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- 02 / 07 / 2024 -
A couple of the hosts have COVID, Emmanuel is having an ocular migraine, Emmanuel describes the sensation, Alex has a broken leg, Kyle is the only one operating at full capacity, the fight with Google to get word out about the HOPE conference continues, the hoops that admins have to jump through to satisfy Google even when not using their services, how a test email with the word "hacker" was labeled as spam by Google, how this is analogous to censorship on a state level, why whitelisting doesn't solve the problem, the condescending response from Google when filing a complaint, how Google penalizes those who run their own mail servers, the idea of sending messages within pictures, the large amount of spam that comes from Gmail, the weird way Google interprets links in email, how all of this nonsense is affecting the HOPE conference, the challenge of communicating with the current state of social media, annoyances with Signal on older versions of Windows, Alex is challenged on a statement about iPhones, Emmanuel's annoyance with a font change on his phone, examples of important email that Gmail labeled as spam, billionaires who have their private planes tracked, why Taylor Swift has the wrong reaction to this, some listener mail, the last phone books are being delivered in the U.K., the massive amount of energy used by cryptocurrency, the idea for Greencoin, there is no "Overtime" tonight.
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February 7
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- 02 / 14 / 2024 -
It's a double holiday, Rob and Gila are back from a quick round of COVID, a secret involving COVID vaccines, Alex continues to recover from his broken leg, Alex's drug experiences while having his leg set, cane technology, the inevitable battle between mankind and artificial intelligence as a Waymo car in San Francisco is attacked and destroyed by a mob, Kyle explains where the anger is coming from, how an orange cone can disable a self-driving car, how technology is being used to hurt working people with services like Uber and Lyft, how this has become so much worse with driverless cars, Canada may be about to ban the Flipper Zero, why this would be a bad idea, Minnesota burglars use high tech Wi-Fi jammers to break in, the many times cell phone jammers can come in handy, the idea of playing with surveillance technology, memories of a media piece Alex and Emmanuel were involved in that featured the 2600 van, why the idea of baby monitors is inherently a bad one, fun involving the .af domain and Taliban restrictions, why this shouldn't have surprised anyone, Alex explains what generic top level domains are, a closing piece that focuses on baby monitors.
Overtime: Another Negativland piece that couldn't be played over the air, Kyle moves the 2600 van on the YouTube display, the possibility of getting sued by Negativland, how the subject matter of the show coincided with the outro, the culture of jamming, a theoretical scenario illustrates the legal difference between unplugging a network connection and jamming Wi-Fi, memories of voice pagers, memories of a TV-B-Gone incident in Berlin, Alex's wife weighs in on the law, Alex describes a TV-B-Gone incident in a cafeteria, Alex's idea for the phone number, Rebel's question about returning to the studio, phones with high fidelity sound on calls, the overall poor quality of phone calls today, the lack of enunciation in many TV programs which necessitates the use of closed captioning, the last bits of the T-Mobile 2G network is being shut down in April, a radio station has its tower stolen, a question about HOPE, how St. John's became the new home for HOPE, what is appealing about this location, Alex's quest for a walking cane.
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February 14
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Off The Hook Overtime
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Off The Hook Overtime is also available on the Channel2600 YouTube channel here:
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- 02 / 21 / 2024 -
A mistake in the intro, an appeal to support the station, the controversial Reuters story of how an Indian startup hacked the world, the connection with a company called Appin, how this story has been taken down due to legal threats, the fact that stories that talk about this have also been taken down, Cooper Quintin and David Greene from the Electronic Frontier Foundation join the conversation, how this order came about, what's particularly shocking and disturbing about this, how the intimidation tactics didn't work against The New Yorker, another connection to this story, what would happen if lawsuits were being filed from adversarial nations, some hypothetical scenarios, states that have laws against SLAPP lawsuits, how such lawsuits have a chilling effect on free speech, encouraging people to support the radio station after hearing this discussion, the show will be off next week.
Overtime: Confusion over whether there are listeners or not, Rob's t-shirt says "Appin," David and Cooper continue the conversation, why it won't be possible to take phone calls this week, Gila clarifies some chat rules, Emmanuel's view of some of the weird rules in various online forums, Alex discusses how Appin is going after podcasts, the chilling effect that Appin's actions have had, Cooper joins the discussion on Skype which makes phone calls possible, Julian Assange has a crucial day in court, what is expected to happen in this case, Alex's analysis and prediction, what the extradition timeline could look like, David leaves the discussion, the importance of organizations like Wikileaks or Distributed Denial of Secrets, Kyle's analysis of how Assange has been treated, the continuing problem with trying to reach people on Gmail with news about the HOPE conference, how Cooper first heard about the Appin case, why it's easier to take down a large corporate site than it is a small independent one, how even Reuters has folded on this, Cooper describes a bunch of cool things he's involved with, the show won't be on next week, Rob reminds people about 2600 meetings coming up next week.
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February 21
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Off The Hook Overtime
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Off The Hook Overtime is also available on the Channel2600 YouTube channel here:
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