• What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3? Enhanced container tools, more system roles and new cloud admin tools just for starters
• Chromecast with Google TV: Bug, feature, or dark pattern?
  • Rotten Tomatoes scores
  • Search not as good as JustWatch
  • But it has Hoopla
    • Colossus: The Forbin Project
• D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google Play Music
• D&G Viewer Mail
  • Ken Guest writes, “Listening to episode 210 @davidegts, @ghelleks podcast, specifically about Google Home presence detection - have you looked at Home Assistant? It might give you better fidelity for same.”
  • Andrew Stellman writes, “Reminded of that quote from the Yellowstone Park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
    • See also: 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 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
  • Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls
• D&G This Week Not at Ben Gurion University
  • Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks
  • This horrifying Zoom hack will deter you from ever side-chatting again
• Mmhmm: This app makes presenting in Zoom more effective—and even entertaining
  • When COVID-19 is a joke: Stand-up comedy versus livestreaming’s limits
  • Sturgeon's law: “90% of everything is crap”

Cutting Room Floor

• A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961)

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!

• RHEL 8.1 is out!
• Gunnar says sketching is great.
• Folding laundry like a boss and with tools
• Your next phone case could have the feel of human skin
  • Partner with Dadbag? (See D&G 147)
• The Gig Economy’s Storage Hustle
• East Cleveland, OH
• New ‘warshipping’ technique gives hackers access to enterprise offices
• Who Gets the Armrests When You Fly Economy?
• Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat

Cutting Room Floor

• 10 Facts About the Beastie Boys's 'Sabotage' Video
• (53) Incredibly Stylish Mugshots From The 1920s
• 100,000 Faces Generated by AI

We Give Thanks

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Dark
• Camping towels
• Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service
• One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex
  • Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy?
• Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses
• Uber’s premium customers can now push a button to tell their drivers to be quiet
• Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans
  • Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents
  • Centaur: How combined human and computer intelligence will redefine jobs
• Princesses need pockets: A plea for jeans that fit our lives and our waistlines
  • Articles of Interest #3: Pockets
• Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman

Cutting Room Floor

• Even more secret Telegrams: how to do a private covert channel over users blocking each other on Telegram
• For less than $10, anyone can make an AI write a fake UN speech
• User Inyerface

We Give Thanks

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

• Powering IT’s future while preserving the present: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta
• Red Hat Continues Drive for More Secure Enterprise IT, Re-Certifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux for FIPS 140-2
• At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
• The Lawfare Podcast
• State Govts. Warned of Malware-Laden CD Sent Via Snail Mail from China
• Change-of-address scam moved UPS corporate headquarters to tiny Rogers Park apartment, feds say
• Pushing The Envelope: How American Airlines Can Become The Amazon Of The Sky And The Next Uber

Cutting Room Floor

• 30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies
• 30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns
• A Flickr Pool Dedicated to Control Panels

We Give Thanks

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