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13:38Jason DeFillippo:Now, the latest class action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon committed a breach of contract when the companies decided to use its streamers as a free training stock for separate commercial AI products. The complaint also accuses the two companies of benefiting from their streamers who lost money or property as a result of defendants on lawful, unfair and fraudulent practices. And Amazon isn't the only company that's been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly using content creators for AI training. earlier this year, three YouTubers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of scraping copyrighted content to train its AI models.

14:11Jason DeFillippo:So, yes. All right.

14:14Brian Schulmeister:Love it. Love it. Love it. No, this has been a good weekend in the law here on Grumpy Old Geeks.

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16:04Brian Schulmeister:Well, let's get to some shitty news, Brian. Okay. The EPA is considering a change to the 1970 Clean Air Act that would remove the 30-day public comment period for new, quote, minor sources of industrial pollution. I would like to say that there are no such thing as, quote, minor sources when you couple that with industrial pollution. Yes, the industrial implies at scale. Uh-huh. It sure does. The proposal could make it easier to build AI data centers and other facilities that fall below major emissions thresholds while reducing opportunities. And here's the fun part. For communities to review or challenge projects before construction begins.

16:43Brian Schulmeister:There's that. There it is right there in the fine print. Critics say the timing is significant as data centers are expanding rapidly and drawing concern over electricity use, water consumption, air pollution, and local environmental impacts. Supporters frame the change as streamlining permitting. Fuck you. Opponents argue it would prioritize faster development and less public scrutiny over transparency and accountability. Yes, which is what we fucking want. I'm going to tell you, Brian, this is going to come down to guerrilla tactics and people are going to start just basically going out and ripping these places up at night.

17:15Brian Schulmeister:I'm telling you. We've got to flock these things. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Jesus Christ. Did you hear about the new flock case where the cop basically 3D printed on his own time some fake flock cameras and put them up around town and they had a sting operation to see who would come out and knock it down? Don't we call that entrapment? Well, you know, it's a fine line right now. But they're charging him with a crime that is not commensurate with the actual damage that he did. They're saying, well, this was it. It's like you actually cut down a flock camera, so it's the value of the flock camera, even though it was basically something the guy printed on his own time for free and said there was no value to it, and they're calling it art.

17:57Brian Schulmeister:But the new 404 podcast talks about it, and it's phenomenal. It is phenomenal. These guys are just getting raked over the coals for this one. But, yeah, it's very funny. But, yes, anyway, let's flock this shit out of these data centers. Agreed.

18:12Jason DeFillippo:Although the U.S. has relaxed its restrictions on NVIDIA AI chip exports to China, illegal exports apparently are still taking place. Prosecutors in Taiwan just indicted nine individuals, including NVIDIA and Super Micro employees, for illegally bringing AI servers into China. The defendants colluded with one another at various levels for enormous profit, illegally exporting high-end servers, increasing corporate compliance costs, and severely damaging our nation's international image, prosecutors from the northern city of Keilung said in a statement. They did this, the team added, despite being fully aware of NVIDIA and Supermicro's rigorous export control procedures.

18:48Jason DeFillippo:Although NVIDIA is an American company, most of its chips are manufactured by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest chipmaker by far. The latest Blackwell AI chips are manufactured in Phoenix, Arizona, but are still shipped to Taiwan for advanced packaging prior to final assembly. Taiwan is ultra-strick about exports of newer technology, lest it displease U.S. regulators.

19:10Brian Schulmeister:What U.S. regulators? U.S. regulators.

19:13Jason DeFillippo:And in particular, the Trump administration, despite Taiwan's clampdown. Yeah. Bad actors have found ways to get such chips into China. In one instance,$1 billion worth of server racks may have been shipped through Southeast Asian countries like Thailand or Malaysia to circumvent U.S. export controls. In another case, the U.S. charged three people, allegedly exporting$3.5 billion worth of AI servers to China, again, by routing them through third-party countries.

19:39Brian Schulmeister:All they had to do was buy the requisite amount of Trump coin. I'm sure that there's a lookup chart that they can find at Trump.com to find out how much they have to pay. Exactly. Yeah. You know, it's very simple. You know, if Sam Bankman Freed's parents would get a copy of that, he'd be out of jail by now. That's true. They just, you know, they're just waiting. Well, some more China news here. China is recalling nearly 3 million Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over concerns that emergency door releases are difficult to identify, especially after a crash or low voltage failure. Regulators. Chinese regulators.

20:19Brian Schulmeister:That's where all of our regulators have gone, Brian. They have moved to China. That's right. Regulators say the handles can delay occupants escaping or rescuers getting in. Now, we've covered this many times. There's a giant list of people who have died because of these stupid fucking doors. But China is the one that's making the move. So Tesla must add warning labels and deploy an over-the-air update designed to lower windows after an accident. China is also recalling nearly 400 ,000 Xiaomi Su7 electric vehicles for similar risks. So it's not just Tesla. It's they're doing themselves too. New Chinese rules taking effect next year will require mechanically operable door handles from both sides likely forcing design changes.

