Shows
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 272: Seed Oils Made Y’all WeakThis 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...
2025-07-1535 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 267: Allow the Robot to Cook with LoveThis 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...
2024-12-2334 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 266: Filled with Dad EnergyThis 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...
2024-12-1639 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole TimeThis 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...
2024-09-0337 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at ThemThis 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...
2024-08-2633 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 258: Terminator ContortionistsThis 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...
2024-07-0143 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 253: Better Than a Stick in the EyeThis 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...
2024-01-2938 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 252: Too Hip-Hop, Not Enough $15M Nikon Lithography StepperThis 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...
2024-01-0240 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2023-07-1752 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 244: Not That Kind of EdibleThis 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...
2023-03-2828 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 243: No BamboozleThis 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...
2023-02-1238 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's CatsThis 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...
2022-12-1534 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the lawThis 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...
2022-11-1129 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 236: SodaStream Nighttime FormulaThis 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...
2022-05-3126 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 200: Ask for MoreThis 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...
2020-07-2032 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2020-07-0734 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 198: Iron Skillets and Gummy BearsThis 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...
2020-06-3024 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 197: Masks Are Like Pants for Your FaceThis 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...
2020-06-0940 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2020-05-1036 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 194: Digital MinimalismThis 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!
2020-05-0539 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 193: No Rubber Glove High Five for YouThis 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...
2020-04-2828 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 192: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be DestroyedThis 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...
2020-04-1749 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 191: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a potatoThis 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...
2020-04-0724 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2020-04-0138 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 189: Marlie MoxinspikeThis 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...
2020-02-2739 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 188: Lemonade Stand for PlaguesThis 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...
2020-02-0630 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 187: Empathy at ScaleThis 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...
2019-12-1043 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 186: The Gig Economy of Dead DropsThis 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...
2019-11-2127 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 185: In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You ScreamThis 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...
2019-11-1435 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 183: Failure Is an OptionThis 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!
2019-09-2025 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 182: Stochastic FakeryThis 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...
2019-08-1327 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 181: Freedom Is SlaveryThis 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...
2019-07-0935 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 180: Everything's Better with Googly EyesThis 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...
2019-06-1834 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 178: Culture of SincerityThis 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...
2019-06-0430 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 177: The Big ClapperThis 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...
2019-04-3032 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 176: The Argument Dilution EffectThis 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...
2019-04-1641 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 175: Happy QuitThis 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...
2019-02-2635 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 174: Success Is a Powerful ExcuseThis 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...
2019-02-1225 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 172: My Favorite Things, Part 3This 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!
2019-01-0839 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 171: My Favorite Things, Part 2This 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!
2018-12-1822 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 170: My Favorite Things, Part 1This 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!
2018-12-1123 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 169: Pushing the EnvelopeThis 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...
2018-11-1939 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 168: #TrashCasketThis 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...
2018-10-3134 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 166: Manifesto at 30,000 FeetThis 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
2018-09-2050 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 165: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage itThis 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...
2018-08-2342 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 164: The Fine Line Between Firefighters and ArsonistsThis 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.
2018-08-1448 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 163: Gaia Hypothesis, But for EmailThis 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...
2018-07-1938 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 162: Salad CreamThis 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...
2018-06-2038 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 161: Continuous ImprovementThis 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...
2018-06-0739 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 160: Our other favorite RPMThis 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...
2018-05-1941 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 157: From One to MobyThis 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...
2018-04-1930 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 156: It’s not a breach, it’s a featureThis 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...
2018-04-1245 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 155: Boris Karloff Meets GuacamoleThis 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...
2018-03-2238 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 154: Filter Out the HumansThis 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...
2018-03-0845 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 152: A Rasputin with DreadlocksThis 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...
2018-02-0831 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 151: The masses have sharp eyesThis 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...
2018-01-1845 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 150: Stubbornness and VanityThis 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...
2017-12-1940 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 149: Bully StickThis 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...
2017-12-0531 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 147: DadbagThis 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...
2017-10-3140 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 146: The Mutability of HistoryThis 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...
2017-08-3139 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 145: Mark Giveth, Mark Taketh AwayThis 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...
2017-08-2239 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 144: Mark Thacker: Product Management ZeligThis 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.
2017-08-1512 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 143: Ostensibly Helpful, But Actually DangerousThis 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...
2017-08-0140 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 142: Spring CleaningThis 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...
2017-07-2536 min
Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 138: Listen To Your FurbyThis week Dave and Gunnar talk about self destructive behavior and playing with dolls.
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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
2017-02-2819 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2016-12-2035 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 128: #128: State-Sponsored Cleaning LadyThis 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...
2016-10-2530 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 115: #115: Automate Your CurmudgeonryThis 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...
2016-06-0752 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 114: #114: Rolling a D8This 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!
2016-05-3129 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 108: #108: A Commitment to Your PrivacyThis 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
...
2016-02-2653 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 105: #105: DIY DystopiaThis 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...
2016-01-1247 min
Dave & Gunnar Show#103: Please Engage with Our BrandThis 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...
2015-11-2440 minDave & Gunnar Show#102: CIA ♥ Boris PasternakThis 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.
2015-11-1836 minDave & Gunnar Show#100: A President and CEO We LikeThis 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.
2015-10-0535 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 95: #95: Run By HorsesThis 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...
2015-09-0156 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 89: #89: Home AloneThis 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...
2015-06-2353 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2015-06-1048 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 84: #84: The Kill ChainThis 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...
2015-04-2143 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 83: #83: Like Feral HogsThis 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...
2015-04-141h 02Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 81: #81: Key Exchange with Robot VomitThis 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...
2015-03-1755 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 80: #80: Security ThunderdomeThis 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...
2015-02-2434 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 74: #74: NEST 9000This 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...
2014-12-301h 03Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 73: #73: Devil GiraffeThis 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...
2014-12-2334 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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
2014-12-0943 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 69: #69: SupercookiesThis 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...
2014-11-2657 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2014-11-1835 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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...
2014-11-1156 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 66: #66: Old SchoolThis 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...
2014-11-0422 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 65: #65: Blue Glove TreatmentThis 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...
2014-10-2156 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 64: #64: A Pig We’ll MissThis 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...
2014-10-071h 03Dave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 63: #63: Presidential StyleThis 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...
2014-09-2355 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 62: #62: Gone With the WindThis 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...
2014-09-1643 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 60: #60: Faraday PajamasThis 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...
2014-08-2651 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 59: #59: Alphabet SoupThis 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...
2014-08-2251 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 58: #58: You Will Know Dave’s Vacation By the Trail of DestructionThis 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...
2014-08-1238 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 57: #57: 10¢ Beer NightThis 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...
2014-07-2240 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 51: #51: A Visit with the DoctorThis 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...
2014-05-2059 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 50: #50: Trenton on NoticeThis 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...
2014-05-1342 minDave & Gunnar ShowRed Hat Summit 2014: CODEvolved with Matt MiceneDave 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!
2014-04-2411 minDave & Gunnar ShowEpisode 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.
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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...
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