe four, and the third one you can drop, but... I've got that album that's got 21st Century Digital Boy on it. I like that album. Okay. Yeah, that's... It's a meh album for me.

I'm not a big fan of that one. But I like the old stuff, like Suffer and all that. The punk ones, damn it. Anyway, but yeah, two new albums that I was very happy to find, because I haven't been listening to that much music, because I have to do this all day. I know. I haven't either.

I've really got to get back on the music train, and I will at some point. We have got some good TV renewal news. Somebody Feed Phil, the show that you and I both love to death, is returning for 10 new episodes of Global Adventures, Laughter, and Food. You know, I haven't even finished last season yet. I think I've only watched three of them.

It's very good. It's one of those shows where I kind of don't want to finish, because I like them, and it's like, you know, you pull them out when you just need a pick-me-up. Yep. So, I'll go back and finish those, but there's no date yet when it's coming out, right? There's no date yet, but he's already shot them, as far as I know, so...

Okay, well, that's good. We shall see. That's good. Have you watched Street Food yet? I have not. I've heard it's very good. It's excellent. I've watched the first two episodes of it, and it is fantastic. I don't know how it goes past the first two, but I really, really enjoyed the first two episodes. It's extremely well done.

Excellent. I mean, they're doing a really good job over at Netflix with all these cooking shows that aren't really cooking shows, so I'm also looking forward to, they've announced something called The Chef Show, which will be Jon Favreau and Roy Choi, so that should be interesting. That should be definitely interesting. Yeah, it's like, because the comedy they've been putting out is really hit or miss.

It's like, you either love it or hate it. Well, I mean, I feel like they just cut a check for every single comedian on the planet and give everybody a special, regardless of how good it is or not. They have to. They're doing one a week, so that's 52 specials a year, you know, and there aren't that many great comedians out there. And so, oh, there's a new one coming out, I think, on the 27th.

Do you watch any of the Geoffrey Ross roasts, roast battles and stuff? No. Oh, they're so fun. They're so fun. They've got a new one coming out, though, called Historical Roasts, and I guess they're going to be, you know, roasting people like George Washington and Napoleon, and I have no idea, but I like Hitler.

The Hitler one's a gas. Oh, oh. Dad Nazi jokes. That's a dad Nazi joke right there. Oh, man. It was right there, man. Yeah, I know.

I know. It's right on the tip of your gun. Anyway, I've been watching Chernobyl as well. Oh, that must be fun. Oh, talk about a pick me up. Oh, man. The trailer depresses the hell out of me. Yeah. Wait, wait till you watch this show. I thought it was supposed to be really historically accurate until on the second episode, I watched the, you know, the behind the scenes at the end that they apparently like to do with all the shows now.

And there was a Starbucks cup sitting there. No, there was no Starbucks cup at Chernobyl, but they took like a hundred scientists and created this amalgamated character of this woman who was like, you know, a Ukrainian physicist and kind of just when I heard that, I was like, oh, man, well, so it's not as historically accurate as you pointed out.

And right. So it's it's still pretty good. It's still pretty good. So I recommend it. But yeah, that kind of just took me out of it because I thought it was supposed to be hyper, you know, accurate, but realistic. Yeah, I guess not. I've been checking out succession to this is a year old show that I didn't know about.

And it's got like Brian, is it Brian Cox and a bunch of other people, Macaulay Culkin's brother, Kieran Culkin, who's awesome in this. And a bunch of it's got a really good cast. And it's kind of like, you know, it's a story about super rich kids in a media empire family.

And I'm guessing like they based a lot of it on Sumner Redstone because they throw in a lot of Paramount type of things in there. And it's probably like an amalgamation between, you know, like I said, Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch's family. Like they put those together and kind of pull the story out of it.

But it's really fun. I mean, if you like that kind of thing, it is really fun. And the upside is that since we just found it, I went and looked up like if it was coming back for another season in August, there's season two is coming in August. So it's a nice time to start if you haven't checked out that show yet.

Excellent. That's cool. And I've been watching. Well, my wife has been putting on Downton Abbey most nights recently. That's her calm down fuel before she goes to bed. And it's a phenomenal show. I've been really happy rewatching it again. And to my surprise this morning, drop the official trailer for the movie.

