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 218: What Would Marlie Do?

    April 14th, 2021  |  40 mins 30 secs
    101st airborne division, 5g, bagpipes, batman, batman effect, blue check homes, end-to-end encryption, faraday cages, marlie moxenspike, moxie marlinspike, office items, signal, watermarking, whatsapp, wi-fi, zoom

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Marlie Moxinspike, Beyoncé, and Adele!

  • Episode 217: Blow Up Enemies with the Power of Your Mind

    March 23rd, 2021  |  42 mins 44 secs
    ai, attention tracking, bci, brain waves, brain-computer interfaces, code, deepfakes, dopplegangers, eeg, generative media, google tasks, gpt-2, immunization, inoculation, kim stanley robinson, masks, mind control, ministry for the future, monkeys, pink trombone, remember the milk, rtm, texas, texas deep freeze, to-do lists, todoist, todoist-shortcuts, tom cruise, ultrasonic, vaccination, vintage photos, vomitoria

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about mind-controlled computing, computer-controlled minds, and AI-controlled doppelgangers!

  • Episode 216: Almost as good as paper

    March 15th, 2021  |  46 mins 50 secs
    adot, bento miso, clojure toronto, cs cabal, enterprise adot server, gamma space, haskell toronto, openshift, proof of provenance, quantius, toda, toda-as-a-service, todaq, toronto javascript, webrtc

    This week Dave talks with Hassan Khan and Dann Toliver about containerizing assets with containers!

  • Episode 215: Referendum on My Likeness

    February 22nd, 2021  |  30 mins 16 secs
    ai, apple m1, billion dollar burger, cannibalism, cheese, cheese-filtered cigarettes, chocolate, cigarettes, covid, covid testing, edible phonograph records, food, freak masks, japan, lab-grown meat, maskalike, masks, meal kits, meat, memory, nist, nist standard food, ouroboros, ouroboros steak, ourochef, paint.wtf, that face

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism

  • Episode 214: The Mind of a Medieval Theologian

    February 16th, 2021  |  28 mins 21 secs
    bci, brain computer interfaces, chickens, creepy gadgets, dinosaur arms, dinosaur arms for chickens, facehuggers, hand foods, holes, hot dogs, lockdown, machine learning, memory, mozilla, privacy, sandwiches, sound beaming, walking hand

    This week Dave and Gunnar hear voices, talk to computers, count holes, and qualify sandwiches

  • Episode 213: Not Going to Solve Sapir-Whorf Today

    February 8th, 2021  |  21 mins 51 secs
    ai, ai ethics, artificial intelligence, asilomar ai principles, dev technology, ethics, jaic, john janek, joint artificial intelligence center ai ethics principles, sapir–whorf hypothesis, stanford encyclopedia of philosophy on ai ethics

    This week Dave talks with Joshua Powers about using AI to make AI more ethical!

  • Episode 212: Security Requires Thinking (His Monkey, His Circus)

    January 26th, 2021  |  49 mins 59 secs
    badge program, cii badge program, circuses, core infrastructure initiative, covid, covid exposure notification apps, foss contributor survey, monkeys, open source, oss, ossf, reproducible builds, solarwinds, the linux foundation, the open source security foundation

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dr. David A. Wheeler about what’s new at the Linux Foundation, a brand-new free course on developing secure software, some survey results, and recent news concerning SolarWinds.

  • Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap

    December 3rd, 2020  |  53 mins 5 secs
    android tv, bears, chat, chromecast, colossus, colossus: the forbin project, covid, covid-19, deepfakes, garbage bins, garbage cans, google home, google home assistant, google meet, google play music, google tv, hoopla, just watch, mmhmm, motorized roller skates, nvidia, park rangers, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, rhel 8, roller skates, rotten tomatoes, salesman, sassy justice, shoulders, skype, south park, spikey, sturgeon's law, vyzer, yellowstone, zoom

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

  • Episode 210: The Opposite of ASMR

    November 18th, 2020  |  50 mins 31 secs
    blix, burnout, coffee table books, covid, google home, gpt-3, openai, presence awareness, shazam, snakes, spiders, the third day, unnecessary inventions, vika+, visualizations

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3.

  • Episode 209: 5’2” in Sneakers

    October 27th, 2020  |  23 mins 32 secs
    alex carter, alexandra carter, ask for more, negotiation

    This week Dave talks with Alexandra Carter about how to negotiate with your co-workers, your family, and yourself!

  • Episode 208: Impact Mapping an SBAR

    October 21st, 2020  |  34 mins 7 secs
    1password, bluf, chewing, dental school robots, haircuts, hotp, impact mapping, necksense, pregnancy tests, sbar, teamwork, totp

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about pregnancy tests, eating tests, and teamwork tests

  • Episode 207: From a Factory Mustang to a Shelby

    October 13th, 2020  |  33 mins 24 secs
    ai, dev technology, gsa, machine learning, open source, un e-government survey

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with John Janek about turning an AI loose on software license agreements!

  • Episode 206: Let a Thousand Flowers Zoom

    September 27th, 2020  |  33 mins 30 secs
    cds, clockwise, college, documents, keyword-mashing, math, mirrors, sbar, school, zoom

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Zoombombing, keyword-mashing, and flagrant hypocrisy

  • Episode 205: Soylent Vest

    September 14th, 2020  |  36 mins 5 secs
    bluf, bottom line up front, confessions of a public speaker, covid, digital detox, digital minimalism, email, emergency room, emergency room doctor, er doctor, man bites dog, midsommar, posthuman habitats, television, the hater, vegetable vest, vegetables, vests, video conferencing, wirecutter

    This week Dave and Gunnar digital detox for 75 days, wear our own crops, and further up our video call and email games

  • Episode 204: My Boss Is Making Me Walk Around in This Bubble

    August 24th, 2020  |  40 mins 15 secs
    accessibility, agile, agile family, aliexpress, bloons, bookcase coffins, compiler bombs, day one, disney, don't fear the reaper, earplugs, electric cars, face shields, fresh prince, hazmat suits, iceland, irish ballads, kandi, krispy kreme, mack's earplugs, podcasts, pods, ppe, screaming, virtual backgrounds, virtual meetings, widowmaker

    This week Dave and Gunnar explore hazmat suit and Zoom background fashion, scream at Iceland, and set off compiler bombs.

  • Episode 203: Who are you following and who's following you?

    August 17th, 2020  |  37 mins 13 secs
    bark, china, encryption, end-to-end encryption, facebook, kidsmartz, linkedin, mobile location data, national center for missing and exploited children, north korea, privacy, project vic, tails, tiktok, wechat

    This week Dave talks with Andrea Hall about keeping kids and adults safe on the internet and the pros and cons of end-to-end encryption from all angles!