Dave & Gunnar Show

Not our circus, not our monkey.

About the show

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

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Episodes

  • Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories

    October 4th, 2023  |  34 mins 3 secs
    ai, ai bias, ai writing assistance, astrology, bias, blankets, delete, fictional brands, freedomgpt, google, google photos, gpt4all, hugging face, iceland, magic editor, netflix, open source, plaques, poisongpt, recursion, spider-man, spider-verse, stalin, supply chain attacks, toronto

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.

  • Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder

    July 17th, 2023  |  52 mins 18 secs
    ai-generated commercials, airbnb, ansible, ansible lightspeed, baseball, chatgpt, chirper.ai, claude, debatedevil, djs, dune, fortune cookies, generative ai, google authenticator, gpt, gpt jailbreaks, grammarly, grandma exploit, h. r. giger, jailbreak chat, radio, radio gpt, robot puppets, star wars, terminals, the beach boys, the beatles, umpires, vanessa carlton, warp, wes anderson

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fortune cookie GPT, radio GPT, devil’s advocate GPT, and Google Authenticator

  • Episode 246: AI-Generated Agitprop

    June 26th, 2023  |  40 mins 9 secs
    ad optimization experience, ads, agitprop, ai, amazon codewhisperer, andy jassy, auto-gpt, bing chat, butlerian jihad, chaosgpt, chatgpt, chatpdf, einstein gpt, frequency allocations, generative ai, github co-pilot, gpt-3.5, gpt-4, midjourney, radio spectrum

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills

  • Episode 245: Giant Asthma Inhaler with a Mouth

    June 5th, 2023  |  24 mins 28 secs
    arnold schwarzenegger, cocktails, explosives, historical ai selfies, ios, kissing machines, marriott, mfa, mr. trololo, multi-factor authentication, nissin cup noodle, noodles, renaissance faires, sherwood forest faire, soup, usb drives, voice isolation, will smith, zeigarnik effect

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect

  • Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible

    March 28th, 2023  |  28 mins 19 secs
    ai security cameras, backflips, bagpipes, cardboard boxes, day drinking, edible ndas, fake name generator, field sobriety testing, ice ice matrix, lynyrd skynyrd, marine corps, mastodon, ndas, perplexity ai, the matrix, time blocking, todoist, wilford brimley

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks

  • Episode 243: No Bamboozle

    February 12th, 2023  |  38 mins 54 secs
    activitypub, chatgpt, delorean ipsum, exercise machines, friendica, gl.inet, hipster ipsum, lorem ipsum, mastodon, meetings, moa party, movetodon, no bamboozle, openwrt, peertube, pixelfed, rss, spotify, todoist, twitter, white noise

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)!

  • Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats

    December 15th, 2022  |  34 mins 10 secs
    8.5x11, a4, ai, debate, encryption, ice, iso 128, iso 216, john le carré, mac, modifier keys, nypd, obs, open broadcast studio, outlanders, paper, phishing, qr codes, radios, rectangle, slavoj žižek, tumblr, twitter, university of northern new jersey, unnj, verified stickers, werner herzog

    This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216!

  • Episode 241: Apple-Inspired Feedbag

    November 18th, 2022  |  25 mins 51 secs
    ai, apple, candy, cargo pants, cargo shorts, cargo swim briefs, clip, dall-e2, drums, free drum, halloween candy, image generation, karate, keyboards, kinesis, kinesis advantage360, kmart, kmart music, last supper, leonardo da vinci, mechanical keyboards, meetings, metaverse, microphones, noise cancellation, screaming, tabasco, virtual keyboards, virtual reality, virtual reality kmart

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce!

  • Episode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the law

    November 11th, 2022  |  29 mins 16 secs
    ai, ai-generated artwork, ai-generated brands, ai-generated stock photos, cleveland, department of defense, desk tents, dod, dr. dre, drafts, dyngus day, gaming beds, hellekson's law, larps, last shift office chair, medieval music, motorized gaming beds, mulesoft, north korea, north korean military chorus, office charis, ohio, pocket, poland, rage against the machine, rockin'1000, software policy, toilet seats

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs!

  • Episode 239: The Bottom Turtle

    November 4th, 2022  |  29 mins 10 secs
    blockchain, confidential computing, defcon, enarx, hardware security modules, horrible histories, hsm, idris elba, ken thompson, profian, reflections on trusting trust, tee, tpm, trust, trust in computer systems and the cloud, trusted computing, trusted execution environments, trusted platform modules, zero trust

    This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell about his new book, Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud!

  • Episode 238: Harmonica-Playing Firefighters Holding Coke Bottles

    October 1st, 2022  |  29 mins 24 secs
    4th psychological operations group, airres mask, analysis, arizona iced tea, cognitive bias, cognitive bias codex, default passwords, door, experience, ghosts in the machine, guy fieri, haptic controller, haptics, intuition, mouth, mouth haptics, mufflers, non-fungible olive gardens, passwords, press conference, sandman, spinocchio, stablecoins, suffocation, todaq, usdtea, virtual reality, vr, walk signs

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about stable coins and slippery slopes

  • Episode 237: Confidentially Speaking

    September 20th, 2022  |  44 mins 21 secs

    This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum talk about confidential computing!

  • Episode 236: SodaStream Nighttime Formula

    May 31st, 2022  |  26 mins 26 secs
    1491, ai, alvin and the chipmunks, burger king, charles c. mann, co2, dall-e 2, deep dreams podcast, google calendar, gosleep, grammarly, job interviews, knockout gas, markdown, new hires, openai, public pianos, red hat summit, resume hacking, resumes, simply piano, sleep, sodastream, the melvins

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about technology-enhanced sleep, technology-enhanced image generation, and technology-enhanced job hunting

  • Episode 235: The Cult of the Dead Fruit on the Back of the Computer

    May 19th, 2022  |  52 mins 23 secs
    coloring books, confidential computing, container commandos, docker, docker desktop, edge, fedora silverblue, flatpak, kubernetes, openshift, podman, podman desktop, podman in action, podman-machine, podman-tui, red hat enterprise linux, red hat summit, rhel, rhel for edge, rpm-ostree, scale, silverblue, singularity, systemd, toolbx, virtiofs

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about his new crayon-free book Podman in Action!

  • Episode 234: You Are the Active Ingredient

    May 6th, 2022  |  31 mins 3 secs
    amazon, ar, ar real estate, augmented reality, cows, cryptocurrencies, denver, denver broncos, fake shutdown, farmers, garage door openers, grammarly, grammarly premium, ios, malware, metal, metal detector, milk, milk production, missile silos, music, personally identifiable information, pii, placebo pills, placebos, ratings, real estate, superworld, uber, vr, zeebo

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time)

  • Episode 233: Flavor Canister

    February 28th, 2022  |  31 mins 52 secs
    ai, back to the future, deep fakes, detachable tongues, drafts, eisenhower matrix, eric stoltz, flavor, flavor canisters, flavor perception, gans, google meet bot, ilo, initial litigation offering, lickable tvs, membership attacks, odd telephone numbers, priorities, ryval, tasks, telephone numbers, todoist

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reverse engineering taste and reverse engineering AI training sets!