web01.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:49:52 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Covid” https://dgshow.org/tags/covid Sun, 30 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. en-us episodic Not our circus, not our monkey. David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. no privacy, security, robots, internet, open source, technology David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson gunnar@hellekson.com Episode 222: Clever Girl https://dgshow.org/222 18f7672e-d3b5-4d55-a104-998c8a8a07fd Sun, 30 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises! 36:00 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises! Jurassic Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park) Ohio Vax-a-Million (https://ohiovaxamillion.com/faqs.html) What is the New Jersey “Shot and a Beer” program? What breweries are participating? (https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/nj-information/slowing-the-spread/what-is-the-new-jersey-%E2%80%9Cshot-and-a-beer%E2%80%9D-program-what-breweries-are-participating) This amazing AI tool lets you create human faces from scratch (https://www.fastcompany.com/90628866/this-amazing-ai-tool-lets-you-create-human-faces-from-scratch) Thanks To Merriam-Webster, You Can Now Own The NFT Of The Definition Of "NFT" (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thanks-to-merriam-webster-you-can-now-own-the-nft-of-the-definition-of-nft-301288201.html) Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned [Updated] (https://gizmodo.com/signal-tried-to-run-the-most-honest-facebook-ad-campaig-1846823457) Concept App That Pays You Bitcoin to Name-Drop Brands Is the Future and You Know It (https://gizmodo.com/concept-app-that-pays-you-bitcoin-to-name-drop-brands-i-1846821500) Bud Light Seltzer (https://www.budlight.com/en/our-beers/bud-light-seltzer.html) Omega Mart (https://www.omegamart.com/) Bud Light Seltzer (https://www.budlight.com/en/our-beers/bud-light-seltzer.html) Omega Mart (https://www.omegamart.com/) D&G This Week in Ohio Politics: Ohio state senator sees nothing wrong with driving while video conferencing (https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/05/03/ohio-state-sen-andrew-brenner-attended-government-meeting-via-video-while-driving/4929012001/) Related: Zoom fatigue: I turned on my camera for this? (https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/9/zoom-fatigue-i-turned-my-camera) Mammals can breathe through anus in emergencies (https://phys.org/news/2021-05-mammals-anus-emergencies.html) David Huang's Latest Zero-Cost Build Turns Scrap Foam and Pencil Lead Into a Working Pressure Sensor (https://www.hackster.io/news/david-huang-s-latest-zero-cost-build-turns-scrap-foam-and-pencil-lead-into-a-working-pressure-sensor-0abebbc864d0) Cutting Room Floor * The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s Headbanging Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (https://www.openculture.com/?p=1090592) * Deepfake Willie Nelson for Omega Mart (https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/27/Deepfake-Willie-Nelson-for-Omega-Mart/) * Zoom Escaper (https://zoomescaper.com/) We Give Thanks * The light and refreshing taste of Bud Light Seltzer (https://www.budlight.com/en/our-beers/bud-light-seltzer.html) * Omega Mart (https://www.omegamart.com/) for savings no matter the cost! * Emily Dragoo for our picture of the week! * Aisha Devrouax for Emily Dragoo! * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Jurassic Park, Ohio, Vax-a-Million, New Jersey, Shot and a Beer, vaccination, COVID, AI, Mr. Potato Head, Merriam-Webster, NFT, Signal, Facebook, Instagram, advertising, ads, SayPal, Bud Light Seltzer, Omega Mart, politics, Zoom fatigue, breathing, sensors, Arduino, ukuleles, Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Willie Nelson, Zoom Escaper This week Dave and Gunnar talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises!

