web01.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:08:01 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Uber” https://dgshow.org/tags/uber Tue, 30 Apr 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 256: Kufelik Olmak https://dgshow.org/256 2f711eb7-7e1b-4a0e-bedd-f85cf1c012f0 Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets 40:30 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets Fallout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(American_TV_series)) Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Buds#Pixel_Buds_Pro) Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced (https://gemini.google.com/advanced) Laudato Si (https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html), paragraph 107 HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/) These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen While Tripping (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akkd9/psychedelic-cryptography-videos-have-hidden-messages-designed-to-be-seen-while-tripping) Too Drunk to Drive? Forget Ubers, Take a Basket Man Instead (https://www.historyinmemes.com/2023/02/19/too-drunk-to-drive-forget-ubers-take-a-basket-man-instead/) Cutting Room Floor * Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/once-too-scary-to-release-gpt-2-gets-squeezed-into-an-excel-spreadsheet/) * This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him (https://gizmodo.com/flirt-with-los-mayers-app-developer-dating-art-1851258014) * Reggaeton Be Gone (https://www.hackster.io/roni-bandini/reggaeton-be-gone-e5b6e2) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Fallout, Google, Pixel Buds, Pixel Buds Pro, Gemini, Gemini Advanced, Pope Francis, Laudato Si, HP, printers, ink cartridges, ink, buffer overflows, psychedelic cryptography, cryptography, Turkey, Kufelik Olmak, Kufe, Kufeci, drinkinkg, baskets, gig economy, Uber, GPT-2, Excel, dating apps, reggaeton, Reggaeton Be Gone This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets

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Cutting Room Floor

We Give Thanks

  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 234: You Are the Active Ingredient https://dgshow.org/234 93e50ea4-bcf3-4ae8-a7bb-5f0df8e6026c Fri, 06 May 2022 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time) 31:03 no This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time) Keychain garage door openers (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Chamberlain-Universal-2-Button-Keychain-Garage-Door-Opener-Remote/1000133147): they’re great! How to See Your Uber Passenger Ratings Breakdown (and Improve Your Score) (https://lifehacker.com/how-to-see-your-uber-passenger-ratings-breakdown-and-i-1848547158) How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot) (https://lifehacker.com/how-to-download-everything-amazon-knows-about-you-its-1848412242) Dave endorsed: Grammarly Premium (https://www.grammarly.com/premium) iOS malware can fake iPhone shut downs to snoop on camera, microphone (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ios-malware-can-fake-iphone-shut-downs-to-snoop-on-camera-microphone/) Farmer gives cows VR headsets to reduce anxiety and increase milk production (https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/07/farmer-gives-cooped-up-cows-vr-headsets-to-increase-milk-production-15880604/) These crypto enthusiasts are trying to raise $4 billion to buy the Denver Broncos (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/19/-buythebroncos-dao-aims-to-raise-4-billion-to-buy-denver-broncos.html) BuyTheBroncos (https://www.buythebroncos.com/) Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you. (https://www.protocol.com/entertainment/upland-augmented-reality-real-estate) Superworld (https://www.superworldapp.com/) Cutting Room Floor * This Clever Device Detects the Amount of Metal in Music (https://www.hackster.io/news/this-clever-device-detects-the-amount-of-metal-in-music-d08509982627) * Atlas Missile Silo for Sale, Cheap (https://homesandhues.com/p/atlas-missile-silo-for-sale-cheap) ($380K) * Zeebo – Honest Placebo Pills Designed to Help You Create a Safe Experience on Your Path to Well-Being (https://www.amazon.com/Zeebo-Placebo-Designed-Experience-Well-being/dp/B00NUKW26M) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! garage door openers, Uber, Amazon, personally identifiable information, PII, ratings, Grammarly, Grammarly Premium, iOS, malware, fake shutdown, farmers, cows, VR, milk, milk production, cryptocurrencies, Denver Broncos, Denver, augmented reality, AR, real estate, AR real estate, Superworld, metal, music, metal detector, missile silos, Zeebo, placebos, placebo pills This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time)

