August 4, 2012
The August 4, 2012 broadcast shows Dr. Dave's habit of turning failure into instruction. He remembers subscribing to an FAA accident-investigation magazine because studying how things go wrong reveals the human decisions behind a system. That same concern shapes his warning that people are not exempt from technological disaster, his search for more autonomy from cloud services and his insistence that people must remain in control of the tools they use. The show also preserves lighter pieces of Dr. Dave and Evil Steve together: Dr. Dave finally notices the “apple trees” lyric in their long-running Apple-update song, and the brothers invent a round phone that doubles as a coaster. Dr. Dave closes with a principle central to his data-recovery work—assume a drive can fail and keep a backup of the backup.
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Regular show: hour recordings
2 recordings · 105:54 total within this version.
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Regular show: segments
8 recordings · 95:09 total within this version.
Numbered positions are present in sequence. This alone does not prove the show is complete.