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We Give Thanks

  • The light and refreshing taste of Bud Light Seltzer
  • Omega Mart for savings no matter the cost!
  • Emily Dragoo for our picture of the week!
  • Aisha Devrouax for Emily Dragoo!
  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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We Give Thanks

  • The light and refreshing taste of Bud Light Seltzer
  • Omega Mart for savings no matter the cost!
  • Emily Dragoo for our picture of the week!
  • Aisha Devrouax for Emily Dragoo!
  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 215: Referendum on My Likeness https://dgshow.org/215 821be520-102e-4656-9ad9-3630fe340841 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism 30:16 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism Apple M1 (https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/) on the way Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201113-covid-19-affecting-memory) Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan (https://www.reuters.com/article/japan-masks-idUSKBN28Q194) Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask (https://www.cnet.com/news/get-paid-to-have-your-face-3d-printed-onto-a-creepy-realistic-mask/) Maskalike (https://maskalike.com/): Your face on an N95 mask for $30 Freak Masks (https://laughingsquid.com/freak-masks-bizarre-custom-ski-masks-that-let-you-wear-your-own-face-or-the-face-of-someone-else/): Scare everyone for only $19 Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52626828-billion-dollar-burger) Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/arts/design/Ouroboros-Steak-design-museum.html) Ourochef (https://www.ourochef.com/) meal kit paint.wtf (https://paint.wtf/): Convince an AI that you're the best artist Watch Out for Fake COVID-19 Testing Sites (https://twocents.lifehacker.com/watch-out-for-fake-covid-19-testing-sites-1845786035) Cutting Room Floor * Cheese-Filtered Cigarettes (http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/cheese_filtered_cigarettes) * Edible (chocolate) phonograph records (https://hackaday.com/2020/12/14/tunes-you-can-eat/) * The Mouth-Watering World Of NIST Standard Foods (https://hackaday.com/2020/12/23/the-mouth-watering-world-of-nist-standard-foods/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Apple M1, memory, masks, Japan, That Face, Maskalike, Freak Masks, Billion Dollar Burger, lab-grown meat, meat, ouroboros steak, ouroboros, Ourochef, meal kits, cannibalism, paint.wtf, AI, COVID, COVID testing, cheese-filtered cigarettes, cheese, cigarettes, edible phonograph records, chocolate, NIST standard food, NIST, food This week Dave and Gunnar talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 212: Security Requires Thinking (His Monkey, His Circus) https://dgshow.org/212 0357b960-38d3-463c-964a-96e1251c71db Tue, 26 Jan 2021 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson 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. 49:59 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk with Dr. David A. Wheeler (https://twitter.com/drdavidawheeler) 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. Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) (https://openssf.org/) of the Linux Foundation replaces the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and has several working groups Secure Software Development Fundamentals Courses (https://openssf.org/edx-courses/) The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Badge Program (https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en) is now part of the OpenSSF Best Practices Working Group Project statistics (https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/project_stats), now >3,500 participating projects & >500 passing badges If you develop OSS, make sure your projects are pursuing a badge (https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/) “Report on the 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey” (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/press-release/new-open-source-contributor-report-from-linux-foundation-and-harvard-identifies-motivations-and-opportunities-for-improving-software-security/) - these are the RESULTS of the survey call we discussed last time - THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the contributor survey If you’re interested, please join! The Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/) (other than OpenSSF) Linux Foundation Energy (https://www.lfenergy.org/) Linux Foundation Public Health (https://www.lfph.io/) The Linux Foundation Public Health Initiative Sponsored the Audit of COVID Exposure Notification Apps. Here Are The Results! (OSTIF) (https://ostif.org/the-linux-foundation-public-health-initiative-sponsored-the-audit-of-covid-exposure-notification-apps-here-are-the-results/) - “Because of these two reviews, both applications have had improvements implemented to correct potential issues. This review provides assurances that the applications are generally safe and private.” Reproducible Builds in December 2020 (https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-12/) Preventing Supply Chain Attacks like SolarWinds (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/blog/preventing-supply-chain-attacks-like-solarwinds/) Be sure to visit David on the internet at dwheeler.com (https://dwheeler.com/)! We Give Thanks * Dr. David A. Wheeler (https://twitter.com/drdavidawheeler) for being our special guest star! Special Guest: David A. Wheeler. circuses, monkeys, the Linux Foundation, open source, OSS, the Open Source Security Foundation, OSSF, badge program, CII Badge Program, Core Infrastructure Initiative, SolarWinds, reproducible builds, COVID, COVID exposure notification apps, FOSS Contributor Survey 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.

