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Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 272: Seed Oils Made Y’all Weak
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse being mean to AI Gunnar builds a Gemini-powered virtual team: It's all about perspective. Farewell Pocket, hello Wallabag or Instapaper? Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Fake Passport Generated by ChatGPT Bypasses Security An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos. The Simpsons: I know a genuine Magnetbox, Panaphonic, & Sorny when I see one. The Commodore 64’s Forgotten CD-ROM Google...
2025-07-15
35 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 267: Allow the Robot to Cook with Love
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite! Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary on Call of Duty Mobile Dave enjoyed The Penguin The '#1 restaurant in Austin' doesn't exist Do Robots Love Their Customers? Automated Restaurants Face Human Issues. Related/prophetic? Kramer’s DIY pizza business plan Acquired IKEA Episode Speaking of restaurants: Chinese Pizza Hut launches deep fried frog pizza Trying to outrun Ukrainian drones? Kurs...
2024-12-23
34 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 266: Filled with Dad Energy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies! Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields! Lauren bought a new car! Dave bought a new TV! Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile! EcoFlow Power Hat Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine See also: Slim Goodbody Make It Stick Writing advice: Keep the bear, and just the bear Cutting Room Floor A Chip Off the Old Rug: Ken Shirriff Finds a Pentium Processor Hiding in a Navajo Weaving Here’s What ChatGPT Sounds Li...
2024-12-16
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole Time
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people! Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut! An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie Ohio Renaissance Festival D&G This Week in Skeuomorphism: Here’s what the electric Dodge Charger’s “Fratzonic exhaust” sounds like See also: Motorcycle exhaust mod? People game AIs via game theory Our Human Creativity Is Becoming More Uniform Due To ChatGPT AI chatbots amplify creation of false me...
2024-09-03
37 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at Them
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666! Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist and Seek Black-bellied whistling duck Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So Foo Fighters Steve Miller Band (80!) Journey Def Leppard (64!) Loverboy Sammy Hagar (76!) Yuengling brewery tour Qudi Mask 2 Watch this Steven Pousty, call your office: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs British Standards by...
2024-08-26
33 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s! Spam musubi! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys! Nara Park deer! Google Translate! The creepy sound of online trackers Check the videos here! A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware Texas Facilities Commission State Surplus Property Store Cutting Room Floor Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good? 60-minute loop I Ho...
2024-07-01
43 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 253: Better Than a Stick in the Eye
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful Dave achieves Platinum Pro? Dave becomes an author using AI? Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While Being a Functional USB Drive Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search Related: Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers Related: Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data Polish...
2024-01-29
38 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 252: Too Hip-Hop, Not Enough $15M Nikon Lithography Stepper
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans! Gunnar endorses: DND Beyond Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen Dave endorses: Kindle Scribe Julia H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war 211. Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk Hardfork interview w/Sam Altman D&G This Week in There, I Fixed It: Microsoft now lets you play a game during Windows 11 installs Ex-NASA surveillance van with retractable roof cameras goes on sale A federal agency...
2024-01-02
40 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder
Grammarly includes AI assistant! Warp terminal? Ansible Lightspeed Google will add End-to-End encryption to Google Authenticator DebateDevil chirper.ai: Social Network for AI. No humans allowed. First, they came for the fortune cookie writers AI Is Coming for Your Fortune Cookies Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host Sources: All AAA parks to use electronic strike zone in '23 Your favorite new chatbot jailbreak is the ‘grandma exploit.’ Jailbreak Chat Cutting Room Floor Mr. Hellekson, call your office Dune in the Style of H.R. Giger Star Wars by Wes Anderson Trailer | The Galactic Mena...
2023-07-17
52 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks Gunnar endorsed: time blocking @dgshowDotOrg@mas.to! Perplexity AI: generative AI with citations! Edible NDAs: The need for a Non-Disclosure Agreement used to be a hard pill to swallow. Not anymore. Drinkers needed to help deputies with field sobriety training U.S. Marines Outsmart AI Security Cameras by Hiding in a Cardboard Box Fake Name Generator — check the email address link too! Cutting Room Floor Ice Ice MATRIX featuring the cast of the Matrix an...
2023-03-28
28 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 243: No Bamboozle
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)! Gunnar’s Todoist breakthrough Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) ChatGPT Mastodon RSS ActivityPub PeerTube Pixelfed Friendica mastodon.social invite from Dave This is why we can’t have nice things Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon Moa Party: No bamboozle Spotify podcasters are making $18,000 a month with nothing but white noise The Rise of the 15-Minute Meeting Cutting Room Floor Doctor Gustaf Zander’s Steam-Powered Exercise Machines Hipster Ipsum DeLorean Ipsum Text Generator We Give Thanks Th...
2023-02-12
38 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216! Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders! Dave endorsed: OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (see YouTube video) Rectangle (see YouTube video) Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac John le Carré NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes ICE set up a fake college to catch fraudsters. Students say they were duped. Check out unnj.edu on the Wayback machine, the Wikipedia article, and 80+ UNNJ graduates on LinkedIn D&G This Week in Things Fitting Perfectly I...
2022-12-15
34 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the law
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs! GovCon Expert David Egts Joins MuleSoft as Public Sector Field CTO Pocket Drafts The Pentagon may require vendors certify their software is free of known flaws. Experts are split. Related: Brondell S1000-E Swash 1000 Elongated Bidet Toilet Seat With Remote Control Meet the Polish LARPers Who Pretend to Be American Cleveland Dyngus Day An Excursion Through This Polish Village Will Make You Feel Thousands Of Miles Away From Cleveland Cutting Room Floor This Pipe Does Not Exist This Image Does Not Exist AI generated-brands Gh...
2022-11-11
29 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
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 h...
2022-05-31
26 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 200: Ask for More
This week Dave and Gunnar Ask for More to improve their negotiation skills. D&G Viewer Mail: Johannes Swanepoel writes… I have [my kids] indoctrinated with a love of Linux already - Emily has her school Chromebook full of Red Hat stickers and Noah (from 7 years old he is 8 now) tries to write Python on his Fedora Laptop. He used to send me photos of the screen at work asking, "Dad why does this program not work?" And I’m debugging via text messages. I also tell them not to touch Windows laptops in the stor...
