web02.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:05:36 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Twitter” https://dgshow.org/tags/twitter Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -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 254: I’m Sorry, But I Cannot Provide an Answer to Your Question as It Goes Against OpenAI’s Use Policy https://dgshow.org/254 96403335-33c5-4c08-b8a5-82f30760659e Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu. 37:38 no This week, Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu. Bali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali) ’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tongue-controlled-touchscreens-hit-market-year-rcna133270) Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brains-are-not-required-when-it-comes-to-thinking-and-solving-problems-simple-cells-can-do-it/) Search X for "goes against OpenAI's" (https://twitter.com/search?q=%22goes%20against%20OpenAI%27s%22&src=typed_query&f=live) See in particular (https://twitter.com/UrgentResurgent/status/1744860782687297715) Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request” (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request/) Here’s a New Caption That Works for All New Yorker Cartoons—Especially in the Caption Contest (https://slate.com/culture/2015/09/universal-new-yorker-cartoon-captions-hi-i-d-like-to-add-you-to-my-professional-network-on-linkedin-joins-the-canon.html) Lead Engager (https://salesstack.ai/lead-engager) The Opposite of Déjà Vu Is a Thing, And It's Even More Uncanny (https://www.sciencealert.com/the-opposite-of-dj-vu-is-a-thing-and-its-even-more-uncanny) Cutting Room Floor * 1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far) (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/1d-pac-man-is-the-best-game-ive-played-in-2024-so-far/) * Ambiphone (https://ambiph.one/): For all your ambient number station needs * Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How (https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/dance-like-david-byrne-an-easy-to-follow-instructional-video-shows-you-how.html) * Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Bali, input devices, tongues, VR, basal cognition, AI, OpenAI, generative AI, X, Twitter, Amazon, New Yorker, cartoons, LinkedIn, jamais vu, déjà vu, Pac Man, Ambiphone, number stations, coughing, David Byrne, dancing, David Attenborough This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu.

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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 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats https://dgshow.org/242 343477b9-76c8-406e-8226-f6590a5b4977 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216! 34:10 no This week, Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216! Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outlanders/id1463407936)! Dave endorsed: OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySENWFIkL7c) (see YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySENWFIkL7c)) Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/) (see YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPSnDYJU6A)) Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac (https://support.apple.com/sq-al/guide/mac-help/mchlp1011/mac) John le Carré (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9) NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts (https://gizmodo.com/nypd-considers-blocking-public-from-radio-scanner-broad-1849599071) US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes (https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/us-police-parking-meters-phishing-qr-codes/) ICE set up a fake college to catch fraudsters. Students say they were duped. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/ice-set-fake-college-catch-fraudsters-students-say-duped-rcna19488) Check out unnj.edu on the Wayback machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20150228020908/http://www.unnj.edu/), the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Northern_New_Jersey), and 80+ UNNJ graduates on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-northern-new-jersey/people/) D&G This Week in Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things: ISO 216 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216) is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America ISO 128 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_128): Matching technical pen widths Cutting Room Floor * Verified stickers: $8 (https://dbrand.com/shop/special-edition/verified) * Tumblr blue internet checkmarks: 2 for $7.99 (https://www.tumblr.com/staff/700564142648606720/hi-were-introducing-completely-useless-blue) * Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/herzog-and-zizek-become-uncanny-ai-bots-trapped-in-endless-conversation/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Outlanders, OBS, Open Broadcast Studio, Rectangle, Mac, modifier keys, John le Carré, NYPD, encryption, radios, QR codes, phishing, ICE, University of Northern New Jersey, UNNJ, ISO 216, A4, paper, 8.5x11, ISO 128, verified stickers, Twitter, Tumblr, Werner Herzog, Slavoj Žižek, AI, debate This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216!

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]]> Episode 229: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss https://dgshow.org/229 fd668fd0-1309-4de1-b92d-95a1b55e9599 Sat, 18 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! 31:58 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! Dune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00nnKL87EwE) RHEL 9 Beta (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-rhel-90-beta) Pine Gap (https://www.netflix.com/title/80195198) Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/wanted-disgruntled-employees-to-deploy-ransomware/) Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo (https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-nose-stimulation-enables-smelling-in-stereo) A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger (https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/aw-turns-its-worst-marketing-fail-new-burger) How Twitter Applied the “Jobs to Be Done” Approach to Strategy (https://hbr.org/2021/10/how-twitter-applied-the-jobs-to-be-done-approach-to-strategy) Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure (https://hbr.org/2005/12/marketing-malpractice-the-cause-and-the-cure) Cutting Room Floor * Hot dog candy canes (https://mcphee.com/collections/new/products/hot-dog-candy-canes) * Gilbert Gottfried reads the Bitcoin White Paper because you were too lazy to read it yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOOmcC5Cpw) * Straight Outta Compton - Oktoberfest Edition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLY4TsZBExY) * Create Some Cool Fart Licks With This Guitar Pedal Tuned for Toots (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/651722/guitar-pedal-adds-farts-music) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Dune, IMAX, RHEL, RHEL 9, Pine Gap, Netflix, ransomware, stereo, smelling, smells, olfactory bulb, trigeminal nerve, A&W, burgers, math, 1/3, 1/4, 3/9, Twitter, jobs to be done, hot dogs, candy canes, Gilbert Gottfried, Bitcoin, Bitcoin whitepaper, Straight Outta Compton, Oktoberfest, guitar pedals This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs!

