Dave & Gunnar Show

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IfYouGiveaMouseaCookie) Instacart (https://instacart.com/) Sam’s Club (https://www.samsclub.com/) Radiolab Dispatch (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispatch-numbers) Viewer mail: Adam Fuhrer says… Hey David, just wanted to say thanks for mentioning colors.lol (https://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 (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/apple-and-google-detail-bold-and-ambitious-plan-to-track-covid-19-at-scale/) Singapore introduces contact tracing app to slow coronavirus spread (https://www.zdnet.com/article/singapore-introduces-contact-tracing-app-to-slow-coronaviru

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about robot prayers, robot law, robot pain, and people pain Snap Camera (https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/) This Terrifying Robotic Mouth Chants AI-Generated Prayers (https://www.hackster.io/news/this-terrifying-robotic-mouth-chants-ai-generated-prayers-9719ad6f0900) For $3, a ‘robot lawyer’ will sue data brokers that don’t delete your personal and location info (https://fortune.com/2020/03/05/delete-location-data-privacy-personal-information-donotpay/) DoNotPay now lets you share online subscriptions without divulging your password (https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/09/donotpay-now-lets-you-share-online-subscriptions-without-divulging-your-password/) Japanese scientists develop 'blade runner' robot that can feel pain (https://www.designboom.com/technology/japanese-scientists-develop-hyper-realistic-robot-that-can-feel-pain-02-24-2020/) Slanted Toilets Are the Logical Extreme of Hyperproductiv

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: location identification, dance identification, and blood pressure identification Removing a GPS tracking device from your car isn’t theft, court rules (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/removing-a-gps-tracking-device-from-your-car-isnt-theft-court-rules/) People can be identified by the way they dance (https://newatlas.com/science/dance-style-identification/) Preventative health at your fingertips: U of T researchers accurately measure blood pressure using phone camera (https://www.utoronto.ca/news/preventative-health-your-fingertips-u-t-researchers-accurately-measure-blood-pressure-using) Job screening Voight-Kampff test (https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test) How to Reach Out to Someone Whose Career You Admire (https://hbr.org/2019/07/how-to-reach-out-to-someone-whose-career-you-admire) Only Check Email When You Have Time to Respond (https://lifehacker.com/

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about doomsday bunker timeshares, cops, robbers, and moldy bread Walkie talkies (https://www.amazon.com/stores/node/16461643011): Qniglo Professional Wireless Communication Solution -- We create, you want Sodastream Fizzi (https://sodastream.com/products/one-touch-starter-kit) Signal (https://signal.org/) D&G Viewer Mail: Lydia Yates writes... I thought you’d want to know about a broken link I found on this page (https://dgshow.org/67). The EFF’s secure messaging scorecard (https://www.eff.org/pages/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 right choice. Here (https://comparite.ch/encrypted-messaging) is the link Perhaps if you are updating your page still you’d consider linking to our guide instead? I hope this helps. All

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: Wearables. Literally. 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-bypassing-paywalls-to-share-studies-about-coronaviruses) Coronavirus Is Not The ‘Corona Beer Virus,’ What People Are Googling (https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/01/30/coronavirus-is-not-the-corona-beer-virus-what-people-are-googling/) See also: Plague Inc. maker: Don’t use our game for coronavirus modeling (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/plague-inc-maker-dont-use-our-game-for-coronavirus-modeling/) Lemonade Stand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand) PharmaSim (https://www.interpretive.com/business-simulations/pharmasim/) To-Read: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103431.Ci

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about Facebook content moderator jobs, scooter repo man jobs, AI job interviews, and a pogo stick franchise opportunity? Helmet (https://www.helmetmusic.com/) Meantime (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9346rQ1d8ik) The Spy (https://www.netflix.com/Title/80178151) Fantastic Mr. Fox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Mr._Fox_%28film%29) The Western Literary Canon in Context (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/western-literary-canon-in-context.html) The Trauma Floor (https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona) Bodies in Seats (https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa) A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increa

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about reinventing the human-computer interface, reinventing self-storage, reinventing wardriving, and reinventing the middle seat. RHEL 8.1 (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/index) is out! Gunnar says sketching is great. Folding laundry like a boss (https://twitter.com/FilmCerita/status/1186663621700403206) and with tools (https://twitter.com/christianhull/status/1190757575056216064) Your next phone case could have the feel of human skin (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/10/21/phone-cases-made-faux-human-skin-next-big-thing/4051017002/) Partner with Dadbag? (See D&G 147 (https://dgshow.org/147)) The Gig Economy’s Storage Hustle (https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/07/gig-economys-storage-hustle/158192/) East Cleveland, OH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Cleveland,_Ohio) New ‘warshipping’ technique gives hack

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about reviving pig brains from the dead, making human-monkey chimeras, and whether we should be doing either Dave wears makeup (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6585135922847760384/) See Dave w/makeup on the IBM Government Cloud Virtual Summit Agenda - Special Hybrid Cloud Edition (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/government/virtualsummitagenda) Concepts (https://concepts.app/en/) This War of Mine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_War_of_Mine) The Great Courses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Courses) at Gunnar's library! Viewer mail: John Scott (https://twitter.com/johnmscott) writes on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6568144945134264321/) “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 (https://www.itweb.co.za/content/RgeVDMPolnd7KJN3) won't either, just way t

