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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 238: Harmonica-Playing Firefighters Holding Coke Bottles

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about stable coins and slippery slopes

    • SANDMAN
    • Dave is now a TODAQ advisor! (See also D&G 216!)
    • What’s more stable than Bitcoin or UST? AriZona Iced Tea
      • To learn more, check out their whitepaper
      • D&G This Week in Slippery Slopes
        • Quest 2 Add-On Increases VR Immersion by Making You Suffocate
        • Finally, VR for your mouth
        • This Controller Lets You Feel VR Objects Slip Between Your Fingers, and the Possibilities Are Endless
        • Instead of telling you when it's safe to cross the street, the walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating "CHANGE PASSWORD".
          • It will say "Change password" until someone does
          • Intuition and Analysis from the Economist
          • Cutting Room Floor

            • Ghosts in the Machine: Recruiting video for Fort Bragg’s 4th Psychological Operations Group
            • Early Guy Fieri selling mufflers
            • Erich Morisse, call your office: The Cognitive Bias Codex
            • Press Conference for man caught off-guard by the weight of a door
            • We Give Thanks

              • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
              • 30 min
              • Episode 237: Confidentially Speaking

                This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum about confidential computing!

                • Check out Mike on D&G 201 from 2020!
                • Enarx
                • Red Hat
                • Profian
                • McCallum-Relyea exchange
                • Trusted computing
                • Confidential computing – the new HTTPS?
                • Confidential Computing Consortium
                • Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
                • Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
                • Digital Rights Management (DRM)
                • Intel SGX
                • AMD SEV
                • AWS Nitro System
                • What is attestation for Confidential Computing?
                • WebAssembly
                • Bytecode Alliance
                • Drawbridge
                • Keep
                • Secure multi-party computation
                • Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PET)
                • Homomorphic encryption
                • Functional equivalence and formal equivalence checking
                • What is a Linux Container?
                • Functions as a Service
                • UEFI
                • Reproducible builds
                • Trusted Computing Base (TCB)
                • Confidential Computing: try it now, for free
                • FedRAMP
                • Bell–LaPadula model
                • NVIDIA Confidential Computing
                • U.S. and U.K. Launch Innovation Prize Challenges in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies to Tackle Financial Crime and Public Health Emergencies
                • Advancing a Vision for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
                • Accelerating the adoption and development of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs)
                • Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud
                • We Give Thanks

                  • Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum for joining us on the show!
                  • Jen Wike Huger for connecting the dots!
                  • Special Guests: Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum.

                    45 min
                  • Episode 236: SodaStream Nighttime Formula

                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about technology-enhanced sleep, technology-enhanced image generation, and technology-enhanced job hunting

                    • Gunnar endorses:
                      • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
                      • Simply Piano
                        • Pianos.pub: Find a public piano to play
                          • Sur l'air de service ← Burger King in France
                          • Red Hat Summit!
                          • Dave endorses:
                            • Grammarly Premium
                            • Google Calendar appointment scheduling!
                            • Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
                            • AI-Generated Sleep Podcast Urges You To Imagine Pleasant Nonsense
                            • The Weirdest Product at MWC 2022 Is a Bedtime Knockout-Gas Dispenser
                            • DALL·E 2
                            • How Job Applicants Try to Hack Résumé-Reading Software
                            • the new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
                            • Cutting Room Floor

                              • Alvin and the Chipmunks at 16 RPM
                              • We Give Thanks

                                • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                • 27 min
                                • Episode 235: The Cult of the Dead Fruit on the Back of the Computer

                                  This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about his new crayon-free book Podman in Action!

                                  • The Container Commandos Coloring Book
                                  • Podman
                                  • Podman in Action by Dan Walsh!
                                  • Docker
                                  • systemd
                                  • Kubernetes
                                  • OpenShift
                                  • Get started with RHEL for Edge
                                  • rpm-ostree
                                  • podman-machine
                                  • Docker Desktop
                                  • Podman Desktop
                                  • What Is Confidential Computing?
                                  • virtiofs
                                  • podman-tui
                                  • SCaLE 19x
                                  • Red Hat Summit
                                  • Flatpak
                                  • Fedora Silverblue
                                  • Toolbx
                                  • Singularity
                                  • We Give Thanks

                                    • Dan Walsh for being our special guest star!
                                    • Special Guest: Dan Walsh.

