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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…
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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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What Does a Chief Open Source Officer Actually Do?
Tom Hatch is still waging a valiant battle against Covid! Nevertheless, he’s excited to be doing this episode of The Hacks. Today, He and Chunga are talking about what a Chief Open Source Officer actually does. It’s a mysterious position…
Open Source is Dominant--and Dangerous!
Tom is back from his long, super summer vacation! How did it go? Not well, not well at all… Now that he’s back, Chunga has a bunch of questions about an article that Tom sent him. It’s about the dangerous vulnerabilities of open source…
**Bonus** Free Flow Friday -- "The Offer"!
Tom and Chunga have wanted to try a special bonus episode like this, for a while. The idea is simple. Release a bonus episode on a Friday that has nothing to do (or at least very little) with tech or the tech industry. After all, there is…
Untrue Tech Based Conspiracy Theories
We all love them–maybe it’s human nature. Regardless of whatever it is, that’s pushing our buttons, we can’t seem to get enough when it comes to conspiracy theories. There are a billion of them out there and a sizeable amount of them are focused on…
Ancient Egypt and Modern Tech, More Alike Than You Think!
Every so often, Tom comes up with an idea for The Hacks that, at first, seems pretty wacky, only to find out later that he’s kind of a genius. This is one of those episodes. Tom has made an observation that ancient Egypt and the modern-day tech…
Crypto Has Crashed--Yet Again.
It’s been a rough few weeks for Tom. First, it was building temperamental servers, and then–he got a cat. Anyone who knows Tom knows he’s just not an “animal” type of guy. To make things even more challenging, Crypto has crashed–yet again….