Summary
Chris is hobbling through the end-of-year slow-down, while Sam dishes out shout-outs to listeners and talks about scheduling chaos.
This week we dive into wild Kickstarter tech like a LEGO Game Boy you can actually play, and a pricey color e-ink picture frame. Plus, there’s medical marvels like cryoablation for tumors, giant colonial spider webs, magician fails, and a PSA about password managers.
All this and much more in this week’s episode!
Links
Kickstart or dropkick – Brick Boy
Kickstart or Dropkick – Inkjoy
Worlds Largest Spiderweb Found
Jeffery Epsteins Emails in JMail
Freezing Tumors with an MRI
Cardboard instead of concrete
Lost Password
Show Transcript
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Sam [00:00:21]:
Hello and welcome to episode 558 of the Chris the Sam Podcast on.
Chris [00:00:26]:
Hello, I’m Chris.
Sam [00:00:26]:
And I’m Sam. Welcome along to your weekly fix of randomness technology in life. And we’re gonna kick this off very quickly. Happy birthday, Jamie Oxley.
Chris [00:00:34]:
Yes. Yes, I did send him a happy birthday message on Facebook.
Sam [00:00:39]:
I guess I did not. This is it.
Chris [00:00:41]:
I missed it. I sent it the day late. A day late, I think. Or no, seven hours. No, maybe, Maybe not.
Sam [00:00:47]:
I’d believe you. It’s okay. He’s fine with that, I think. But I was thinking that our podcast is interesting because even though we may have the topics in the show notes or in the description on the podcast, you have no idea what we can say. It’s not a.
Chris [00:01:03]:
Absolutely.
Sam [00:01:04]:
It’s not a set topic. So I can do a shout out to Adam.
Chris [00:01:07]:
Hi, Adam.
Sam [00:01:07]:
Hi, Quentin. Hi, John. Who else? Jeremy Howson’s back from Vietnam, hopefully without disease. I don’t know, but he looked like he had a good time. And if you’re listening to a podcast and you just hear your name, it’s so good.
Chris [00:01:21]:
It’s good.
Sam [00:01:22]:
We’re doing good. We just need a few more people to let us know they’re listening because, man, the names do not match the stats unless you’re listening to it, like 50 times each or something. I don’t know. It’s very strange.
Chris [00:01:34]:
All right, so we’ve got a lot of stats, but we haven’t got the names for everybody. Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough.
Sam [00:01:38]:
What have you been up to?
Chris [00:01:40]:
I’ve been hobbling a lot. Yeah, I haven’t been doing a lot. I had that really busy time, and I had all that stuff I was gonna do, and after it was over, I was gonna do all these things. And you know what I’ve done? I’ve done jack shit. Like, seriously, I’ve done bugger all, which is good. And I’m not fussed about it. I’m like, yeah, I deserve a break.
Sam [00:01:59]:
It’s definitely the end of year. Feels.
Chris [00:02:01]:
Yeah, a hundred percent. And that was the other thing. The last couple of years, we have worked right up to the line, like, to the last minute. And I’ve actually. I think I came back early to get some more work done for the clients before everybody else, all that. And this year we’ve finished early. And it’s. My brain’s like, well, that must mean it’s Time for Christmas, it’s time for holidays.
Chris [00:02:24]:
And like, my God, it’s not even December yet.
Sam [00:02:28]:
That’s a good feeling.
Chris [00:02:30]:
So. Yeah, no, it’s cool. So I’m, you know, I’m cruising and I was actually thinking today, ah, I’m going to go down to the cinema and I’m going to watch Predator Badlands. Yes, I do want to see that. But it wasn’t till later and I would have missed you. Like, it was too late. So I was like scheduling, do it in the weekend.
Sam [00:02:48]:
Actually, scheduling things is crazy. They just like at work, they’re like, oh, who wants a Christmas lunch? Okay. But we’re going to have to do it on the same day that there’s the work Christmas party that night. Okay. Not getting much work done that day, I don’t think.
Chris [00:03:04]:
No.
Sam [00:03:05]:
Hey, I’ve got Kickstart or drop kick because we have not done it for a while.
Chris [00:03:09]:
Oh, good, good, good, good.
