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Dave & Gunnar Show
by David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson
David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.
Episodes
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Episode 288: What a Great Time to Be Alive!
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about swimming with large cockroaches, breaking security by breaking AI, driving with tiny fake heads, and communicating with our thoughts! Gunnar finds a male painted bunting! Dave, Claude Code, Slackbot, unlearning old habits, and learning new habits Scientists…
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Episode 287: The Guild of Dave and Gunnar Impersonators
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about modern-day robot uprisings and modern-day Butlerian Jihads! Hermes > 🦞 Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Meanwhile: Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and...
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Episode 286: Work, Gyms, and Toxic Relationships
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Camille Tuutti about Swedish AI coffee shops and reanimating woolly mammoths! Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop by Camille Tuutti By Andon Labs (see D&G #278!) Meanwhile: Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a…
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Episode 285: Location, Location, Threat Model
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about markdown, caveman, and dark software factories! Warhammer 40,000: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” Birds Aren’t Real Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students Introducing Markdown for Agents...
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Episode 284: Home Row Guy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mike McGrath about agentic AI open source development and engineering leadership! Gunnar on abundance in D&G 273 Welcome Mike! Gemini Gems The Day Open Source Realized Code Doesn’t Matter Anymore Fedora Fedora Infrastructure Project tmux screen We Give Thanks...
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Episode 283: We Could’ve Been Standing Outside an Olive Garden
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI judging photos, AI judging meeting transcripts, and hacking AI with poetry! Stranger Things! It’s good, actually! rentahuman.ai They See Your Photos Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control…
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Episode 282: He Sent Me Chicken Ramen
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about agents battling agents, electric shocks battling coffee, and Amazon Prime battling First Class mail! Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again. La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H) Clawdbot → Moltbot →...
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Episode 281: Four Out of Five Developers Enjoy Code Reviews
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for prison inmates, AI for senior citizens, and low-cost haptic exosuits! Ebird and Listers Moen update Death by Lightning An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For...
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Episode 280: We See You
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds! Trinity and Low-background Steel Hardcore History Slate Political Gabfest Google Vids! Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative D&G This Week in Bad Ideas Kalshi...
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Episode 279: Live from Room 101
This week Dave and Gunnar go on a re-education off-site, and O’Brien and Winston Smith debate whether we’re in an AI bubble! Key Takeaways (The Correct Perspective): The concept of an 'AI bubble' is a persistent, troubling rumor. It is heresy. Nvidia's valuation is not speculation; it is the...
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Episode 278: I Know How the Butlerian Jihad Works
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about weaponized AI and seemingly conscious AI! Virtual Customer Panels with Gemini Gems Dave vs. Ticketmaster Totally unrelated: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation Weaponizing image scaling against...
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Episode 277: Mission Accomplished
This week Dave and Gunnar are joined by Dan Walsh on the eve of his retirement! What is new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0: “The most significant security update is the transition from AppArmor to SELinux as the default Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework.” Bootc Dan Walsh Red Hat...
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Episode 276: I Think I Had That Shirt
For our Halloween finale, Carolyn Ford invites two favorite “AI conjurers”, Dave Egts “Mr. X,” public-sector field CTO at Mulesoft, and Laura Klebanow, founder & chief storyteller at Show & Tell, into the Tech Transforms cauldron. Each brings a “secret AI ingredient”: Carolyn composes whimsical...
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Episode 275: I'll Visit You in Jail
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hidden signals in AI models and hidden signals in birds! Agentic Google App Scripts Fake Music! Iron Man ( Soul/Funk) Version 2 Don't You (Forget About Me) ( Soul) See also: The Klezmonauts -- Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas Subliminal Learning: Language...
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Episode 274: We've Always Enjoyed Arby's
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about smart glasses and AI existential dread! Follow Up Duperheroes! I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful Someone Built an Ad Blocker for Real Life, and I Can't Wait to Try It 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI...
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Episode 273: Let the Good 5G In
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about e-tattoos, AI agent blackmail, and AI memory dossiers! Cursor and Claude Code: PARA Auditor, Let Me AI That for You, Botany Battle. Abundance! “You won’t lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns to drive a tractor” Star Wars - Return of the 80s...
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Episode 272: Seed Oils Made Y’all Weak
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse being mean to AI Gunnar builds a Gemini-powered virtual team: It's all about perspective. Farewell Pocket, hello Wallabag or Instapaper? Ethically sourced “spare” human...
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Episode 271: Blade Runner Pepsi Challenge
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about best practices for manipulating AI models to enslave humanity! Moen’s lifetime warranty Gemini multimodal! When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved D&G…
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Episode 270: Cylon Monkey Paw: 5 AI Predictions for 2025 & How to Build Intelligent Agents
In this episode, Carolyn Ford welcomes back Dave Egts, Field CTO at MuleSoft, to Tech Transforms to explore the transformative power of AI in 2025. They dive into Dave’s top five AI predictions, with a special focus on the rise of agentic AI—AI that doesn’t just suggest, but acts. Dave explains…
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Episode 269: Knowingly Violating Laws and Product Warranties
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates! Paperlike Screen Protector Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds Hydrogels can learn to play Pong Lavarand Hackers Can...
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Episode 268: Grape Job!
Grape Job! This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks! Kobo Clara Color Libby Paperlike Screen Protector and Bumper Case Kindle Scribe Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Good-Bye to All That Kindle Unlimited Ghost...
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Episode 267: Allow the Robot to Cook with Love
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite! Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary on Call of Duty Mobile Dave enjoyed The Penguin The '#1 restaurant in…
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Episode 266: Filled with Dad Energy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies! Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields! Lauren bought a new car! Dave bought a new TV! Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile! EcoFlow Power Hat Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine See also: Slim...
