Geeks in Space

Geeks in Space

By Rob "CmdrTaco" MaldaTechnology
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Geeks in Space episodes

  • Balls, Batteries & Beers GIS826
    RobChrisRob return to discuss how many AAA batteries worth of rechargable media jettisoned from the ISS re-entered earths atmosphere back when this story was new, who would win the GIS tontine, the death of DBZ & Chronotrigger artist Akira Toriyama, Reddit's AI model moderation plans, as well as their impending IPO, the glorious Star Wars Beer ads that made the rounds last week, the Yuzu Switch emulator returning with a new name like a game of nintendo whacamole, the handsy saudi AI robot, and Poor Things & Oppenheimer winning at the Oscars.
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    29 min
  • Dune, Neuromancer, Rat Genitalia, Wonka Nightmare, Poor Things GIS825
    RobChrisRob returned from various vacations and offworld missions to talk about the Fantastic 4's casting announcement, the man convicted for digging an extra channel into Sleeping Bear Dunes, the Godzilla x Kong trailer, Dune, Vought, genetically made beef & rice, The Empire, conspiracy theories regarding Taylor Swift & Lettuce (Note: these are distinct conspiracy theories with nothing to do with each other, except the people who believe them), the AI generated images of Rat Genitalia that got published, Neuromancer goes to Series at Apple TV, hiding bots on Slack after ya quit, the nightmare Wonka experience, Yuzu shut down by Nintendo, Nvidia bannding translation layers for cuda, and all sorts of movies like Poor Things, American Fiction, Dune, and Dinner in America.
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    38 min
  • Toothbrush Shenanigans, ASCII Theater, Anti Crack Bear Legislation, Driving while Augmented GIS824
    RobChrisRob regrouped after an extended hiatus to go deep into matters such as Milly Alcock being cast as Supergirl for James Gunn's superman reboot, the Fair Usefulness of the ASCII Theater (which plays ascii art movies over ssh), Tesla actually warning their drivers not to use Apple's Vision headset while driving their cars, Vision Pro users being grumpy about a lack of porn apps for their $3500 headsets, the 3 Million Toothbrush Botnet Bullshit, trailers for Seize Them! and Constellation, a worker in finance was duped by a deepfake zoom call with his CFO to lose $25M, nuclear missile parts found in some dudes garage, Anti Crack Bear legislation in (surprise!) Florida, the Pentagon tells the MAGA folks to chill with the Taylor Swift conspiracies, which sounds like exactly what you would expect them to say, Elno is funding a lawsuit by Gina Carano with Disney over her firing from Star Wars after some ill advised tweeting, and finally the 200 ft radio station tower that... disappeared. Somehow.
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    33 min
  • Fractured Veil Launch, AI Carlin, God's Cryptocurrency, D&D Turns 50 GIS823
    Rob was joined by a very exhausted ChrisRob after they at long lost released Fractured Veil to early access on Steam so if you are feeling generous and want to support 7 years of very hard work, please go buy it and write a glowing review so they don't have to get real jobs that interfere with the podcast schedule! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128500/Fractured_Veil/
    But after that little celebration we talked a little about the AI generated George Carlin special that his estate is now apparently suing over, the ugliest garden in Tasmania, Amazon's new problem with AI Generated product names, Teslas freezing at the charging station in Chicago, 2 mile thick chunk of ice found on mars, space missions lost DNA of Arthur C Clarke AND ashes of Gene Roddenberry recently, computer vision experts are trying to reconstruct cash from the souvenir bags of shredded money you find in gift shops, the pastor who told his flock that god really wanted them to buy his crypto, the Japanese moon lander that landed upside down, the odds of rehabilitating foul mouthed parrots, and the very first Dungeons & Dragons was released 50 years ago... so roll for initiative, players. And then go buy Fractured Veil!!
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    25 min
  • Moose Licks, 737 Max Ooopsies, Moai in games, Apple's Visions, Echo Echo Echo GIS822
