Dave & Gunnar Show

By David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.... more

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December 11, 2018Episode 170: My Favorite Things, Part 1
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1)
Todoist
Remember the Milk
Day One
IFTTT
Google Home
KornShell
Nest Doorbell
Feedly
OverDrive
The Economist
Blogtrottr
Libby
PocketCasts
BeyondPod
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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24min
November 19, 2018Episode 169: Pushing the Envelope
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Chinese industry helping the Chinese government, the Chinese helping US state governments, some dude helping himself to UPS’s mail, and some other dude being no help to American Airlines
Powering IT’s future while preserving the present: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta
Red Hat Continues Drive for More Secure Enterprise IT, Re-Certifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux for FIPS 140-2
At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
The Lawfare Podcast
State Govts. Warned of Malware-Laden CD Sent Via Snail Mail from China
Change-of-address scam moved UPS corporate headquarters to tiny Rogers Park apartment, feds say
Pushing The Envelope: How American Airlines Can Become The Amazon Of The Sky And The Next Uber
Cutting Room Floor
30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies
30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns
A Flickr Pool Dedicated to Control Panels
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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40min
October 31, 2018Episode 168: #TrashCasket
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon
RHEL 7.6 is out!
#TrashCasket: Someone actually threw out a casket with the garbage in Akron and we know the story behind who picked it up
Browns fans finally open those Bud Light fridges to celebrate a win
D&G Mailbag: D&G Superfan Andrew Sanders says "I do not recall laughing harder or being any more horrified than when listening to episode #165." He also asks “in D&G 165 did Gunnar intentionally made a biblical reference to 3:16 when he joked about the hug request for train car 316?”
Afraid of needles? These start-ups are working on alternatives
Selfies show worm slithered through woman’s face for 2 weeks
Uber can tell whether you are drunk by the way you hold your phone
PSA: Signal and Whatsapp Are Only as Private as the People You Talk To
See also: "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin
Amazon Has Come Up With a Genius New Way to Run Productive Meetings
Open sourced as aws-ops-wheel
Why Jeff Bezos makes Amazon execs read 6-page memos at the start of each meeting
Cutting Room Floor
This Coder Fit a Bootable CD and Video Game Into a Tweet
Get your own HAL-9000 replica with Bluetooth and voice command
Candle that smells like Chinese takeout
Bacon-scented mustache
Clam-flavored candy canes
Meat vending machine
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
Andrew Sanders for the viewer mail!
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35min
October 23, 2018Episode 167: Here you go, Kyle: All about Serverless and FaaS
This week Dave talks with Gordon Haff about the importance of serverless computing, Functions-as-a-Service, and what Red Hat’s doing about them.
Gordon’s What is serverless? article
Gordon’s Cloudy Chat podcast
Serverless computing
Functions as a Service
AWS Lambda
Knative
Red Hat Summit 2019
We Give Thanks
Gordon Haff for being our special guest star!
Kyle Petrosino for making the recommendation!
Special Guest: Gordon Haff.
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20min
September 20, 2018Episode 166: Manifesto at 30,000 Feet
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about what works and doesn’t work when trying to do Deep Work
Tesla Adds New "PIN To Drive" Security Feature
D&G Book Club: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
I Can’t Stop Dreaming of Eudaimonia
Meanwhile: Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70%
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
The Shape of Automation by Herbert A. Simon
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51min
August 23, 2018Episode 165: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about China. That’s all. Just China.
iOS 12 Preview tracking of activity: good!
Google My Activity
China will start using car surveillance system in July, says WSJ
Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned
Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday
Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages
The panopticon meets the Broken Windows Theory?
Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class
See tweet with images here
See also: FacePause Chrome Extension Pauses a YouTube Video When You Look Away
‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale
Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 1: Researchers claim to have transferred a memory between two sea slugs
Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 2: Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
See also:
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Johnny Got His Gun
One by Metallica
Cutting Room Floor
It’s Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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43min
August 14, 2018Episode 164: The Fine Line Between Firefighters and Arsonists
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Bob St. Clair about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time
Day One
Todoist
Remember the Milk
Google Home recipes
HBR: Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions
We Give Thanks
Bob St. Clair for being our special guest star!
Special Guest: Bob St. Clair.
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49min
July 19, 2018Episode 163: Gaia Hypothesis, But for Email
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol.
Lesson learned: do the Safari
Lesson learned: 4 years old don’t care about American History
Lesson learned: Tracksmith running shorts + swim trunks
Props to Debbie, Stow’s Public Service Supervisor, and the Stow Street Department
Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers
Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay with Alexa for Hospitality
These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You
Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia
IBM’s Newest AI Can Probably Argue Better Than You
The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message
Cutting Room Floor
Bread can be made from a gangrenous wound's bacteria
The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm
24-Channel Raspberry Pi Fireworks Control System
‘Skirmish Time Is Now!’: 6 Mediocre Catchphrases Michael Buffer Dabbled With Before Landing On ‘Let’s Get Ready To Rumble’
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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39min
June 20, 2018Episode 162: Salad Cream
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about making things worse with technology: Metallica, AI, locks, and Salad Cream.
Dave can’t stop eating Golden Gate Taproom Cali Warrior Burgers
Thunder in the Valley
Home delivery: revelling in it!
Red Hat reaches the Summit – a new top scientific supercomputer
First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s comma.ai semi-autonomous driving tech
Facebook AI translates Metallica to Beethoven-style piano
See also: The Klezmonauts and Hayseed Dixie
Bad things happen when you train AI using ‘the darkest corners of Reddit’
Check out ink blots on http://norman-ai.mit.edu/
Actually this is a common misconception: "psychopath" is the scientist, the AI is “psychopath’s monster”
Give Out These Fake Prank Numbers to Creeps
High tech lock is "invincible to people who do not have a screwdriver"
See video review here
North Korea furnishes USB fans for all journalists. For your computer!
Nap Pods With Netflix Are Coming to Airports This Year
Dave saw this in LGA: These Private Airport Booths Are an Introvert’s Dream
Don’t forget the Akron-Canton Airport Morris Office Business Lounge
Salad Cream: Heinz 'considers Sandwich Cream re-brand'
Cutting Room Floor
Meet the Tattoo Artist Creating Incredibly Realistic ASCII Portraits
Bob Ross sleep meditation app
Fall asleep in seconds by listening to a soothing voice read the EU’s new GDPR legislation
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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39min
June 07, 2018Episode 161: Continuous Improvement
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about improving AI with improv, improving the internet with the air travel experience, improving fraud with spacesuits, and improving online dating with the gig economy
Foam Pits
NeverSSL
Kent State Tuscarawas wrestler born without legs teaches students it’s OK to be different
Google used improv rules to deal with a farting Assistant
D&G Gunnarbait of the Week: ISPs should charge for fast lanes—just like TSA Precheck, GOP lawmaker says
Intelligence2 Debate
Indian pair arrested after using 'space suits' to con investor out of $200,000
Google Duplex calls hairdresser, terrifies everyone else
You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators
Zero-width Unicode for steganography
Cutting Room Floor
Bite-Sized Linux: a zine collecting awesome *nix tutorial webtoons
Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)
Purrli: a customizable cat-purr emulator
If you ever wanted to print out a square km of black toner, here’s your chance
Hey I got an idea: What Scientists Saw When They Put a Crocodile in an MRI Scanner and Played Classical Music
Solve 3 Rubik’s Cubes while juggling
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40min

FAQs about Dave & Gunnar Show:

How many episodes does Dave & Gunnar Show have?

The podcast currently has 262 episodes available.