20:59Brian Schulmeister:The U.S. is considering comparable standards, but final requirements may not arrive before 2030. So it just reminds me of the final, the recall scene in Fight Club, you know, where he's telling the woman on the plane the math about doing a recall. It's just like that. It's just like that.

21:17Jason DeFillippo:If you haven't seen Fight Club again recently,

21:19Brian Schulmeister:go watch it. It is awesome and it has legs. It certainly does.

21:24Jason DeFillippo:Well, LinkedIn recently began testing a dedicated reporting tool for AI Slop. After only a few weeks, The company says it's already improving the quality of the posts people see in their feeds. How can you fucking tell?

21:39Jason DeFillippo:Sorry. Yeah, it's horrible. LinkedIn sucks.

21:41Brian Schulmeister:It sucks so bad.

21:43Jason DeFillippo:It's like just reading people blowing their own smoke up their own asses constantly. Who cares if it's AI or not? Anyways, this seems like AI slop button has been used more than a million times since its launch, probably because every single post seems like it's AI slop. LinkedIn's chief product officer, Harry Shrevenson, shared an update. Members are now experiencing 40 % less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago, he wrote. The company has so far been cagey in sharing exactly how it's determining what is AI slop and what it isn't. But they say they use many signals to determine the reach of a post, and that has built safeguards to help prevent individual feedback from being used to unfairly target other members.

22:23Jason DeFillippo:The ironic thing about this, of course, is LinkedIn actually pushed AI Slop for quite a long time, including a button that said, would you like to use AI to help make your post better? I know. Better was in quotes. Yes. Or enhance your post and messages. But they removed the feature when they rolled out the AI Slop reporting tool, which makes sense.

22:46Brian Schulmeister:I mean, LinkedIn, I go there every now and again just to post some stuff to see if anybody bites on it. You know, I've got a couple people that I used to work with that have gotten in touch recently, which is really nice. It was really nice to catch up with them. And everybody, of course, has the available for work thing on there. Because everybody's available for work. Everybody's fucking available for work. So I was like, God. But yeah, the long form posts that, you know, the douche nozzles that think that there are still businessmen posts. It's just out of control. It's out of control.

23:17Jason DeFillippo:It's such a wasteland.

23:19Brian Schulmeister:Yet you wonder why you're available for work when you post that shit. Come on. Here's another knock in the nuts. Austin park goers say the hum along Lady Bird Lake isn't cicadas. It's a temporary charging site serving Waymo's electric vehicles. The facility on the former Austin American Statesman property, beside a walking trail, uses natural gas-fired L-charged generators rather than a connection to the electric grid. God. Videos and complaints describe the equipment as loud enough to disrupt the park, raising questions about the impact of quiet electric transportation. Uber, which offers Waymo rides in Austin, says the generators are a temporary solution, while a permanent grid-connected charging site is being built.

24:02Brian Schulmeister:The company says custom sound barriers have been installed around each unit, and a city inspector measured the generator noise at 61 decibels in April, below the property's 70 decibel limit. Whether the barriers satisfy trail users remains unclear, but the dispute highlights a broader infrastructure challenge. Rapidly expanding robo-taxi fleets still need reliable charging power, but it does blow a hole and the electric vehicles will save the world plan. Brian, doesn't it? Well, we're using gas generators to charge the electric vehicles. Electric cars. Yeah. What the flying fuck? What the actual...

24:40Jason DeFillippo:I hate this world. I hate this timeline. I hate this timeline. Oh, God. I mean, sometimes people are like, why the fuck are you so angry all the time? And I'm just like, look, read something.

24:57Brian Schulmeister:I know. I know. Or just listen to our show and send it to your friends. It's ridiculous. It is absolutely ridiculous. Here's a little bit of good news. I don't know if you do use sign in with Apple on anything. I do. I do. I started to use it because it is fairly convenient. Well, Apple has reversed a planned change to its iCloud Plus Hide My Email service following user pushback. The company had announced two months ago that existing and new Hide My Email addresses would move to a different domain, but it now says that transition will not happen. Hide My Email lets users create unique, randomly generated addresses that forward messages to their real inbox, helping reduce spam and protect privacy when signing up for websites and services.

25:36Brian Schulmeister:Apple has not provided additional details about why it abandoned the domain change, but the reversal means its users can continue using their current Hide My email addresses without migration concerns. And this has to do with like.icloud.com and.appleid.com. It was a switch that would have been really disruptive to probably everybody who's ever used it and set one up because every website's going to have to go back and change those email addresses that you're logging in with and there's going to have to be a migration period. And it's just like, why, dude, why? Why are you doing that, Apple? You know, I don't know.

26:10Jason DeFillippo:I've been using the service whenever I sign up for anything new these days because I just figure why not? It makes a lot of sense. But in terms of like reducing spam and all that sort of stuff, what I what I've really discovered, though, is if you've had the same email address for over 30 years, nothing makes any difference. I get so much spam.