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Episode 265: A Delightful GIS Demon
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Steven Pousty about GIS, open source theology, and AI! Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261 The European Patroleum Survey Group what3words Google Plus Codes Cardinal direction 5 of the World’s Most Interesting Directional Systems...
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Episode 264: Cryptomining Airbnbs, Psychological Warfare, and What Else?
This week, NotebookLM talks about the Dave and Gunnar Show Episode 263! Main Themes The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through...
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Episode 263: Failing the Turing Test
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching! Imagine Dragons in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion Psychological Warfare by Paul M.A. Linebarger Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen War Day by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka RHEL AI...
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Episode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole Time
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people! Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut! An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake…
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Episode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at Them
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666! Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist and Seek Black-bellied whistling duck Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So Foo...
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Episode 260: As Long as I’m Not Wearing an Apple Watch, I’ll Never Get Credit For Standing
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones! Apple Watch Oura Ring Xiaomi Smart Band 8 Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over fake university set up by ICE University of Farmington University of Farmington…
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Episode 259: AI Bad Breath
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment! Apple Care After World by Debbie Urbanski Ex-OpenAI employee speaks out about why he was fired: 'I ruffled some feathers' SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner Microsoft's new lightweight…
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Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s! Spam musubi! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys! Nara Park deer! Google Translate! The creepy sound of online trackers...
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Episode 257: Flowers from Heaven
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese! Resident Alien (TV series) Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper Pixel Buds Pro A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as...
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Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets Fallout Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced Laudato Si, paragraph 107 HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges These...
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Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots Bloons TD 6 Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything MemGPT MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System...
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Episode 254: I’m Sorry, But I Cannot Provide an Answer to Your Question as It Goes Against OpenAI’s Use Policy
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu. Bali ’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to…
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Episode 253: Better Than a Stick in the Eye
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful Dave achieves Platinum Pro? Dave becomes an author using AI? Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While...
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Episode 252: Too Hip-Hop, Not Enough $15M Nikon Lithography Stepper
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans! Gunnar endorses: DND Beyond Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen Dave endorses: Kindle Scribe Julia H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in...
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Episode 251: Unmasking the Specter: Mr. Egts' Journey into the Impact of Generative AI on Government Transformation
This week Dave joins Dynatrace’s Carolyn Ford on the Tech Transforms Podcast about what's scaring the public sector most and how Salesforce is utilizing - and securing - AI to improve customer experience with their Einstein Trust Layer. Additionally, Carolyn and Dave dive into the spooky worlds…
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Episode 250: Our Favorite Things
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things! Grammarly Pocket Feedly Blogtrottr Slack Remember the Milk Todoist Drafts DayOne 1Password Bitwarden uBlock Origin Video Speed Controller GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) Chromebooks Thermoworks Thermapens Radbike Radrunner 2 Yamaha MT/FZ-09...
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Episode 249: Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar Wrap
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Dave with caffeine, Dungeons and Dragons with AI, computer chips with brain cells, sleeping with discomfort, and the Heilmeier Catechism! Dreamforce Foo Fighters and furry mosh pit Who Are the Salesforce Characters? Caffeine 2, Dave 0 Awake Peanut Butter...
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Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them. Iceland Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Delete on Netflix Is A.I. the Future of Astrology? AI replacing psychics as 'fortune telling' droids put tarot readers out of work Open source generative AI Hugging...
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Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder
Grammarly includes AI assistant! Warp terminal? Ansible Lightspeed Google will add End-to-End encryption to Google Authenticator DebateDevil chirper.ai: Social Network for AI. No humans allowed. First, they came for the fortune cookie writers AI Is Coming for Your Fortune Cookies Radio station…
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Episode 246: AI-Generated Agitprop
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills ChatPDF Einstein GPT GitHub Co-pilot Amazon CodeWhisperer MidJourney is a lifestyle MidJourney Prompt Helper Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT D&G This...
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Episode 245: Giant Asthma Inhaler with a Mouth
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect Sherwood Forest Faire in Austin, TX Marriott does MFA wrong iOS 16.4 brings Voice Isolation for cellular calls, here’s how to...
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Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks Gunnar endorsed: time blocking @[email protected]! Perplexity AI: generative AI with citations! Edible NDAs: The need for a Non-Disclosure Agreement used to be a hard pill to...
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Episode 243: No Bamboozle
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)! Gunnar’s Todoist breakthrough Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) ChatGPT Mastodon RSS ActivityPub PeerTube Pixelfed Friendica mastodon.social invite from Dave This is why we...
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Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216! Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders! Dave endorsed: OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (see YouTube video) Rectangle (see YouTube video) Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac John le Carré NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block...
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Episode 241: Apple-Inspired Feedbag
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce! Karate! In the metaverse, no one can hear you scream: Bizarre Muzzle Microphone Keeps Your Mouth in the Metaverse Sold out: Cargo swim briefs This Website Can Figure Out What You're Typing Just By...
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Episode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the law
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs! GovCon Expert David Egts Joins MuleSoft as Public Sector Field CTO Pocket Drafts The Pentagon may require vendors certify their software is free of known flaws. Experts are split. Related: Brondell S1000-E Swash 1000 Elongated Bidet...
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Episode 239: The Bottom Turtle
This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell about his new book, Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud! Check out Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum on episode 237! Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud by Mike Bursell Profian Defcon Blockchain Zero Trust: Poorly named? Would Explicit Trust be…
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David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.
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