Sam [00:03:11]:
Did you say good or.
Chris [00:03:13]:
I. I just had a sip of.
Sam [00:03:14]:
Water, so it was very strange. I thought you were having a stroke, to be honest.
Chris [00:03:18]:
Good, good, good, good is what I had to say.
Sam [00:03:21]:
So I’m going to give you a little, a bit of a backstory very quickly. Lego, there’s a thing where if they have 10,000 votes from a creation that somebody made, they will probably put it into production.
Chris [00:03:34]:
Right, I remember. Yeah, I remember.
Sam [00:03:35]:
And there’s different things. Yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:03:37]:
Okay.
Sam [00:03:37]:
Now, I don’t know if this has come from that or not, but LEGO has some sort of partnership with Nintendo. They’ve done Super Mario stuff in the past. And currently you can buy a one to one replica in LEGO of a Game Boy. Right. And I don’t know if that was a thing back in the day that you came across, but the original gray Game Boy.
Chris [00:04:00]:
No, Game Boy wasn’t a thing when.
Sam [00:04:02]:
I was a kid. No, that’s. Well, I knew it wasn’t when you were a kid because you were born in the 40s. Okay.
Chris [00:04:07]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:04:07]:
But anyway, on Kickstarter, somebody’s bringing out a kit called Brick Boy, which lets you put internals into the LEGO Game Boy and make it functional. Which I think is great because when you see this LEGO Game Boy, it looks really cool and you’re like, ah, it’s just sitting on a shelf doing nothing.
Chris [00:04:28]:
But now, now you can play with it.
Sam [00:04:30]:
Okay, four days to go. So as soon as you listen to this.
Chris [00:04:34]:
So basically, just let me clarify this for my own slow mind. You’ve already bought the LEGO Game Boy thing. You’ve Made it. And you’re like, but what if I could play games on it?
Sam [00:04:45]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:04:46]:
And this is this.
Sam [00:04:47]:
Yes. Because tracking down an actual Game Boy would be quite expensive or you’d have to make sure it’s in good condition and things like that. Yeah, there are really good handheld devices out there. Have you seen, I think it’s called a minimoo, Mini Moo, something rather. No, it’s a little handheld game.
Chris [00:05:04]:
I haven’t seen any handheld game thing ever.
Sam [00:05:07]:
Oh, okay. AliExpress has this thing called Minimoo, some bloody thing. It’s little color screen and then you, you get it, you do a tweak to the software and then you download every ROM known to mankind and then you’ve got like 10,000 games in this thing. It’s great. I think they’re like 60 bucks anyway.
Chris [00:05:27]:
Have you got one?
Sam [00:05:28]:
No, no. It’s just on my list of. I’ve got. I’ve got no money.
Chris [00:05:32]:
Okay.
Sam [00:05:33]:
I’ve got no money, I’m not anything. So this thing, they wanted a hundred thousand euros. So quite a decent whack, but realistic probably, if you’re making some sort of electronic thing.
Chris [00:05:44]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:05:45]:
Okay. So they wanted that. How much do you think they made?
Chris [00:05:48]:
How long are they into it?
Sam [00:05:50]:
They got four days to go, so it’s been going 20 something days.
Chris [00:05:52]:
Yeah, I reckon they’re well over a million, not quite.
Sam [00:05:56]:
600. 8,000 Euro.
Chris [00:05:58]:
608,000.
Sam [00:05:59]:
So they’ve met at. The place is called Substance Labs. Brick boy, check it out. So when we do Kickstart or drop kick, there’s always two. Yeah. Or try to. So I’ll give you a bit of a backstory because you probably don’t even know this, but you might do. So you know how you, you’re a big Kindle, man.
Sam [00:06:16]:
You’ve had a Kindle since the dawn of time. I think you had one of the first ones.
Chris [00:06:19]:
Yeah. One of the actual buttons on it for every letter of the Alphabet. Yeah.
Sam [00:06:24]:
So I think it’s Kindle and Kobo and whatever. One of the new things you can get, and I don’t fully understand it, you can get color screens. Yep. And a lot of that’s just for the book cover.
Chris [00:06:41]:
Yeah. And you can get comic books on them and stuff.
