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Dave & Gunnar Show

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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.
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Episodes

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 NVID...

Aug 13, 201928 min

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 drive...

Jul 09, 201936 min

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 ...

Jun 18, 201934 min

Episode 179: Jabbrrbox

Welcome Jeremy ! Jabbrrbox Micro-offices—anywhere—for the mobile workforce Jabbrrbox 2018 Showroom Tour Privately owned public space (POPS) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Priority Pass Clear Registered Traveller for U.S. Citizens Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode Cafe X Robotic Coffee Bars We Give Thanks Jeremy Jennings of Jabbrrbox for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Jeremy Jennings....

Jun 11, 201939 min

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...

Jun 04, 201930 min

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 ...

Apr 30, 201932 min

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: Go...

Apr 16, 201942 min

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 ...

Feb 26, 201936 min

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 i...

Feb 12, 201926 min

Episode 173: Digital Nomad

This week Dave talks with Camille Tuutti about her metamorphosis from DC resident to digital nomad! Camille in D&G #153 Digital nomad Visit Knoxville, TN Playa del Carmen Cancún Independent George We Give Thanks Camille Tuutti for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Camille Tuutti....

Jan 29, 201939 min

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!...

Jan 08, 201939 min

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!...

Dec 18, 201822 min

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!...

Dec 11, 201823 min

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 Lawfar...

Nov 19, 201839 min

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...

Oct 31, 201835 min

Episode 167: Here you go, Kyle: All about Serverless and FaaS

This week Dave talks with Gordon Haff about the importance of serverless computing, Functions-as-a-Service, and what Red Hat’s doing about them. Gordon’s What is serverless? article Gordon’s Cloudy Chat podcast Serverless computing Functions as a Service AWS Lambda Knative Red Hat Summit 2019 We Give Thanks Gordon Haff for being our special guest star! Kyle Petrosino for making the recommendation! Special Guest: Gordon Haff....

Oct 23, 201820 min

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...

Sep 20, 201851 min

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 r...

Aug 23, 201843 min

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....

Aug 14, 201848 min

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 Ama...

Jul 19, 201839 min

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 happe...

Jun 20, 201839 min

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 Indi...

Jun 07, 201840 min

Episode 159: Authors in Action

This week Dave talks with Jamie Duncan and John Osborne about their new book OpenShift in Action ! We Give Thanks Jamie Duncan and John Osborne for being our special guest stars! Special Guests: Jamie Duncan and John Osborne....

May 29, 201834 min

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 ...

May 19, 201841 min

Episode 158: The Stephen King of Coloring Books

This week Dave talks with Dan Walsh about why he likes CoreOS, coloring books, and what’s on tap for the Red Hat Summit! Dan’s Red Hat Summit talks Next-generation tools for container technology Deploying SELinux successfully in production environments A practical introduction to container security (3rd ed.) OpenShift for operations CoreOS Open Container Initiative (OCI) Container Network Interface (CNI) Container Runtime Interface (CRI) cri-o Buildah podman FIPS Red Hat Summit Government & ...

May 01, 201834 min

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 temporar...

Apr 19, 201830 min

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 per...

Apr 12, 201846 min

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 $2...

Mar 22, 201838 min

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: All...

Mar 08, 201845 min

Episode 153: Min svävare är fylld med cyborgs

This week Dave talks with Camille Tuutti about government change agents and chip implants! GovernmentCIO Media Ashley Mahan, FedRAMP agency evangelist, General Services Administration: Government Cloud-Vetting Program’s Chief Cheerleader Sounds Off David Lilley Jr., Former DHS geospatial information officer, now with Department of the Army: Former DHS Leader Says Change Agents Must Lead Revolutions March 15: CXO Tech Forum: Uncle Sam Meets Silicon Valley Patrick Hamilton Walsh Dangerous Things :...

Feb 22, 201823 min
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