Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap

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

• What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3? Enhanced container tools, more system roles and new cloud admin tools just for starters
• Chromecast with Google TV: Bug, feature, or dark pattern?
  • Rotten Tomatoes scores
  • Search not as good as JustWatch
  • But it has Hoopla
    • Colossus: The Forbin Project
• D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google Play Music
• D&G Viewer Mail
  • Ken Guest writes, “Listening to episode 210 @davidegts, @ghelleks podcast, specifically about Google Home presence detection - have you looked at Home Assistant? It might give you better fidelity for same.”
  • Andrew Stellman writes, “Reminded of that quote from the Yellowstone Park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
    • See also: Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
• Epiphany: Vyzer isn’t for the rich -- it’s for the hired help of the rich
• South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet
  • Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls
• D&G This Week Not at Ben Gurion University
  • Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks
  • This horrifying Zoom hack will deter you from ever side-chatting again
• Mmhmm: This app makes presenting in Zoom more effective—and even entertaining
  • When COVID-19 is a joke: Stand-up comedy versus livestreaming’s limits
  • Sturgeon's law: “90% of everything is crap”

Cutting Room Floor

• A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961)

We Give Thanks

• Ken Guest for the Google Home tips!
• Andrew Stellman for the reminder about optimal garbage can design!
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!