web01.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:46:45 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Google Home” https://dgshow.org/tags/google%20home Thu, 03 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0600 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 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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  • 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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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 170: My Favorite Things, Part 1 https://dgshow.org/170 344bf7e4-c02a-44ce-91a1-aaf5671f7ae4 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1) 23:24 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1) Todoist (https://todoist.com/) Remember the Milk (https://www.rememberthemilk.com/) Day One (https://dayoneapp.com/) IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/) Google Home (https://home.google.com) KornShell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KornShell) Nest Doorbell (https://nest.com/doorbell/nest-hello/overview/) Feedly (https://feedly.com/) OverDrive (https://www.overdrive.com/) The Economist (https://www.economist.com/) Blogtrottr (https://blogtrottr.com/) Libby (https://meet.libbyapp.com/) PocketCasts (https://www.pocketcasts.com/) BeyondPod (http://www.beyondpod.mobi/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Todoist, Remember the Milk, Day One, IFTTT, Google Home, KornShell, Nest Doorbell, Feedly, OverDrive, The Economist, Blogtrottr, Libby, PocketCasts, BeyondPod This week Dave and Gunnar talk about our favorite (technology) things that make us happy and productive! (Part 1)

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 164: The Fine Line Between Firefighters and Arsonists https://dgshow.org/164 e04ffa43-fb31-4dc5-ade3-cc7d116cd89c Tue, 14 Aug 2018 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Bob St. Clair about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time 48:12 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk with Bob St. Clair (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobs3/) about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time Day One (http://dayoneapp.com/) Todoist (https://todoist.com/) Remember the Milk (https://www.rememberthemilk.com/) Google Home recipes (https://ifttt.com/google_assistant) HBR: Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions (https://hbr.org/2018/07/why-women-volunteer-for-tasks-that-dont-lead-to-promotions) We Give Thanks * Bob St. Clair (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobs3/) for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Bob St. Clair. Day One, Todoist, Remember the Milk, Google Home This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Bob St. Clair about managing his time, managing his people’s time, and managing his managers who manage their people’s time

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Special Guest: Bob St. Clair.

]]> Episode 155: Boris Karloff Meets Guacamole https://dgshow.org/155 375311e5-3186-4a90-b7a4-345541cbe6b7 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about jellyfish without jelly, voices without humans, source code without support, and diversity without discrimination 38:27 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about jellyfish without jelly, voices without humans, source code without support, and diversity without discrimination Google Home (https://home.google.com/), week 3 Jellyfish Chips Might Be Your Next Snack Obsession (http://mentalfloss.com/article/531840/jellyfish-chips-might-be-your-next-snack-obsession) Eating a QR Code May Save Your Life Someday (https://hackaday.com/2018/02/06/eating-a-qr-code-may-save-your-life-someday/) ‘Deep Voice’ Software Can Clone Anyone's Voice With Just 3.7 Seconds of Audio (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7mgn/baidu-deep-voice-software-can-clone-anyones-voice-with-just-37-seconds-of-audio) France Proposes Software Security Liability For Manufacturers, Open Source As Support Ends (https://hackaday.com/2018/02/22/france-proposes-software-security-liability-for-manufacturers-open-source-as-support-ends/) New Lawsuit Exposes Google's Desperation to Improve Diversity (https://www.wired.com/story/new-lawsuit-exposes-googles-desperation-to-improve-diversity) $270,000 to close the gender and race pay gap among 89% of Google’s workers for 2017: The cost to close Google’s pay gap was surprisingly cheap. The question is, why is this correction necessary? (https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/610561/the-cost-to-close-googles-pay-gap-was-surprisingly-cheap-the-question-is-why-is/) Related: Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36288143-brotopia) Cutting Room Floor * Meat-themed backgammon set (https://www.behance.net/gallery/53827201/Backgammon-board-re-design) * Boris Karloff’s guacamole recipe (https://thetakeout.com/you-re-a-green-one-mr-grinch-boris-karloff-s-guacamo-1823560779) * I Would Switch to This '80s Parody of Siri for the Hilariously Awful Synthesized Voice (https://gizmodo.com/i-would-switch-to-this-80s-parody-of-siri-for-the-hilar-1822922871) * Vim Clutch (https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch) * What it would be like to have a 3rd (prosthetic) thumb (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1TkiN309_4) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! This week Dave and Gunnar talk about jellyfish without jelly, voices without humans, source code without support, and diversity without discrimination

Cutting Room Floor

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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 154: Filter Out the Humans https://dgshow.org/154 4a813cf3-ed07-4e52-af77-36f416d532cb Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake followers faking people, real people trying to be fake bots to be successful fake people, and applying the Allen Curve to avoid turning into your enemies 45:24 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about fake followers faking people, real people trying to be fake bots to be successful fake people, and applying the Allen Curve to avoid turning into your enemies Google Home (http://home.google.com/) The Follower Factory (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html) 'Humans Not Invited' Is a CAPTCHA Test That Welcomes Bots, Filters Out Humans (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy8g8b/humans-not-invited-is-a-captcha-test-for-robots) The car of the future is taking shape—and it will know how we feel about it (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/02/the-car-of-the-future-is-taking-shape-and-it-will-know-how-we-feel-about-it/?amp=1) Camille Tuutti talks about GovernmentCIO Media's focus — and about her life as a cyborg (https://www.governmentciomedia.com/camille-tuutti-dave-egts-covering-tech-innovators-future) D&G Term of the Week: Allen Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_curve) Study: Being near colleagues helps cross-disciplinary research on papers and patents. (http://news.mit.edu/2017/proximity-boosts-collaboration-mit-campus-0710) D&G Book Club: The A-hole Survival Guide (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33503509-the-asshole-survival-guide) Cutting Room Floor * ParadiseOS (http://palm.computer/) is a turn of the century dystopian parallel computing universe * Think Malls Have A Future? See If You Can Save This One Yourself (https://www.fastcodesign.com/90160611/believe-american-malls-have-a-future-see-if-you-can-save-one-yourself) * EEYGAAH!! And Other Vintage Comic Book Screams of Terror (https://flashbak.com/eeygaah-and-other-vintage-comic-book-screams-of-terror-384820/) * 11 Words and Phrases Popularized by Teddy Roosevelt (http://mentalfloss.com/article/48811/11-words-and-phrases-popularized-teddy-roosevelt) * Nostradamus Wrote Prophecies; He Also Made Jelly (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nostradamus-jelly-maker-book-recipe) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake followers faking people, real people trying to be fake bots to be successful fake people, and applying the Allen Curve to avoid turning into your enemies

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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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