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Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner · en · 778 episodes

We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.

Episodes

Grumpy Old Geeks
236: Unnecessary Reboots
Fake news & foreign interference (in)action plans; free money; Communications Decency Act; premium APIs; Robotdog overlords; Dirk Gently & Discovery; Dune…
Nov 21, 2017·1h 44m
Grumpy Old Geeks
235: Facebooty
Automation; verified ass; Snap tank; Kodi non-pirates; Amazon rivets; blockchain & destroyed coin; iPhone glitch; Jason, enhanced; something is wrong on the…
Nov 13, 2017·1h 56m
Grumpy Old Geeks
234: Degauss the House
Stats are meaningless; ad-driven dystopia; Google lockouts; social media hearings; Gothamist shutdown; Toothbrush as a service; neural network nightmares…
Nov 6, 2017·1h 52m
Grumpy Old Geeks
233: Fork Disruption!
Cell brain drain; FCC shenanigans; Facebook pay-to-play; Twitter turns a profit; Pravda problems; Citizen Robot; Amazon Key & drugs; dev stacks; Forks 2.0…
Oct 30, 2017·2h
Grumpy Old Geeks
232: Remember the Almono
Our TL;DR episode; smartphone dystopia; three claps; DNA testing's privacy policies; AI vs machine learning, again; Facebook serves up food & elections; your…
Oct 23, 2017·1h 47m
Grumpy Old Geeks
231: Unbingeable
Open kimonos & making your nut; Magic Leap to nowhere; Google really is listening; Twitter is burning, arbitrarily; Facebook's FYMK secrets; Run Pee; Blade…
Oct 16, 2017·1h 32m
Grumpy Old Geeks
230: Inflection Point
Nerves are frayed & tensions are high; we squabble in front of Daddy Bitner; the numbers are bad!; broken news; AIM shuts down; Uber's very bad deed…
Oct 10, 2017·1h 59m
Grumpy Old Geeks
229: I Am Altering the Deal
Zuckerberg gets Lando'd; 23 & Me; Twitter's Arbitrary 280; Ikea, tech leader; Dubai drones; Amazon's EchoEverywhere; Star Trek: Discovery, in Swedish; Orville…
Oct 2, 2017·1h 52m
Grumpy Old Geeks
228: Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz
Toys Aren’t Us; kids these days; online abuse algorithm fails; e-commerce corrections; Uber falls in London; iOS 11; Canon Keepers; Iron Danny; Googling Avril…
Sep 25, 2017·1h 50m
Grumpy Old Geeks
227: Bots & B.S.
Lone gun developers; hunks of glass & metal; snoozing social influencers; bad Bodega; our Amazon carts; Tesla range; Riot Fest; Star Trek & Orville; Equifax…
Sep 18, 2017·1h 42m
Grumpy Old Geeks
226: A Badder Meinhof
Grumpycoin; UBI; Uber needs a pick me up; is your cellphone listening?; autonomous cars are not coming soon; Facebook lies; Netflix, & Chill; Equifax; getting…
Sep 11, 2017·1h 24m
Grumpy Old Geeks
225: A Beacon of Light and Hope
Broadly 23 & Me; #hashtag; Ikea’s smart home; tin foil tents; Uber’s new CEO; WhopperCoin; Echo sync; Defenders; the Tick; Depeche Mode & KMFDM; Netflix &…
Sep 4, 2017·1h 36m
Grumpy Old Geeks
224: Grump on Grump with Sean Bonner
Jason goes down memory lane with a special Grump on Grump episode from December 23rd, 2015. We talk art, music, crappy LA drivers, Safecast, Apple Music, how…
Aug 28, 2017·56m
Grumpy Old Geeks
223: But... His Nazis!