I'm very excited about this. I watched the trailer. I don't think I need to see the movie now. You probably well, you don't have to see any of it. You kind of get it. So I'm going to be watching it just for Maggie and Maggie and her head shakes. It's going to be amazing.

Yeah. I mean, it was a good trailer. It was a very good trailer. But I mean, they hit probably all the emotional moments that are going to be in the movie in the trailer. Yeah, they kind of did. You know, but the thing about Downton Abbey is once they start playing the theme, you just get all the feels anyway. So that's right. Really?

So let's do it. Game of Thrones postmortem. All right. Here we go. What'd you think? It was meh. Meh. Yeah. I've got I've got a meh. I think I posted immediately after. Not as bad as Battlestar Galactica, but not great. Yeah, it was better than it was fine.

It was better than the Empire season finale this year, I guess. They went the safe route, which I kind of figured that they were going to. They ended it the only way that you really thought that they could anyways. It was fine. And all of it would have probably been OK if they would have had a whole seat if this whole season would have been the build up to it instead of obviously being rushed to to get pushed characters into these positions and and vast quick quick turnarounds and what

they were doing and thinking and and then half handedly basically having Tyrion do speeches explaining why they did stuff so out of character. Yeah. Yeah. So it would have been fine if it would have been another season. I think they could have built up to this and I and I would have been satisfied with it and fine with it.

But it just this whole season's been a mess and they really kind of screwed the pooch on it. Yeah. I mean, if they would have taken that whole like episode where everybody's just walk wandering around Winterfell going, oh, the dead are coming and actually use that to, I don't know, move the plot along, then maybe they could have wrapped it up properly.

But, you know, I mean, it was worth it for a couple of scenes. One, the dragon scene with Danny. That was pretty epic. That was a beautifully shot little scene, which lasted four seconds. So I'm talking about a four second scene. John meeting his dog again was like the most emotional thing for the entire thing for me.

I'm like, oh, he got his dog back. Great. Right. And Arya on the boat going west. I'm like, OK, here's the deal. I like that. Skip the prequels. Forget them all. Do that. Make that a show. That's it right there. I would watch the shit out of that. Everybody would watch the shit out of that.

Yeah. And I got to tell you, there's one thing that they could have done that I think would have would have saved the whole feel for me and made the finale fit with the whole show as it was, which is at the very end, Jon Snow goes north. Those little children should have found him, stabbed him and turned him into the new Night King.

And the cycle repeats. Oh, that would have been good. That would have made the show for me. Here we go again. This is all happened before. This will all happen again. This will all happen again. Damn. So they had a plan. What? No, no, no, they didn't. Well, you know, they went back and they made the movie where they said we had a plan.

It was blow everybody up and we take over and then the plan didn't work. So now we don't have a plan. But they had to do that after the whole show was over and come back and tell you anyway. So, yeah, I'm glad it's over. That's all I got to say. I'm glad it's over.

I'm going to miss it. There's 10 years of my life about, you know, watching this show. I am going to miss it. And like, I agree with you. I don't want the prequels. I want the Aria show. Yeah. Aria goes west. Make it a musical. Think of it this way. We were in our 30s when it started. Jesus. Yep. This episode is brought to you in part by Hover.

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They're fantastic. Everything is fucked. A book about hope by Mark Manson. This is the same guy that wrote The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, which turned into one of the biggest selling books of the last decade, only to be beaten by Michelle Obama.

I hated that book. I thought it didn't say what it did on the tin. This book, I actually kind of enjoyed a bit because it's all about, yeah, there's really nothing to care about. So, you know, it's kind of go on, live your life.

It's kind of it. It's kind of like what your mom said. You can't change it. So it's all about your reaction to it. Except till I got to the last chapter of the book and he goes into this rant on AI and how it's going to change everything and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A chapter written about AI from somebody who knows fuck all about AI and just ruined the whole book for me.

I went to Audible and I returned it. I was like, I can't. I think we need to put together a book of chapters that you hate in otherwise good books. You could have the book about AI with the sand and what was it from Adam Savage? Oh, the cardboard, the glue and the wood and the cardboard chapters.

Oh, it's funny. I got a, I can't remember if it was a tweet or something from Anthony Rossbach. He's just like, you know, I bought that book because of the cardboard and glue chapters because he's a maker. He thought that that was going to be interesting. So that's what I said. I told you that it was going to appeal to a certain part of Adam Savage's fancies.