2020-07-20
32 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 199: One Episode Is a Tragedy. 200 Episodes Is a Statistic.
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about communicating through masks, communicating through lightbulbs, communicating through tiny capacitive membranes connected to small quarter-wavelength antennae, and communicating through nuclear semiotics. New Model Y: Checklist D&G Viewer Mail: Jason Barton writes... I was laughing inside about how your one team in just yourselves influences me and spends time with me and how so many people are now the radio shows and tv shows of the past and “coming into my home”. Except now your presence is letting me live a more well balanced and richer life. I don’t listen...
2020-07-07
34 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 198: Iron Skillets and Gummy Bears
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about face shields thanks to your garbage, cryptocurrency mining thanks to your brain waves, and internet insecurity thanks to your ISP High-intensity interval training (HIIT) Smithey Ironware cast iron skillet the 'ANYTHING' face shield can be made using whatever's around you, even a haribo packet DEVO Is Now Selling COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Energy Dome Face Shields Wake up, Neo: Microsoft mulls using your brain waves or body heat to mine crypto-currency while viewing ads You Can Now Check If Your ISP Uses Basic Security Measures Cutting Room Floor Safe...
2020-06-30
24 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 197: Masks Are Like Pants for Your Face
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about masks with mouths, parks with robots, Zoom with security sold separately, and hotels with larcenists Sole F80 Treadmill Couch to 5k The Great Influenza Covering Covid: Backlash (not a 99% Invisible episode as Gunnar claimed, but Masking for a Friend is a 99% Invisible episode, and a great second choice on the topic of masks) IRK-2 Infrared Thermometer (ships with a free packet of Jelly Bellies!) Israeli Inventors Have Developed A Coronavirus Mask With A Remote Control Mouth That Lets Diners Eat Food Without Taking It Off Señor Wences Brooks Brothers masks H...
2020-06-09
40 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 195: Space Marine or Flying Liquor Store?
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world. Moomin Jukebox: a neural net that generates music Man Says He's Fallen in Love With an AI Chatbot ELIZA This is what air travel could look like in a post-coronavirus world Uber is testing rooftop ads on its ridesharing fleet 11 New Words and Phrases Inspired by the Coronavirus Cutting Room Floor Mosh Pit Simulator AI-generated anime: Selfie 2 Waifu AI-generated memes: This Meme Does Not Exist We Give Thanks The D...
2020-05-10
36 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 194: Digital Minimalism
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Digital Minimalism. That’s it. Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Walden by Henry David Thoreau See also: Pure on Hulu Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude by Raymond M. Kethledge and Michael S. Erwin Cutting Room Floor Blinking eye die We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
2020-05-05
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 193: No Rubber Glove High Five for You
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about colorful masks, colorful videoconferencing, colorful hype curves, and colorful colors Train to Busan Parasite Kingdom: Walking Dead meets Game of Thrones, with bonus class war Gunnar on masks Masks as a medical tool For others, not for you Blue shop towels, layers of tissue Masks as a social tool Signaling value Taking care of each other The psychology of masks The other Race Feeling of safety Shopping Etsy Origami masks Cthulhu leather face mask Colornames.org Vote here: https://colornames.org/fresh/ This Open-Source Program Deepfakes You During Zoom Meetings, in...
2020-04-28
28 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 192: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the pros and cons of virus tracking, health data tracking, robot cooks, and word choice Rehanging a door == If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Instacart Sam’s Club Radiolab Dispatch Viewer mail: Adam Fuhrer says… Hey David, just wanted to say thanks for mentioning colors.lol on your podcast. Love the show! Hope you're doing well. Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale Singapore introduces contact tracing app to slow coronavirus spread GoodRx Shares My Prescriptions With Third Parties—and It's Perfectly Legal Making French...
2020-04-17
49 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 191: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a potato
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robot prayers, robot law, robot pain, and people pain Snap Camera This Terrifying Robotic Mouth Chants AI-Generated Prayers For $3, a ‘robot lawyer’ will sue data brokers that don’t delete your personal and location info DoNotPay now lets you share online subscriptions without divulging your password Japanese scientists develop 'blade runner' robot that can feel pain Slanted Toilets Are the Logical Extreme of Hyperproductivity Cutting Room Floor Overly descriptive color palettes McDonald's Offers Scented Candles Financial Times’ 404 page We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhous...
2020-04-07
24 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 190: Calendar bankruptcy, or when was the last time you got good news in a telegram?
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: location identification, dance identification, and blood pressure identification Removing a GPS tracking device from your car isn’t theft, court rules People can be identified by the way they dance Preventative health at your fingertips: U of T researchers accurately measure blood pressure using phone camera Job screening Voight-Kampff test How to Reach Out to Someone Whose Career You Admire Only Check Email When You Have Time to Respond Related shameless plug: Remote working: 14 tips to improve emails at a critical time Corona Calendar Tips! Cutting Room Floor Reusable st...
2020-04-01
38 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 189: Marlie Moxinspike
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about doomsday bunker timeshares, cops, robbers, and moldy bread Walkie talkies: Qniglo Professional Wireless Communication Solution -- We create, you want Sodastream Fizzi Signal D&G Viewer Mail: Lydia Yates writes... I thought you’d want to know about a broken link I found on this page. The EFF’s secure messaging scorecard by its own admission is out of date and the page seems to have been removed. With this in mind, my colleague Josh conducted an evaluation of encrypted messaging apps to help people make the...
2020-02-27
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 188: Lemonade Stand for Plagues
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally. 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls Coronavirus Is Not The ‘Corona Beer Virus,’ What People Are Googling See also: Plague Inc. maker: Don’t use our game for coronavirus modeling Lemonade Stand PharmaSim To-Read: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant Cry for help? Dave read 9M words in Pocket, equivalent to 122 books. He’s a one-percenter. Kid’s Bulletproof Hoodie (Unisex) Turn Your Cat's Face Into A Wearable M...