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

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 195: Space Marine or Flying Liquor Store? https://dgshow.org/195 a328f25f-5959-4b2d-955c-daae59b152c4 Sun, 10 May 2020 07:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world. 36:42 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world. Moomin (https://www.moomin.com/en/) Jukebox: a neural net that generates music (https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/) Man Says He's Fallen in Love With an AI Chatbot (https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/04/11/1353236/man-says-hes-fallen-in-love-with-an-ai-chatbot) ELIZA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) This is what air travel could look like in a post-coronavirus world (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-what-air-travel-could-look-like-in-a-post-coronavirus-world-2020-04-21) Uber is testing rooftop ads on its ridesharing fleet (https://www.engadget.com/2020-02-24-uber-rooftop-ads-adomni.html) 11 New Words and Phrases Inspired by the Coronavirus (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/623726/new-words-inspired-coronavirus) Cutting Room Floor * Mosh Pit Simulator (http://moshpitsimulator.com/) * AI-generated anime: Selfie 2 Waifu (https://waifu.lofiu.com/) * AI-generated memes: This Meme Does Not Exist (https://imgflip.com/ai-meme) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Moomin, Jukebox, AI, Replika, ELIZA, air travel, Aviointeriors, Janus, Uber, Adomni, Coronavirus, vocabulary This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world.

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Cutting Room Floor

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 181: Freedom Is Slavery https://dgshow.org/181 e42e32e2-785f-4b46-8862-1f9d823f1529 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order) 35:33 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) Dark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80100172) Camping towels (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-packable-camp-towels/) Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa55z8/researchers-fool-recaptcha-with-googles-own-speech-to-text-service) One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538194/google-duplex-ai-restaurants-experiences-review-robocalls) Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy? (https://www.wired.com/story/why-is-voice-shopping-bad/) Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/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 (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/15/18624906/uber-black-quiet-mode-luxury-feature-lyft-zen) Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans (https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/googles-ai-group-moves-on-from-go-tackles-quake-iii-arena/) Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents (https://deepmind.com/blog/capture-the-flag-science/) Centaur: How combined human and computer intelligence will redefine jobs (https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/how-combined-human-and-computer-intelligence-will-redefine-jobs/) Princesses need pockets: A plea for jeans that fit our lives and our waistlines (https://www.androidcentral.com/princesses-need-pockets) Articles of Interest #3: Pockets (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/pockets-articles-of-interest-3/) Tyranny of Structurelessness (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm) by Jo Freeman Cutting Room Floor * Even more secret Telegrams (https://medium.com/@labunskya/secret-telegrams-bdd2035b6e84): 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 (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/for-less-than-10-anyone-can-make-an-ai-write-a-fake-un-speech/) * User Inyerface (https://userinyerface.com/game.html) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! RHEL 8, Dark, camping towels, ReCAPTCHA, UnCaptcha, Google, Duplex, CallJoy, Amazon Basics, Uber, Quake, Centaur, pockets, holsters, structurelessness, Telegram, AI, User Inyerface This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order)

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

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 179: Jabbrrbox https://dgshow.org/179 585c02ed-3772-464b-b8c8-67ce5f144f69 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave talks with Jeremy Jennings about Jabbrbox! 38:52 no Welcome Jeremy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-jennings-4964522/)! Jabbrrbox (https://www.jabbrrbox.com/) Micro-offices—anywhere—for the mobile workforce (https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/micro-offices-anywhere-mobile-workforce) Jabbrrbox 2018 Showroom Tour (https://www.interiordesign.net/videos/15132-jabbrrbox-2018-showroom-tour/) Privately owned public space (POPS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (https://www.quietrev.com/quiet-the-book/) Priority Pass (https://www.prioritypass.com/) Clear (https://www.clearme.com/) Registered Traveller for U.S. Citizens (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/international-arrangements/registered-traveller/us-citizens) Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/uber-quiet-ride/) Cafe X Robotic Coffee Bars (https://cafexapp.com/) We Give Thanks * Jeremy Jennings (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-jennings-4964522/) of Jabbrrbox for being our special guest star! Special Guest: Jeremy Jennings. Jabbrrbox, POPS, Quiet, introverts, Priority Pass, Clear, Registered Traveller, Uber, Cafe X
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  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
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  • Welcome Jeremy!
  • Jabbrrbox
  • Privately owned public space (POPS)
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
  • Priority Pass
  • Clear
  • Registered Traveller for U.S. Citizens
  • Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode
  • Cafe X Robotic Coffee Bars

