Dave & Gunnar Show

Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap

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

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  • 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!
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