To each their own, to each their own. But when I was going back to return, everything is fucked, a book about hope. I got my credit back and then I'm looking around. I'm like, oh my God, I can get the Mueller report. They did an audio book of the Mueller report.

It's 19 hours long. Oh boy. And they got actual good voice talent to do the report. And I'm thinking this might be the perfect thing to go to sleep to at night. Like this would definitely knock me out in no time flat.

So I'm sure it would. But it's free. You can, if you, if you have an audible account, you can go download this for free. So there's going to be a link in the show notes for it for anybody that wants to go check it out. Now, this isn't technically a book, but it's something that we've talked about in the past with logical fallacies.

And things like that. There is a website called your logical fallacy is.com. Right. And they sell posters and like a deck of cards that have like tons of logical fallacies on them. It is just super, super cool.

I found out about this from an episode of the Jordan Harbinger show I edited yesterday with Shane Snow. And I went and I immediately bought the deck of cards because I just, I want these around. So like if I'm sitting there in a conversation with somebody and they, they, they pull one of these out, I can say, Oh, do you hold the phone for a second?

And I find the card and hand it to him and say, this is what you've just done. Would you like to restate your argument? I'm sure that conversation will go very well moving forward. After I go to the hospital to get my broken nose. Yes. Yes, exactly. But through that, I found the school of thought international, which is an interesting, I love when you go to the website, there's a video on the front and there's like, you know, a rendering of a building of the department of BS detection.

And it's pretty cool. They actually have an app called fallacy bingo. And when I scroll down, I was looking at the people who are the, they have the advisory council and David McCraney's on it. So I thought that was pretty good. Dan Brown's on it, Peter Ellertson, Deborah Hyde, Julia Gallif and Gabriel Weinberg, the guy that started DuckDuckGo.

And they've got a pretty good little group of people here and it's kind of interesting. So, you know, go just check it out. If you're interested in learning more about, you know, logical fallacies and things like that, and maybe buy the cards. Excellent. We can, we can have a game of, we can play go fish with logical fallacies.

I would like a survivorship bias, please. Nope. Go fish. Go fish. I finished Delta V by Daniel Suarez and overall, great. A return to form, as it were, from him. I was really into the story. I didn't get bored. It didn't feel like one of his more recent books.

The one problem I have with it is he left it open-ended. Of course he did. He could have finished it. That would have been a perfect standalone book. Can't anybody write standalone books anymore? Well, here's the deal. You know, this is the first book that he's written in a long time that's been good. So I'm fine if he wants to keep continuing with it.

Yeah. I was a little pissed off when I finished it. I was like, it didn't say it was a series. I thought this was going to be standalone and it was right there to wrap it up, but he just didn't do it. Yeah, well. Oh, well. You can write some fan fiction and write it up yourself.

No, thank you. After I finished that, I got the last book in the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, Exit Strategy. Oh, is this the final, final, final? Yes, the final, final, final. And I will not spoil it, but very satisfying ending. Going to grab that right now. Okay, good.

I like that. It has an ending. Very satisfying ending. I really like this series. It was very, very well done. I mean, the first one was the best, but she definitely wrapped it up very well. I put down the book and I went, ah, there's that satisfaction I didn't get from Game of Thrones. Or Delta V.

Or Delta V. Or the Sopranos. Or most things in my life. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, I'm definitely going to pick this up because I didn't, I don't think I finished the third book because it kind of got a little. The third one meandered a bit, but this one came back pretty strong. All right, cool.

176 pages too. That's not bad. Quick read. Yeah. I think that's bigger than the other ones though. I think the other ones were in the like 90 to 100 page realm. So. Yeah. Nice. I saw this this morning on Fast Company of all places.

And the title says it all. Can dudes be gooped? Gwyneth goes after the guys. Well. It would be dumb to leave out 50% of the population if you're trying to make a buck screwing people over. That's true. That's true. And so they had the Goop Summit, another one of those.

And Kevin Smith was on stage. Kevin Smith. What happened to you, Kevin? He had a heart attack and lost 70 pounds. And now he's a vegan. I think I would rather have just made that, made sure that DNR was in effect when I had that heart attack rather than come back and be a skinny vegan working on the stage with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Personally, that sounds like I would have died and gone to hell. Right. So they're launching a new podcast called Goop Fellas. Oh, my God. Is he doing the podcast? He's not one of the hosts. Thank God. I can still somewhat respect him.

