web01.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:16:47 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Meetings” https://dgshow.org/tags/meetings Mon, 01 Jul 2024 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 258: Terminator Contortionists https://dgshow.org/258 464e1b4d-c6e0-4845-b7f2-d784c76cdabf Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! 43:42 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy%27s)! Spam musubi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi)! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque)! Nara Park deer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara_Park#Deer)! Google Translate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate)! The creepy sound of online trackers (https://axbom.com/the-creepy-sound-of-online-trackers/) Check the videos here (https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/)! A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings (https://www.wired.com/story/taking-baby-steps-toward-the-ai-meeting-singularity/) AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/) Texas Facilities Commission State Surplus Property Store (https://www.tfc.texas.gov/divisions/supportserv/prog/statesurplus/) Cutting Room Floor * Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good? (https://www.wired.com/story/slack-huddle-hold-music-secret-history/) * 60-minute loop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBc2VTmneIE) * I Hope This Email Finds You (part 1 (https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou) and part 2 (https://mastodon.social/@thisemailfindsyou)) * Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/boston-dynamics-debuts-humanoid-robot-destined-for-commercialization/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Hawaii, Zippy's, spam musubi, Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto, macaque monkeys, monkeys, Nara Park, deer, Google Translate, online trackers, Otter.ai, avatars, meetings, video calls, AI, malware, typosquatting, Texas Facilities Commission, Surplus Property, Texas Facilities Commission State Surplus Property Store, Slack, Slack hold music, Slack huddles, I hope this email finds you, Boston Dynamics, robots This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers!

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]]> Episode 243: No Bamboozle https://dgshow.org/243 73976aa8-0ba7-46ae-96f1-7285d4344bd8 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)! 38:54 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)! Gunnar’s Todoist (https://todoist.com/) breakthrough Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) (https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ax1800/) ChatGPT (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/) Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/) RSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) ActivityPub (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub) PeerTube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube) Pixelfed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed) Friendica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica) mastodon.social invite from Dave (https://mastodon.social/invite/d7G3NbVY) This is why we can’t have nice things (https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922) Movetodon (https://www.movetodon.org/): Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon Moa Party (https://moaparty.com/): No bamboozle Spotify podcasters are making $18,000 a month with nothing but white noise (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Spotify-podcasters-are-making-18-000-a-month-17214583.php) The Rise of the 15-Minute Meeting (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/15-minute-meeting-burnout) Cutting Room Floor * Doctor Gustaf Zander’s Steam-Powered Exercise Machines (https://flashbak.com/dr-gustaf-zander-victorian-exercise-machines-456732/) * Hipster Ipsum (https://hipsum.co/) * DeLorean Ipsum Text Generator (https://satoristudio.net/delorean-ipsum/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Todoist, GL.iNet, OpenWRT, ChatGPT, Mastodon, RSS, ActivityPub, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Friendica, Twitter, Movetodon, Moa Party, no bamboozle, Spotify, white noise, meetings, exercise machines, Lorem Ipsum, Hipster Ipsum, DeLorean Ipsum This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)!

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]]> Episode 241: Apple-Inspired Feedbag https://dgshow.org/241 eaa8292d-042f-4453-ba85-af1c5442c23a Fri, 18 Nov 2022 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce! 25:51 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce! Karate! In the metaverse, no one can hear you scream: Bizarre Muzzle Microphone Keeps Your Mouth in the Metaverse (https://gizmodo.com/muzzle-microphone-headset-mutalk-noise-isolating-ar-vr-1849511121) Sold out: Cargo swim briefs (https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/lp/cargoswim) This Website Can Figure Out What You're Typing Just By Listening to Your Loud Mechanical Keyboard (https://gizmodo.com/website-can-track-mechanical-keyboard-typing-just-by-li-1848890545) Kinesis Advantage360 (https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/) Type on Any Surface with the TypeAnywhere Fingers-Only Keyboard (https://www.hackster.io/news/type-on-any-surface-with-the-typeanywhere-fingers-only-keyboard-15e85cb64218) Related: Free Drum (https://freedrum.rocks/) How did a bottle of Tabasco sauce find its way into a painting of the Last Supper? (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/31/tabasco-hot-sauce-bottle-last-supper-painting/7454703001/) Cutting Room Floor * What does DALL-E2 generate when I ask it for the most popular Halloween candy of each US state? (https://www.aiweirdness.com/bonus-halloween-candy-by-state/) * CLIP Interrogator (https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharma/CLIP-Interrogator): Want to figure out what a good prompt might be to create new images like an existing one? The CLIP Interrogator is here to get you answers! * Clocking In at the Virtual Reality Kmart (https://www.wired.com/story/vrchat-kmart-employees-store/) * Kmart 1973 Reel to Reel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln_88HHXJ04) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! karate, metaverse, meetings, screaming, Apple, noise cancellation, microphones, cargo pants, cargo shorts, cargo swim briefs, keyboards, mechanical keyboards, Kinesis Advantage360, Kinesis, virtual keyboards, Free Drum, drums, Tabasco, Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, DALL-E2, AI, image generation, Halloween candy, candy, CLIP, virtual reality, Kmart, virtual reality Kmart, Kmart music This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce!