2020-02-06
30 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 187: Empathy at Scale
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Facebook content moderator jobs, scooter repo man jobs, AI job interviews, and a pogo stick franchise opportunity? Helmet Meantime The Spy Fantastic Mr. Fox The Western Literary Canon in Context The Trauma Floor Bodies in Seats A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job They said you could leave electric scooters anywhere — then the repo men struck back Nice Bones You Got There, Shame If a Startup Was to Start Renting Out Pogo Sticks Cutting Room Floor It’s possible to build a Turing machine within Magic: The...
2019-12-10
43 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 186: The Gig Economy of Dead Drops
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reinventing the human-computer interface, reinventing self-storage, reinventing wardriving, and reinventing the middle seat. RHEL 8.1 is out! Gunnar says sketching is great. Folding laundry like a boss and with tools Your next phone case could have the feel of human skin Partner with Dadbag? (See D&G 147) The Gig Economy’s Storage Hustle East Cleveland, OH New ‘warshipping’ technique gives hackers access to enterprise offices Who Gets the Armrests When You Fly Economy? Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat Cutting Room Floor 10 Facts About the Beastie Boys's 'Sabotage' Video (53) Incred...
2019-11-21
27 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 185: In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reviving pig brains from the dead, making human-monkey chimeras, and whether we should be doing either Dave wears makeup See Dave w/makeup on the IBM Government Cloud Virtual Summit Agenda - Special Hybrid Cloud Edition Concepts This War of Mine The Great Courses at Gunnar's library! Viewer mail: John Scott writes on LinkedIn “The Chinese tried to do the same thing via Red Flag Linux (https://lnkd.in/ev_aKQd) - it didn't work. I would bet this won't either, just way too much embedded IP in Android. + the Chinese wa...
2019-11-14
35 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 183: Failure Is an Option
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about failing with public relations, failing with smart TVs, failing with zip files, and failing with collaboration tools Emma Long Metropolitan Park How Amazon and the Cops Set Up an Elaborate Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing Samsung asks users to please virus-scan their TVs A better zip bomb Microsoft says Teams now has 13M daily active users The Slackification of the American Home Cutting Room Floor Mining Bitcoin on the Apollo Guidance Computer CPAP Facehugger We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
2019-09-20
25 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 182: Stochastic Fakery
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about faking faces, faking friends, faking holes, faking dominance, and faking work Stochastic terrorism: Deplatforming 8chan, the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, and accountability Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces Which Face Is Real? GROVER — A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake News Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to detect automatically generated text Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets NVIDIA's AI fixes photos by recognizing what's missing Censorship of images in the Soviet Union Development of "whole body model automatic generation AI" which generates whole body im...
2019-08-13
27 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 181: Freedom Is Slavery
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Dark Camping towels Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy? Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses Uber’s premium customers can now push a button to tell their drivers to be quiet Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top huma...
2019-07-09
35 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 180: Everything's Better with Googly Eyes
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about blood, sweat, tears, DNA, and googly eyes Barton Springs Pool Teschner’s Rude Boy Cops Draw Blood to Catch Impaired Drivers Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’ NY Time’s The Daily: A New Way to Solve a Murder Scammers May Be Using DNA Testing to Defraud Medicare and Steal Identities Scientists Add Googly Eyes to Donation Buckets, See a 48% Increase in Donations Cutting Room Floor 'Clean Home' With 'Private Bathroom' on Airbnb Just a Roadside Shipping Container, Guest Says H.P. Loveshack Grilled...
2019-06-18
34 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 178: Culture of Sincerity
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fear of deadbeats, fear of karaoke, fear of secret crushes, and fear of doorbells Deadwood: The Movie Chernobyl Chernobyl’s Cars Paint a Fascinating and Grim Picture Of Soviet Life China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare Mixing Chatroulette with Tinder Is the Horrifying Future of Online Dating Facebook wants to help make your secret crushes come true The Doorbell Company That’s Selling Fear Neighbors What a “Minimal Turing Test” Says About Humans Cutting Room Floor D&D stats for Bugs Bunny (15th level illusionist), Donald Duck (1...
2019-06-04
30 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 177: The Big Clapper
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about robots that want to clap, robots that want to live, and robots that want to deliver coffee GoT After Action Report The Guts Game BigClapper does away with tedious clapping, happiness New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people "Would You Rather Be a Dog or a Ghost?" Is the Perfect Party Question Cutting Room Floor Across the US, Popular Video Doorbells Are Recording their Own Thefts Windows 95 Phon...
2019-04-30
32 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 176: The Argument Dilution Effect
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the risks of improperly testing malware, the risks of reading the wrong things, the risks of using Google services that haven’t been killed yet, and the risks of downplaying risk Dave tries Jabbrrbox Gunnar organizes Todoist by Meeting D&G This Week in Irony: Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn't him Google Play malware used phones’ motion sensors to conceal itself D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand The Argument Dilution Effect...
2019-04-16
41 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 175: Happy Quit
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about old school propaganda optimization, new school propaganda optimization, new school ad experience optimization, and new school, new school email optimization The Umbrella Academy: X-Men meets Hitchhiker's Guide, directed by Wes Anderson Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh Introducing 'Happy Quit', where Chinese smokers are text-spammed into nicotine abstinence New village loudspeaker campaign aims to spread ideological message A government propaganda app is going viral in China Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It's Building a Big Ad Business From It. Inbox Zero or Inbox Infinity? Don't Reply to Your Emails How to Spend Way...
2019-02-26
35 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 174: Success Is a Powerful Excuse
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Walmart, Amazon, Spanish phrases we should be using, and AI-generated phrases we should be using? Cleveland Somehow Named Fifth Best American City for Nightlife in New Report Pufferfish and Empathy and Curiosity Walmart Patented a Cart That Reads Your Pulse and Temperature Amazon: What If You Thought of Doing Manual Labor for Us as More of a Workout Lyft Thinks It's 'Exciting' That a Driver Was Working While Giving Birth Prime and Punishment: Dirty Dealing in the $175B Amazon Marketplace Monopsony 20 Spanish Phrases You Should Be Using These AI-generated fortunes are...