Sam [00:06:44]:
Oh yeah, didn’t think of that. So anyway, these people have put together this thing called inkjoy Frame and it’s a big ish picture frame with a color E ink display in it and you can tell it what to display. And in the video they look Pretty cool. Like, I don’t know, from a distance it looks like a piece of art.
Chris [00:07:06]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:07:07]:
And you can change it. So anyway, that’s pretty much the gist of it. 42 days to go.
Chris [00:07:14]:
So are they wirelessly connected or do you have to put a USB stuff?
Sam [00:07:19]:
No, no, no. Wireless. Yeah, everything’s connected. Oh, this is, it’s from Hong Kong showing me New Zealand dollars. They wanted 8,700 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:07:30]:
That’s a very modest. Modest amount. Yep.
Sam [00:07:33]:
But you can buy electronic components really cheaply these days. You have to know how to put it together. But if you want a random little screen for something, you can just go buy that. And they’re quite cheap. So I think that is realistic.
Chris [00:07:46]:
Oh yeah, I think it’s realistic.
Sam [00:07:49]:
42 days to go. So this thing must have launched like, I don’t know, within the week.
Chris [00:07:54]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:07:55]:
How much have they made so far?
Chris [00:07:56]:
Bugger all.
Sam [00:07:57]:
$131,000.
Chris [00:08:00]:
Holy crap.
Sam [00:08:01]:
On top of their 8,000. So we’re going to see what this looks like in 40 odd days.
Chris [00:08:05]:
Yeah, because I think there’d be a. They must have a good marketing organization for that because one of the things is you sort of go, if that’s all they’re asking. How trustworthy are they? Like, you know. Yeah, some crowd in Hong Kong.
Sam [00:08:20]:
Oh, I forgot about the price. Brick boy is $130 I think, to build your thing. This is. Oh, it’s only showing me Hong kong. Oh no. $488 for a 10 inch frame. Super early bird price. $500 for the next tier up and they do up to 25.3 inches.
Sam [00:08:48]:
You can get like a 25 inch frame for 1600 New Zealand dollars.
Chris [00:08:52]:
That seems way too much to me.
Sam [00:08:54]:
It does, eh? But I don’t know, I came across it.
Chris [00:08:57]:
It’s way too much. I, I don’t know. I don’t think. 400 bucks for a 10 inch frame. See, the Game Boy thing makes sense because it’s a Game Boy. It’s almost the price of a Game Boy. Like it’s what you’d expect to pay. Maybe.
Sam [00:09:10]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris [00:09:12]:
So if that was a hundred bucks for a 10 inch frame, I’d go, yeah, yeah, but 400 just seems way too much. Okay. All right. That’s just me though, because that’s just you on that. I, I had a couple of medical things I looked at actually. So this one for yourself? No, no, no. This one grabbed my attention. Where would I see it? I think I saw a thing on LinkedIn.
Chris [00:09:34]:
I was like, that doesn’t make sense. I don’t think that’s real.
Sam [00:09:39]:
Okay.
Chris [00:09:39]:
I’m going to research it. So. And it was this MRI can in Sydney, or I think it was Sydney, this Australian thing can freeze people’s tumors and stuff. And I’m like, how does that work? That does not make sense. I know how lasers can heat things internally. I don’t know how you can freeze things internally.
Sam [00:09:58]:
Okay. And it. So is this a thing that can be done, or is this one of those theoretical papers?
Chris [00:10:03]:
It’s. It’s now being done. So done. It’s. It’s. It’s being done on people because I found a YouTube clip. So basically it’s called cryoblation is the term for it. Okay.
Chris [00:10:16]:
It’s a minimally invasive procedure that uses extreme cold to destroy diseased tissues such as tumors. Now, what was misleading in this? Like, you know, it was like one of those AI images, images of a MRI machine with, you know, fog coming off it because obviously it’s very cold, and then the wording below it. But what it actually does is you do have an MRI machine. The guy’s looking at an MRI machine as he uses a needle and sends it into. Into the. The tumor, and then they freeze the tumor. But what happened? So they had an interview with this woman, and she had a tumor in bone. I didn’t even know that you could do have tumors in bone because, like, yeah, doesn’t sound good, eh? And she said it was painful to sit or to lie.
