550: We Don’t Build Anything
Grumpy Old Geeks22 Apr 2022

550: We Don’t Build Anything

Coachella & Revolve; becoming a Gigillionaire; masks off; web scraping is legal; unionization is in the air, but $30 an hour for retail; Netflix stock drop, taking a page from Spotify; quantum computing and Rydberg polaritons; Romancing the Stone & Ghostbusters; the Batman; Picard disappointments; #Adulting; sexy backpacks; label created is not shipped; Honey; salt, salt, salt; the Broken Room; Roland; CNN+ shutting down; hot cable talk; revisiting smart home problems; DNS options; cyber security advisory; the wolf of Crypto; Elon Musk is back in MOTW; Binance's unfortunate branded hashtag.

Show notes at https://gog.show/550/

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MEDIA CANDY

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Honey

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AT THE LIBRARY

The Broken Room by Peter Clines

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SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

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What is 1.1.1.1?

Quad9

OpenDNS

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