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]]> Episode 228: This Email Could Have Been an AI Avatar https://dgshow.org/228 4c4d00f1-9566-4cc4-a9ae-0332207c8423 Wed, 17 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel 40:59 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel iPad Mini (https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/) remains excellent Leaf blower paradox of choice A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking (https://interestingengineering.com/a-new-navy-weapon-actually-stops-you-from-talking) Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches (https://www.wired.com/story/deepfakes-making-business-pitches/) People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones (https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/27/1033879/people-hiring-faces-work-deepfake-ai-marketing-clones/) How I Sent Over 10,000 Personal Thank You Videos To My Customers in 2 Months (https://www.marshallhaas.com/post/how-i-sent-over-10-000-personal-thank-you-videos-to-my-customers-in-2-months) Watch video here (https://www.windsor.io/#video) Don't duct tape unruly passengers, United Airlines says in memo to employees (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-t-duct-tape-unruly-passengers-united-airlines-says-memo-n1277065) The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight Over Reclining Airline Seats (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/reclining-airline-seats-fights-ownership-rules-disney-fastpass.html) 99pi: Mine! (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mine/) What's the Future of Air Travel? (https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-future-of-air-travel-1847653493) Cutting Room Floor * Attention K-Mart Shoppers (https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers): K-Mart in-store music from the late 80s and early 90s * JazzKeys (https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/): Improv jazz while you type * Distortion pedal on a harp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNINWMqxQQc) * Placebo Pedal on a harp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxtYKhH11bs) * Placebo Pedal (https://www.daredevilpedals.com/shop-1/p/placebo) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! iPad, iPad Mini, leaf blowers, US Navy, Navy, non-lethal weapons, acoustic hailing and disruption, AHAD, deepfakes, email, meetings, gig economy, licensing, marketing, sales, airlines, air travel, duct tape, reclining seats, ownership, Mine, K-Mart, jazz, JazzKeys, distortion pedals, harps, Placebo Pedal This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel

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]]> Episode 227: Meetings and Punishment https://dgshow.org/227 ab254c2c-b206-44a4-b129-5710f2310852 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes 40:10 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes David Macaulay (https://davidmacaulay.com/) books and Turing Tumble (https://www.turingtumble.com/) Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes (https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-used-stem-cells-to-make-mini-brains-they-grew-rudimentary-eyes) Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking 'horror' (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/blob-human-brain-grows-functioning-24785482) Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/19/facebooks_oculus_horizon/) Gather (https://gather.town/) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland) Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqm4k/prison-virtual-reality-vr-global-tel-link) Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time (https://hbr.org/2021/07/big-theatrical-meetings-are-a-waste-of-time) Cutting Room Floor * The Print Shop Club (https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/18/The-Print-Shop-Club/) * Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds. (http://badnewspaper.com/2021/03/29/uh-38/) * 30 Grocery Items That Don't Exist But Should (https://pictojam.com/p/30-grocery-items-that-dont-exist-but-should) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! David Macaulay, Turing Tumble, stem cells, mini-brains, organoids, eyes, optic cups, Facebook, metaverse, video conferencing, meetings, Gather, Online Town, Flatland, prison, Print Shop, Polytron, soup-like homogenates, fake grocery items This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes

