Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing
What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3? Enhanced container tools, more system roles and new cloud admin tools just for starters (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-83)
Chromecast with Google TV (https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv): Bug, feature, or dark pattern?
Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/) scores
Search not as good as JustWatch (https://www.justwatch.com/)
But it has Hoopla (https://www.hoopladigital.com/)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11852811)
D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google Play Music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Music)
D&G Viewer Mail
Ken Guest (http://twitter.com/kenguest) writes (https://twitter.com/kenguest/status/1330148404379389954), “Listening to episode 210 @davidegts (https://twitter.com/davidegts), @ghelleks (https://twitter.com/ghelleks) podcast, specifically about Google Home presence detection - have you looked at Home Assistant? It might give you better fidelity for same.”
Andrew Stellman (https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman) writes (https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/1329421073243377666), “Reminded of that quote from the Yellowstone Park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
See also (https://twitter.com/mathematicsprof/status/1327678313876385792): 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 (https://twitter.com/answerswithjoe/status/1319787462089187328) 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 (https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/02/in_brief_ai/)
Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/nvidia-used-neural-networks-to-improve-video-calling-bandwidth-by-10x/)
D&G This Week Not at Ben Gurion University
Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks (https://kottke.org/20/08/researchers-can-duplicate-keys-from-the-sounds-they-make-in-locks)
This horrifying Zoom hack will deter you from ever side-chatting again (https://www.fastcompany.com/90570509/this-horrifying-zoom-hack-will-deter-you-from-ever-side-chatting-again)
Mmhmm: This app makes presenting in Zoom more effective—and even entertaining (https://www.fastcompany.com/90570287/this-app-makes-presenting-in-zoom-more-effective-and-even-entertaining)
When COVID-19 is a joke: Stand-up comedy versus livestreaming’s limits (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/stand-up-meets-covid-19-how-platforms-fare-with-comedys-two-way-street/)
Sturgeon's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law): “90% of everything is crap”
Cutting Room Floor
* A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961) (https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2i9sy5/a_salesman_has_his_motorized_roller_skates/)
We Give Thanks
* Ken Guest (http://twitter.com/kenguest) for the Google Home tips!
* Andrew Stellman (http://twitter.com/AndrewStellman) for the reminder about optimal garbage can design!
* The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing

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!