2019-02-12
25 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 172: My Favorite Things, Part 3
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 3) HP Chromebook x2 uBlock Origin Firefox for Android Runtastic v Runkeeper Xiaomi Mi Band 3 Google Fit Dark Sky Google Voice LastPass 1Password Duolingo Video Speed Controller for Firefox and Chrome Just Press Record Sleep Cycle We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
2019-01-08
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 171: My Favorite Things, Part 2
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 2) Google Calendar and Goals Todoist Headspace The Eisenhower Decision Matrix Gmail Priority Inbox Google Inbox Boomerang for Gmail Grammarly We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
2018-12-18
22 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 170: My Favorite Things, Part 1
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1) Todoist Remember the Milk Day One IFTTT Google Home KornShell Nest Doorbell Feedly OverDrive The Economist Blogtrottr Libby PocketCasts BeyondPod We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
2018-12-11
23 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 169: Pushing the Envelope
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Chinese industry helping the Chinese government, the Chinese helping US state governments, some dude helping himself to UPS’s mail, and some other dude being no help to American Airlines Powering IT’s future while preserving the present: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta Red Hat Continues Drive for More Secure Enterprise IT, Re-Certifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux for FIPS 140-2 At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges The Lawfare Podcast State Govts. Warned of Malware-Laden CD Sent Via Snail Mail from China Change-of-address scam moved UPS corpor...
2018-11-19
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 168: #TrashCasket
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon RHEL 7.6 is out! #TrashCasket: Someone actually threw out a casket with the garbage in Akron and we know the story behind who picked it up Browns fans finally open those Bud Light fridges to celebrate a win D&G Mailbag: D&G Superfan Andrew Sanders says "I do not recall laughing harder or being any more horrified than when listening to episode #165." He also asks “in D&G 165 did Gunnar intentionally made a biblical reference to 3:16 when he jo...
2018-10-31
34 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 166: Manifesto at 30,000 Feet
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about what works and doesn’t work when trying to do Deep Work Tesla Adds New "PIN To Drive" Security Feature D&G Book Club: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport I Can’t Stop Dreaming of Eudaimonia Meanwhile: Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70% How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett The Shape of Automation by Herbert A. Simon
2018-09-20
50 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 165: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about China. That’s all. Just China. iOS 12 Preview tracking of activity: good! Google My Activity China will start using car surveillance system in July, says WSJ Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages The panopticon meets the Broken Windows Theory? Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class See tweet with images here See also: FacePause Chrome Extension Pa...
2018-08-23
42 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 164: The Fine Line Between Firefighters and Arsonists
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Bob St. Clair about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time Day One Todoist Remember the Milk Google Home recipes HBR: Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions We Give Thanks Bob St. Clair for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Bob St. Clair.
2018-08-14
48 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 163: Gaia Hypothesis, But for Email
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol. Lesson learned: do the Safari Lesson learned: 4 years old don’t care about American History Lesson learned: Tracksmith running shorts + swim trunks Props to Debbie, Stow’s Public Service Supervisor, and the Stow Street Department Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay with Alexa for Hospitality These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You Your Phon...
2018-07-19
38 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 162: Salad Cream
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about making things worse with technology: Metallica, AI, locks, and Salad Cream. Dave can’t stop eating Golden Gate Taproom Cali Warrior Burgers Thunder in the Valley Home delivery: revelling in it! Red Hat reaches the Summit – a new top scientific supercomputer First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s comma.ai semi-autonomous driving tech Facebook AI translates Metallica to Beethoven-style piano See also: The Klezmonauts and Hayseed Dixie Bad things happen when you train AI using ‘the darkest corners of Reddit’ Check out ink blots on http://norman-ai.mit.edu/ Actua...
2018-06-20
38 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 161: Continuous Improvement
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about improving AI with improv, improving the internet with the air travel experience, improving fraud with spacesuits, and improving online dating with the gig economy Foam Pits NeverSSL Kent State Tuscarawas wrestler born without legs teaches students it’s OK to be different Google used improv rules to deal with a farting Assistant D&G Gunnarbait of the Week: ISPs should charge for fast lanes—just like TSA Precheck, GOP lawmaker says Intelligence2 Debate Indian pair arrested after using 'space suits' to con investor out of $200,000 Google Duplex calls hairdresser, terrifies everyone else...
2018-06-07
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 160: Our other favorite RPM
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Rachel Meyers about navigating the wild and wooly world of diversity and inclusion Dave and Gunnar talked in D&G 155 about how inadequate we felt considering D&I issues Chris Grygo at the Ford Foundation suggested distinguishing between Tradition Preference Requirement Rachel recommends Relevant Articles Delivering Growth through Diversity (McKinsey) What Corporations Can Learn about Diversity from the Rooney Rule Related: If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired How to Keep Bias Out of the Hiring Process The Only People...
2018-05-19
41 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 157: From One to Moby
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about earthworm jerky and ketchup slice sandwiches, hacking tamper-proof cryptocurrency wallets, and D&G’s recommended hats for fooling face recognition systems into thinking that you’re Moby Severe storm damages businesses, cars on Manchester Road Journaling with Day One The Earthworm Jerky I Bought on Walmart.com Tasted Like Sh*t Ketchup singles D&G Local Crime Report of the Week: Cell phone helps police track down Akron store robbers Google Maps temporary location sharing Dr. David A. Wheeler, call your office: A "tamper-proof" currency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-yea...
2018-04-19
30 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 156: It’s not a breach, it’s a feature
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the definition of "breach," the definition of "permission," and the definition of "rat-catching team" AT&T Rocket Man commercial D&G Anti-Sponsors of the Week: Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Facebook’s Surveillance Machine Remember, Facebook may be tracking you even if you don’t use Facebook: What’s a Facebook shadow profile, and should you be worried about it? Invisibilia podcast Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission Mark Zuckerberg Floated a "Supreme Court" for Facebook. What Does That Mean? 'They'll squash you like a bug': how Si...