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]]> Episode 188: Lemonade Stand for Plagues https://dgshow.org/188 248ee2c7-07d4-4a8b-bcdf-0838f9ff3ce1 Thu, 06 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally. 30:50 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: Wearables. Literally. 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-bypassing-paywalls-to-share-studies-about-coronaviruses) Coronavirus Is Not The ‘Corona Beer Virus,’ What People Are Googling (https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/01/30/coronavirus-is-not-the-corona-beer-virus-what-people-are-googling/) See also: Plague Inc. maker: Don’t use our game for coronavirus modeling (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/plague-inc-maker-dont-use-our-game-for-coronavirus-modeling/) Lemonade Stand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand) PharmaSim (https://www.interpretive.com/business-simulations/pharmasim/) To-Read: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103431.Civilization_and_Capitalism_15th_18th_Century_Vol_1) Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/730885.Beria) Cry for help? Dave read 9M words (https://getpocket.com/stats/2019/89ce5beb94) in Pocket, equivalent to 122 books. He’s a one-percenter. Kid’s Bulletproof Hoodie (Unisex) (https://wonderhoodie.com/products/kids-bullet-proof-hoodie?variant=13837983449143) Turn Your Cat's Face Into A Wearable Mask (https://kotaku.com/turn-your-cats-face-into-a-wearable-mask-1833057330) AirPod Carrying Strap (https://shop.nordstrom.com/s/tapper-airpod-carrying-strap/5092788/lite) New USB cable kills your Linux laptop if stolen in a public place (https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-usb-cable-kills-your-linux-laptop-if-stolen-in-a-public-place/) Getting Your Team to Do More Than Meet Deadlines (https://hbr.org/2019/11/getting-your-team-to-do-more-than-meet-deadlines) See also this shameless plug: 10 tips to run more effective meetings in 2020 (https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/1/how-run-effective-meetings-10-tips) Cutting Room Floor * OpenStreetMap Haiku project generates poetry about your location (https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/17/openstreetmap-haiku/) * Welsh Password Generator (https://welshpassword.wheresalice.info/) * New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/new-tweet-generator-mocks-venture-capitalists/) * LaCroix flavor generator (https://lacroix.glitch.me/) * See also (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5849539/Hilarious-tweet-goes-viral-suggesting-new-LaCroix-flavor-names.html) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! coronavirus, Corona beer, Plague Inc., Lemonade Stand, PharmaSim, Civilization and Capitalization, Beria, Pocket, bulletproof hoodies, pet masks, AirPod carrying straps, BusKill, udev, proactive time, pro-time, meetings, OpenStreetMap, haiku, Welsh, venture capitalists, LaCroix This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally.

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]]> Episode 146: The Mutability of History https://dgshow.org/146 e22d96b2-e7bc-4620-bad1-52f701a64bf5 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming 39:49 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming Same Waze, Bigger Screen: Waze for Android Auto is Here (https://blog.waze.com/2017/07/Waze-for-Android-Auto.html) D&G This Week in Biometrics: Japanese researchers spin up toilet paper gyroscopes for science (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/15/toilet_paper_gyroscopes_for_science/) HT Jim Wildman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-wildman-93870a1/): Breaking News (http://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/) LyreBird (https://lyrebird.ai/demo): Copy the voice of anyone HP laptops covertly log user keystrokes, researchers warn (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/hp-laptops-covert-log-every-keystroke-researchers-warn/) Radio Controlled Pacemakers Are Easily Hacked (http://hackaday.com/2017/05/27/radio-controlled-pacemakers-are-easily-hacked/) Events have reminders before they are scheduled to begin, but should they have reminders before they are scheduled to end? See also: Back to Work #331 (http://5by5.tv/b2w/331) Cutting Room Floor * The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run) * Twitter number stations (http://hackaday.com/2017/05/09/number-twitters/) * The Other Side Of The Berlin Wall: Life On A Street In 1980s East Germany (http://flashbak.com/the-other-side-of-the-berlin-wall-life-on-a-street-in-1980s-east-germany-384648/) * $425 Convertible Jorts Are Proof We Live In The End Times For Denim (https://consumerist.com/2017/05/18/425-convertible-jorts-are-proof-we-live-in-the-end-times-for-denim/) * Today In WTF Fashion: TopShop Sells Clear ‘Jeans’ While Nordstrom Charges $425 For ‘Muddy’ Ones (https://consumerist.com/2017/04/25/today-in-wtf-fashion-topshop-sells-clear-jeans-while-nordstrom-charges-425-for-muddy-ones/) * Leo Tolstoy’s Macaroni and Cheese Recipe (1874) (http://flashbak.com/leo-tolstoys-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe-1874-380708/) We Give Thanks * Jim Wildman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-wildman-93870a1) and the D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! This week Dave and Gunnar talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming

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