    RobChrisRob are back in pretend low earth orbit to talk about Boeing's 737 Max and how everything is fine, the Apple Vision Pro and our general skepticism, Chris's sweet airplane tracking radios, Moai in video games, Don't let moose lick your cars, the Alex Jones game on Steam, how rules changes on Steam have caused Porn to flood lists, NASA will (SHOCK!!) delay the Artemis mission, eBay got a $3M fign for sending roaches and spiders to its critics, NASA got the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample open after it returning to earth jammed shut, and one of the Robs talked a bit about One Cut of the Dead and the new Echo TV show...
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    36 min
  • 1D Pac-Man, Mickey Shenanigans, Food Fraud, Copilot Keys, Everything is not OK GIS821
    RobChrisRob stumbled their way into playing 1D Pac-Man, talked about the pre dystopian hellscape movie theater projectors that broke on New Years Eve, some of the immediate results of Mickey Mouse & Steamboat Willie entering the public domain, Rep Mayra Flores busted for plagiarizing photos of food as her own cooking, Microsoft adding a Copilot key to keyboards to more efficiently empower our AI overlords, Pranksters wreckign the NPM archive by uploading 'Everything', the kid who beat tetris, and some movie talking including Life After Beth and the greatness of Aubrey Plaza
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    21 min
  • Linux Goes Diagonal, Suicide Pods, Spying on Beavers, Breaking Bits, Murderbot GIS820
    RobChrisRob reconvened to kickoff 2024 by talking about a Concorde engine for sale,
    the surprising risks to male genitals during the christmas holidays, Ingenuity continuing to break records for mars helicoptering, Han Solo's original blaster from ANH, petty breakup wookie revenge, Murderbot getting a TV show, AI Government, explosions in space, Voyager's Amazing Journey, Spying on Beavers with Satellites, the year of linux on the desktop at last with diagonal monitors, Switzerland approves suicide pods, the Times suing AI makers for Copyright Infringement, Pierce Brosnan busted for trespassing yellowston's thermal vents, and the Elizabeth Lines Ghosts... (but not really)
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    39 min
  • Uranus' Close-up, Status Bar Lies, Shopping Shenzhen, Orange Blob Xmas, Karateka Terrarium GIS819
    RobChrisRob unified their communication arrays and pretended once again to be in low earth orbit, but this time we talked about Fake Status Bars, James Webb's latest close-up of Uranus, Shopping in Shenzhen, Amazon's Workers are as always being treated with the respect they deserve, and the house with the terarrium inside that might have had a famous resident back in the day...
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    25 min
  • Cetacian Revolutions, Threadripper's Fuse, GM vs Carplay, Godzilla Minus One, Voyager None GIS818
    RobChrisRob pretended to orbit the earth while talking about the smart home dystopian hellscape that is 2023, AMD popping threadripper fuses to identify overclockers, GM telling us Carplay is just to damn dangerous and will use a proprietary presumably garbage system with in-dash purchases in a few model years, Dolphin's with thumbs spotted off the coast of Greece so we're all doomed, we also talked about the news that Voyager 1 has lost contact with earth, and then a bit about Godzilla Minus One.
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    27 min
  • Chopstick Brain, Feral Goldfish, GTA Florida, Fallout TV, Hubble's Gyroscopes, Rebel Lenses GIS817
    RobChrisRob returned after a hiatus to tackle matters of great importance including a man discovering that his 5 months of headaches were caused by having a pair of chopsticks stuck up there, Parrots can use Zoom to make remote parrot friends, the trailer for the Fallout TV show looks amazing, Feral Goldfish are menacing the great lakes, we tried to play a game breakout that uses another game of breakout as the paddle in the form of a popup window which didn't work at all for screenshare, talked about the Florida Men stylings of the GTA5 trailer, talked about hubbles latest failed Gyroscope, the tomato lost on the ISS, USPS releasing D&D Stamps, the Richard Pryor Star Wars special, and the special lenses Zack Snyder has hacked together for Rebel Moon...
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    26 min

About Geeks in Space

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Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda is a legend... like Big Foot. But less harry and more interested in science fiction and technology.