26:29Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. No, it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. but you know i i most of my shit's in gmail now and they do a pretty good job i gotta say so i just i gave up and just i i live by the gmail yeah which i which i talked about like two episodes ago now i have to go to a tab in my browser to check my email i don't have it set through apple mail or any shit like that so nice it's so nice people say hey did you see my email i go no no i didn't. I'm going to check it later today when I'm sitting at my computer and I can open a tab. It is glorious. It's glorious. I'm 55 years old and nobody fucking cares about anything that I have to say anymore.

27:07Brian Schulmeister:So I don't get email besides spam. So it's like, yeah, and just bullshit. So it's great. It's great.

27:14Jason DeFillippo:And we weren't getting the email from the few people that do care what you have to say because our website email wasn't working.

27:19Brian Schulmeister:The few people I want to fucking hear

27:21Jason DeFillippo:from we weren't even getting it well we fixed that now uh anyways let's talk about uh what inspired our our wonderful high production intro this week uh the latest episode of star trek strange new worlds the muppet episode i'm already annoyed that we're basically just doing uh concept of the week episodes which again totally fine star trek has always done them but star trek always did them with 26 episode seasons, not eight to 10 episode seasons with over half of them being gimmicks.

27:55Brian Schulmeister:And this one in particular. Real quick. I have a question real quick. You know, you talk about the through lines. Like I remember the through lines on DS9 and Next Gen and Voyager and all those. Those were those were fantastic full through lines with the individual episodes. Original series. Was there a through line in the original series? I thought they were just all one offs.

28:15Jason DeFillippo:No, weren't they? They were they were pretty much all one offs. There were like two or three parters or things like that, but they were pretty much all one-offs. Pretty much all one-offs, okay. I'm not even talking about through lines. I'm just talking about exploring strange new worlds.

28:27Brian Schulmeister:That's true.

28:28Jason DeFillippo:Get away from these concept episodes where you're doing noir and then you're doing a musical and then you're doing a... Anyways, the Muppet episode, I have to admit, the first 10 to 15 minutes, I was all over it. I was like, okay, this is actually really, really funny. uh particularly uh carol kane's muppet i'm dying she was great she was great just dying but the joke wore so thin so fast yeah for me anyways i just like i figured out what it was

28:58Brian Schulmeister:i figured out what the conceit was you know well then of course yes i mean spoiler alert everybody it was a fucking dream yeah so once you figure that out then it's and it was telegraphed pretty fucking hard you know it wasn't really subtle about what they were doing yeah but there were parts that were funny but yeah it just it wore so thin so fast that it is absolutely my least favorite episode of star trek strange new worlds absolutely and you know star trek has had a lot

29:27Jason DeFillippo:of stinkers a lot of stinkers spock's brain from the original series anything with wesley crusher

29:33Brian Schulmeister:lots of stinker episodes but this was pretty bad i don't know i think that actually that my My least favorite was the one before this one, the noir episode. I could not stand that one.

29:44Jason DeFillippo:It was fine. Whatever. I just want a normal goddamn episode. Explore world. Yeah.

29:50Brian Schulmeister:Well, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. There's a new episode in about, you know, 25 minutes. So we'll get on that.

29:57Jason DeFillippo:And last night I watched the latest episode of Ted Lasso, which even though they say it comes out on Wednesday, it's actually 9 p.m. on Tuesdays when it comes out. Oh, I watched it. I watched the latest episode. I did see on our Discord that you're grudgingly admitting that you're enjoying this season. God damn it. I loved last night's episode. I'm loving this. Like, it's not, of course, it's not going to catch the lightning in a bottle that season one did because of the timing, pandemic, and the newness of it, all of that. Nothing is ever going to be as good as the first season of Ted Lasso was.

30:30Jason DeFillippo:But this is fun. I'm really enjoying it.

30:33Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, it is fun. You know, there's not much great going on in the world right now. So the timing just might be right. Yeah. I did see that Black Mirror season eight is now in production. So, you know, you got to have your counterpoint. But I am. I am actually I. It took me a while to get through episode one. I'm just like, well, I know he's going to go. So just fucking say yes. Hurry up. And then once it started to get moving, I was fine with it. I'm enjoying it. So, yeah, it's no severance. It's no severance. God.

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32:33Jason DeFillippo:And Silo, for me right now, is really dragon. So dragon. I know where they're going, but I also know that this is dragon right now. And I know that a lot of other people are feeling the same way because I really haven't seen Hugh Howey, who wrote Silo, the original author that wrote all the books on social media, much talking about the show other than saying he loves it. He is out doing full on damage control. He is posting everywhere, left, right and center. just wait just wait the payoff is coming oh wait for the last two episodes so yeah everybody is kind of i think everybody's feeling the same way like okay come on let's go yeah i'm like can we

33:10Brian Schulmeister:get to season four already because this is fucking boring yeah you know uh reacher is back for season four and i'm absolutely loving it's halfway through a new episode out today actually because today's wednesday when we record this i am so looking forward to it uh this guy alan richardson is this is his moment. Like, this is his moment. He's fucking everywhere. And, you know, he did the smartest thing he could do. He's like Roy Kent. He's here. He's there. He's everywhere. And he did the smartest thing ever. Like, right before the show came out, he went on a bunch of podcasts and he bashed the shit out of Trump.

