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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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Everything Wrong With Crypto--Part-2
Last week, Tom and Chunga kicked off a two-part series, that focused on everything that’s wrong with Crypto. In part one, they talked about the concept of Cryptocurrency and whether or not it will stand the test of time as a legitimate form of money….
Everything That's Wrong With Crypto - Part 1
A few weeks ago, Tom and Chunga did a couple of episodes about CryptoCurrency. Although these shows were generalized and neutral, there were a few people that felt that The Hacks was in some way being a “shill” for crypto companies. While that…
What Is a Botnet?
Chunga is asking for Tom’s help. He’s wondering about something and he feels like it’s something that he should already know about. He’s also curious to know if this is something that everyone claims to understand but in reality, experts are more like…
Super Nerd Spotlight: Who is Dan Bernstein
Tom is hanging out in Las Vegas with Chunga! They’re working on a writing project together and while they were diligently grinding away, Tom came up with a great idea. Every so often, he wants to do an episode of The Hacks that focuses on an…
The Trinity of Open Source
Tom is in the process of writing a new book and (big shock) it’s about open source! More specifically, it’s called “The Trinity of Open Source”. So, what does that mean? Simply Put, The Trinity of Open Source is all about the natural balance between…
Is AMD Better Than Intel?
Tom has wanted to do this episode for weeks! Shortly before the Ukraine conflict broke out, he read a news article announcing that AMD had passed Intel in terms of market cap and now he wants to take a victory lap. Chunga says “they’ll be no shutting…