A very special Nazi episode; Musk’s AI; the slippery slope of shutting down hate; Godwin chimes in; Uber’s audits; silly ice cube trays; It; Good Omens, the…
Aug 21, 2017·1h 34m
Grumpy Old Geeks
222: Grumpy Old Manifestos
Dwindling earnings; Tech-bro manifestos; Snapchat stock drop; Uber board’s b*tch-fight; Amazon’s secret brands; charging with FIRE; 3-D tires; Disney uncouples…
Aug 14, 2017·1h 30m
Grumpy Old Geeks
221: The Snark Tower
The smartphone generation; Facebook FTW; Uber on fire, literally; Hyperloop is a go; Bitcoin split; Shatner being Shatner; the Circle; Cobra Kai; Themis Files…
Aug 7, 2017·1h 32m
Grumpy Old Geeks
220: Road to Nowhere
AI nerdfight; siliCONs; Paint, undead; App-ocalypse; Taco Mode; Twitter tanking; Roomba mapping; drones falling out of the sky, the Cheetos of the Beast; Alexa…
Jul 31, 2017·1h 39m
Grumpy Old Geeks
219: Wow! Wow! Wow!
Star Trek utopia vs Star Wars dystopia; dark web takedowns; sex-bots; robot drowning; SnapMap; Google Glass 2.0; self-driving disease havens; droning drones…
Jul 24, 2017·1h 58m
Grumpy Old Geeks
218: Shaka, When the Walls Fell
Net Neutrality Day of (in)Action; What Did We Do; Amazon’s Geek Squad; Snap, Blue Apron stock; ads within ads; Magic Leap’s Mixed Reality; Sous-vide botnets…
Jul 17, 2017·1h 26m
Grumpy Old Geeks
217: Surveil and Chill
Measuring AI; retail apocalypse continues; robot journalists; Soundcloud, Microsoft layoffs, Jawbone shutters; drone identification; Xbox One; hackintosh…
Jul 10, 2017·1h 38m
Grumpy Old Geeks
216: Lunchroom of Effervescent Healing
The Dumb Ages; misogynist silicon valley losers; Google’s $2.7b fine; Kiwi coders; 10 years of iPhones; drop in on Alexa; hackintoshes; YouTube TV fails; is…
Jul 3, 2017·1h 41m
Grumpy Old Geeks
215: I Have a Bad Feeling About This
Apple giveth, Apple taketh; Kalanick Uber’s out; Tesla streams; battery tech; AI language; social media for introverts; world building is hard; Opie Solo…
Jun 26, 2017·1h 37m
Grumpy Old Geeks
214: Evil as a Service
Amazon & Whole Foods; Goop Gone Wild; Uber's Peace Room; Snap down; Katybot; Goodbye, Hello; Russian vending machines; iPads; The Dollar, TJ Miller & The…
Jun 19, 2017·1h 54m
Grumpy Old Geeks
213: A Pinch of Wrath
Robot clothes & AI futures; net neutrality; Uber firings; billionaire CEOs on sinking ships; Amazon vs Walmart; building a better web; make America fast again…
Jun 12, 2017·1h 45m
Grumpy Old Geeks
212: High Heals and Dyslexia
Covfefe & tea; trickle-down workaholism; self-driving car news; the "passenger economy"; CRISPR beer; anticipated slide decks; EFF sues FBI; plastic surgery…
Jun 5, 2017·1h 41m
Grumpy Old Geeks
211: Fire in the Hole
C-YA, Imzy; burrito hacks; net neutrality; Uber owes; patent trolls; Mossberg signs out; beatings iris scans; tainted news; Amazon's brick & mortar; Fire stick…
May 29, 2017·1h 43m
Grumpy Old Geeks
210: Beyond Burgerdrone
Twitter is sorry; Google/Uber Goober, Lyft/Waymo Laymo; drones & robots; information does not want to be free; WannaCry; hacking Mar-a-Lago; Redshirts; Home vs…
May 22, 2017·1h 40m
Grumpy Old Geeks
209: Smalt & Pppr
Job-killing robots; dropping tech giants; Amazon Echo Show; worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack; Astrophysics in a hurry; make some music; the IoT jumps the…
May 15, 2017·1h 48m
Grumpy Old Geeks
208: Vive La France!
