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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 218: What Would Marlie Do?
    • 101st Airborne Division
    • D&G 189: Marlie Moxinspike
    • The battle inside Signal
      • See also: Can WhatsApp stop spreading misinformation without compromising encryption?
      • What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
      • The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you

        • Cutting Room Floor

        • DIY latex glove bagpipes
        • Bagpipe swing with Gunhild Carling in Central Park NY
        • Menu items renamed as expense-able office items
        • Blue Check Homes: Apply now!
        • Evidence of Life: Two Photographers Show Us Mysteries In The Mundane – 1977
        • Faraday Cages for Wi-Fi Routers Are the Latest 5G Conspiracy Grift

          • We Give Thanks

          • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
            • 41 min
          • Episode 217: Blow Up Enemies with the Power of Your Mind

            This week Dave and Gunnar talk about mind-controlled computing, computer-controlled minds, and AI-controlled doppelgangers

            • Texas Deep Freeze Apocalypse Watch
            • Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
            • Bitwarden Is Now the Best Free Alternative to LastPass
            • Dave’s to-do list to review the state of to-do lists:
              • ✅ Remember the Milk
              • Google Tasks
              • ❓Todoist
                • todoist-shortcuts is a browser extension or greasemonkey script which adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to Todoist
                • Human or GPT-2?
                • Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
                  • Bonus link: Deepfake Tom Cruise
                  • Protect your identity with generative media
                  • NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind-controlled computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech
                  • Researchers Control Monkeys' Decisions With Bursts of Ultrasonic Waves
                  • Utilizing an EEG to Track When Your Attention Drifts
                  • Vaccination vs. Immunization vs. Inoculation: What's the Difference?

                    • Cutting Room Floor

                    • There are Sinks Designed Just for Vomiting Into
                    • Wearing Mask On Bottom of Chin Illusion (Multiple Skin Tones & Features)
                    • Pink Trombone
                    • Wild-Wacky-Cool: Vintage Snapshots of Men’s Hair Through the Ages

                      • We Give Thanks

                      • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                        • 43 min
                      • Episode 216: Almost as good as paper

                        This week Dave talks with Hassan Khan and Dann Toliver about containerizing assets with containers!

                        • Quantius
                        • Bento Miso (now Gamma Space)
                        • Toronto JavaScript
                        • Haskell Toronto
                        • Clojure Toronto
                        • CS Cabal
                        • WebRTC
                        • TODA
                          • Proof of Provenance
                          • ADOT
                          • TODAQ
                            • TODA-As-A-Service
                            • Enterprise ADOT Server
                            • OpenShift

                              • We Give Thanks

                              • Hassan Khan and Dann Toliver for being our special guest stars!
                              • Shermineh Salehi Esmati for making this episode possible!

                                • Special Guests: Dann Toliver and Hassan Khan.

                                47 min
                              • Episode 215: Referendum on My Likeness

                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism

                                • Apple M1 on the way
                                • Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why
                                • Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
                                • Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask
                                • Maskalike: Your face on an N95 mask for $30
                                • Freak Masks: Scare everyone for only $19
                                • Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
                                • Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
                                  • Ourochef meal kit
                                  • paint.wtf: Convince an AI that you're the best artist
                                  • Watch Out for Fake COVID-19 Testing Sites

                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                    • Cheese-Filtered Cigarettes
                                    • Edible (chocolate) phonograph records
                                    • The Mouth-Watering World Of NIST Standard Foods

                                      • We Give Thanks

                                      • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                        • 31 min
                                      • Episode 214: The Mind of a Medieval Theologian

                                        This week Dave and Gunnar hear voices, talk to computers, count holes, and qualify sandwiches

                                        • Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why
                                        • The five taxonomies of hand foods
                                        • These Are the Creepiest Gadgets of 2020, According to Mozilla
                                          • Full list here and scroll down to increase creepiness level
                                          • New device puts music in your head — no headphones required
                                          • A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: via Veins
                                          • How many holes does a given object have?

                                            • Cutting Room Floor

                                            • Booting [DOS] from a vinyl record [at 45 RPM]
                                            • Leather facehugger mask
                                            • Machine learning walking hand
                                            • 3D-printed dinosaur arms for chickens

                                              • We Give Thanks

                                              • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                • 29 min
                                              • Episode 213: Not Going to Solve Sapir-Whorf Today

                                                This week Dave talks with Joshua Powers about using AI to make AI more ethical!

                                                • D&G 207 with John Janek!
                                                • An AI Looks At Human Writings On Ethical Artificial Intelligence
                                                • Asilomar AI Principles
                                                • The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
                                                • Joint Artificial Intelligence Center AI Ethics Principles
                                                • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI Ethics

                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                  • Joshua Powers for being our special guest star!
                                                  • John Janek for introducing us to Joshua!