2018-04-12
45 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 155: Boris Karloff Meets Guacamole
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about jellyfish without jelly, voices without humans, source code without support, and diversity without discrimination Google Home, week 3 Jellyfish Chips Might Be Your Next Snack Obsession Eating a QR Code May Save Your Life Someday ‘Deep Voice’ Software Can Clone Anyone's Voice With Just 3.7 Seconds of Audio France Proposes Software Security Liability For Manufacturers, Open Source As Support Ends New Lawsuit Exposes Google's Desperation to Improve Diversity $270,000 to close the gender and race pay gap among 89% of Google’s workers for 2017: The cost to close Google’s pay gap was surprisingly cheap. The ques...
2018-03-22
38 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 154: Filter Out the Humans
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake followers faking people, real people trying to be fake bots to be successful fake people, and applying the Allen Curve to avoid turning into your enemies Google Home The Follower Factory 'Humans Not Invited' Is a CAPTCHA Test That Welcomes Bots, Filters Out Humans The car of the future is taking shape—and it will know how we feel about it Camille Tuutti talks about GovernmentCIO Media's focus — and about her life as a cyborg D&G Term of the Week: Allen Curve Study: Being near colleagues helps cross-disciplinary research on p...
2018-03-08
45 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 152: A Rasputin with Dreadlocks
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: from Tinder with love, from China with hair bands, and from law enforcement with malware Fail-Safe Got six The CoreOS bet D&G Joke Kit of the Week: Police Hand out Malware-Infected USBs as Prize in Cyber-Security Quiz You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it Ripple, a Tinder spin-off backed by Match, launches app for professional networking See also: I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets D&G Term of the Week: Brushing Americans Are Receiving Un...
2018-02-08
31 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 151: The masses have sharp eyes
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: security awareness meets art, the Supreme Court meets fantasy sports, your Party loyalty meets your credit score, and some Russians meet in San Francisco LEDE is the new OpenWRT Both the OpenWrt and LEDE projects are happy to announce their unification under the OpenWrt name Kernel Side-Channel Attacks - CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5715 Can You Mine Cryptocurrency With a Tesla? A Feasibility Study The Windup Girl The Secret History of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco Security awareness as an art exhibit: Art Eavesdrops on Life and Pagers FantasySCOTUS...
2018-01-18
45 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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 ther...
2017-12-19
40 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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 ro...
2017-12-05
31 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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 appl...
2017-10-31
40 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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...
2017-08-31
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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 Po...
2017-08-22
39 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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.
2017-08-15
12 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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 Ad...
2017-08-01
40 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 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 Vend...
2017-07-25
36 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 138: Listen To Your Furby
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about self destructive behavior and playing with dolls. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. MalDuino: Crowdfunded BadUSB USB Killer now lets you fry most Lightning and USB-C devices for $55 Related: USB killer compilation Related: How it Works Mission possible: Self-destructing phones are now a reality Hack a Furby to Rickroll Your Friends Through Its Creepy Eyeball Menu German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears Lauren in MagPi: NASA Boot Cuff Surface Imager Cutting Room Floor
2017-02-28
19 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 131: #131: Send In the Clowns
You Can Now Use LastPass On Multiple Devices for Free D&G Joke Kit of the Week: Introducing Cold Medicine That Comes in K-Cup Form Freaky Expanding Pill Stays in Your Gut for Days to Deliver Drugs Motorola gets more Lenovo-y: Microsoft apps will be pre-loaded on Lenovo and Motorola Android devices Chinese IoT Firm Siphoned Text Messages, Call Records New Chrome extension automatically negotiates with Comcast for rate discounts Unrelated: Hellekson Law(!) How I got tech support scammers infected with Locky San Francisco Rail System Hacker Hacked Wickedly Clever USB Stick Installs a...
2016-12-20
35 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 128: #128: State-Sponsored Cleaning Lady
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: DDoS attack on DynDNS, DDoS Coin, and a USB killstick. Gunnar recommends following @MachinePix and @TheJoinery_jp on Twitter Your Nexus phone will soon automatically connect to open Wi-Fi networks Stealing login credentials from a locked PC or Mac just got easier USBee stings air-gapped PCs: Wirelessly leak secrets with a file write Now you can buy a USB stick that destroys anything in its path Someone Is Putting Malicious USB Sticks in Australian Mailboxes Gunnar recommends the latest Mom and Dad are Fighting D&G Ad...
2016-10-25
30 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 115: #115: Automate Your Curmudgeonry
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about kill switches, killer robots, killer apps, and killing products. David Grohl Alley: Mission Accomplished! Bruce Willis is not moving to Dave’s neighborhood Pycon 2018-2019 in Cleveland? SleepBot Sign up for Gunnar’s Newsletter Remember our discussion about data tampering? Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pennsylvania drivers Meanwhile: Build your own speed trap camera system with a Raspberry Pi and OpenCV MIT Develops Accurate System for Tracking People, Objects via WiFi Enjoy Architecture of Radio SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear...
2016-06-07
52 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 114: #114: Rolling a D8
This week, Gunnar talks with Adam Weingarten of Acquia and Nneka Hector of DSFederal about working with Drupal in government and the upcoming DrupalGovCon. whitehouse.gov: the OG. Drupal 8 is now object-oriented and opinionated. Dries Buytaert is the godfather of Drupal. Nneka enjoys Puppet and Behat. Drupal takes security seriously. Want to hang out with other Drupal folks in DC? Hit the Meetups. Nneka uses Drupal on OpenShift, and Gunnar owes Nneka $20. Want to start with Drupal? Start with the documentation!
