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Right To Repair, Why So Controversial?
For some reason, across all industries, the term “right to repair” has become extremely controversial. The desire to take full control of your tech, car, home, and health is really causing a stir with with a huge cross section of society, including…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…
Data Center Drama
For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…
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Open Source: The Community Is Not The Customer
Tom and Chunga were highly confused by last weeks episode of The Mandalorian. They came away from the story annoyed and wondering what happened! This confusion reminded each of them about a situation thats currently happening with Idem Project. In the…
What Tom Hatch Would Have Done Different
Tom Hatch has had an incredible life! To be clear, his life has been no bed of roses but it has been remarkable. He’s also had an amazing career as an innovator and thought leader. There are many who would say that Tom Hatch has changed…
How Do Good Programmers Get Past "Writers Block?
Tom and Chunga have a problem. It’s a problem they haven’t had to face before on The Hacks. They’re both–at the same time–dealing with a creative “block”. For some reason, even though they’re working hard to create a great episode for you to…
U.S. Government Hacked by Foreign Nation State! Warnings Issued!
For the longest time, Tom and Chunga have talked about the potential of a large scale breach of U.S. Government Infrastructure by a foreign country, and what the fallout would look like. Ultimately, Tom and Chunga were of the opinion that this type of…
The SVB Meltdown and Tech Start Ups
Tom and Chunga had just entered their respective studios to record this weeks episode of The Hacks, when BOOM! Breaking news reports started coming in saying that Silicon Valley Bank had just collapsed, which immediately changed the topic of the show!…
PyPi Found Stuffed With AWS Keys and Malware
Chunga wants to give a quick shout out to programmers in the U.K.! Once again, a guy in England developed a scanning tool, and found 57 API access keys for AWS and a bunch of Malware in PyPi. Tom Forbes built this tool in Rust to automatically scan…