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 19, 2017Episode 150: Stubbornness and Vanity
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: bots that want to be your lawyer, bots that want to waste scammers’ time, bots that want to be your therapist, and bots that want to be your friend
Tracksmith
Nvidia's AI Creates Artificial Human Faces from Celebrity Photos
This Chatbot Will Help You Sue Anyone
NDA Lynn: an AI lawyerbot who can review your NDA
Send scam emails to this chatbot and it’ll waste their time for you
Using chatbots against voicespam: analyzing Lenny’s effectiveness
Check the YouTube playlist!
‘The Woebot will see you now’ — the rise of chatbot therapy
Replika
This app is trying to replicate you
What My Personal Chat Bot Is Teaching Me About AI’s Future
Cutting Room Floor
Wardrobe Snacks: The Satisfaction of Matching Outfits With Different Foods
Corp Gear: A collection of weapons made out of Corporate Logos.
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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41min
December 05, 2017Episode 149: Bully Stick
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about a communications device nobody wants, domain names nobody wants, TV standards nobody wants, and pictures Facebook wants
Open Technology Fund
Bully stick
D&G Creepy Thing of the Week: This Little Girl Is Not What She Seems
The Experience Tube
Sexysenator.com, americanjerks.com, toddlerjail.com and other unregistered domains
D&G Ad Optimization Experience of the Week: FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard
Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face'
To prevent revenge porn, Facebook will look at user-submitted nude photos
Man fined for painting road signs to aid his commute
Cutting Room Floor
It Is As If You Were Doing Work is a browser game celebrating Windows 3-era cubicle drudgery
Everyday Foodie Menus
Billionaire bunkers: A look inside the world’s largest doomsday shelters
Confirmation Bias Goggles (1970)
Colonel Sanders Faraday Cage Brought to You By KFC and Staples
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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32min
November 21, 2017Episode 148: Our Friend Adrian
This week Dave talks with Adrian Keward about Ansible use in public sector and lessons learned from public sector customers around the globe
Welcome Adrian Keward!
British Army Talks DevOps at AnsibleFest London 2017
Ansible helps the US Army with Hurricane Harvey relief
Network Rail
Red Hat Government Symposium 2017
Red Hat Forum Tokyo
Around the world .. but not in 80 Days – Government approaches to Open Source around the world – Part One
Around the world .. but not in 80 Days – Government approaches to Open Source around the world – Part Two
We Give Thanks
Adrian Keward for being our special guest star!
Special Guest: Adrian Keward.
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16min
October 31, 2017Episode 147: Dadbag
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Game Boys in your medical devices, unicode in your domain names, cryptocurrency miners in your browser, and commercial software in your national security systems
Just sayin’: 13 'brain belts' where the world's smartest people reside
Vogue: 6 Reasons Akron, Ohio, Should Be On Your Radar
Pocket
Tom Bihn Tristar and Daylight combo
Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport
465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability
Meanwhile: Game Boy Advance Hiding In a Medical Device
Fake domain names with unicode characters: Chrome, Firefox, and Opera users beware: This isn’t the apple.com you want
Try this: Go to https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/
YMMV depending upon browser (works on Firefox, but not on Chrome)
Coinhive: "Monetize Your Business With Your Users' CPU Power"
D&G Term of the Week: Cryptojacking
Coinhive Is Rapidly Becoming a Favorite Tool Among Malware Devs
Chrome Extension Embeds In-Browser Monero Miner That Drains Your CPU
Showtime Websites Used to Mine Monero, Unclear If Hack or an Experiment
Someone Made an Ad Blocker But for Cryptocurrency Mining
Symantec CEO: Get Commercial Software Off National Security Systems
Exclusive: Symantec CEO says source code reviews pose unacceptable risk
Would You Video Chat With An Airline Customer Service Rep?
Cutting Room Floor
Robots, Now Wielding Nunchucks
The Dadbag
See the whole product line
Sony Releases New Earbud Detangling Spray
Quickly Find the Hipster Neighborhoods in Any Major City With This Tool
Emacs client for Slack brings Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment to 2017
See also Emacs client for Rocketchat (HT Anthony Green)
Greek philosopher or ailment?
Memory Chemicals: For more information, please reread
We Give Thanks
Anthony Green
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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41min
August 31, 2017Episode 146: The Mutability of History
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming
Same Waze, Bigger Screen: Waze for Android Auto is Here
D&G This Week in Biometrics: Japanese researchers spin up toilet paper gyroscopes for science
HT Jim Wildman: Breaking News
LyreBird: Copy the voice of anyone
HP laptops covertly log user keystrokes, researchers warn
Radio Controlled Pacemakers Are Easily Hacked
Events have reminders before they are scheduled to begin, but should they have reminders before they are scheduled to end?
See also: Back to Work #331
Cutting Room Floor
The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
Twitter number stations