Jason drops into LA, mystery meat, a live audience & alcohol so possible topics include: France, Snowflakes, podcasting, scoundrels, Uber. an AI called Luna…
May 8, 2017·1h 26m
Grumpy Old Geeks
207: Light my Fyre
Hacking Netflix; Silicon Valley horsepuckey; Net Neutrality; Unuber.Me; Facebook's malicious actors; retail apocalypse; Look, Amazon; You Are Not So Smart…
May 1, 2017·1h 17m
Grumpy Old Geeks
206: Sarah's Law
Our AI law; voice recognition; Ballmer's new quest; Facebook's future; Old Man Streaming; Schadenfacebook; AI gone rogue; Linksys security; outsourced…
Apr 24, 2017·1h 45m
Grumpy Old Geeks
205: Grump-a-Lago
Apple's self-driving cars; Burger King & Google Home; Snapchat stats; Uber's Hell; Millennial slackers & mixtapes; Mac ransomware; Old Man's War; Amazon's…
Apr 17, 2017·1h 24m
Grumpy Old Geeks
204: We're Lit!
Thanks, Scott; Oath; Twitter's rotten eggs; Uber's cat fishing; LiveJournal; 23&me; the Shadowbrokers; IoT malware; more Old Man's War; health apps; smart pet…
Apr 10, 2017·1h 52m
Grumpy Old Geeks
203: What Really Grinds Our Gears
Revolting against experts; mobile app report; Musk's empire; burnin' down the Samsung store; killer drones, here & abroad; sold out to the ISPs; chatbots…
Apr 3, 2017·1h 17m
Grumpy Old Geeks
202: Big Bang Weary
Weaponized GIFs; gig economy; AI radar; Uber's not-Ford Escorts; YouTube ad issues; Wall-Drone; Medium's pay-for-nothing; Virus Zero; hacking tractors; Scalzi…
Mar 27, 2017·2h
Grumpy Old Geeks
201: We’re Driving to Florida!
Being tech support; social media consumer rights; twitter accounts gone rogue; fixing the web; Uber bombshells; hacking with sound; privacy rights & border…
Mar 20, 2017·1h 57m
Grumpy Old Geeks
200: Let Them Eat Pop Tarts
2/3 Sparta; the rise of the useless; Fiverr bums us out; Snap stock; atom drives; quizzing trolls; Uber hires HAL; Wikileaks Vault 7; encrypted messaging apps…
Mar 13, 2017·1h 43m
Grumpy Old Geeks
199: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Cat
Snap's IPO; SpaceX to the Moon; Yahoo breach again; FCC kills privacy requirements; Uber has another bad week; Amazon S3 typo outage; scary malware, super…
Mar 6, 2017·1h 53m
Grumpy Old Geeks
198: Game Over Man, GAME OVER!
We lose a legend; 3310 returns w/ snake; new planets; Stockholm heating syndrome; limits of free speech; Uber issues; chatbots; memory leaks; Echo's useless…
Feb 27, 2017·1h 24m
Grumpy Old Geeks
197: Last Night in Sweden
Alphabet's Loon is a go; PewDiePie bye-bye; Zuckerberg's opus; Not-Unlimited plans are back; robot tax; Uber Q&As; Pornhub providing sex-ed; self-flying taxes…
Feb 20, 2017·1h 14m
Grumpy Old Geeks
196: Nordstradamus
What the bleep happened?; FB bots; Twitter slipping; recursive pixels; spying TVs; tech takes sides; file-less hacking; surviving our faster future; gaming…
Feb 13, 2017·1h 41m
Grumpy Old Geeks
195: Never Remember, Always Forget
Tech leaders on Trump; #DeleteUber; Medium goes subscription; brain hackers; Musk gets boring; IRS scams; cracking iOS; Arrival; Concrete Blonde; Blumoo…
Feb 6, 2017·1h 41m
Grumpy Old Geeks
194: 2 1/2 Minutes to Midnight
Computer, what is plural for Jedi? PodcastOne; AltGOGPodcast; Doomsday Clock; Die with your Boots on; AI Partnership; Yahoo pushes back; Jay Z, Sprint & Tidal…
Jan 27, 2017·1h 28m
Grumpy Old Geeks
193: Injecting Digital Magic
Podcasting for exposure; to the Moon, grumps; hoverbikes & airUbers; Netflix & Net Neutrality; Google picking over Twitter; USPS hunting down the dark web…
Jan 20, 2017·1h 41m
Grumpy Old Geeks
192: Bob Is Your Dark Uncle
Buzzfeed, what hath you wrought? Yahoo becomes Altaba; Verified God banned from Facebook; Unlimited data definition limited; Amazon misleads; paper drones…
Jan 13, 2017·1h 41m
Grumpy Old Geeks
191: I Am Jack's Mesentery
We’re back for 2017 & Alexa Ruxpin’s gone wild; Zweckentfremdungsverbot; Medium’s broken system; Snapchat faked growth; self-driving cars are here NO THEY…
Jan 6, 2017·1h 48m
Grumpy Old Geeks
190: Merry Weltschmerzmas
Closing out 2016 with a self-driving, AI-written, crowd-sourced, drone-delivered, kick-started bang; billions upon billions of breaches; PopcornTime; Waymo…
Dec 16, 2016·1h 49m
Grumpy Old Geeks
189: Ello, Dolores
A.I., isn’t; Facts, aren’t; News, isn’t; Amazon Go; Uber Ponzi schemes; behold, the LingLong DingDong; Reflectacles; surviving the faster future; the Gadget…
Dec 9, 2016·1h 22m
Grumpy Old Geeks
188: Because of Copyright!
