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A couple of old-fashioned IT engineers/consultants turned college professors ranting about IT

  1. 6D AGO

    ai.txt: This Website Does Not Consent to Being Smartened - (Episode 159)

    For decades, robots.txt quietly told search engines where they were welcome and where they weren’t. Then AI showed up, read everything anyway, and called it “training.” Enter ai.txt — the hypothetical line in the sand where a website politely, clearly, and possibly angrily says: no scraping, no learning, no digital photocopying of my soul. In this episode, we explore whether consent still matters on the modern web, how AI crawlers differ from classic search bots, and whether ai.txt would be a genuine technical safeguard, a legal signal, or just a beautifully naive sign taped to the internet’s fridge saying “do not touch.” Spoiler: the file is tiny. The implications are not.

    1 hr

  2. JAN 29

    Audio Quality: We Used to Care - (Episode 158)

    Once upon a time, audio quality mattered. We argued about sound cards, speaker placement, bitrates, and whether MP3s were ruining music forever. Fast forward to today: laptops whisper, Bluetooth drops packets, compression is everywhere—and nobody seems to care. Or do they? In this episode, we explore how “good enough” became the global audio standard, why convenience beat fidelity, and how computers quietly shifted from Hi-Fi machines to voice-first productivity tools. This isn’t a nostalgic rant—it’s a reality check on how our ears, habits, and expectations have changed.

    50 min

  3. JAN 22

    This episode is already tracking you - (Episode 157)

    Once upon a time, privacy meant closing a door, lowering your voice, or simply being left alone. Today, it means scrolling through settings, declining cookies for the fifth time, and hoping nobody is listening — while fully assuming someone is. We still talk about privacy as if it’s alive and well, protected by checkboxes, policies, and reassuring icons, even as our phones, homes, cars, and workplaces quietly log everything we do. This episode isn’t about panic or paranoia — it’s about honesty. Privacy didn’t suddenly die; it slowly dissolved into convenience, comfort, and “just one more app.” The real question isn’t whether privacy is gone, but why we keep pretending it isn’t — and who benefits from that fiction.

    41 min

  4. JAN 16

    Synthetic Reality, Real Consequences - (Episode 156)

    There was a time when a photo or a video meant something simple: this actually happened. Today, that assumption is quietly falling apart. We’re entering an era where reality can be generated, faces can be borrowed, voices can be cloned, and events can be convincingly fabricated in minutes. Not as science fiction, not as satire—but as everyday tooling. This episode isn’t about panic or moral grandstanding. It’s about what happens when trust becomes optional. When proof becomes negotiable. When institutions, media, courts, and even personal relationships must operate under the assumption that what they see might not be real—and that real evidence might be dismissed as fake. Synthetic reality doesn’t just blur lines between truth and fiction; it shifts the burden of proof onto everyone, all the time. And the consequences of that shift are far more serious than most people realize.

    39 min

  5. JAN 8

    ThatITShow rant - Sorry I’m Late, I'm also somewhere else at the same time - (Episode 155)

    Working from home was supposed to give us freedom—flexibility, focus, maybe even lunch that doesn’t come from a vending machine. Instead, many of us unlocked a new achievement: being in three places at once and still disappointing everyone. One meeting overlaps another, a “quick call” eats an hour, and suddenly you’re nodding thoughtfully on mute while answering emails, Slack messages, and existential questions about time itself. Online availability made us reachable, but scheduling turned us into calendar acrobats juggling overlapping priorities, time zones, and notifications that never sleep. This episode is a short, therapeutic rant about how remote work didn’t remove chaos—it just moved it into your calendar.

    11 min

  6. JAN 1

    From cloud-first to control-first - (Episode 154)

    Most companies didn’t rethink their cloud strategy because of one dramatic failure. It started quietly: cloud bills that became harder to explain, contracts that felt less flexible, and data that suddenly came with legal and regulatory strings attached. Over time, those details added up. In 2025, enterprises began shifting from cloud-first optimism to control-first design. Hybrid stopped being a compromise, private cloud became the baseline again, and data ownership quietly started dictating architecture decisions. This episode is about why that shift is happening—and what it means going into 2026.

    54 min

  7. 12/26/2025

    AI Grew Up, Datacenters Got Hot, Quantum Still Won’t Call Back - (Episode 153)

    Over the last three years, technology didn’t just move fast—it aged. AI went from a clever party trick to a fully employed adult with deadlines, responsibilities, and an alarming appetite for GPUs. Datacenters followed suit, transforming into glowing furnaces where power meters spin like slot machines and cooling became a first-class workload. Meanwhile, quantum computing is still “very promising,” just not emotionally available yet. In this episode, we look back at the short but chaotic era where intelligence scaled faster than infrastructure, power became the real bottleneck, and every roadmap quietly added more electricity and fewer guarantees. It’s a candid, slightly sarcastic recap of progress, hype, heat, and unanswered calls from the quantum future.

    1h 8m

  8. 12/18/2025

    We watched AI grow up (while our mics stayed the same) - (Episode 152)

    When we started this podcast, AI was a quirky sidekick—good for autocomplete, bad at facts, and mostly harmless. Fast-forward three years and suddenly it’s writing code, composing music, summarizing our thoughts before we finish them, and politely asking whether it should schedule the meeting instead. In this episode, we look back at how ChatGPT and other AI tools evolved alongside our podcast—from novelty demos and broken prompts to always-on copilots and mildly unsettling digital coworkers. We talk about what genuinely improved, what’s still gloriously flawed, and how our expectations quietly shifted from “this is fun” to “wait, this actually works.” A nostalgic, slightly sarcastic progress report on watching AI grow up—while our microphones, workflows, and existential questions remained suspiciously unchanged.

    59 min
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A couple of old-fashioned IT engineers/consultants turned college professors ranting about IT

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    2023 - 2026
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