Worrying Bugs – Page 2 – Zak Sharp and Certus Stone host a podcast that is generally about our lives, but we promise it's more interesting than that. We might talk about milk politics, philosophy, technology, college life, everything you could possibly want to know about whatever we find interesting this week, and more.

Problematically Shelled Soy

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Zak and Liz talk about the best dairy-free cream cheese that Liz has had the pleasure of spreading onto a bagel.

Zak calls out the cowards at Malk Organics LLC for not standing up to the dairy lobby… oh, and their new oat milk isn’t that good.

Zak describes the Log4Shell exploit and all of the innocuous decisions that lead up to its presence in a large amount of software written in Java.

Recorded on December 22, 2021

Dairy Alternatives
– Tofutti Cream Cheese
– Malk

Log4Shell – Wikipedia
– 4K Yule Log – PBS on YouTube
– Log4J – Apache
– Logging and Monitoring – The New Stack
– JNDI – Wikipedia
– Java RMI
– URLClassLoader
– Tomcat BeanFactory – Apache
– The Jira Issue
– Prepared statement – Wikipedia
– Dependabot – GitHub Blog

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Fishily Ratcheting Allegations

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Zak and Liz talk about the best chocolate chip cookie in Milwaukee. You can only get them during certain times of year, so make sure to get them while they’re hot.

Zak explains the ‘soup’ model for the genetic testing of Subway™ Tuna™.

Liz rambles about how the Matrix Conversation Standard works. The servers get ratcheted twice, I think.

Recorded on December 5, 2021

Subway Tuna
– Episode about Subway Bread – Worrying Bugs
– Episode about Subway Tuna – Worrying Bugs
– The Big Tuna Sandwich Mystery – The New York Times
– Millennials Are Killing Tuna – Wall Street Journal
– PCR – Wikipedia
– The Seafood List – FDA.gov
– Inside Edition investigation on Subway tuna
– Subway Tuna Facts – Wayback Machine
– Joseph McCarthy – Wikipedia
– You’re Wrong About the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case – Overcast.fm
– Numpty – Wikitionary

Matrix Conversation Standard
– Signal Messenger
– Double Ratchet Algorithm – Open Whisper Systems
– Secure Key Exchange – Computerphile on YouTube
– Snow Crash – IndieBound
– Matrix Signal Bridge

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Therapeutically Commonplace Desk

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Zak and Liz start this episode by talking about the personality disorder of a fictional character. There was probably some context, but it has been lost to time.

Liz has some serious FOMO for Obsidian. If only she had something to write about.

Liz decided that years of research that all says “don’t work where you sleep” couldn’t be talking about her. She tells us why she put her desk in her living room when she has a perfectly good office room.

Recorded on November 21, 2021

Count Olaf’s Antisocial Personality Disorder – Journal of English Language and Literature

Obsidian
– The Engineering Notebook – Science & Engineering Fair of Houston
– Commonplace Book – Wikipedia
– The Memex Method – Cory Doctorow
– Obsidian Daily Notes
– NaNoWriMo
– Sewing Machine Animation – YouTube
– Obsidian Forums

New Desk Setup
– Shearing – Wikipedia
– They Don’t Know I Know This Hack – In The Know
– Widdershins
– Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – APA
– Apple Watch Mac Unlock – Apple
– Flip Clock Screensaver

Ace of Spades – IndieBound
– Open Library
– The StoryGraph

Streamlabs OBS Debacle – The Verge

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Limitedly Almond Feeds

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Zak and Liz try some passible dairy-free alternatives to yogurt and cream cheese. Mouth noises are included.

Liz need to scroll something… anything… so Zak tells us what RSS feed he’s subscribed to.

Liz’s computer ran out of disk space, so she and Zak explore their strategies for managing large files.

Recorded on November 10, 2021

Dairy-Free
– As You Know, Bob – TV Tropes
– 9/11 caused 50 Shades of Grey – AV Club
– Language Regulators – Wikipedia
– Culina Yogurt
– Turtles All The Way Down – Indiebound
– Kite Hill Cream Cheese

RSS Feeds
– Drafts
– NetNewsWire
– Dan Luu
– Daring Fireball
– Faster Than Lime
– Furbo by Craig Hockenberry
– The Pudding
– Certus Stone
– Macdrifter
– Waxy.org
– Pluralistic – Cory Doctorow’s blog
– Cool Tools
– FreshRSS (self-hosted feed aggregator)

State of the Storage
– Backblaze
– OmniDiskSweeper
– Transport Fever 2
– SATA vs PCIe M.2 – Crucial

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Openly Borderline Cubes

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Zak and Liz talk about the one simple computer skill that could save you 20+ hours per week at your banking job.