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Special Guest: David A. Wheeler.

]]> Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap https://dgshow.org/211 10c11e2e-8445-4cb7-8711-c6108b97e189 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing 53:05 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3? Enhanced container tools, more system roles and new cloud admin tools just for starters (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-83) Chromecast with Google TV (https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv): Bug, feature, or dark pattern? Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/) scores Search not as good as JustWatch (https://www.justwatch.com/) But it has Hoopla (https://www.hoopladigital.com/) Colossus: The Forbin Project (https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11852811) D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google Play Music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Music) D&G Viewer Mail Ken Guest (http://twitter.com/kenguest) writes (https://twitter.com/kenguest/status/1330148404379389954), “Listening to episode 210 @davidegts (https://twitter.com/davidegts), @ghelleks (https://twitter.com/ghelleks) podcast, specifically about Google Home presence detection - have you looked at Home Assistant? It might give you better fidelity for same.” Andrew Stellman (https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman) writes (https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/1329421073243377666), “Reminded of that quote from the Yellowstone Park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” See also (https://twitter.com/mathematicsprof/status/1327678313876385792): Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." Epiphany: Vyzer (https://twitter.com/answerswithjoe/status/1319787462089187328) isn’t for the rich -- it’s for the hired help of the rich South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet (https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/02/in_brief_ai/) Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/nvidia-used-neural-networks-to-improve-video-calling-bandwidth-by-10x/) D&G This Week Not at Ben Gurion University Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks (https://kottke.org/20/08/researchers-can-duplicate-keys-from-the-sounds-they-make-in-locks) This horrifying Zoom hack will deter you from ever side-chatting again (https://www.fastcompany.com/90570509/this-horrifying-zoom-hack-will-deter-you-from-ever-side-chatting-again) Mmhmm: This app makes presenting in Zoom more effective—and even entertaining (https://www.fastcompany.com/90570287/this-app-makes-presenting-in-zoom-more-effective-and-even-entertaining) When COVID-19 is a joke: Stand-up comedy versus livestreaming’s limits (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/stand-up-meets-covid-19-how-platforms-fare-with-comedys-two-way-street/) Sturgeon's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law): “90% of everything is crap” Cutting Room Floor * A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961) (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2i9sy5/a_salesman_has_his_motorized_roller_skates/) We Give Thanks * Ken Guest (http://twitter.com/kenguest) for the Google Home tips! * Andrew Stellman (http://twitter.com/AndrewStellman) for the reminder about optimal garbage can design! * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! RHEL, RHEL 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Chromecast, Google TV, Android TV, Rotten Tomatoes, Just Watch, Hoopla, Colossus, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Google Play Music, Google Home, Google Home Assistant, Yellowstone, park rangers, bears, garbage bins, garbage cans, Vyzer, South Park, Sassy Justice, deepfakes, Nvidia, SpiKey, Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, shoulders, chat, Mmhmm, COVID, COVID-19, Sturgeon's Law, salesman, roller skates, motorized roller skates This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing

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We Give Thanks

  • Ken Guest for the Google Home tips!
  • Andrew Stellman for the reminder about optimal garbage can design!
  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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We Give Thanks