                                                    • Special Guest: Joshua Powers.

                                                    22 min
                                                  • Episode 212: Security Requires Thinking (His Monkey, His Circus)

                                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dr. David A. Wheeler about what’s new at the Linux Foundation, a brand-new free course on developing secure software, some survey results, and recent news concerning SolarWinds.

                                                    • Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) of the Linux Foundation replaces the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and has several working groups
                                                      • Secure Software Development Fundamentals Courses
                                                      • The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Badge Program is now part of the OpenSSF Best Practices Working Group
                                                        • Project statistics, now >3,500 participating projects & >500 passing badges
                                                        • If you develop OSS, make sure your projects are pursuing a badge
                                                        • “Report on the 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey” - these are the RESULTS of the survey call we discussed last time - THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the contributor survey
                                                        • If you’re interested, please join!
                                                        • The Linux Foundation (other than OpenSSF)
                                                          • Linux Foundation Energy
                                                          • Linux Foundation Public Health
                                                            • The Linux Foundation Public Health Initiative Sponsored the Audit of COVID Exposure Notification Apps. Here Are The Results! (OSTIF) - “Because of these two reviews, both applications have had improvements implemented to correct potential issues. This review provides assurances that the applications are generally safe and private.”
                                                            • Reproducible Builds in December 2020
                                                            • Preventing Supply Chain Attacks like SolarWinds
                                                            • Be sure to visit David on the internet at dwheeler.com!

                                                              • We Give Thanks

                                                              • Dr. David A. Wheeler for being our special guest star!

                                                                • Special Guest: David A. Wheeler.

                                                                50 min
                                                              • Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap

                                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing

                                                                • What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3? Enhanced container tools, more system roles and new cloud admin tools just for starters
                                                                • Chromecast with Google TV: Bug, feature, or dark pattern?
                                                                  • Rotten Tomatoes scores
                                                                  • Search not as good as JustWatch
                                                                  • But it has Hoopla
                                                                    • Colossus: The Forbin Project
                                                                    • D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google Play Music
                                                                    • D&G Viewer Mail
                                                                      • Ken Guest writes, “Listening to episode 210 @davidegts, @ghelleks podcast, specifically about Google Home presence detection - have you looked at Home Assistant? It might give you better fidelity for same.”
                                                                      • Andrew Stellman writes, “Reminded of that quote from the Yellowstone Park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
                                                                        • See also: Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
                                                                        • Epiphany: Vyzer isn’t for the rich -- it’s for the hired help of the rich
                                                                        • South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet
                                                                          • Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls
                                                                          • D&G This Week Not at Ben Gurion University
                                                                            • Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks
                                                                            • This horrifying Zoom hack will deter you from ever side-chatting again
                                                                            • Mmhmm: This app makes presenting in Zoom more effective—and even entertaining
                                                                              • When COVID-19 is a joke: Stand-up comedy versus livestreaming’s limits
                                                                              • Sturgeon's law: “90% of everything is crap”

                                                                                • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                • A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961)

                                                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                                                  • Ken Guest for the Google Home tips!
                                                                                  • Andrew Stellman for the reminder about optimal garbage can design!
                                                                                  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                                    • 54 min
                                                                                  • Episode 210: The Opposite of ASMR

                                                                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3.

                                                                                    • Google Home has presence awareness…. OR DOES IT?
                                                                                    • Blix Vika+
                                                                                    • The Third Day
                                                                                    • Everything is Exhausting
                                                                                      • Related: "There are two types of hamsters in this world: Those who give 110%, & those who understand math"
                                                                                      • GPT-3
                                                                                        • How Do You Know a Human Wrote This?
                                                                                        • OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
                                                                                        • A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it.
                                                                                          • What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics
                                                                                          • GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
                                                                                          • GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati

                                                                                            • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                            • Australian Scientists Have Made a ‘Shazam’ for Snakes and Spiders
                                                                                            • COVID-ready Unnecessary Inventions
                                                                                            • Coffee table book of slides
                                                                                            • Take a ‘COVID pulse’ in your city or state with this ingeniously simple map of case trends

                                                                                              • We Give Thanks

                                                                                              • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                                                • 51 min
                                                                                              • Episode 209: 5’2” in Sneakers

                                                                                                This week Dave talks with Alexandra Carter about how to negotiate with your co-workers, your family, and yourself!

                                                                                                • Ask for More
                                                                                                • Connect with Alex on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram!

                                                                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                  • Alexandra Carter for helping us Ask for More!
                                                                                                  • Connelly Simmons and Red Hat Live for producing our event!

                                                                                                    • Special Guest: Alexandra Carter.

                                                                                                    24 min

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