Chris [00:11:11]:
It was in a hip, I think. And she. She was in absolute pain. So she. They were going to. They’re going to have to do surgery. Take a hip out, scrape this thing out, put a hip back. It was like, it’s a thing.
Sam [00:11:26]:
No.
Chris [00:11:26]:
And she’s. So they went, oh, let’s try this. And so they put a needle in, froze the tumor. She walked out of there and she was like, there’s more pain. There’s no more pain. It’s like, holy crap.
Sam [00:11:40]:
I go back to my further statement. Were you looking this up for you, to take you up?
Chris [00:11:46]:
No, no. It’s got nothing to do with me. I was just on LinkedIn. It was just something I saw. So, yeah, it can be used for various conditions, but they put it in this. I forgot the name of the hospital, which is in the YouTube clip. We’ll put in the show notes. Yeah, they spent a billion dollars in the Sydney Hospital on a new cancer ward that does all this new flash stuff.
Sam [00:12:09]:
Okay.
Chris [00:12:10]:
It looks amazing. And, you know it’s like usually an MRI has nothing to do with surgery, but this is a surgical MRI because you, you’re in a surgery room when you’re doing stuff and all the rest of it. It had a whole bunch of other stuff. I got loads of notes on it. But yeah.
Sam [00:12:28]:
Anyway, I came across other Australian scientists that are doing some stuff. Maybe not as important as your stuff. They’re engineers at RMIT University. I don’t know what that stands for. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Chris [00:12:44]:
Who knows?
Sam [00:12:44]:
Could be. Who knows? Did not look it up. They’ve developed something now. I’m going to see if you can guess what it is from the name of the thing. Okay. They’re calling it Cement Free. Oh. It’s a cement free construction material called cardboard confined rammed earth.
Chris [00:13:04]:
It sounds like they’re packing boxes with earth and then stacking them up like Legos.
Sam [00:13:11]:
Very close. Yep. They reckon they can just build houses with it. They’ve just got cardboard tubes and cardboard formwork and it is cardboard water and soil and they just jam it in there. I, I think this is just made up. I think they wanted some money from somewhere. I think, I don’t know, maybe it’s an art thing.
Chris [00:13:36]:
For those listening that don’t get the joke. Sam always gets excited when we have art installations now.
Sam [00:13:45]:
They, yeah, they were inspired by the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch.
Chris [00:13:49]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:13:50]:
So I think cardboard’s, it’s not a box, it’ll be specially formed.
Chris [00:13:55]:
Oh yeah, yeah.
Sam [00:13:55]:
No, I, I, I, but, and they said yeah, it could be made on site directly like, or manual, either manually or with machines. And they seem to think that there’s a, a need for it in remote areas. Especially in Australia. They’ve got the red.
Chris [00:14:13]:
You still have to have like structural steel or something, wouldn’t you? You know, because you just think it’d just either over time it’d degrade and just fall apart or.
Sam [00:14:23]:
The team has developed a formula to determine the mechanical strength of the material based on the thickness of the cardboard tubes. Okay. That’s all you need.
Chris [00:14:32]:
Okay.
Sam [00:14:33]:
They haven’t done anything else with this. They just want to partner with some various industries.
Chris [00:14:37]:
I, I will. I, I saw something else today I thought about putting in here. I didn’t, but I’ll mention it now because it was also a research thing and it was Japan, in Japan. And they have come out with this artificial blood.
Sam [00:14:51]:
Okay.
Chris [00:14:52]:
So it’s blood that doesn’t go off. It’s got a two year life expectancy and it’s actually artificial. It’s not Human blood, but it will work as a blood transfusion so it’d be great.
Sam [00:15:08]:
And what’s the main purpose of having this in case you’re in the middle of nowhere?
Chris [00:15:11]:
Yeah, there’s basically to. Because people had some amazing stats on the front of this thing that I didn’t save because it’s like, I won’t talk about that but every four seconds around the world somebody’s having a blood transfusion. Like it’s ridiculous amount of blood. I had no idea. And it’s like, you know, there’s always. You’ve got to get the right blood type. This doesn’t have the right blood type and you’ve got to, you know, it’s got to be available at the time. This they can basically manufacture and it’s just about putting air back in the blood as far as I understand.