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) talks with Steve Orrin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorrin/) about silicon, security, Ceph, and sharks Intel Corporation (https://www.intel.com/) Networking (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/network-io/ethernet.html) FPGAs and programmable devices (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/programmable.html) AI (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/analytics/artificial-intelligence/overview.html) IoT (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/internet-of-things/overview.html) Storage (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/storage/data-storage-innovations.html) Ceph (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage/ceph) 5G (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G) World's First Autonomous Shark Detecting UAV (https://thelittleripper.com.au/#shark) Black Hat (https://www.blackhat.com/) DEF CON (https://www.defcon.org/) AFRL to launch sophisticated cyber challenge at DEFCON 27 (https://afresearchlab.com/news/afrl-to-launch-s

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about failing with public relations, failing with smart TVs, failing with zip files, and failing with collaboration tools Emma Long Metropolitan Park (http://www.austintexas.gov/department/emma-long-metropolitan-park) How Amazon and the Cops Set Up an Elaborate Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43jmnq/how-amazon-and-the-cops-set-up-elaborate-sting-operation-that-accomplished-nothing) Samsung asks users to please virus-scan their TVs (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/samsung-please-virus-scan-your-tv/) A better zip bomb (https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/) Microsoft says Teams now has 13M daily active users (https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/11/microsoft-says-its-slack-competitor-teams-now-has-13-million-daily-active-users/) The Slackification of the American Home (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/families-slack-asana/59

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about faking faces, faking friends, faking holes, faking dominance, and faking work Stochastic terrorism (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stochastic-terrorism): Deplatforming 8chan, the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, and accountability Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces (https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-fake-fakes/) Which Face Is Real? (http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/) GROVER — A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake News (https://grover.allenai.org/) Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to detect automatically generated text (http://gltr.io/) Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets (https://www.apnews.com/bc2f19097a4c4fffaa00de6770b8a60d) NVIDIA's AI fixes photos by recognizing what's missing (https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/24/nvidia-ai-fixes-photos/) Censorship of images in the Soviet Union (https://en.wiki

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) 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 (https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) Dark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80100172) Camping towels (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-packable-camp-towels/) Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa55z8/researchers-fool-recaptcha-with-googles-own-speech-to-text-service) One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538194/google-duplex-ai-restaurants-experiences-review-robocalls) Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy? (https://www.wired.com/story/why-is-voice-shopping-bad/) Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/google-launches-calljoy-a-virtual-customer-

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about blood, sweat, tears, DNA, and googly eyes Barton Springs Pool (https://www.austintexas.gov/department/barton-springs-pool) Teschner’s Rude Boy (http://www.teschnerstavern.com/menu.php?mid=8159&mcid=11285) Cops Draw Blood to Catch Impaired Drivers (https://www.routefifty.com/public-safety/2019/04/cops-draw-blood-catch-impaired-drivers/156396/) Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’ (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/science/dna-crime-gene-technology.html) NY Time’s The Daily: A New Way to Solve a Murder (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/podcasts/the-daily/dna-genealogy-crime.html) Scammers May Be Using DNA Testing to Defraud Medicare and Steal Identities (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/scam-dna-tests-may-be-new-target-for-health-fraud-states-warn) Scientists Add Googly Eyes to Donation Buckets, See a 48% Increase in Donations (https://www.n

Welcome Jeremy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-jennings-4964522/)! Jabbrrbox (https://www.jabbrrbox.com/) Micro-offices—anywhere—for the mobile workforce (https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/micro-offices-anywhere-mobile-workforce) Jabbrrbox 2018 Showroom Tour (https://www.interiordesign.net/videos/15132-jabbrrbox-2018-showroom-tour/) Privately owned public space (POPS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (https://www.quietrev.com/quiet-the-book/) Priority Pass (https://www.prioritypass.com/) Clear (https://www.clearme.com/) Registered Traveller for U.S. Citizens (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/international-arrangements/registered-traveller/us-citizens) Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/uber-quiet-ride/) Cafe X Robotic Coffee Bars (https://cafexapp.com/) We Give Thanks * Jeremy Jennings (https://www.linkedin.com/in

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about fear of deadbeats, fear of karaoke, fear of secret crushes, and fear of doorbells Deadwood: The Movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood:_The_Movie) Chernobyl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)) Chernobyl’s Cars Paint a Fascinating and Grim Picture Of Soviet Life (https://jalopnik.com/chernobyl-s-cars-paint-a-fascinating-and-grim-picture-o-1835134720) China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare (https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/chinas-new-social-credit-system-turns-orwells-1984-into-reality/) Mixing Chatroulette with Tinder Is the Horrifying Future of Online Dating (https://gizmodo.com/mixing-chatroulette-with-tinder-is-the-horrifying-futur-1834300285) Facebook wants to help make your secret crushes come true (https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/05/02/facebook-wants-to-help-make-your-secret-crushes-come-true/) The Doorbell Company That’s Selling Fea

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about robots that want to clap, robots that want to live, and robots that want to deliver coffee GoT After Action Report (https://www.wired.com/story/game-of-thrones-winterfell-battle-tactical-analysis/) The Guts Game (http://exertiongameslab.org/projects/the-guts-game) BigClapper does away with tedious clapping, happiness (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/09/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 (https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17642868/robots-turn-off-beg-not-to-empathy-media-equation) Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people (https://soranews24.com/2018/11/29/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 (https://www.gq.com/story/dog-or-ghost-party-question) Cutting Room Flo

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) 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 (https://dgshow.org/162) Gunnar organizes Todoist (https://todoist.com/r/gunnar_xbegbz) 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 (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5046925/man-angry-his-photo-was-used-to-prove-all-hipsters-look-alike-then-learns-it-wasn-t-him-1.5046933) Google Play malware used phones’ motion sensors to conceal itself (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/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 (https://arstechnica.com/