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]]> Episode 220: Is It a Zip File? Is It an MP3? You Decide! https://dgshow.org/220 d395cf59-f843-412b-8985-00fe3e8a5a00 Mon, 10 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3 27:00 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3 Austin has passed Prop B, reinstating the public camping ban. What happens now? (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/austin-has-passed-prop-b-reinstating-the-public-camping-ban-what-happens-now/ar-BB1gjBfT) Meanwhile in Richmond: Steelers draft pick Najee Harris throws party at homeless shelter where he once lived (https://www.woodtv.com/news/national/steelers-draft-pick-najee-harris-throws-party-at-homeless-shelter-where-he-once-lived/) FTC issues stern warning: Biased AI may break the law (https://www.protocol.com/ftc-bias-ai) How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers (https://traced.app/2021/04/13/whatsapp-status-loophole-is-aiding-cyberstalkers/) Face editing: Japanese biker tricks internet into thinking he is a young woman (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56447357) Twitter images can be abused to hide ZIP, MP3 files — here's how (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twitter-images-can-be-abused-to-hide-zip-mp3-files-heres-how/) Try it yourself Download this (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewo_O6zWUAAWizr?format=png&name=large) as surprise.png Open the file Rename surprise.png to surprise.mp3 Open the file This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/10/fake_mova_programming/) He looks forward to seeing everyone at MOVAcon '21 in Agloe, NY (https://agloenewyork.com/about/). GPT-3 tries pickup lines (https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/gpt-3-tries-pickup-lines) Cutting Room Floor * You'll Want to Avoid Typos at ALL Costs With this Hand Grenade Keyboard (https://gizmodo.com/youll-want-to-avoid-typos-at-all-costs-with-this-hand-g-1846712101) * This Freaky Little 'Eyecam' Wants You to Know Your Computer Is Watching You (https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgw3j/eyecam-webcam-wants-you-to-know-your-computer-is-watching-you) * Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts – 1956-1998 (https://flashbak.com/nuclear-reactor-wall-charts-1956-1998-441062/) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Austin, Proposition B, Prop B, homelessness, Richmond, Najee Harris, Steelers, FTC, AI, AI bias, WhatsApp, cyberstaking, FaceApp, Japan, Twitter, png, mp3, zip, steganography, MOVA, MOVAcon, Algoe, GPT-3, pickup lines This week Dave and Gunnar talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3

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]]> Episode 219: Chimera in a Can https://dgshow.org/219 16c3bc6d-283c-4917-86fd-5c88031bda09 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee! 28:54 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee! @dgshowDotOrg (https://twitter.com/dgshowDotOrg)! Cloud Player (https://www.doubletwist.com/cloudplayer) crushes YouTube Music (https://music.youtube.com/) Bitsbox (https://bitsbox.com) You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/05/openai_writing_attack/) A world first: A robot able to "hear" through the ear of a locust (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/tu-awf030221.php) The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells (https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/07/smellicopter-avoids-obstacles-uses-live-moth-antenna-to-smell/) Chef Boyardee Found His Start In Cleveland, Ohio… Then Became A Household Name (https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/cleveland/chef-boyardee-cle/) Cutting Room Floor * COVID eyewear (https://www.amazon.com/Bevi-Sunglasses-Entertainment-Protective-Eyewear/dp/B08TB2VFMT): Stylish and comfortable indoor and outdoor protection * The Black Hole (1979) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/) * Airlines have strict mask policies. This NJ man got kicked off a United flight for wearing one (https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/transportation/2021/02/05/man-says-he-got-kicked-off-united-flight-out-newark-his-mask/4392976001/) * Fisher-Price® My Home Office (https://www.fisher-price.com/en-us/product/my-home-office-gmn43) We Give Thanks * Erich Morisse (https://twitter.com/emorisse) for the Bitsbox! * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Twitter, dgshowDotOrg, CloudPlayer, YouTube Music, Google Play Music, Bitsbox, OpenAI, typographical attacks, CLIP, robots, locust ears, Smellicopter, drones, moth antennae, Chef Boyardee, COVID eyewear, The Black Hole, PPE, masks, airlines, United Airlines, Fisher-Price My Home Office This week Dave and Gunnar talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee!

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]]> 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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