Sam [00:15:49]:
Okay, yeah. You don’t know if they have to sort of try and get the stuff out at a later stage or.
Chris [00:15:53]:
No, no. And they’ve had their first few human trials and people. Half a dozen people were given transfusions with it and walking around.
Sam [00:16:01]:
Man, that’s crazy.
Chris [00:16:02]:
Yeah.
Sam [00:16:02]:
Probably some little micro.
Chris [00:16:04]:
But there was a. The reasons I didn’t mention it. It was again one I think I saw on LinkedIn in. In the discussions there was some heated debate about how realistic this was and I looked at one of the links which was at Medpath is the website. So it looked like a legit website. So I was like, I don’t know how real it is, but I think it is. I don’t think I, I don’t think it’s, you know, it’s not mainstream yet. It’s not been approved.
Chris [00:16:30]:
It’s still research but they’ve got a.
Sam [00:16:32]:
Realistic looking website and that’s all Chris needs.
Chris [00:16:35]:
Yes. Talking about that, they had an A video and obviously the video was absolutely correct because there is no AI slop in the world.
Sam [00:16:44]:
Wow. Talking about websites and things like that, have you been perusing JMAIL World?
Chris [00:16:52]:
I did see that. What was that again?
Sam [00:16:54]:
That’s all the Jeffrey Epstein emails.
Chris [00:16:56]:
Yes, yes, yes, I saw that. I was like, oh yeah, that was clever.
Sam [00:17:01]:
Built into a Gmail wrapper. So you.
Chris [00:17:04]:
It looks like Gmail but they’ve called it JMail.
Sam [00:17:07]:
Yeah. And you read it as emails. Yeah. And you can see what he wrote to different people.
Chris [00:17:10]:
Put the database in there and you can look at it all. Yeah, no, I just, I thought that was very clever. I thought about mentioning that but I forgot all about it actually. Yeah, yeah, that was That’s, I haven’t looked at it though.
Sam [00:17:21]:
No, it’s, it’s really cool story. Scientists, they’re always lurking around.
Chris [00:17:25]:
I wonder if they’ve got Google Ads on there. They should absolutely put ads on it so. And monetize it like. Because that’s a genius idea.
Sam [00:17:34]:
Yeah. Somebody.
Chris [00:17:35]:
Because I think it was considered an somebody whoever tweeted it or mentioned it went this is high art and it is a good idea. But they should put Google Ads on because it just, it works.
Sam [00:17:49]:
Anyway, sorry, did you see what they thought is to believe the world’s largest colonial spider web? Have you seen that?
Chris [00:17:56]:
What do you mean colonial?
Sam [00:17:57]:
Well, it’s a colony of spiders.
Chris [00:18:00]:
Oh, I see what you mean.
Sam [00:18:01]:
Yeah. There’s 110,000 of them they think at least. And this guy from the Septentia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Romania of course. Yeah. And then cavers with the Czech Spological Society. Yeah, that’s where we go. They found in 2022. They first discovered it on Expedition 2024.
Sam [00:18:26]:
Some scientists went back and they’ve just sort of released the details about it. And this place is called Sulphur Cave which is on the border between Greece and Albania. Yeah, it’s just this huge. It’s 106 square meters of just like this huge white web. And they reckon that there’s like 69 thousands of one specimen and then 42 of this other one. And it’s sort of blowing their mind that they’re cooperating in such large numbers. They didn’t know they could do that. And they would normally expect the largest spider and to prey on the smaller spider but that’s not happening.
Sam [00:19:05]:
They all seem quite happy living in this ecosystem. Yeah, they primarily.
Chris [00:19:10]:
I can see how that would be fascinating.
Sam [00:19:13]:
Yeah. Yeah. So they have a sulfur rich diet apparently and they eat non biting midges. But the midges feast on microbial biofilms in the cave because of the sulfur rich stream flowing through the cave and the spiders eat that and they reckon they’ve genetically changed to adapt to the dark dingy cave that you all live in.