Yeah. Thank God. Thank God. No, there are two different hosts on there, but he's not one of them. I'm sure he'll be a guest. I'm sure he'll be a guest now. I'm sure he also got paid a six figure check to come on this stage. Oh, yes. Because yes. So that I can respect that.

I can absolutely respect. Yes. The grumpy old geeks would gladly show up at a goop fest. I would shove a gold dildo up my ass and sell you a packet of powders all day long if you give me $100,000 to show up on that stage. Preferably not on stage.

I don't really want to be in the area when you do that. You'd have to take my word. Yeah, you'd have to take my word for it. I would just wear it and you can just take my word for it. Okay. I might be walking funny, but there you go. I just like that goop to runs with duped.

So, yeah. So, yeah, Gwyneth is dipping your toe in the man cave now. So I don't know who the morons are going to be here. There's so many options. Was it Kevin? There are many options. Was it everybody else? But now it's just out there that goop is still a thing, and I can't believe it's still going.

I can't believe after all this time in all of the news about how everything they sell is snake oil, that it is still a thing. Have you looked around the world? Yeah. Every now and again. Okay. Enough said. I go back in my man cave and do whatever I got to do.

But yeah, I'm going to have to listen to the podcast. I'm going to have to. Oh, yes, you are. I listened to one episode. One of us has to. I listened to one episode of the Goop podcast, and if my phone wasn't so expensive, I would have thrown it against the wall. But it's not.

Oh, they're also launching a new men's clothing line called G-Label. Mm-hmm. For men who can't find the G-Spot, the G-Label. Feedback loop. We have some new Patreon subscribers, John Philippe and Michael and Derek C. Derek C writes, Hey guys, with all the recent people writing and asking for advice on how to get started in cybersecurity, I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring.

I've been in the IT and security space for the past nine years and have recently transitioned from being a security analyst to an information security manager. Okay. Can you come in and work on the weekends? Here's my stapler. Yep. Yep. After hordes of people asking me the same question that people have been writing in to you, I decided I was sick of answering everyone individually and decided to write a blog post with my personal advice.

It obviously doesn't encompass every side of the house, but I thought it would be worth passing along. And this is a blog post called Breaking into the Cybersecurity Field. And the link will be in the show notes to that. So thank you, Derek, for sending us that little link because that will really help. Yeah, we really appreciate it. I scanned over it and it looks like some very solid, good advice.

So we finally have something for people. Yeah. And there's actually some more coming up as feedback continues. We got a lot of people writing in this week. Yes. And over at PayPal, we got donations from Anders, David, Joe, and Elaine, who wrote in, is grumpy, is good. Nice.

Yes. Thank you. And over at Twitter, Third in Command writes in, ride the surge. And it was a Twitter post, but in the Twitter post was a link to Uber and Lyft drivers manipulate fares at Reagan National causing artificial price surges. Did you read this article?

Yes. They got together and all turned everything off at specific times to make it seem as if there was a lack of cars in the area to create an artificial surge pricing. How effed up is that? Yeah. You know, I applaud the creativity of the drivers.

Yes. I applaud it. It is a wonderful hack. Yeah, but fuck you. You know? Well done. Fuck you. Fuck you. If we could put fuck in the show title, that would be our show title. Once again, this is a case of if we had built this, we would have anticipated people screwing with a system like that and built in something that didn't allow them to do it.

Yeah. Reverse the surge pricing when cars become available in mass like that right out of the gate. And I'm sure that somebody at Lyft and Uber are working on that as we speak. Exactly. And flagging everybody that did it. Mm-hmm. Well, they're not employees anyway, so your contract has now expired.

Yes. Your contract has been terminated. Yes. And J.K. Becker wrote us, drone deliveries are also happening in Canada. And it's a link from the Richmond News. BC retailers watch drone deliveries lift off. So they've got it going on in Canada now, too. Yeah, they do. And they've got a couple companies.

I think there are four companies up there that they have given rights to. And some are line-of-sight drones, and some are actually not line-of-sight drones. So it's kind of interesting what they're doing up there. But, you know, out of anybody, they've got the space for it to really try it out.