  • Ken Guest for the Google Home tips!
  • Andrew Stellman for the reminder about optimal garbage can design!
  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 210: The Opposite of ASMR https://dgshow.org/210 5344ca53-723b-42c8-ab11-b31ccc9af4f4 Wed, 18 Nov 2020 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3. 50:31 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3. Google Home has presence awareness (https://9to5google.com/2020/07/07/google-assistant-presence-detection/)…. OR DOES IT? Blix Vika+ (https://blixbike.com/products/vika-electric-folding-bike) The Third Day (https://www.hbo.com/the-third-day) Everything is Exhausting (https://www.ttbook.org/show/everything-exhausting) Related (https://thehustle.co/how-to-avoid-burnout-by-working-less-and-doing-more/): "There are two types of hamsters in this world: Those who give 110%, & those who understand math" GPT-3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3) How Do You Know a Human Wrote This? (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/opinion/gpt-3-ai-automation.html) OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin (https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/) A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it. (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/14/1006780/ai-gpt-3-fake-blog-reached-top-of-hacker-news/) What I would do with GPT-3 if I had no ethics (https://adolos.substack.com/p/what-i-would-do-with-gpt-3-if-i-had) GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/) GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati (https://gizmodo.com/gpt-3-bot-spends-a-week-replying-on-reddit-starts-talk-1845305253) Cutting Room Floor * Australian Scientists Have Made a ‘Shazam’ for Snakes and Spiders (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyxky/australian-scientists-create-shazam-for-snakes-and-spiders) * COVID-ready Unnecessary Inventions (https://www.unnecessaryinventions.com/) * Coffee table book of slides (https://twitter.com/hunterscott/status/1294428923514589192) * Take a ‘COVID pulse’ in your city or state with this ingeniously simple map of case trends (https://www.fastcompany.com/90546219/take-a-covid-pulse-in-your-city-or-state-with-this-ingeniously-simple-map-of-case-trends) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Google Home, presence awareness, Blix, Vika+, The Third Day, burnout, GPT-3, OpenAI, snakes, spiders, Shazam, COVID, Unnecessary Inventions, coffee table books, visualizations This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3.

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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Cutting Room Floor

We Give Thanks

  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 205: Soylent Vest https://dgshow.org/205 9e815f35-99a6-45e1-90ff-3f379b6fb420 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar digital detox for 75 days, wear our own crops, and further up our video call and email games 36:05 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) digital detox for 75 days, wear our own crops, and further up our video call and email games Television in the house, how to buy house equipment featuring Wirecutter (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/) The Hater (https://www.netflix.com/watch/81270667) Man Bites Dog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_(film)) COVID Digital Minimalism: ‘Did I Miss Anything?’: A Man Emerges From a 75-Day Silent Retreat (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/coronavirus-meditation.html) This wearable vest grows you personal crops—fertilized just for you by your own waste (https://www.fastcompany.com/90442615/this-wearable-vest-grows-you-personal-crops-fertilized-just-for-you-by-your-own-waste) Tame Your Inbox Like an ER Doctor (https://hbr.org/2020/06/tame-your-inbox-like-an-er-doctor) See also: BLUF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)) Up Your Game on Camera! (https://vimeo.com/440152142/70610b2e06) Confessions of a Public Speaker (https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Public-Speaker-Scott-Berkun/dp/1449301959) Dress for the (Remote) Job You Want (https://hbr.org/2020/06/dress-for-the-remote-job-you-want) Midsommar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsommar_(film)) What Deaf People Can Teach Others About Virtual Communication (https://hbr.org/2020/08/what-deaf-people-can-teach-others-about-virtual-communication) Cutting Room Floor * LackRack is the ultimate, low-cost, high shininess solution for your modular datacenter-in-the-living-room (https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack) * ANSI Z535-compliant safety sign generator (https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/19/Need-a-Safety-Sign/) * How to properly walk like you’re in a video game (https://twitter.com/KaoruGans0/status/1290967203278290944) * Choose your quarantine character (https://twitter.com/djbaskin/status/1246637822959693825) * Can’t Touch This - the COVID version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeAN8Xxz0q4) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! television, Wirecutter, The Hater, Man Bites Dog, Digital Minimalism, digital detox, COVID, Posthuman Habitats, vests, vegetables, vegetable vest, email, ER doctor, emergency room, emergency room doctor, BLUF, bottom line up front, video conferencing, Confessions of a Public Speaker, Midsommar, SBAR This week Dave and Gunnar digital detox for 75 days, wear our own crops, and further up our video call and email games

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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