33:45Brian Schulmeister:And everybody loves him for it. So it's awesome. It's awesome. And it's such a great show. It's just a great show. The Westies finished up their first season run on MGM+. thoroughly enjoyed it highly recommend it uh if you have mgm plus which what nobody does mgm plus mgm plus is where the vampire list stop would had its run at the beginning before it got transferred to netflix right um so i imagine the westies will be on netflix in about two years uh so check it out uh but it's a great show uh go to sweden and grab it the whole the whole eight episodes are out and they're fun uh i wouldn't say they're fun it's about gangs and irish gangs and murder and shit in new york but for me that's that's my happy that's fun yeah it is fun it is fun uh the simpsons yellow mirror drops today this is an exclusive episode on disney plus and it looks fun i think i'm gonna have to watch that today before i watch ted lasso or maybe i have not watched an original episode of the simpsons in at least two decades exactly so i'm just like let's go let's go uh but it looks fun so i'll check it out you know it likes me some of that but the most important thing that happened this week in the media is the pit season three trailer dropped oh can we just a great show it's a great timeline is so fucked up right now can we just fast forward get us stuff up there pretty please because i can't wait for this it is it is the the saddest show on tv but i love it so much i'm so glad you got me into that and i'm so glad i got to binge i'm so glad i got to binge like the first two and or it was like one and a quarter one and three quarter seasons.

35:26Brian Schulmeister:I binged it all. And then I got to the last three that I had to wait week by week. And I'm like, I don't like it week by week. I want my sadness in one go. I like to spread my sadness

35:35Jason DeFillippo:like butter over fine bread.

35:37Brian Schulmeister:Okay, okay.

35:38Jason DeFillippo:Well, we pay an awful lot of money for Amazon Prime. And I don't feel like I get my money's worth really out of it, except for the shipping. Prime video, fine. There's a couple of things on there that I actually watch every now and then. But of course, you're still getting ads now anyways, unless you want to pay even more. Which I do. $5. $5.

35:58Brian Schulmeister:And I popped on a show yesterday, like Miami Kings about these drug lords in Miami. Fucking commercial. You still get a commercial. Yeah.

36:06Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. They don't care. But one of the perks that I was not aware of that you get automatically with Amazon Prime is a program called Amazon's First Reads, which gets you early access to editor's picks. And each month you get to choose one Kindle book for free with your Prime membership, which is kind of cool like i mean i've only been doing it for two months now so there hasn't been a lot of stuff i'm particularly interested in but they usually give you a selection of six to ten books uh all kinds of different genres so it's a free download can't hurt why not grab a free book

36:40Brian Schulmeister:every week if you're already a prime member yeah save it for a rainy day exactly if you didn't know

36:45Jason DeFillippo:I'm sure those authors get some kind of stipend. So one would figure.

36:48Brian Schulmeister:Why not?

36:49Jason DeFillippo:So why not? So I did. I downloaded one of them. And just out of curiosity, I did try to start to read it. Unfortunately, didn't really care much for it. This one's called I've Got a New Complaint. Essays on Aging Disgracefully and Other Small Disasters by Lori Notaro. I don't know who Lori Notaro is. I'm assuming she's some sort of comedian or writer of some sense. Well, obviously, she's a writer. She's got a book. You know, there you go. You know, the first I read the first couple chapters, mildly amusing anecdotes, but I kind of want more than mildly amusing for a book. Like if I were her friend and we were out at lunch and she told me some of these stories.

37:28Jason DeFillippo:OK, when I'm trying to read a book that's supposedly comedic, not good enough. So kind of gave up on that one. another book that I got halfway into before kind of abandoning which is why I haven't really said anything about on at the library recently is I did pick up the theory of everything else a voyage into the world of the weird a hilarious handbook of mind-boggling mysteries by Dan Schreiber and if you recognize that name he is one of the members of the no such thing as a fish podcast one of my favorite podcasts he does tend to always talk about triptychs and and weird things and whatnot and have the crazy outlandish theories on on the podcast which they make fun of him for and this book is all of that stuff uh from him and i gotta say just like the muppet episode of star trek strange new worlds the first couple stories were fine and then you start going i can't read any more of this i'm done i am over this that was enough thank you very much uh so kind of abandoned that book uh picked up another book and this one is sticking i'm almost all the way done so i'll talk about it again next week when i finish it it's welcome to your life love death and tears for fears an iconic musician's journey through grief addiction and recovery by roland orzabal one of the members of tears for fears one of the two and uh it's a great read so far i'm really enjoying it but i will talk about it uh next time when i when i finish it so all

38:53Brian Schulmeister:right i finished picks and shovels a martin hench novel by cory doctor rowe this is a prequel to the other two marty hench novels uh it was good it took me a while to get through it because it did kind of drag in the middle. And Corey, Corey, Corey, Corey, I know that you now have a subscription to the Food Network because every time somebody in your novels cooks, you feel the need to tell us in detail how they cook the food. I know how to baste my steaks with rosemary and butter. I do not need it in my cybercrime, you know, novel. Please stick to your fucking lane. every fucking time drove me fucking nuts um but and it was uh read by will fucking wheaton because i listened to the audiobook it was a good book though it was a nice prequel to the marty hench novels which i really liked the first marty hench novel the second one not so much because they kind of left it on a cliffhanger waiting for part three but then he went and wrote a fucking prequel before part three which kind of annoyed me but anyway i i do i gotta say from you know cory's kind of redeeming himself with his fiction work with these these novels so I like them better than his young adult stuff, which has been kind of, you know, well, I'm not a young adult anymore, so it doesn't really matter.