2016-05-31
29 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 108: #108: A Commitment to Your Privacy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: iPhones, politics, politics with iPhones; glibc, containers, containers with glibc; Azure, Red Hat, Azure with Red Hat. Freeblade rules everything around Gunnar The new Remember The Milk is here! Speaking of bad product management, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline an object lesson in the relationship between marketing and product management Instructable: Control a Cockroach with Arduino for under $30 Raspberry Pi repurposed into automated complaining machine FCC speed test app Local police wrestle with success of license plate camera system D&G This Week in Security Through Obscurity ...
2016-02-26
53 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 105: #105: DIY Dystopia
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: DIY LPRs, Crowdsourced Panopticon, and Universal Key Escrow is a thing we’re talking about now. Proud Daddy: Lauren declared runner up in the National Center for Women in Technology 2016 National Award Competition It begins: FRC 2016 kickoff on January 9! Gunnar can strongly endorse helicopter rides for toddlers Endorsement: the Ring Doorbell DEADWOOD MOVIE Google Begins Testing Password-Free Logins Sad to lose Ian Murdoch (h/t uzoma) Review of N Korea’s operating system, Red Star (h/t emorisse) D&G Joke Kit of the Week: United Airlines Bringing 200 Comfort Dogs...
2016-01-12
47 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
#103: Please Engage with Our Brand
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about partnerships: D&G + Nextgov, Red Hat + Microsoft, Marriott + Starwood, New Haven police + your stuff. Lauren strikes again: Young computer scientist shares her open source story Todoist now has the “repeat after completed” feature Gunnar Gets Keybase.io Invites, now what BadBIOS meets ad experience optimization: Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC Nextgov’s article about our podcast episode about their article The cat sharing economy is for real: Clear Your Calendars—#UberKITTENS Are Back As heard in D&G 28: Old Chippewa...
2015-11-24
40 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
#102: CIA ♥ Boris Pasternak
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mohana Ravindranath about CIA, 18F, and other TLAs. Welcome Mohana Ravindranath! CIA Social Media Team: We Use Twitter to ‘Explain Our Mission’ The Informers 18F Takes on ‘Micropurchasing’ Experiment Dave and Gunnar encourage everyone to check out Nextgov! We Give Thanks Mohana Ravindranath for being our special guest star! Camille Tuutti for introducing us to Mohana! Special Guest: Mohana Ravindranath.
2015-11-18
36 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
#100: A President and CEO We Like
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst about his new book The Open Organization! This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst about his new book The Open Organization! The Open Organization Square CEO Jack Dorsey Says If You’re Making Decisions, You’re Not Leading We Give Thanks Jim Whitehurst for being our special guest star! Brian Mikkelsen for giving us the idea and encouragement to interview Jim! Special Guest: Jim Whitehurst.
2015-10-05
35 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 95: #95: Run By Horses
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: San Jose’s license-plate opportunity, AT&T’s wifi opportunity, UK government’s Oracle opportunity, and DISA’s email opportunity. 512 Megabytes? Gunnar’s font and dotfile guidance License plate reader led police to man who killed reporter, cameraman Forget license plate readers on police cars, how about on garbage trucks? D&G Security Doghouse: Adobe and AT&T Adobe Digital Editions 4 lets you install Norton Security Scan by default Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Vulnerability In Yahoo Ads Swift on Security has an eloquent piece on the nightmare of general purpose computing. AT&T Hotsp...
2015-09-01
56 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 89: #89: Home Alone
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: OMB, Uber, Slack, GitHub, OpenStack, Docker, the slow-motion password Armageddon, and our favorite OpenShift customers. D&G This Week in Meeting Hygiene: Steve Jobs vs. Lucasfilm CFO Bonus link: Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here’s How He Did it Uber is a garbage company, chapter 283 Optimizing Dave’s ad experience: Amazon Now Selling Ad Space On Shipping Boxes Two High School Interns Return to the GVIS for the Summer Slack loves the Fighting Unicorns Slack for Linux Red Hat So...
2015-06-23
53 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 88: #88: The Usual.
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Robots, security, hating on Uber. The usual. Gunnar is all excited about Mad Max: Fury Road Robotic Cockroaches Are Perfect Tiny Aircraft Carriers for Robotic Birds Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves Into Nothing Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain High Priority Security Vulnerabilities Meanwhile, Šimon Lukašík never sleeps: docker-oscap Google’s new Saved Passwords site and Smart Lock for Passwords are now available Report: During Canada tax raid, Uber “remotely encrypted corporate data” Facebook adding PGP support to messages an...
2015-06-10
48 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 84: #84: The Kill Chain
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: automated swarms, automated chefs, and automated kill chains. Gunnar declares Clash of Clans and DomiNations horrible disappointments You’d think they’d be air gapped: Hackers Could Commandeer New Planes Through Passenger Wi-Fi Star Trek update It is indeed the Klingon High Council Klingon coming soon to Duolingo! “BioBot” Roaches Could Save Lives With Tiny Backpacks Just a regular day at the office: Intel CEO controls a swarm of robot spiders with gestures Runaway movie D&G Joke Kit of the Week: Soylent Blu...
2015-04-21
43 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 83: #83: Like Feral Hogs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: airgaps, airline smell-o-vision, reproducible builds, and meeting tips revisited. https://dgshow.org/files/2015/04/CAF5ordXEAE0oZ0.mp4 Lauren and the Fighting Unicorns on WKYC News! Robo Loco BOLO! How Duolingo makes money teaching Gunnar Swedish D&G Mailbag: @UNIXSA finds our easter egg The long national nightmare is over, Hilton moves to passwords instead of PINs Meanwhile IHG password = your favorite number from 0000 to 9999. Virginia passes shortest-ever limit on retention of LPR data: 7 days, as long as there’s not an active criminal investigation Can you FOIA LPR da...
2015-04-14
1h 02
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 81: #81: Key Exchange with Robot Vomit
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about First round of Thunderdome, product design success and failure, RHEL 7.1, urban dashboards, and the Cumulative Threat. Gunnar is horrified by Google’s audio history on him. Are you? Dave sticks his keyboard in dishwasher Fighting Unicorns are going to the FRC World Championship! Security Thunderdome results! Vote for round two now! Raspberry Pi 2 is out and it will run Windows 10? Susceptible to intense flashes of light Almost related: Dave files a Raspbian bug Jet Blue and Virgin America are Offering In-Flight College Classes HotelsByDay Lets Tra...
