Combustible Brains
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Combustible Brains is a podcast where all is fair game, as long as we find appeal in it. We're a bunch of enthusiasts of technology, martial arts, motorcycles and coffee beans. Expect no less in any episode.
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Sir, your social media salad is ready for pickup
July 31, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 85.5 MBInstagram is slowly turning the knobs on its app to take on Tiktok, the biggest video platform in the world. In order to take on the Chinese giant, Instagram must make its app video first, and they're on it, the question is - will it work? Link to the NYtimes article we refer to - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/business/media/tiktok-algorithm.html
We do some unplanned social commentary!
July 16, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes - 93 MBWe planned to make an episode on how to securely upload pictures (we promise to still do this episode), but ended up talking about society, social media, and the modern world.
An Era Of Hexadecimal Intelligence
July 10, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 48.1 MBA google engineer recently posted about a machine being sentient (alive?) and got prompty fired for it. Here we dig in and find out if the era of machines is upon us already. We discuss what it means to be sentient and alive. We also recommend you read this article https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917
Your Cousin Is A Whiny Socialist
December 19, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 71.8 MBFirst we rant, and then we talk about the antiwork movement on reddit, captured on https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/. I'm too bored to write a longer description, so listen to the podcast instead.
Blue Balled By Communism
December 04, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutes - 61.9 MBIn this episode we touch on how evil empires now control one of the most important minerals required for making electric cars a reality, as we move to a cleaner and greener future, we must understand the evil forces that might ultimately shape the world we envision. Let's build technology to go Cobalt free!
Computers get sophisticated STDs, just like you!
November 20, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 79.5 MBToday we talk about Stuxnet, a sophisticated virus designed to cause real damage, in this episode we also talk about other cyberattacks that Governments these days love. Finally, if you have feedback for us, you can write that email and throw it away, because we don't have a feedback line yet.
Bonjour, my little electric skateboard
November 13, 2021 00:00 - 38 minutes - 70.8 MBElectric cars are the rage, Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, the Chinese carmakers are slowly controlling the world's rare minerals supply, we have a casual chat about these trivial issues.
Zucktard, and the Metaverse of Stupidity
November 06, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBIn this episode, we talk about the newly revealed re-brand of Facebook as Meta, as a part of Mark Zuckerberg's grand vision of metaverse. Its supposed to be a shared virtual universe where we can all meet and hangout, similar to the concept shown in the movie Ready Player One.
Brave New World
July 22, 2020 22:35 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIn this episode, we get a little philosophical as we walk through Aldous Huxley's best work - Brave New World, we then compare and contrast this dystopian paradise to our own, Huxley wrote this in 1932 and looking back today, one might say he was right. We discuss on what it means to be free, and if we're just cogs in the wheels of society.
Indians Banning Chinese Apps
June 22, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutes - 91.9 MBToday we're talking about the Indians banning Chinese apps in response to the current India-China situation. We then talk about how you can best protect your privacy using pragmatic tools like Signal.