Chris [00:19:42]:
Yeah. Still if you’re spelunking and you went into a cave and there’s this freaking huge spider web across the middle, you’d be like, yep, that’s the end of the cave. I’m not going any further, I’m not going through that.
Sam [00:19:58]:
Yeah. I think it’ll take a while for your brain to comprehend what you’re looking at.
Chris [00:20:01]:
You’re like oh well did you walk in? You know, we’ve all walked into a spider’s web before and go, can you imagine doing that?
Sam [00:20:10]:
Not dead.
Chris [00:20:13]:
Oh, yeah. Because I just think of all those spider. I was watching the Rings of Power the other day, and he was in a spider’s cave with a giant spider thing. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I was like, okay, not a fan. No, no. I, I’d be, I’d be backing out slowly. I’d be paranoid there’s a giant spider in there.
Chris [00:20:36]:
Knowing there probably isn’t, but still going, yeah, but who knows? Okay, I, I like this one. This was a fact check on newsweek.com and it’s just the fact that they had to have a fact check that made me laugh.
Sam [00:20:49]:
Okay, okay.
Chris [00:20:50]:
So the fact check is Mumdani, you know, Zoran Mumdani. Do you know who I’m talking about? Is it New York, the new New York mayor.
Sam [00:21:00]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:21:00]:
Okay. Or about New York mayor elect.
Sam [00:21:02]:
Okay. Yeah.
Chris [00:21:04]:
You know, there’s been this big uproar because he is going to be introducing and mandating that New York schools use Arabic numerals.
Sam [00:21:15]:
Okay.
Chris [00:21:19]:
And people are open. I’m like, yes, yes, your education system is crap.
Sam [00:21:27]:
But is that an actual thing he came out with?
Chris [00:21:29]:
No, no, no, no. I reckon somebody’s said, this is my totally my guess of what’s happening. So this may not have happened at all. In my mind, somebody said something and somebody else went sarcastically, oh, he’s just going to make all of us use Arabic numerals. Now, the joke for anyone who doesn’t know is that all the numerals we use in mathematics are Arabic numerals. That’s where it came from. So anyway, and somebody has gone, oh, maybe they are. And he goes, oh, my.
Chris [00:22:05]:
Somebody else, I reckon, would have gone, oh, my school already does have Arabic numerals. And then the megasphere has gone nuts. Oh, my God, he is. He’s bringing Arabic numerals in. Which is just that it just, it boggles the mind. I mean, you know, Americans.
Sam [00:22:25]:
Holy crap is. I don’t know. I’m trying to find the story. There was a story. I assume it’s fake. It must just be fake. Do you see Donald Trump wearing different clothes the other day?
Chris [00:22:35]:
Oh, yeah, there was.
Sam [00:22:36]:
Was that real?
Chris [00:22:37]:
Yeah. No. Oh, I, Yeah, I thought it was.
Sam [00:22:39]:
Because I, I, I thought so, too, because there’s some shots where he was, like, interacting or.
Chris [00:22:45]:
Because I was pretty sure the presenter said something about he was wearing something a little different and he was wearing, like, black blazer with, like, a jersey on underneath or something.
Sam [00:22:56]:
Yeah, real Different. But apparently he’s copying the mayor. Like that’s what they think he’s doing. And then he stated something about he misses New York. I don’t know, that’s sort of the, that’s his new winter look.
Chris [00:23:13]:
He’s weird.
Sam [00:23:14]:
He’s lost the plot.
Chris [00:23:16]:
He is so lost.
Sam [00:23:17]:
Okay, so he was wearing that. But yes, they think that for some reason maybe he saw something on TV and goes, I want that. As far as I’m aware, he just wears the same suit and whatever. His weird white. His polo shirt combo thing at his country club.
Chris [00:23:31]:
Yeah. Oh my God. Oh, I had to laugh at this magician fail thing. This is from the Register in the uk. I used to read the Register all the time when I was.
Sam [00:23:43]:
And that’s a legit thing.
Chris [00:23:44]:
Yeah, okay, it’s. It’s a legit thing. I used to read them all the time when I was in telecom.
Sam [00:23:51]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:23:51]:
But so this dude Z, Ting Wang, he’s a magician.