Yeah. This doesn't appear to be in highly, you know, dense population areas for delivery. It seems to be more of almost a B2B thing. Well, one of the delivery spots is the island community of Moose Factory, Ontario. I had to put that in here just for Moose Factory, Ontario.

Moose Factory is actually a town where apparently they build moose-es. If any of our listeners happen to live in Moose Factory, Ontario, I would like a hat. Me, too. I'd like a t-shirt, personally. Oh, man, that's good stuff. And Jeff writes in, FYI, there is a lot of companies out there, like bread companies, that, much like Amazon, will have you deliver their products and only be able to get their trucks and still be responsible for the maintenance and your health care and benefits.

Okay, so it's not just an Amazon thing. It's just a delivery thing. Well, that's unfortunate. Stricky writes us, the Facebook AI seems to need retuning. I shared a news article about an escape con who was in my area, and my post was removed, and I had a warning for breaking their community standards.

And my wife shared a post with a fire breather and was banned for seven days. Okay. All right. You listening, Mark? You listening? Write Film Sleep Repeat writes in, technical question. Would a 2011 MacBook Pro be able to cope with basic video editing if I only run that software on it?

GUG podcast, can you help? 2011's kind of old. That's kind of sketchy. I would say no for video. Yeah, I mean, the 2014, 2015 ones are passable because I've got one of each of those, and even those are going to strain with that, especially if you're trying to do, I mean, if you're trying to do 4K, good luck.

But it probably will be able to cope with it, but if you're doing just like, you know, standard HD stuff, it's going to take a long time. So you have to balance the time that you're going to be spending waiting for shit to render and just move things around versus how much time it's going to take to earn enough money to get an actual real new computer.

And I got to say, and I got to say, 5K iMacs are pretty affordable and are amazing. So, I mean, that's what I've got. I've got, I've got like the two generation ago 5K iMac, and this thing is going to run me for another four or five years. So maybe get a refurb 5K iMac and try that, or, you know, even just a refurb, like 2015 MacBook Pro would serve you better.

The 2011s, that's, that's long in the tooth. Yep. It's going to be slow. Over at GOG.show, Elaine writes us, hey guys, have we reached peak podcast? Well, Goop has a man cast now, so I'd say yes. Has podcasting jumped the shark?

Not only do we have all sorts of celebrities putting out their own podcasts, but now the BBC have a new show about Apollo 11 called 13 Minutes to the Moon, where the theme music is written by Academy and Grammy award-winning composer Hans Zimmer of Lion King fame. Maybe one day I'll be telling my grandkids about the golden age of podcasting.

Cheers and thanks for the show. Well, my take is no, we have not reached peak podcast yet. It is only going to be growing for the next couple of years. There's going to be a lot of competition and the market's going to thin and then everybody's going to stop making money. And then it will reconsolidate and we'll go back to the way things were.

The nice thing about podcasting, it is an open standard and everybody can do it. The bad thing about podcasting is that it's an open standard and everybody can do it. So, you know, you take the good with the bad, but you take the good with the bad. You take the both and there you have the facts of life. The facts of life.

Yeah. As soon as I said it, I'm like, oh, that sounds familiar. We can start a facts of life podcast. There we go. There's our niche. Yeah. We'll niche down. And I think it's a good thing for podcasting that everybody's in it right now because.

Certainly raise the profile. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You know, when the dot-com bubble happened way back in the day, or I should say the dot-com boom, you know, we got a lot of infrastructure built on that boom and we're getting a lot of infrastructure built on podcasting now. And that infrastructure isn't physical infrastructure.

It is mindshare infrastructure, which for somebody like us who were at least, you know, people who want to be longtime podcasters and want to make a career out of this. I think it's good news. And I think, you know, people like Luminary who are trying to make walled garden podcasts are just short-sighted and screwing everything up, but they're not going to last.

They're totally not going to last. So I think that, um, I don't think we're in the golden age just yet or peak podcasting. I think we're on our way and I kind of, I'm, I'm, I'm happy with it. Like the more people that listen to podcasts, the more people that can listen to our show too.

So that's, that's it. Good stuff. Yes. And Jason writes in thought you guys might like this. Facebook is getting creepier by the day. It turns out they're selling user data to phone carriers, allowing them to avoid fair credit reporting act and also racially profiling advertisers for phones.