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    Special Guest: Jeremy Jennings.

    ]]>     Episode 168: #TrashCasket https://dgshow.org/168 1f8a7068-97a4-4a8a-a4c0-a2829607e87a Wed, 31 Oct 2018 06:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon 34:54 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon RHEL 7.6 is out (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/7.6_release_notes/)! #TrashCasket: Someone actually threw out a casket with the garbage in Akron and we know the story behind who picked it up (http://www.cleveland19.com/2018/09/17/someone-actually-threw-out-casket-with-garbage-akron-we-tracked-down-story/) Browns fans finally open those Bud Light fridges to celebrate a win (https://www.sbnation.com/2018/9/20/17883828/browns-win-free-beer-bud-light-fridges-celebrate-cleveland) D&G Mailbag: D&G Superfan Andrew Sanders says "I do not recall laughing harder or being any more horrified than when listening to episode #165." He also asks “in D&G 165 did Gunnar intentionally made a biblical reference to 3:16 when he joked about the hug request for train car 316?” Afraid of needles? These start-ups are working on alternatives (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2018/07/08/afraid-needles-these-start-ups-working-alternatives-syringes/718344002/) Selfies show worm slithered through woman’s face for 2 weeks (https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/selfies-show-worm-slithered-through-womans-face-for-2-weeks/) Uber can tell whether you are drunk by the way you hold your phone (https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/tech/uber-tell-drunk-way-hold-103219165.html) PSA: Signal and Whatsapp Are Only as Private as the People You Talk To (https://lifehacker.com/anonymous-chat-apps-like-signal-and-whatsapp-are-only-a-1826678815) See also: "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/benjamin_franklin_162078) - Benjamin Franklin Amazon Has Come Up With a Genius New Way to Run Productive Meetings (https://www.inc.com/business-insider/jeff-bezos-amazon-brilliant-method-run-productive-meetings.html) Open sourced as aws-ops-wheel (https://github.com/aws/aws-ops-wheel) Why Jeff Bezos makes Amazon execs read 6-page memos at the start of each meeting (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/23/what-jeff-bezos-learned-from-requiring-6-page-memos-at-amazon.html) Cutting Room Floor * This Coder Fit a Bootable CD and Video Game Into a Tweet (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pqnd/this-coder-fit-a-bootable-cd-and-video-game-into-a-tweet) * Get your own HAL-9000 replica with Bluetooth and voice command (https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/02/hal-9000-replica-bluetooth-voice-command/) * Candle that smells like Chinese takeout (https://shop.coolmaterial.com/products/chinese-take-out-candle) * Bacon-scented mustache (https://mcphee.com/products/bacon-scented-mustache) * Clam-flavored candy canes (https://mcphee.com/products/clamdy-canes) * Meat vending machine (https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2018/08/22/applestone-meat-s-steak-vending-machine#gs.PguYeUc) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! * Andrew Sanders for the viewer mail! RHEL 7.6, TrashCasket, Browns, needles, worms, Uber, Signal, Whatsapp, Amazon, AWS, Bezos This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Needles in stomachs, worms in faces, drunks in Ubers, and meetings in Amazon

    Cutting Room Floor

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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!
    • Andrew Sanders for the viewer mail!
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