David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

Dave & Gunnar Show

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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.

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David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

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Society

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dgshow.org

Latest episode

Jun 4, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 235: The Cult of the Dead Fruit on the Back of the Computer 19.05.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about his new crayon-free book Podman in Action ! The Container Commandos Coloring Book Podman Podman in Action by Dan Walsh! Docker systemd Kubernetes OpenShift Get started with RHEL for Edge rpm-ostree podman-machine Docker Desktop Podman Desktop What Is Confidential Computing? virtiofs podman-tui SCaLE 19x Red Hat Summit Flatpak Fedora Silverblue To...

Episode 234: You Are the Active Ingredient 06.05.2022

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) Keychain garage door openers : they’re great! How to See Your Uber Passenger Ratings Breakdown (and Improve Your Score) How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot) Dave endorsed: Grammarly Premium iOS malware can...

Episode 233: Flavor Canister 28.02.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reverse engineering taste and reverse engineering AI training sets! Google Meet bot Drafts Todoist The Eisenhower Matrix Tech Startup Wants To Gamify the U.S. Court System Using Crypto Tokens No one asked for lickable TV, and yet… This Weight-Changing Cup Alters Your Perception of Flavor This X Does Not Exist Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction...

Episode 232: CRIME SKELETON! 16.02.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fish, rats, cockroaches, and screaming Drafts ! From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals See also: D&G 43 -- Goldfish driving a robot car -- Feb 2014! Rats in Doom VR Remote Control Cockroach Ingenious new search and rescue drone finds people by listening for screams I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing Jean Shepherd Non-Fung...

Episode 231: Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble 07.02.2022

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge “Sent from my iPhone”: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Write Emails from Your Phone Air Conditioning test in Allendale FBI: FIN7 hackers target US companies with BadUSB devices to install ransomware See also: D&G 138 (from 2017!) Almost related: Remote staff are using ‘mouse...

Episode 230: Need Some Gom Jabbars 23.12.2021

Dave read Dune The Dune Encyclopedia Luminations Antiwork Receipt Printers Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call Check the examples: GitHub - iperov/DeepFaceLive Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings Biometric auth bypassed using fingerprint photo, printer, and glue Dr. David A. Wheeler...

Episode 229: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss 18.12.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! Dune RHEL 9 Beta Pine Gap Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger How Twitter Applied the “Jobs to Be Done” Approach to Strategy Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure Cutting Room...

Episode 228: This Email Could Have Been an AI Avatar 17.11.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel iPad Mini remains excellent Leaf blower paradox of choice A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones How I Sent Over 10,000...

Episode 227: Meetings and Punishment 04.10.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes David Macaulay books and Turing Tumble Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking 'horror' Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious Gather Fla...

Episode 226: Plowshares into Swords 27.09.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about appreciating our listeners, gassing bank robbers, wardriving smart meters Marriott misses Dave New Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard Hogwarts Castle Lego is a journey D&G Viewer Mail Uzoma Nwosu rejoices Norm Joseph endorses Norms Dr. David A. Wheeler says: “Podcast didn’t mention by name “ Law(s) of War ”, yet I think that’s what you meant” Pyrotechnic-Aspyhxia...

Episode 225: Criminal Value Chain 24.08.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about backdoor innovation, gig economy innovation, and deep work retro innovation Microsoft Natural Keyboards are not water-resistant Mini Metro Critics Say Apple Built a 'Backdoor' Into Your iPhone With Its New Child Abuse Detection Tools Related: The CEO of WhatsApp Attacked Apple Over Privacy. He Seems to Have Forgotten He Works for Facebook “The nonprofit Electro...

Episode 224: Smells Like Sauerkraut 12.08.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Foo Fighters at the ICON Music Center Are advertisers coming for your dreams? Silent Lucidity by Queensryche Unrelated: Sleep Sensing on Nest Hub (2nd gen) Also unrelated: Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit We...