2015-03-17
55 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 80: #80: Security Thunderdome
This week, Dave and Gunnar open the Security Thunderdome, and talk about red-teaming large bureaucracies. Gunnar is planning a visit to Akron While in Akron, stop by Cleveland’s Randall Park Mall D&G Security Doghouse Fantasy League ← VOTE HERE Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’ (Soon) AT&T gives you a discount of $30/mo for monitoring your Internet OR charges you $30 unless you comply with their surveillance regime. You pick! Lenovo preinstalls MITM-enhanced adware Superfish is sure it’s all going to be fine Facebook is now trac...
2015-02-24
34 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 74: #74: NEST 9000
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about your singular uniqueness on the web, miniaturizing almost everything, and Dell IT using OpenShift. One of these things is not like the other: Fodor’s Go List 2015 “A foreign language has been creeping into many of the presentations I hear and the memos I read. It adds nothing to a message but noise, and I want your help in stamping it out. It’s called gobbledygook. There’s no shortage of examples. Nothing seems to get finished anymore it gets “finalized.” Things don’t happen at the same time but “coinciden...
2014-12-30
1h 03
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 73: #73: Devil Giraffe
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about forks, k-cups, and a Very Special Solutions Architect. Gunnar’s favorite tips on zoning policy in SimCity HT Robin Price: Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability Future of Popular Coding Tool in Doubt After It Splits in Two Let’s build a fingerprint reader into a trackpad Identity theft man bites dog New Red Hat Reference Architecture: Deploying Oracle Database 12c on Red Enterprise Linux 7- Recommended Practices Give the gift of RTM and get bonus months Margaret Hamilton is the coolest developer you’ve never heard of, looking like a 2014...
2014-12-23
34 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 71: #71: Everyone gets a lollipop.
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Lollipop, and a little Inbox. But mostly Lollipop. Android Official Blog: A sweet Lollipop, with a kevlar wrapping: New security features in Android 5.0. Android Clipboards: it’s complicated Gunnar explains how Chromecast transforms his Tinder experience. WhatsApp now includes a TextSecure backend and is encrypted by default Metadata. It’s a thing. Wearable black box: Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom Google Inbox update: Why Did Google Decide To Split Inbox From Gmail? Gmail API
2014-12-09
43 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 69: #69: Supercookies
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about mobile phone surveillance that you pay for, peer-to-peer dropbox replacements, and the many faces of lock-in. Peaky Blinders is like a watered-down Deadwood and will suffice for now AT&T Stops Using ‘Super Cookies’ To Track Cellphone Data Word of the week: “Middlebox”. 4G carriers don’t care one bit for your SPDY-laden, encrypted traffic. Hippie. BitTorrent Sync vs Cloud: Where Can You Trust Your Personal Data? Anybody try Syncthing.net or Transporter? Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority from the EFF and friends Tyranny of the default: Fir...
2014-11-26
57 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 68: #68: Not my circus, not my monkey.
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: computers that think, computers that think they’re thinking, and people that think computers are people. Gunnar is a Trello addict The Mother of all Web Tracking Catalogs. I think we’re done now. Housewarming gift via Heat template: Germans get free heating from the cloud BrowserStack gets utterly humiliated ChatOps is just thrilling User modeling with Watson That Time 2 Bots Were Talking, and Bank of America Butted In The ultimate weapon against GamerGate time-wasters: a 1960s chat bot that wastes their time Lauren and her juggling app mentioned on G...
2014-11-18
35 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 67: #67: “Your encryption is useless, Charlie Brown”
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about encrypting everything, why encryption doesn’t matter, and why we are all Charlie Brown now. Lucy, in the role of a cloud server provider. Or telco. Or regulator. Every videogame memory from Gunnar’s childhood, implemented in JavaScript Taipan! UK spy chief, parroting his US counterparts, calls for crypto backdoors End-to-End Gmail Encryption code is up. New from the EFF: Secure Messaging Scorecard Update for 2020 (HT Lydia Yates of Comparitech!): The best encrypted messaging apps (and their limitations) in 2020 PrivacyGrade: Grading The Privacy Of Smar...
2014-11-11
56 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 66: #66: Old School
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about old-school network security, old-school email addresses, and an old-school partner with a new-school cloud broker. Gunnar is delighted by Google Inbox, Pocket Casts, and Klipsch headphones. Not so much by the Bose. https podcast broken? Blame everyone. VMware’s tool to harden virtual networks: a spreadsheet RHEL 6.6, now with the SCAP Security Guide! With Laplock, You Get A Text Message When Somebody Unplugs Your Laptop Facebook and Yahoo Find a New Way to Save the Web’s Lost Email Addresses Gunnar at the Red Hat Forum in Dallas on Wednesd...
2014-11-04
22 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 65: #65: Blue Glove Treatment
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about encrypting everything, airplane simulation, retaliation as a service, and keeping score with Red Hat’s security team. https://dgshow.org! FBI director to citizens: Let us spy on you D&G Quote of the Week: “You can’t build a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through.” For when D&G wfh: Air Food One For $300, You Can “Fly” on a Perfectly Recreated Pan Am 747 Airbus Patents a VR Helmet That’ll Make You Forget You’re on a Plane More travel tips: Think ahead when taking your Nobel Prize...
2014-10-21
56 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 64: #64: A Pig We’ll Miss
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about FBI Whining (aka “Clipper II”), Malvertising, Richard Branson’s alarming new PTO policy. Lauren: “R.I.P. to Ginners, the inspiration for this game. She had a long life and we loved her a lot, and got a lot of love in return.” Straight outta Akron: TinyCircuits’ new TinyScreen: A color display the size of your thumb! There’s lock-in, and then there’s RICO: Keurig coffee sued for $600M by Ontario-based Club Coffee Apple, Google default cell-phone encryption “concerns” FBI director “Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile,” sa...