Sam [00:23:57]:
Yep.
Chris [00:23:57]:
And he had this brilliant idea.
Sam [00:24:00]:
Okay.
Chris [00:24:00]:
And he implanted an RFID chip in his hand.
Sam [00:24:07]:
Yeah, okay.
Chris [00:24:07]:
Yeah, we’ve all done that. Yeah, yeah. So he, so he decided that it would be clever to use the RFID to. He would pick somebody’s phone up and it would do a thing. Actually what’s taking me a long time because it doesn’t actually say. Seemed like such a neat idea.
Sam [00:24:28]:
Yeah.
Chris [00:24:28]:
It turns out, said Z, that pressing someone else’s phone into my hand repeatedly trying to figure out where they’re phone’s RFID reader is really doesn’t come off as super mysterious, magical and amazing.
Sam [00:24:42]:
This isn’t a real, this isn’t a real story.
Chris [00:24:46]:
He thought that would amaze people. And then there are people who don’t even have their phones RFID reader enabled. My LinkedIn keeps asking me to verify and you need an RFID chip in your phone to verify yourself. And my phone doesn’t have that ability.
Sam [00:25:04]:
Anyway, yeah, anyway, this sounds like a made up story.
Chris [00:25:07]:
No. So it lacked a certain. Oh, so what he did in the end, he rewrote the chip to link to a meme and if you ever meet me in person, you can scan my chip and see the meme. So he like scan my hand.
Sam [00:25:24]:
No, I’m already out. I don’t want to go near this guy.
Chris [00:25:27]:
And it was all suitably amazing until the imager link Z was using went down. So he goes, oh, okay, well what am I going to do then? I’m going to, oh, I should reprogram the chip to a different meme. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Sam [00:25:43]:
I don’t know. You what?
Chris [00:25:46]:
Oh, I forgot the password to the chip in my hat.
Sam [00:25:57]:
I can’t remember the past when you said magician.
Chris [00:26:02]:
I’m pretty. I’m pretty sure that’s a loose term.
Sam [00:26:08]:
You use the wrong word. Idiot.
Chris [00:26:12]:
Yeah, okay, well, so he’s. He’s forgotten the. The password for the chip in his hand, so he can’t really. And he’s. He’s talked about, okay, what will it take to. To do this? And apparently some smart people that. No stuff goes. It’s such a basic chirp.
Chris [00:26:31]:
We can’t. Like you can’t crack it any other way. It’s just got to be brute force. So you’re just gonna have to hold this thing while it goes through. Every possible combination could take days. So he’s just has it. Nobody. Look, if you’re listening to this and you don’t have a.
Chris [00:26:51]:
What do you call them things? Keepass. What do you call those things? A password manager. Manager. You’re an idiot. I’m sorry. You are. You should get a password manager. There’s no excuse not to have a password manager at this in 2025.
Chris [00:27:09]:
I didn’t have one for a long time. I was an idiot. Sam put me onto the password manager thing. I think I’ve had it for 12 years now, at least like that. So you definitely need a password manager. Everybody should have one. Get a free one like Keepass, which I use, or get a paid one. It’s all good.
Sam [00:27:26]:
There we go. That’s our public service announcement. Didn’t. Didn’t know that was happening, did you? Thanks for hanging around. This is the end of the podcast, so we will see you next time. Make sure to keep safe out there in the crazy season in the lead up to Christmas.
Chris [00:27:41]:
Yeah. Have you got any Christmassy parties coming up?
Sam [00:27:46]:
Two work parties. Two work parties one day after the next. So it’s work. We’re having lunch with my team. Work Christmas party, and then the next day another work Christmas party.
Chris [00:27:57]:
I’ve got LinkedIn local coming up. I think that’s next.
Sam [00:27:59]:
I forget that’s still a thing.
Chris [00:28:01]:
Is it next week or the week after? I forget now, but that’s the only one I’ve got.
Sam [00:28:05]:
Okay, we will tell you about that if you’re lucky. But to really know, you have to tune in. So until next time, I’m Sam.
Chris [00:28:12]:
I’m Chris.
Sam [00:28:13]:
See ya. Bye.
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