Episode 223: Digital Skinner Box 02.08.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about teaching AI art and sarcasm, teaching humans dark patterns, and teaching all dogs new tricks Apple AirCans Mi Band 6 New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional Introducing AWS Infinidash - WITH DEMO! Open Thread: The Unreal Engine Trick Today in Tabs by Rusty Foster A DARPA Sarcasm Detector Is Good 'Terms & Conditions...

Episode 222: Clever Girl 30.05.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises! Jurassic Park Ohio Vax-a-Million What is the New Jersey “Shot and a Beer” program? What breweries are participating? This amazing AI tool lets you create human faces from scratch Thanks To Merriam-Webster, You Can Now Own The...

Episode 221: Money’s the Answer. What’s the Question? 19.05.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Eric Burger about secure, insecure, and mostly secure computing, and a whole lot more! HPE Public Sector Summit : 5G: The Future Connectivity at the Edge panel Shockey’s Law Software Bill of Materials Dr. David A. Wheeler Digital signatures Homomorphic encryption Information warfare The Tor Project CyberCorps at Georgetown FCC Combating Spoofed Robocalls with Ca...

Episode 220: Is It a Zip File? Is It an MP3? You Decide! 10.05.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar 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? Meanwhile in Richmond: Steelers draft pick Najee Harris throws party at homeless shelter where he once lived FTC issues stern warning: Biased AI may break the law How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cybersta...

Episode 219: Chimera in a Can 27.04.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee! @dgshowDotOrg ! Cloud Player crushes YouTube Music Bitsbox You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see A world first: A robot able to "hear" through the ear of a locust The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that...

Episode 218: What Would Marlie Do? 14.04.2021

101st Airborne Division D&G 189: Marlie Moxinspike The battle inside Signal See also: Can WhatsApp stop spreading misinformation without compromising encryption? What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you Cutting Room Floor DIY latex glove bagpipes Bagpipe swing with Gunhild Carling in Central Park NY Menu items renamed as expen...

Episode 217: Blow Up Enemies with the Power of Your Mind 23.03.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about mind-controlled computing, computer-controlled minds, and AI-controlled doppelgangers Texas Deep Freeze Apocalypse Watch Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Bitwarden Is Now the Best Free Alternative to LastPass Dave’s to-do list to review the state of to-do lists: ✅ Remember the Milk Google Tasks ❓ Todoist todoist-shortcuts is a browser extension...

Episode 216: Almost as good as paper 15.03.2021

This week Dave talks with Hassan Khan and Dann Toliver about containerizing assets with containers! Quantius Bento Miso (now Gamma Space ) Toronto JavaScript Haskell Toronto Clojure Toronto CS Cabal WebRTC TODA Proof of Provenance ADOT TODAQ TODA-As-A-Service Enterprise ADOT Server OpenShift We Give Thanks Hassan Khan and Dann Toliver for being our special guest stars! Shermineh Salehi Esmati for...

Episode 215: Referendum on My Likeness 22.02.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism Apple M1 on the way Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask Maskalike : Your face on an N95 mask for $30 Freak Masks : Scare everyone for only $19 Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big...

Episode 214: The Mind of a Medieval Theologian 16.02.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar hear voices, talk to computers, count holes, and qualify sandwiches Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why The five taxonomies of hand foods These Are the Creepiest Gadgets of 2020, According to Mozilla Full list here and scroll down to increase creepiness level New device puts music in your head — no headphones required A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Comp...

Episode 213: Not Going to Solve Sapir-Whorf Today 08.02.2021

This week Dave talks with Joshua Powers about using AI to make AI more ethical! D&G 207 with John Janek! An AI Looks At Human Writings On Ethical Artificial Intelligence Asilomar AI Principles The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis Joint Artificial Intelligence Center AI Ethics Principles Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI Ethics We Give Thanks Joshua Powers for being our special guest star! John J...

Episode 212: Security Requires Thinking (His Monkey, His Circus) 26.01.2021

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dr. David A. Wheeler about what’s new at the Linux Foundation, a brand-new free course on developing secure software, some survey results, and recent news concerning SolarWinds. Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) of the Linux Foundation replaces the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and has several working groups Secure Software Development Fundamental...

Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap 03.12.2020

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 T...

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