The Other Side Of The Berlin Wall: Life On A Street In 1980s East Germany
$425 Convertible Jorts Are Proof We Live In The End Times For Denim
Today In WTF Fashion: TopShop Sells Clear ‘Jeans’ While Nordstrom Charges $425 For ‘Muddy’ Ones
Leo Tolstoy’s Macaroni and Cheese Recipe (1874)
We Give Thanks
Jim Wildman and the D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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40min
August 22, 2017Episode 145: Mark Giveth, Mark Taketh Away
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about RHEL 7.4 security and storage, and how to kill a feature
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 bolsters security functionality and performance, Linux container features and automation capabilities for complex IT environments
RHEL 7.4 launched Aug. 1, 2017 (RHEL 7.4 Release Notes for Security here)
Network Bound Disk Encryption
USBGuard (See Lucy’s excellent blog post on this)
Audit enhancements for human readability (ausearch --format text)
OpenSCAP NIST Certification
SELinux support with OverlayFS
System Role for SELinux configuration
D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Btrfs
Red Hat Acquires Permabit Assets, Eases Barriers to Cloud Portability with Data Deduplication Technology
We Give Thanks
Mark Thacker for being our special guest star!
Special Guest: Mark Thacker.
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40min
August 15, 2017Episode 144: Mark Thacker: Product Management Zelig
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about technical product management and getting things done in open source and proprietary organizations
Gopher
Sun Microsystems
Quantum Corporation
Help Wanted: We’re hiring
Senior Product Manager, Storage
Strategic Partner Product Manager, Business
We Give Thanks
Mark Thacker for being our special guest star!
Special Guest: Mark Thacker.
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13min
August 01, 2017Episode 143: Ostensibly Helpful, But Actually Dangerous
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about things that are ostensibly helpful, but actually dangerous: robotic tutors, voice modulators, autocomplete, and the hellscape of Android VPN apps
Creeper sauce is back!
Gunnar can’t wait for the delivery of his Tom Bihn Tristar
Human vs. robot ping pong
Hushme Lets You Talk On The Phone Privately While Pretending To Be Bane
Researchers Issue Security Warnings About Several Popular Android VPN Apps
The browser setting everyone should turn off now
Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward?
Network Television Stations Speed Up TV Shows to Fit in More Ads
Couch to 5K, RunKeeper, and the value of chains
Cutting Room Floor
Recreating Asteroids with open source and a laser projector
We can now 3D print Slinkys
Robot Solves Sudoku on Paper
AI Move Poster Generator
Create Hilarious Fake Inspirational Messages With InspiroBot
New paint colors invented by neural network
Metal band names invented by neural network
Neural networks can name guinea pigs
Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
A Virtual Machine, in Google Sheets
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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41min
July 25, 2017Episode 142: Spring Cleaning
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: power with stomach fluids (and blood), networks with light, and communication networks without people
AirPods
The World of Yesterday by Stephan Zweig (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Gut juice could power the next generation of health gadgets
Self-driving potato
Morbid Battery Uses Blood Electrolyte
Networking by flickering lights gets some commercial traction
Malware Lets a Drone Steal Data by Watching a Computer’s Blinking LED
Malware Uses Router LEDs to Steal Data From Secure Networks
Meanwhile, near Dave’s house: Macedonia police warn about gas company scam
D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google reportedly removing SMS texting from Hangouts on May 22
Google currently has at least 11 communications apps
Related: XKCD on Chat Systems
Cutting Room Floor
Meet the Scientists Who Are Making Bread with Cockroach Flour
‘Aliens’ Xenomorph Themed Ceramic Tiki Mugs
Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office
We Give Thanks
The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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37min
April 25, 2017Episode 141: Download This Podcast Or We Shoot This CloudPet
Two million recordings of families imperiled by cloud-connected toys' crappy MongoDB
CloudPets' woes worsen: Webpages can turn kids' stuffed toys into creepy audio bugs
Exploit code has been open sourced here
Speaking of remote control… Watch: The first pro football team where fans called the plays. Here's what happened.
Satan enters roll-your-own ransomware game
Ransomware for Dummies: Anyone Can Do It
Dave got published 4x
How agencies can take a page out of industry's open playbooks
How to get up and running with sweet Orange Pi
Internet-enable your microcontroller projects for under $6 with ESP8266
Book review: Up to no good with 'Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents'
Faking TV Remote Control with Paper and a Lighter
Cutting Room Floor
KISS is selling air guitar strings!
45 minutes of Paul Stanley’s stage banter
This Gallery Of Vintage Clowns Proves They’ve Always Been Scary (see all 3 pages!)
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23min

FAQs about Dave & Gunnar Show:

How many episodes does Dave & Gunnar Show have?

The podcast currently has 262 episodes available.