And this comes from the intercept. Oh man. I just scanned this one. Cause this is a long one. And the intercept is, uh, they're not big on brevity at the intercept. No. You think they might be getting paid by the word or the letter over there, but, um, yeah, go ahead.

And, uh, you can take a peek at this one. If you want to see how Facebook is doing bad things, screwing us every day yet again, but you know, it's, it's all privacy based. It's all privacy based. Cause you know, Zuckerberg is all about the privacy now. Yes. It's all about privacy.

And he writes in also in Facebook news, this Reddit post is alarming and it's a Reddit.com post, uh, getting my personal data out of Facebook. I left Facebook and all I got with this was this lousy legalese. It's a story about a guy who is trying to use GDPR to get his data out.

So, right. Good luck with that. Yep. And he finishes up just another reason. I'm glad I have dumped social media though. I'm sure they have a massive shadow profile on me anyway. Yep. They do. And dumbed it down my smartphone. Keep up the great work guys. Your podcast keeps me entertained while working out in the field. Sincerely signals are all red.

Jason may remember me from the Jordan Harbinger show feedback Friday a couple months ago. All right. Yes. Nice. I, I, I'm going to do that show as soon as we're done with this one. And Matt writes in, good morning, Brian and Jason. Commonly, the first thing that comes to mind for the term threat to cybersecurity is a firewall, data server, or another technical device failure of some kind.

Based on my 20 years experience in the air force as a system admin and now in the small business arena, the biggest threat to cybersecurity device on the network is typically the nut in front of the keyboard. Meaning, yep, meaning it's the employees who have direct access to an organization sensitive resources that typically cause the most havoc.

Most oftentimes, complacency is the biggest killer. You hit the nail on the head a few weeks back when you mentioned the most common passwords being one, two, three, four, five, six, or using their dogs, kids, sports teams as a password. It's not just people that are lazy. They just don't care until it's too late. Keep fighting the good fight and stay grumpy. Justin writes in, check out this item for micro SD card storage.

And it is a really cute little like SD card holder thing, which I would obviously lose right away. He says, I purchased mine from Amazon years ago and still my go-to case. Stay grumpy. It's cute. Link will be in the show notes. Thank you. Aiden writes in, hey, geeks, listen to the latest episode and people wondering about cybersecurity.

Best place to start, in my opinion, is Cisco certification. Starting certification is CSENT1, which is basics of networking and Cisco equipment. After that, you can move on to CCNA security, which is more first network cybersecurity or the CCNA cyber ops, which is, as the name implies, cybersecurity.

Even if you don't work directly with Cisco equipment, the Cisco certifications are pretty universally seen as proof you know something by employers. Hope this helps. Thank you. Yeah, that's good. Good to know. Definitely good to know. Christopher writes in, you mentioned Fleabag on the most recent show, and I wanted to let you know about a great interview with the creator, writer, and star of Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

The interview is available and the link will be in the show notes. Oh, it's over at NPR. NPR. So it'll be nice and quiet like this with some music in the background. And I'd like to bring on our guest now, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Thank you. I'm so glad to be here on NPR. Yes.

Michael writes in, I would enjoy less vulgarity. It is a sign of a limited vocabulary. Fuck you. Keep that in mind. We tried, man. We really did try for a while, but. Here's the deal. Every time we stop, everybody yells at us. Then everybody else complains. Exactly.

You can't win. You can't win for doing. You can't win for losing. Yeah, that's it. That's what I was looking for. I hate getting old. Anyway, you know, go read the studies on people who swear more are more intelligent and happier. Yes.

Find those. P. Matthew writes in, why aren't your show notes available directly in Overcast? Clicking a link to view the show notes adds some friction. Well, there are many reasons that we don't do that. The most being that 60% of podcast players don't actually use hyperlinks.

So making the effort to put everything in there is like we're going to be doubling effort because we're still going to have to do it on the website. Also, we want you to come to the website because that's where we have a lot of other things that aren't available that we can't do in show notes in podcast players. It's one click. That's the only friction.

You literally have to click once because Overcast has a web view that will open up with our show notes in it. So it's not really friction. It is a lot of study that I've done on how podcast notes should be displayed. And it is my, you know, basic opinion.