                                      53 min
                                    • Episode 234: You Are the Active Ingredient

                                      This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time)

                                      • Keychain garage door openers: they’re great!
                                      • How to See Your Uber Passenger Ratings Breakdown (and Improve Your Score)
                                      • How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot)
                                      • Dave endorsed: Grammarly Premium
                                      • iOS malware can fake iPhone shut downs to snoop on camera, microphone
                                      • Farmer gives cows VR headsets to reduce anxiety and increase milk production
                                      • These crypto enthusiasts are trying to raise $4 billion to buy the Denver Broncos
                                        • BuyTheBroncos
                                        • Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you.
                                          • Superworld
                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                            • This Clever Device Detects the Amount of Metal in Music
                                            • Atlas Missile Silo for Sale, Cheap ($380K)
                                            • Zeebo – Honest Placebo Pills Designed to Help You Create a Safe Experience on Your Path to Well-Being
                                            • We Give Thanks

                                              • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                              • 32 min
                                              • Episode 233: Flavor Canister

                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reverse engineering taste and reverse engineering AI training sets!

                                                • Google Meet bot
                                                • Drafts
                                                • Todoist
                                                • The Eisenhower Matrix
                                                • Tech Startup Wants To Gamify the U.S. Court System Using Crypto Tokens
                                                • No one asked for lickable TV, and yet…
                                                • This Weight-Changing Cup Alters Your Perception of Flavor
                                                • This X Does Not Exist
                                                • Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
                                                • This Olesya Does Not Exist
                                                • AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on
                                                • Cutting Room Floor

                                                  • Watch Eric Stoltz Play Marty McFly in Back to the Future Before Michael J. Fox Was Cast
                                                  • call this number: Odd Telephone Numbers
                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                    • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                    • 32 min
                                                    • Episode 232: CRIME SKELETON!

                                                      This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fish, rats, cockroaches, and screaming

                                                      • Drafts!
                                                      • From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals
                                                        • See also: D&G 43 -- Goldfish driving a robot car -- Feb 2014!
                                                        • Rats in Doom VR
                                                        • Remote Control Cockroach
                                                        • Ingenious new search and rescue drone finds people by listening for screams
                                                        • I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing
                                                          • Jean Shepherd
                                                          • Non-Fungible Olive Gardens
                                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                                            • Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds!
                                                            • CRIME SKELETON!
                                                            • We Give Thanks

                                                              • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                              • 28 min
                                                              • Episode 231: Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble

                                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge

                                                                • “Sent from my iPhone”: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Write Emails from Your Phone
                                                                • Air Conditioning test in Allendale
                                                                • FBI: FIN7 hackers target US companies with BadUSB devices to install ransomware
                                                                  • See also: D&G 138 (from 2017!)
                                                                  • Almost related: Remote staff are using ‘mouse movers’ to keep their computer awake and fool the boss
                                                                  • Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges
                                                                    • "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision."
                                                                    • DoNotPay: This 'Robot Lawyer' Might Save Your Banned Social Media Account
                                                                    • Akron police investigating after 58-foot bridge goes missing
                                                                      • Suspect charged after 58-foot bridge stolen in Akron
                                                                      • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                        • Blower: Blow out candles with iPhone!
                                                                          • How Does This App Blow Out Candles?
                                                                          • Henry Kissinger fulfilling his dream of being a weatherman.
                                                                          • What your favorite sad dad band says about you
                                                                          • We Give Thanks

                                                                            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                            • 26 min
                                                                            • Episode 230: Need Some Gom Jabbars
                                                                              • Dave read Dune
                                                                                • The Dune Encyclopedia
                                                                                • Luminations
                                                                                • Antiwork Receipt Printers
                                                                                • Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme
                                                                                • Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call
                                                                                  • Check the examples: GitHub - iperov/DeepFaceLive
                                                                                  • Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings
                                                                                  • Biometric auth bypassed using fingerprint photo, printer, and glue
                                                                                  • Dr. David A. Wheeler, call your office: ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
                                                                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                    • We're Not Gonna Take It - Mariah Carey Christmas Special
                                                                                    • Living, Growing Plant Wig!
                                                                                    • Long eggs
                                                                                    • The Neural Yorker
                                                                                    • How Not to Write a Caption
                                                                                      • Tumblr blog link
                                                                                      • We Give Thanks

                                                                                        • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                                        • 34 min
                                                                                        • Episode 229: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

                                                                                          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs!

                                                                                          • Dune
                                                                                          • RHEL 9 Beta
                                                                                          • Pine Gap
                                                                                          • Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
                                                                                          • Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo
                                                                                          • A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger
                                                                                          • How Twitter Applied the “Jobs to Be Done” Approach to Strategy
                                                                                            • Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure
                                                                                            • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                              • Hot dog candy canes
                                                                                              • Gilbert Gottfried reads the Bitcoin White Paper because you were too lazy to read it yourself
                                                                                              • Straight Outta Compton - Oktoberfest Edition
                                                                                              • Create Some Cool Fart Licks With This Guitar Pedal Tuned for Toots
                                                                                              • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                                                • 32 min

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