40:05Brian Schulmeister:Exactly. Worth a read. Worth a read if you've read the other, at least the first Martin Hench novel. Read the first one, and then this is a good prequel. Then I got into This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Motar. Have you heard of this book? I have not. It's a novella. It got the Hugo Award winner for Best Novella and Nebula and Locus Awards for winners for best novella for a good reason god damn yeah you put this on your list brian i will

40:33Jason DeFillippo:be putting this on my on my libby borrowing list because i'm not going to pay 13.99 for a digital

40:40Brian Schulmeister:version of a novella no you don't have to do that no i use this is one of my last credits that i got from audible before i canceled it was like a four and a half hour uh yeah a four and a half hour listen most books are usually in the eight to 14 i've got a 36 hour book on them somewhere i'm Fucking Christ. But no, dude, yeah, get this on Libby. It's awesome. I mean, this is what sci-fi should be. And, you know, I don't know why I've been getting a lot of time travel books recommended to me lately. So this is just another one that came through the pipeline. And out of the, you know, the multiple time travel books that I've read recently, this is the best.

41:18Brian Schulmeister:This is absolutely the best. As far as just as far as pure writing goes, you will appreciate this. This is one of the most well-written books I've read in a long fucking time. Great. All right. I will put it in my Libby Q. Welcome to the Dark Side with Dave with the podcaster who never sleeps, Dave Bittner. Dave covers the daily cybersecurity beat on the cyber wire, busts scams with Joe Kerrigan on hacking humans, untangles privacy headaches with Ben Yellen on caveat, digs into industrial security on control loop and still shows up to stir trouble on only malware in the building. Hi, Dave. Hello.

41:50Brian Schulmeister:I found the old intro. It was sitting under a rock.

41:53Jason DeFillippo:Very nice. Very nice. My resume.

41:57Brian Schulmeister:Yes, yes. Do you have any new shows? It's been a while since we've had any updates. Has anything been added to your resume? No, no. Anything removed? There's a downturn in the economy. I get it.

42:08Jason DeFillippo:Well, since you asked, I'm not doing control loop anymore.

42:12Brian Schulmeister:Oh, well, that'll save us over time. That'll save us about, you know, 10 minutes.

42:17Jason DeFillippo:Dave has now added the available for work circle on his LinkedIn page. On his LinkedIn, yes. Yeah. If there's anybody who wants to underwrite an industrial control systems podcast. I'm on it. I got a spare fisty hanging out. It's a niche of a niche, but it's open in my schedule right now.

42:38Brian Schulmeister:So I want to bring this episode in with some of your inspiration for me, Dave, with all of the work that you did on your keyboard. And I've been excited to get into electronics now. So I went and found a course called Learn Circuits course on YouTube. It's a 10-year-old course that basically just is the basics of electricity and circuits and resistors, capacitors, volts, ohms, all that shit. Great little course. I'm loving it. And I ordered my first Arduino starter kit, the R4, which gets here this week. The funny thing is, is I think Brian, that entire time I was living in Chicago this last time, I had that Arduino starter kit in my closet that we would joke about that I was going to get to every day.

43:26Brian Schulmeister:And I never did. And it didn't make the move? I'm getting to it this time. I'm getting to it this time. I have stumbled upon Makergram. My Instagram feed is all people making stuff. Period. That's all it is. And it is so cool. It reminds me of the early web. Everybody's just making stuff and everybody's giving away the source code. They're giving away the blueprints for all the 3D printing files, for everything they're making, the code to run it, all the chips, the diagrams, those ESP32 chips or whatever. Those things can do a million things, especially hacking tools. I got so many hacking tools I want to build now.

44:04Brian Schulmeister:It's crazy. I'm very excited about this. This is the first time I've been excited about tech in a long time.

44:09Jason DeFillippo:Well, good for you, going retro. I looked at this Learn Circuits course and I think I'm going to make my way through it as well because I feel as though my knowledge and understanding is very patchy you know like I know a lot of what I know the basics of what a lot of things do but actually if you ask me to build a circuit that does something I could you know I could make a light blink on and off but like build an amplifier I'd be like I don't know. But so, yeah, I think that'd be fun. I'm going to go through this as well. I saw the Arduino kit. I'm tempted.

44:49Brian Schulmeister:I'll let you know how it goes. You're in a shorter project right now.

44:53Jason DeFillippo:Well, I mean, I still have R2-D2, so that's my, that's my, but the thing is some of the. There could be some crossover here. Exactly. Some of the modifications to R2-D2 involve Arduino kits. So. There you go. I don't know. We'll see. Give me an excuse to solder. Stop me before I solder again.

