TEH Podcast

In This Episode: The Internet Archive saves an old car. AI Bird IDs. Claude code. Ringing Lost Dogs. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: Internet Archive to the rescue My wife is visiting my sister-in-law, and the parking brake in her 2000 Honda CRV (originally my mother’s car) froze up. The pull-lever i the center wouldn’t budge. I got messaged for help. I searched for “2000 honda crv maintenance manual”. The second entry is The Internet Archive’s scan of the ~1400 page manual. https://archive.org/details/HondaCRV19972000  I was able to send her images from the manual about how to access and lubricate the pull lever. This isn’t the first time IA has popped up randomly to help. It’s an amazing resource. 5:45 LN: What bird is  that? Another story of things coming together. My wife takes a photo with her phone (Pixel 4a) of a hawk sitting on a fence in our neighborhood. https://flic.kr/p/2rVhrLG  The photo is auto-uploaded to her Google Photos account. I grab a copy and crop it. Original is 4032×3024, so there are lots of opportunities. Not bad. https://flic.kr/p/2rVjh8d  7:00 I fire up Topaz Gigapixel AI, and, with a little adjustment of settings, upscale the image 4x. I then crop it further to focus more closely on the bird. Also not bad, though there are some tell-tale signs that this was AI upscaled. https://flic.kr/p/2rVisjk  9:15 My wife asks me what kind of hawk that might be. No clue. So I decided to try … ChatGPT. I upload the upscaled image, and ask simply, “What kind of bird is this?” Likely ID: Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile) Based on the bulky buteo shape, overall brown upperparts, the pale “checkerboard” pattern on the wings, and the strongly banded tail (common in young birds before they develop the classic red tail), this looks most consistent with a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk. We do indeed have red-tailed hawks around here. It’s interesting that it ID’d a juvenile. 15:00 Identify birds. https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/  18:00 LN: Claude Code Installed on my PC because it promised to be able to work on local data 20:00 Non-trivial install (at least for Windows – WSL, and then you’re running in an Ubuntu bash shell). 21:10 Scenario 1: My Obsidian vault – all plain text (.md) files. I can now ask questions and run analyses across the entire collection of notes. 24:00 Scenario 2a: My personal blog. Pointed it at leo.notenboom.org – did OK, but incomplete. 25:00 Scenario 2b: exported by personal blog content from WordPress as an XML file. Dense, lots of cruft. Gave that to Claude and got a very complete, detailed analysis / summary of what I’ve been doing there since 2004. 27:00 Scenario 3: downloaded the contents of 23 years of Ask Leo! Articles. https://askleo.com/ask-leo-analysis-via-claude-code/  38:00 GR: Ring Doorbell Superbowl Ad ? Pretty sure I was “ringing this bell” many years ago right here LN: We Rate Dogs take on it: https://www.tiktok.com/@weratedogs/video/7605333665031245069 Ain’t it Cool GR: Dungeon Crawler Carl LN: Archive.org BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: Managing Windows File Explorer’s Navigation Pane – https://askleo.com/188995 GR: How To Keep Using Pages, Numbers and Keynote If You Don’t Want Apple Creator Studio Transcript teh_260 Video https://youtu.be/Q7JXOLNvLi4

In This Episode: AI is still dumb. Who’s in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:30 LN: Been playing with Jan https://www.jan.ai/  2:15 So MANY online AIs: ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, & others 3:35 Privacy-focused: Proton’s Lumo Self-hosted: Jan (ultimate privacy?) – biggest complication is figuring out what LLM model to use 9:00 GR: Claud bot 10:00 Don’t let AI decide things for you 14:40 GR: Who owns TikTok now? 15:50 TikTok is now owned (80%) by an investor group Oracle houses data (Larry Ellison)  Was owned by Chinese ByteDance before (still 20%) Should you keep watching? (honestly can’t decide) 21:00 Alternatives: YouTube Shorts is getting better, Instagram 26:00 GR: mobile journalism tips 30:00 Practice “quick draw” filming with your mobile phone Familiarize yourself with your camera resolution and upload settings LN: auto-backup to cloud 37:00 Remember if a friend is filming, you film too. Heck, film them filming things. 44:00 LN: The death of “Check mail from other accounts:” took me down a path FastMail  48:00 Proton mail for security 53:00 Google Workspace for Nonprofits Ain’t it Cool 55:10 GR: Sinners (HBO Max) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:00:06 LN: Why Am I Seeing So Many CAPTCHAs? – askleo.com/187517 1:01:10 GR: https://macmost.com/10-secrets-of-the-mac-dock.html Transcript teh_259 Video https://youtu.be/XBe01I-Flmg

In This Episode: Brief episode description This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: Gravity always wins 6:00 LN: My new machine (you know, a “present” for getting sick?) AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X 24-Cores, 4200 Mhz 128GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (and how I backed into this) 12:00 Davinci Resolve “speed editor” 13:00 GR: Apple Creator Studio https://www.apple.com/apple-creator-studio/ Is it “freemium?” 24:00 LN: Afinity and Canva 25:00 So many subscriptions! Good and bad 28:00 GR: Strudel.cc  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M 33:00 GR: AI fakes aren’t always going to be someone talking and saying something they didn’t.  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/renee-good-car-ice-image 35:00 Believe what you want to believe 37:00 GR: Subscribe to Snopes Snopes Newsletters: https://www.snopes.com/newsletters/ 41:00 Studying media bias 42:00 GR: Connections in the wilderness Satellite text messages, not just for emergrncies 45:00 LN: Recent outage when everyone’s phone only said SOS? Ain’t it Cool 46:00 LN: Google Recorder (Pixel) – a tool I relied on 49:00 GR: Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Audible) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:00 LN:  An Unexpected Way Videos Can Expose Your Location – askleo.com/167448 56:00 GR: https://macmost.com/why-ai-cant-replace-tech-help-yet.html Why AI Can’t Replace Tech Help (Yet) Transcript teh_258 Video https://youtu.be/MwCkLv4RjLY