2014-10-07
1h 03
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 63: #63: Presidential Style
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about more about civet cat scat, the TI-84 racket, my mobile backend, and Red Hat Cloud for Government. Soren would like to apologize for screaming bloody murder for the duration of this episode. Gunnar’s presentation au Quebec, mais pas en français. Dave enjoys Hard Core History on the Silver Line SELinux labeled NFS is super easy to configure on RHEL 7 HT Matt Micene: Catching up on the podcast, your missing Indonesian coffee animal is the Civet Cat. There’s a huge deal aroun...
2014-09-23
55 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 62: #62: Gone With the Wind
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about man-in-the-middle attacks, and that’s pretty much it. TORNADO! Chromebook update: OpenVPN now works out of the box on Chrome OS 37.0.2062.119 (Platform version: 5978.80.0/5978.81.0) or higher Google Hangouts gets a huge update, including Google Voice integration Meanwhile: AT&T to Launch WiFi Calling in 2015 Gunnar visits OTF Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies Totally creepy: A New Type of Phishing Attack Canvas fingerprinting is creepy, and how it’s being delivered (by AddThis) is creepier. Gunnar will be at Salon du Logiciel Libre et des technologies ouvertes du Québ...
2014-09-16
43 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 60: #60: Faraday Pajamas
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about vampire plants, spider oaks, and ultrasonic potatoes. No radiation gets in, only creepy vibes get out. Lauren’s latest project now published: Raspberry Pi powered juggling performance Gunnar loves pajamas, especially these HT Matt Micene: Ultrasonic everything Gunnar removes chips, water, and plants from the Faraday cage in his basement: Researchers reconstruct human speech by recording a potato chip bag The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations Bad Bio: Evil Talking Plants Use DNA Communication Open source mind control: A new brain-computer interface lets DIYers access their br...
2014-08-26
51 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 59: #59: Alphabet Soup
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: GSA USDS 18F OMB OSS LOL BBQ & RHEL SSG, RHEL VPAT, KVM, EAP GA, IBM+BRMS. Dave gets all Chromebooked up How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Google Cloud Print Server Gunnar gets all RØDE Podcastered up Calling Dr. Clater: Star Trek Axanar and Star Trek Phase II Correction: MSFT wasn’t subject to EU data protections, and in fact that’s what the Judge’s decision was about: whether they could comply with the warrant given the nexus of jurisdiction GSA and...
2014-08-22
51 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 58: #58: You Will Know Dave’s Vacation By the Trail of Destruction
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Barthelona, Gaudi, Toledo, Detroit, the Stasi, and why cloud providers can’t have nice things. Barcelona and Detroit trip report Barcelona Uber is there but illegal Nova Icària is the Egts family’s preferred Barcelona beach When in town, be sure to check out Montserrat, Las Ramblas, and Sagrada Família Detroit Maker Faire Dave highly recommends: The Henry, Autograph Collection The Stasi almost caught up to Dave Truck crashes into East Toledo Tony Packo’s Toledo faces water crisis after dangerous toxin found in supply Don’t Drink the...
2014-08-12
38 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 57: #57: 10¢ Beer Night
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Dave’s Russian agents, VMware’s nightmarish Docker future, everyone learns what “navigator” is in Greek. Cпасибо? Dave’s article is mentioned in Russian D&G bait: Will Docker and VMware Compete? Betteridge’s law of headlines Libswarm and Apache Mesos will help with management Red Hat and Google Collaborate on Kubernetes to Manage Docker Containers at Scale Learn more here Linux Wants Automakers to Stop Failing at Infotainment by Using Common Software Joe Brockmeier has a new podcast Silence is golden: Video Essay Beauti...
2014-07-22
40 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 51: #51: A Visit with the Doctor
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with special guest star and elder statesman of open source in security and government, Dr. David A. Wheeler about Heartbleed, security reviews, and why security vulnerabilities are like human organs. David’s How to Prevent the next Heartbleed article got picked up by Slashdot Fuzz testing All about Heartbleed How the Heardbleed bug works (in XKCD cartoon form) Heartbleed tick-tock HT Summer Maynard: What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing FIPS 140-2 The Linux Foundation starts the Core Infrastructure Initiative Open source code has fe...
2014-05-20
59 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 50: #50: Trenton on Notice
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: procurement disasters past, present, and future, cloud arbitrage, Bannana Slugs and storage, and the Large Hadron Collider, homesteading on the cloud. TRANSPORTER was the storage device we couldn’t think of in episode 47 Hackpad got bought by Dropbox Retraction: Psych! Microsoft didn’t really open-source MS-DOS (thanks David A. Wheeler!) Trigger Warning: NJ procurement Compare this with the UK red line policy VanRoekel in Congress, hat in hand. Nike stops making FuelBand — Dave and Gunnar Trigger Warning! Gunnar Fitbit Force rash status: Pending Compare and co...
2014-05-13
42 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Red Hat Summit 2014: CODEvolved with Matt Micene
Dave and Gunnar catch up with Hellekson’s Law consigliere Matt Micene of DLT. They have a project called CODEvolved, which lets you stand up your own OpenShift in Amazon EC2. Highlights They even figured out how to do a hybrid model: on-premise and on EC2. Want to run this on bare metal? They covered that, too. xPaaS is coming! .NET is coming!
2014-04-24
11 min
Dave & Gunnar Show
Episode 47: #47: Out-of-Order Execution
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about home storage, open source 5th columnists at MSFT, the Amazon unicorn factory, Gunnar’s new job, new workflow, and Georgios Papanikolaou, a monthly visitor of guinea pigs. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. Image courtesty of @feitclub Redshift in EPEL dynamically adjusts screen brightness and color based upon location and time of day like f.lux OpenSpritz and FBReader OpenSpritz Plugin for speed reading! Dave’s choice is jetzt on Firefox with a workaround Lauren, now in ebook form and as an Opensource.com 2014 People’s Choice...
2014-04-10
1h 06