45:12Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. I mean, I got this kit because it doesn't require soldering at first. So that's good because I don't know how to solder. I need to find a basic soldering kit now and get that. But I tell you what, all I have to do is open my Instagram because there are a million kits that tell me, you know, nobody wants these old clippy things on your solder kit. You got to get the little things that are magnetic and don't mess up your breadboards and all this stuff. It's like, I mean, I need to start selling microphones and video and all this crap that I have here so I can go buy a 3D printer and all this other crap now.

45:42Brian Schulmeister:Oh, God. That's why you asked me what 3D printer I had this week, didn't you? No, no. Kevin Rose was talking about his 3D printer, and I thought you guys had the same one. Oh, no.

45:52Jason DeFillippo:He has a couple extra zeros in his bank account than I have, so I'm assuming he has a much nicer 3D printer than I do. His was like$600. Oh, okay. Yeah.

46:01Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, he didn't get the super duper one, which surprised me because, you know, he burns money by just thinking about it.

46:09Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. Soldering is actually great fun, I think, because there's both melting and smoke involved. But I will say that I feel as though soldering isn't as easy as it was when I was a teenager. And I think that's mostly because they've changed the formulations of the solder to make it less toxic. And where's the fun in that? So if you can't get cancer doing it, who gives a shit or exposure to lead and all that good stuff. So I think it's it's a little more challenging to make the solder flow as easily as it used to. But it's I think you'll you will enjoy yourself. I like I give me an opportunity to solder something.

46:51Jason DeFillippo:And to me, that's a good time.

46:53Brian Schulmeister:I used to assist our friend of the show MXV because he had, you know, 20 some odd pinball machines in his basement. and would always be working on something. So I would go down there and like, you know, he'd kind of show me how it kind of worked and stuff like that. So I really like missed out because, I mean, he had all these boards everywhere and he'd work on the boards. And now I kind of, after taking the circuits course, I kind of have more of a mental map on how pinball machines even work. I think once you get the basics on how these things work, it's just like, oh, now I can see. I think you're right.

47:25Brian Schulmeister:The fucking matrix opens up. It's like, now I know how everything kind of works.

47:28Jason DeFillippo:It's just all about how you move electricity around. Yeah. Yeah. It's so cool. It really is. It really is. So, yeah, you know, you're going to end up with a Radio Shack 150 in one kit. Just trust me on this. Oh, absolutely. It's coming. It's coming.

47:45Brian Schulmeister:Yeah. My Jeep is broken right now. So the Arduino was part of a gift certificate that I got for my birthday. So I'm kind of tapped out on shit right now until I because I'm trapped at home during the heat wave and my car is broken. So until the car is fixed, then there's no more kits coming. So go buy Elon Kills Babies t-shirts in mass, please. Lots of them.

48:08Jason DeFillippo:Jason needs toys. Yes, absolutely. I need toys.

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49:54Jason DeFillippo:Well, Dave, I know how much you enjoy soldering, but I did see one of your Facebook posts this week, and I know that you were in a situation you did not enjoy, and I just want to briefly address at the TLDR on this, as you were at an event, I'm not going to go into the details, it was a somber one, someone was speaking, and then, of course, somebody's phone starts springing. Right. You were like, what the hell, man? And I kind of, I have no fault. I 100 % agree with your entire rant, and it was a good one. I personally have not had the sound on on my phone in probably 20 years. I don't know who does.

50:29Jason DeFillippo:Who are you people that leave your sound on on your phone? I do. So you're the one. I leave mine on? You're the one.

50:38Brian Schulmeister:But I don't leave the house, so I don't go anywhere.

50:42Jason DeFillippo:Fair enough. Yeah. And so it was a memorial service and the phone went off with some heavy metal rock and roll in the middle of a eulogy. Hopefully not my way to hell. No. Yeah. Oh. But I didn't want to rant without presenting a potential solution. So what I wonder is, could the phone manufacturers, could the people who are responsible for Bluetooth come up with a Bluetooth beacon that indicates this is a quiet place? Dave, there's literally just a switch right there. I understand that. Like how fucking hard is this? Well, we've demonstrated over the past decade, evidently. and I think it's a numbers game, right?

51:35Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. Because if it's one out of 100 people who forget, and I don't think people are, I don't think most people are doing this maliciously, I think they, in good faith, forget. But if we had a system where when you could set your phone so when you went into a place that had been tagged as being a quiet place, either your phone pops up an alert and says, hey, you're in a quiet place. Shall we silence everything? You could say yes. You could also set your phone. Otherwise the alien will come and kill you. Right, right. Nobody else has seen that movie? To a bloody pulp. Okay. Or it could just happen automatically.

52:08Jason DeFillippo:You could set your phone to have it happen automatically. This seems to me like something that's very achievable, and I would love to see someone implement. You know why it has not been done, Dave? There is zero money in it.