It's not even an opinion. It's a feature, not a bug. It literally is. I've done so much research on this. This is the single best way to do show notes in a podcast. And if you think that I'm wrong, I challenge you to debate me. So take that click. All right.

Sherman writes in. Hey, Brian and Jason. Been listening to the show for about a year and some change now. And while I don't consider myself particularly old, mid-20s, or any more or less grumpy than the average Joe, I'm definitely a geek and love the show, despite your endless jabs at my generation. Thought you guys might find this article about flat earthers interesting.

Keep up the great work. And this is over from Newsweek, flat earthers and the rise of science denial in America. It is depressing. Yeah, I couldn't read it. I'm like, I already have my opinions on that. I'm sad enough. Greg writes in. You can now say scooters are everywhere.

Lime has lined up a bunch in Midtown Omaha, where I work. I've been to Omaha. I like Omaha. At least it appears they consulted with the city, and the article has a picture of someone actually wearing a helmet. Yes, they do. Yes, they did. I was shocked. Omaha.com. Yes. Michaela writes in.

I have a feeling I know where you guys would end up, but I still thought it was funny. And this is a link to the New York Times. Are you secretly a millennial? No. No. No, I wasn't. Not publicly or secretly or covertly or... Yes, but it's a good quiz. I don't...

Did you actually do the quiz itself? No, I didn't have to. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll go back and do it later and just to have proof. It's clever. It's worth a chuckle. Mark writes in. Hello, geeks. You might be interested in this initiative by the IEEE to define best practices for the design of autonomous intelligence systems.

And it's over at ethicsinaction.ieee.org. Now, I opened this up, and the interesting thing was I'm like, I scroll down, and right at the very top is a quote from my buddy Joey Ito, the head of the MIT Media Lab. I was like, oh, look, Joey's got ethics. How nice.

I never knew. I never knew Joey had ethics. How nice. So he goes on to say, the activity consists primarily of a publication, ethically aligned design, first edition, and instead of standards they're developing, the first three paragraphs look promising. And there's a very long bit of text here.

So if you want to go check this out, go download the paper. And he says, stay grumpy. Mark Waffle Balls from New York. Excellent. Okay. Over at iTunes, we got some five-star ratings this week. The first from Waffle Balls.

The first from Yappy Fox. The only podcast I listen to. Love your stuff. You keep me chuckling every episode. As a furry webcaster, I know it is hard to put together a tight, clean, well-leveled, and shaved-down, I'm sorry, edited production. And you guys do a good job of it.

Send me a furry yap over to your furry buddy Bittner for me, slash Yappy Fox, a grumpy, gray muzzle geek. Thank you, Yappy Fox. I love our audience. This recording needs to end. I can't stop laughing. And I am sparkalicious, writes in, regarding the TWA wings.

Hey, dudes. At the end of episode 339, I heard some reminiscing about getting the airline wings and how they don't do that anymore. On Alaska Airlines this very February, I asked for and received a pair of wings and got to pop my head in the cockpit and say hi to the flight crew. Anyways, love the show. Been binging since I discovered y'all back in November.

Enjoy the five-star. You earned it. Now, we really appreciate the five-star. I am sparkalicious. I would like to point out, though, that this is not really the forum for feedback. I appreciate it, but the iTunes reviews are for reviews, not feedback.

But anyway, that's very good. If I ever fly Alaska, I'm definitely going to get my wings. Note to self, I will not be flying Alaska Airlines anytime soon because they let somebody named I am sparkalicious into the cockpit. That's true. Give me some swag and show me where the captain is.

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I'm going to give my shout-out to Arya and Tyrion, the only really great characters that came out of the whole run of Game of Thrones. They were amazing. Going to miss those, too. Yeah, yeah. Group us. They should do a buddy cop show. Oh, my God. How awesome would that be? He's the talker. She's the enforcer. Exactly.

It'd be amazing. That one's free, everyone. Get on it. Get on it. Until next time, I'm Jason DeFillippo. And I'm Brian Schulmeister. Thanks for listening to Grumpy Old Geeks. Support the show and keep us on the air. Go to patreon.com slash GOG. Toss us a buck a month and we'll love you forever. If you'd like to give a one-time or recurring donation, go to GOG.show and click the PayPal button in the sidebar.

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