Grumpy Old Geeks 534: Fat Finger Financial Foibles
Christmas is cancelled; Bezos gets his wings; subscription models; AWS outage; centralized exchanges; Buzzfeed headlines; Twitter Spaces lack moderation; Vegans and NFT'ers; some smart NFT moves; fat finger errors; Facebook exec blames people; click to subscribe, call to cancel; A&M Records; the Expanse; Star Trek: Discovery; FC Bayern; Dan Carlin; thumper spikes; DiePods; drunk purchases; Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser; comprised Twitter accounts; Log4j and software dependencies.
Show notes at https://gog.show/534
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FOLLOW UP
The FAA will give Bezos and Branson its last astronaut wings
Mercedes-Benz gets world’s first approval for automated driving system
Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob
IN THE NEWS
Amazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internet
Amazon’s Server Outage Took Down a ‘Decentralized’ Crypto Exchange
How Former BuzzFeed Employees Missed Their Big Payday
Twitter asks judge to throw out Trump's lawsuit over ban
Twitter reportedly knew Spaces could be misused due to a lack of moderation
Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000
NIKE buys RTFKT, a virtual brand that makes metaverse-ready sneakers
Strengthening digital provenance with OpenSea and Adobe
Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
Senate bill would facilitate social platforms sharing data with outside researchers
Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.
MEDIA CANDY
Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Addendum
Everything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer HD | A24
APPS & DOODADS
Victor M9012 Sonic 2 Spike, Yellow
Controversial ‘suicide pod’ that ‘kills peacefully’ gets go-ahead in Switzerland
Arduino UNO Mini Limited Edition
AT THE LIBRARY
Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events
Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
SECURITY HAH!
First Look | "Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser" | With Walt Disney Imagineering | Walt Disney World
Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Welcome video - Very Star Tours like.
Someone 'briefly compromised' the Indian Prime Minister's Twitter account
Logging library for millions of apps has a serious vulnerability
Google disrupted a massive botnet that hackers used to steal information and mine cryptocurrency
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
Michael Nesmith — considerably more than a Monkee — dies at 78
Anne Rice, ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Writer, Dies at 80
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