52:21Brian Schulmeister:But I also have another gotcha. In the law of unintended consequences, I want to break into your house and make sure you can't call the cops, So I bring one of these Bluetooth, this is a quiet place beacons. So now your alarm system doesn't make any noise. Like when the alarm company calls, your phone doesn't make any noise or something. There'll be something, I'm sure, that could be used for nefarious purposes by making sure that somebody's phone stays quiet when it's not supposed to.

52:51Jason DeFillippo:You see how quickly Jason finds the way to use it for pure evil. That's my job. It is a skill.

52:58Brian Schulmeister:Have you seen the shirt that I'm wearing? Come on.

53:02Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. It's my understanding that in Europe, at least for a while, it was legal to have jammers in movie theaters and theaters. It was. Yeah. For a while. Yeah.

53:14Brian Schulmeister:Hey, and I know how to make those now thanks to Baker Graham. Right. Right.

53:21Jason DeFillippo:Just follow. Just have one in your back pocket all the time. You can, actually.

53:25Brian Schulmeister:It's fairly straightforward. It'll cost you$32 in parts.

53:31Jason DeFillippo:Well, Jason, you just had your birthday. My kid, my kid had his 10th birthday this last weekend. First off, I can't believe it's been 10 years, but it has been. But I wanted to, I know, I wanted to talk about some of the stuff that he got, some of which for himself, he got some cash. So flush with cash, cash, he started collecting, I guess what I'm going to call milk and cookie table books, because it's not a coffee table for him. Oh, I see where you're going with this. Okay, yes. He got some high-end stuff here. I've got some links in the show notes. He's really into Kirby. That's a Nintendo whole game universe thing.

54:07Jason DeFillippo:Plays those games all the time. He bought the Kirby Art and Style Collection by Viz Media, which is just what it says on the tin. It's all the different art and fonts that they use and styles and different drawings for the many, many, many, many years of Kirby games. which like i'm like you're 10 i was like this kid has very advanced tastes i know i know and then he also got the star wars the lightsaber collection by daniel wallace which is this amazing coffee table book with these beautiful photographs of every single lightsaber scene in the star wars universe it's amazing nice and yet he remains evil so he also got star wars the secrets of The Sith by Mark Zummer, which is a quite involved read about all the horrible things that the bad guys in Star Wars does.

54:59Jason DeFillippo:And he loves it. So like a how-to guide? Pretty much, yeah. How to take over the universe in five easy steps. He's following your goth footsteps, but taking it to the next level. Yes, taking it to the next level. Very Darth Maul-esque.

55:11Brian Schulmeister:You can send him to me when he's ready. Right. I'll teach him the ways.

55:17Jason DeFillippo:yeah but my favorite present that he actually got and i didn't i hadn't realized how big this was when he initially asked for it and and thanks a lot to his aunt for buying it for him the x shot insanity motorized rage fire gatling gun with tripod foam gun for maximum firepower i had to set this up for him and uh oh my god it is so much fun i picked that thing up say hello to my little friends and i just blasted the shit out of everything yeah i where the hell were these things when i was a kid well yes that's true uh we had cap guns and you know the single suction cup things but uh i grew up in north carolina we had real guns right um so uh this reminded me of the Nerf guns we had in my first office back in the 90s when we had our Pixel Workshop office.

56:15Jason DeFillippo:I put a photo of that in the show notes. It's a great picture. Yeah, it's from like 1995. The Baltimore Sun did a little, you know, story on us. This new, you know, young kids opening a new shop to compete with Hollywood, you know, that sort of thing. And that was the photo they took. So that was the four founding members of that venture. but yeah we had lots of nerf guns and we would chase each other around and have fun and of course eventually those went to my kids when we closed that office but what I found was that the little nerf bullets which are probably three inches long and I don't know half an inch thick little tiny suction cups on the front they were the perfect size to clog up the drain on my washing machine yeah I could see that and they would just get in there they'd be in the kids pockets they'd be in their laundry baskets and so every once a month or so the washing machine would blip error 82 and i'd know exactly what it was and i knew how to you know like time me click it go into the washing machine take it apart sure enough there'd be a nerf bullet or two clogging up or blocking the impeller that would there's the pump that would drain the washing machine so you're like one of 15 yeah it's yeah right it's yeah exactly it's one of the nice things about uh almost being an empty nester is that uh the nerf bullets are much fewer and farther between but i am buried in them yeah yeah it is fun like i mean no question it is fun i mean yeah it's like this thing is insane like the next thing we're going to do when he gets home from his camp today is we're going to set up a whole bunch of his Lego figures and we're just going to see how many we can mow down with this thing.

58:04Jason DeFillippo:Nice.

58:05Brian Schulmeister:Well, when he gets to be a teenager, then you can move into Airsoft as well, which is just as fun. A little more evil, but just as fun. Yeah. I found a fun little website that just basically does one thing.

58:19Jason DeFillippo:It tracks how much of Hacker News is AI. Just a stupid little website that kind of reminds me of how the web used to be, the little bits of delight that the web used to be. I think it's currently running around 15 % of stories on Hacker News. It's AI. But it also has a clock that counts down how long has it been since a Hacker News story mentioned AI. Oh, that's great. It's been a whole 19 minutes. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So kind of a little thing of where we are today.

