GeekNights – Details, episodes & analysis

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about drones. In the news, the common clay of the New West think they're seeing nefarious drones everywhere and we have WordPress vs WP Engine.

• Drones

• Drones

• Drones

• Rym - 1-900-490-FREAK
• Scott - Elevator Music

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about knives. Learn to use the right knife for the right task with the right technique in the kitchen, and your life will be better. Also learn how to care for them. In the news, the assassination of a health insurance CEO brought a deep simmering anger to the surface of American society, surprising many, and the Interstella 5555 "remaster" isn't.

• Knives

• Knives

• Knives

• Rym - Restored - Star Trek The Animated Series Public Service Ad
• Scott - Lord of the Maps

Tonight on GeekNights, we review The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. It's a Zelda game and you probably should play it. In the news, the big Nintendo leak isn't that exciting and Reiner Knizia’s SHOCKING Confession.

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

• Rym - BART Speedrun Records
• Scott - BigBoxDB

Tonight on GeekNights, we review Look Back. Directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama and based on Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga of the same title. You may know Tatsuki Fujimoto from Goodbye Eri and Chainsaw Man. In the news, Rym's flight home from Singapore has its own wikipedia page, Anno is producing a new Space Battleship Yamato film, and the Uzumaki anime has some drama.

• Look Back (2024)

• Look Back (2024)

• Rym - T-Bar Problems
• Scott - BBC Sound Effects

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about cores and concurrency and threads and such. Also Rym and Emily fought a bear. In the news, Intel's chip instability saga has concluded, and Python 3.13.0 is pretty good.

• Multicore Multiprocess Concurrency and Such

• Multicore Multiprocess Concurrency and Such

• Rym - How Mei Blows Up the Game
• Scott - Popular Science (May 1872)

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the evils of web trackers and analytics. They are used almost exclusively to feed the ad industry and you should block them wherever possible. Rym has installed the microcode patch for some Intel chips and you should too if you have one of them.

In the news, Microsoft is moving to a security-first posture, nostalgia accounts on social media are making up nonsense, and chatbots are intruding into and slowly ruining online social spaces.

• Web Trackers and Analytics

• Web Trackers and Analytics

• Rym - We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI
• Scott - Magician's Brick

Tonight on GeekNights we review the absolutely fantastic LUPIN III Kabuki Production. Even if you have never experienced kabuki and know nothing about it, this is 100% worth watching. It's a top tier experience. In the news, everything on Temu and Shein is full of poison and the updated Chicago Manual of Style just dropped!

• LUPIN III Kabuki Production

• LUPIN III Kabuki Production

• Rym - Consciousness
• Scott - The Podcast Index

Tonight on GeekNights, we review Friends vs Friends. It's a fantastic quick arena-duel FPS with cards. It evokes the feeling of playing weird mods against your friends online in 1998. In the news, PAX Unplugged is December 6-8, the keynote speaker is Elizabeth Hargrave (of Wingspan fame), "hard mode" is a great way to frame handicapping in games, Microsoft lays off even more people, and Sony's Concord failed in legendary catastrophic fashion.

• Friends vs Friends

• Friends vs Friends

• Rym - Corndog Delight
• Scott - Visiting Area 5150: Investigating a PC Demo

Tonight on GeekNights, Rym begins a series of short episodes where he talks about something that's stuck in his craw. Join us in the forum thread to prove him wrong or ask questions. Whatever threads get the most engagement will lead to "part two" episodes of those topics going deeper.

This is why you can't let Scott go out of town. Mods asleep, post about structural concerns of government!

• A Fourth Branch of the Federal Government with Rym

• A Fourth Branch of the Federal Government with Rym

Tonight on GeekNights, Rym begins a series of short episodes where he talks about something that's stuck in his craw. Join us in the forum thread to prove him wrong or ask questions. Whatever threads get the most engagement will lead to "part two" episodes of those topics going deeper.

This is why you can't let Scott go out of town. Mods asleep, post quantum physics.

• Quantum Physics with Rym

• Quantum Physics with Rym

• Rym - A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll