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Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda is a legend... like Big Foot. But less harry and more interested in science fiction and technology.

Geeks in Space Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda

    • Technology
    • 4.0 • 2 Ratings

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda is a legend... like Big Foot. But less harry and more interested in science fiction and technology.

    Vampire Facials, Botwars, Spacewars, Russian Wikipedia, BASIC Birthday, Robot Nightmare Fuel GIS835

    Vampire Facials, Botwars, Spacewars, Russian Wikipedia, BASIC Birthday, Robot Nightmare Fuel GIS835

    RobChrisRob linked up their pretend orbiting space station communications arrays to talk about matters of urgency including the unlicensed spa that gave 3 women HIV through a procedure known as a 'Vampire Facial' which is grosser than you might think, evidence that someone or somethign is cloning threads on reddit fake engagement, Chris played a little bit of Spacewar! running in a browser emulator, the Psyche Probe managed to sustain 25mb/s data streaming to earth from 140 million miles, Russia cloned wikipedia, edited it, and banned the original, the Rabbit R1 is mostly just VNC, BASIC turned 69, Sony/Apollo might buy out Paramount, Sparkles the most terrifying robot, and experimental puppetry if you happen to be in Atlanta...

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    • 37 min
    AI Cover Art, Robot Dog Flamethrowers, Reddit Rebellions GIS834

    AI Cover Art, Robot Dog Flamethrowers, Reddit Rebellions GIS834

    RobChrisRob talked about For All Mankind picking up another season, a plugin that will protest Reddit licensing their content to the AIligarchs by replacing all your posts with new content that definitely shouldnt' be copyrighgted because it would be a shame if all that valuable user created content was re-appropriated, made fools made a robot dog with a flamethrower that you can buy for $10k, Post Malone & Michael Bay are working on a movie where an 18 wheeler from heaven fights zombies in medieval europe, DOS 4 is getting a source code release, and DC pulled the covers from a few comics after being accused of generating them with AI- but the artist produced sketches, so who the hell knows?

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    • 26 min
    Space Mutations, Voyager Lives, Project Hail Mary, Deadpool & Wolverine GIS833

    Space Mutations, Voyager Lives, Project Hail Mary, Deadpool & Wolverine GIS833

    RobChrisRob circled up to talk about Lord & Miller going forward with Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling, The engineering wizards at NASA have got Voyager 1 communicating updates to earth again, the ISS has an unknown drug resistant bacteria on board which is probably no big deal, a mom found a jawbone in her kids Rock Collection, a guy who's body naturally makes its own alchohol was cleared of drunk driving charges by a Belgian Judge, and Deadpool & Wolverine have a new trailer, so we talked a bunch about how Liefeld ain't so hot at drawing feet...

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    • 27 min
    One Punch Harmon, Tabs, Centering Difficulties, Rusty Teslas, Space Junk, Praising Fallout GIS832

    One Punch Harmon, Tabs, Centering Difficulties, Rusty Teslas, Space Junk, Praising Fallout GIS832

    RobChrisRob regrouped to yammer about Dan Harmon coming on board the live action One Punch Man, the couple who got accidentally divorced thansk to computer error, the 1950s Panavision 70 stylized Matrix trailer, a new security camera that shoots paintball, Linus inserting tabs into code to break badly coded kconfig parsers, the Putty encryption security hole, NASA confirmed that the florida house WAS hit by space junk a few weeks ago, $10M in gold disguised as painted machine parts, a web page chronicling an unending stream of failures to properly center things in user interfaces, Elon Musk announces plans to charge to post on Xitter, and Tesla's truck apparently don't fare so well in Car Washes... we also ended up by heaping praise on the new Fallout TV show which.

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    • 36 min
    Dune Popcorn Bucket to Appealing, Vampire Drones, Roku's HDMI Ad Injection Attack GIS831

    Dune Popcorn Bucket to Appealing, Vampire Drones, Roku's HDMI Ad Injection Attack GIS831

    RobChrisRob reunited to talk about Roku patenting an HDMI man in the middle attack to insert banner ads between your devices and their TV because they are bad and they should feel bad, Vampire Drones that can steel recharging using electricity from overhead powerlines which will definitely not be used by the AI machines to take over the world, a UEFI IRC client so you can chat like its 1995 without even booting an OS, Chechnya is banning musing that has tempos outside government approved parameters, scientists tweaked some mouse genes and figured out how to grow legs where genitals should be, AMC execs are a little embarrassed about that Dune Popcorn Bucket, and one of the Robs saw Kong x Godzilla and has thoughts....

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    • 30 min
    Space Trash, Waffle Houses, Fifth Matrix, Moon Time Zones, Dark Star GIS830

    Space Trash, Waffle Houses, Fifth Matrix, Moon Time Zones, Dark Star GIS830

    Your favorite pieces of space trash RobChrisRob linked up to talk about the white house wanting to create a time zone for the moon, the Matrix 5 getting Drew Goddard as a director, Dark Star turns 50, a sad girl sings the MIT License, Tekken's director wants to know why Americans want Waffle House as a location for Tekken 8, a chunk of real space trash might have gone through Florida Man's roof, Botswana threatening germany with a delivery of... elephants... and then a whole extended discussion on our AI generated 'Space Trash' TV show which for some reason ends up with us returning to a planet populated by puppet people. Perfect.


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    • 34 min

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