58:49Brian Schulmeister:I'm pretty sure in the past we've talked about the game Full Throttle. You guys remember Full Throttle?

58:54Jason DeFillippo:You ever played Full Throttle? Mm-hmm. Jason?

58:56Brian Schulmeister:Not ringing a bell.

58:58Jason DeFillippo:Ooh, good game. There's LucasArts. What was neat about Full Throttle is that it was completely standalone. It wasn't based on any other pre-existing IP or anything like that. Mark Hamill did a bunch of the voices for it. But it was great fun. They remastered it, which means they up-resed everything and made it 16 by 9. And there's a YouTube video of the full gameplay. So if you ever played Full Throttle, it's a fun nostalgia trip. There were a lot of things in this game I just forgot about. But it was really fun and funny. So if you ever played Full Throttle, check it out. I think you'll enjoy the walkthrough.

59:40Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, I just looked at it. No recognition whatsoever.

59:43Jason DeFillippo:Yeah. I definitely played it. Watch the opening of it. There's like a five-minute opening that's just a movie. and it's cinematic and iconic and really just sucks you in to the game. So I highly recommend it. And then, of course, last but not least, we lost Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. What? Oh, sorry. Tim Curry died today. What? Oh, shit. Well, that guy who ran his Tim Curry dead's website is going to be out of the job for a while. Oh, man. Oh, damn. He did pass away. Damn. Thanks, Dave. Sorry, I figured you guys would have heard by now. There's no point in going on living. Oh, man. So, of course, from my interests, both who had wonderful relationships with the Muppets, and so I included a link to a fun video.

1:00:41Dolly Parton actually had her own, let's call it a variety show,

1:00:45Jason DeFillippo:and Miss Piggy was a guest star on the show at one point. The Muppets were and Miss Piggy had her own tour bus where she was trying to fashion herself after Dolly and Dolly was giving her advice on how Miss Piggy could be more country. It's very cute. And so have a look and enjoy both Dolly Parton, who by all accounts was a delightful person and the wonderful Miss Piggy, our favorite drag queen. yes i mean it's hard to find anybody that uh does not uh does not uh i mean you can't find anybody that has a bad thing to say about dolly barton really no um you know i saw a lot of hey god wrong 80 year old right right right i saw someone say i asked for donnie not dolly

1:01:33Brian Schulmeister:yeah but uh tim's 82 that's so you know these things do come in threes so well hey hey well Well, I got here's hoping.

1:01:43Jason DeFillippo:So here's another one that broke today. Let me see if the name means anything to either of you. J.P. Morgan?

1:01:54Brian Schulmeister:Like the financial institution?

1:01:57Jason DeFillippo:No. Gong Cho. She was on the Gong Cho. No. No. Okay. Yeah. I just remember the guy with the paper bag over his head from the Gong Cho. Yeah, yeah. That's about it. Yeah. She was someone who made the rounds back in the 70s on game shows. She was an actress. I think one of those, the leading edge of people who are kind of famous for being famous. Right. But she died today. But I don't know that I'll count her in the rule of threes because she's not big enough. No, a little too niche. Yeah. Yeah.

1:02:29Brian Schulmeister:Yeah, and we're holding that spot.

1:02:32Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, we got a slot, Donnie. We got a slot.

1:02:35Brian Schulmeister:We're holding that slot for you. We're saving a seat. It's like reserved parking. When the music stops. Right. Yeah. Mitch already took off. Fuck Mitch. He's gone. So we're saving it for Donnie. Oh, man, that bums me about that. That really does.

1:02:51Jason DeFillippo:Yeah, sorry. I didn't. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I figured it had been a few hours since I saw it that it would have reached you guys by now. I've been busy today. But I think tonight maybe we'll watch Muppet Treasure Island with the kid and then I'll do a little Rocky Horror Picture Show. There you go.

1:03:07Brian Schulmeister:Well, I will watch my favorite movie, The Hunt for Red October. This business will get out of control and will get out of control and will be lucky to live through. Because you got to have the soundboard with a ready to go. Now I got to put a Tim Curry clip in there because I wish I had one of those.

1:03:24Jason DeFillippo:My favorite quote from that movie is, we must give this American a wide berth.

1:03:29Brian Schulmeister:Yep. Yep. I don't know if you didn't hear this one last time, Dave. This was a great Jurassic Park Easter egg. I would like to have seen Montana so this is when Sam Neill dies in Hunt for Red October and the opening scene in Jurassic Park is Sam Neill in Montana which I just found out sadly was California because I followed a new Instagram account that is a guy that goes to all of the filming locations for all the great movies in the world he's standing there in the same spot and he's like yeah this is California oh well yeah little movie magic yeah Yep. Yep. All right, guys. Well, thank you very much, and I'll see you next time.

1:04:08Brian Schulmeister:See you next time, and I'll have some news about the Arduino kit. I'm looking forward to it. Oh, yes, yes.

1:04:12Jason DeFillippo:I look forward to that.

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