Liz figured out how to make her mouse talk to Minecraft correctly. It turns out that all she needed to do was actually read what the people on the forums had to say.

Zak tells us how a DNS butterfly flapped its wings and lead to Facebook employees being physically locked out of the servers.

Recorded on October 24, 2021

Follow Up: Logitech And Minecraft

Border Gateway Protocol

Seeing Like A State – Indiebound

Brasilia – Wikipedia

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Normally Comprehended Linda

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Zak and Liz swear off code forever.

Liz’s yearly theme is being completed to ~43% capacity so far.

Liz gets mad about a single sentence in a 500 page book and says that Kahnemn should’ve just made it into a tweet.

Logitech is intentionally making Liz’s life harder by making software that does not work, basically at all, with her favorite game.

Zak tells us how a DNS butterfly flapped its wings and lead to Facebook employees being physically locked out of the servers.

Recorded on October 10, 2021

Vim

Yearly Theme

Omnifocus

Thinking Fast and Slow – Indiebound

Cortex Episode #119 – Relay FM
Linda the Bank Teller – Psychology Today
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus – Wikipedia
Men Are Like Waffles – Women Are Like Spaghetti – Sundog Books
Brains aren’t food, what the hell are you talking about (paraphrased) – Huffington Post
Lojban – Wikipedia
Daniel Kahnemn Star Sign – Google
Rationality: From AI to Zombies – Eliezer Yudkowsky

Minecraft

Notch Controversies – Wikipedia
MX Master 3 – The Verge
Better Touch Tool

Super Auto Pets

Faster Than Lime
Chickens Mod – CurseForge

Squid Game – Wikipedia

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette – Wikipedia
Freytag’s Pyramid – Wikipedia
Squid Games’ Effect on White Vans Sales – Pop Sugar

Facebook Server Issue 2021 – Wikipedia

John Gruber Markdown

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Journalistically Expedient Pockets

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Zak and Liz talk about Zak’s experience with setting up Fastmail. Zak demands features from the developers of an app that he does not pay for then discovers that the feature he wants is already included.

Zak breaks his silence regarding his history with cargo shorts. Listener discretion advised. He also tells us how he manages his left glove in today’s modern society.

Liz wants to journal in every sense of the word. Her new yearly theme focuses on having a conversation with herself through time which isn’t as self-aggrandizing as it may seem.

Recorded on September 26, 2021

Bicycle Zines – Microcosm Publishing

Fastmail

Spark
Inbox by Gmail – Wikipedia

Go Bags

Project Ara – Wikipedia
American Innovation Dollars – Wikipedia

Liz’s Yearly Theme

Fresh Start – You Need A Budget Doc
Starting anew with OmniFocus – OmniGroup

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Spitefully Personal Mail

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Zak and Liz talk about Liz having some very healthy and normal feelings about a guy that makes Youtube videos about the block game and Zak rudely pathologizes her with the bible. She continues to double down until it’s not funny anymore.

Liz is trying to get one step closer to living her Tony Stark fantasy life by getting Zak to come up with more things that could be nails for her Jarvis-shaped hammer.

Zak is very upset that Google is reading his emails and making him pay for it. Liz tells us how email actually works and why we should all give up and let Google eat our data. Zak ignores this advice and is considering Fastmail.

Recorded on September 12, 2021

Liz is Toxic (Not Clickbait)

docm77 – YouTube
Hedonic Treadmill – Wikipedia
Hasan House Drama – Wikipedia

Personal Server

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Randomly Meaty Lovers

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Zak and Liz invented a new role-playing game in an effort to help Liz figure out her yearly theme.

Recorded on August 29, 2021

Themes

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Enjoyably Audible Preparation

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Zak and Liz talk about borrowed knowledge, computational theory mottos, Zak’s ren-fair experience, programming with cute little bubbles, how loud things are, and how Zak is arranging his boxes.

Recorded on Aug 18, 2021

Theory of Computation