It’s the universal basic income, stupid; the future of work; Cyber Monday; it’s not AI; Snooper’s Charter; Net Neutrality dies; Yelfies; EmDrive; the…
Dec 2, 2016·1h 32m
Grumpy Old Geeks
187: Marc Canter, The Godfather of Multimedia
This week we're joined by the "godfather of multimedia" Marc Canter. Marc tells us some great stories from the early days of multimedia and shares his thoughts…
Nov 25, 2016·51m
Grumpy Old Geeks
186: Back with a Vengeance
Disney drones; Canada tries UBI; Rule 41; Firefox Focus; Facebook metrics & fake news problems; robot dinosaurs & CRISPR; DCMA; data caps; PoisonTap; texting…
Nov 18, 2016·1h 34m
Grumpy Old Geeks
185: What Plants Crave
Anything happen this week? Archiving @POTUS; Universal Basic Income; DisneyDrones; Adobe VoCo; rainbow-vomiting clouds; Skype hacking; shrinking Toblerones…
Nov 11, 2016·59m
Grumpy Old Geeks
184: Peak Segal
Auto-correcting humanity; shocking, collusion; a peach is now just a peach; community commitments; indentured Ubertude; Slack smarmy; Google’s bony finger of…
Nov 4, 2016·1h 12m
Grumpy Old Geeks
183: Throwing Pagers at Squirrels
Ello, Echo; Vine is dead, Twitter on life support; gig economy; Microsoft rising; autonomous beer delivery; the botnet that broke the internet; Death’s end…
Oct 28, 2016·1h 31m
Grumpy Old Geeks
182: Trump for 500, Alex
Nomophobia; Bad hombres & nasty women; Uber drone ads; fact-checking fails; false unlimited data; 50TB of stolen classified data; Lessig’s high road; creepy VR…
Oct 21, 2016·1h 23m
Grumpy Old Geeks
181: Instant Gratification Generation
Silicon Valley visionless; Samsung on fire; Comcast caught; Facebook’s Workplace; Inept IoT; social media surveillance; Airmail, Pzizz & Trumpwalling; Rogue…
Oct 14, 2016·1h 17m
Grumpy Old Geeks
180: Chabuduo!
Fridges are heating up; Coolest investigation; Ewww Apron; digital rights; Facebook gets local; Google unveils hardware; Yahoo surveillance; Prime reading…
Oct 7, 2016·1h 22m
Grumpy Old Geeks
179: Streaming Gouda
Uber trucking, vertical take-off planes; Google Express hits New England; Amazon starts own delivery service; Elon delivers to Mars; Snap brings Spectacles…
Sep 30, 2016·1h 8m
Grumpy Old Geeks
178: Taste the Hate-bow
Soylent but not deadly; YouTube Heroes; because science; Tesla for California; Amazon’s screw you algorithm; dark-web design; ransomware everywhere; Ello…
Sep 23, 2016·1h 22m
Grumpy Old Geeks
177: Benedict Pleepleusbatch
Zane Lamprey drops in; iOS 10; cookies everywhere; the tech bubble; elephant charts; exploding batteries; Facebook annoys Norway; stank cyber hygiene; stream…
Sep 16, 2016·1h 49m