In This Episode: When the Internet Was Not Down: Cloudflare, Outages, and Automatic Buying. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: Cloudflare, and reliance on large providers Is it inevitable? 5:00 How good are services at fixing and acknowledging 6:30 Go to the internet to announce the internet is down 7:00 GR: Finding Cloudflare down Bot detection 11:00 VPNs 13:30 False consensus… what’s really wrong? 17:10 LN: Amazon versus Perplexity and agents Shopping agents I don’t yet trust AI agents. At all. Certainly not with my credit card. 26:00 GR: Cosmetic changes 27:40 OCD? 31:00 Windows desktop 34:00 Spam! 35:00 LN: Over-reliance on vibe coding? Is there a HUGE data breach or other security issue in our future due to someone’s over-reliance on vibe coding? Ain’t it Cool 39:50 GR: Flybot by Dennis E Taylor – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232957226-flybot 42:35 LN: Pluribus – Apple TV – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/ – New take on “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 45:00 LN: What Happens If I Don’t Update to Windows 11? – https://askleo.com/186512 45:50 GR: Using Apple Intelligence and Shortcuts To Rename Files  https://macmost.com/using-apple-intelligence-and-shortcuts-to-rename-files.html  Video https://youtu.be/_fG_giYg4AE Transcript teh_257

In This Episode: Geeky Milestones: Mini PCs and Smart Glasses, and False Consensus in Tech This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: Milestone episode! (Episode 100000000!) 1:30 LN: Mini PCs (https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/ of course, but also now assorted like: https://go.askleo.com/ama/B0F2MCQ8XQ of which I now own two) 09:40 GR: Apple’s A vs. M Processors 16:33 Apple’s Shared Code 17:30 Standardized Apps Across Apple Device 20:42 GR: Privacy Concerns with Recording Glasses Ugly! 21:04 Privacy concerns 22:00 Bad cameras 30:00 GR: False consensus effect. Seems to suddenly be happening a lot in terms of tech support questions. “Looks like iOS 26 broke such-and-such!” but no it didn’t for most people. 35:00 LN: Recall 37:00 LN: When updates break something (for real), my most common advice is … (Had one just a few moments ago) Ain’t it Cool 42:00 LN: “Ain’t it lukewarm” -> Witcher season 4. But not for the reasons everyone seems to pile on about. GR: Nothing BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 47:00 GR: Quickly Check a Web Site Without Using Your Browser   https://macmost.com/quickly-check-a-web-site-without-using-your-browser.html 48:00 LN: Still Another Way to Install Windows 11 With Only a Local Account – https://askleo.com/185914 (A risky post?) Transcript teh_256 Video https://youtu.be/QLaeMz8E_Ms

In This Episode: When AI Gets It Wrong: Schools, Cities, and the Rise of Digital Overreach This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories GR: No middle ground with AI OPINIONS 2:40 Apple Intelligence 4:30 GR: Security cameras with AI making things worse and worse Chips and guns https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/us/baltimore-student-chips-ai-gun-detection-hnk  9:26 Colorado surveillance systems https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/ https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/27/opinion-denver-flock-cameras-city-council/  My take: Law enforcement and tech don’t mix well and lead to abuses 17:30 Border patrol and ICE in Washington 22:00 GR: Atlas and Max https://lifehacker.com/tech/chatgpt-atlas-clipboard-injection-vulnerability 27:00 LN: Auto-hotkey Atlas is still Mac only. 28:00 Malicious uses. Hackers LN: https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/ (though they have a dog in the fight) 37:00 LN: The browser/app line is blurry. 39:00 LN: Learned how to turn off Gemini in Google Docs, for example. (Can’t in MS Office online, though.) 40:00 LN: Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI Ain’t it Cool 43:00 GR: Flow TV (https://labs.google/flow/tv/channel/extreme-sports/1lpjPeHeirvraIGpAFaG?random=true) 46:00 LN: And/or Season 2. (Season 1 mentioned in TEH 174) Bonus: follow it with Rogue One. Honorable mention: Gen V BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 48:40 GR: https://macmost.com/live-using-apple-intelligence-with-mac-apps.html 49:40 LN: What Are the Internet’s Rules About Free Speech? – askleo.com/10916 Transcript teh_255 Video https://youtu.be/cblTOfwJngs

In This Episode: Navigating Windows 10 Armageddon… or maybe not. Dark motives and AI videos. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 00:00 LN: “Windows 10 Is Still Fine” 02:00 Armageddon 04:20 Windows Updates: Risks and Workarounds 5:10 ESU security extension, pay or free 6:20 GR: Apple forces updates yearly 7:20 Issues with Yahoo Mail 8:10 Quickbooks forces updates 11:20 LN: Can Mac’s be setup without an Apple account? The lengths people go to to setup Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. (I “found” a new one.) 13:06 GR: Using Mac Without Apple ID 16:49 Microsoft Account Frustration Explained, missing features 22:02 Microsoft’s Cloud Push: Motives Discussed It might be helping with backups 27:46 GR: “AI Video Generator Evolution” GR: AI video generators as Sora 2 – creative animation 37:00 Learning that all video is not real 39:56  LN: “AI vs Human Authorship Concerns” Ain’t it Cool 46:00 LN: I’m concerned you may worry about me when I share. We’ll start here: YouTube Music: Top 100 Songs, Netherlands, and then take a turn… 48:00 GR: iOS 26 Music app Automix BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 50:30 LN: Should I Update to Windows 11? (October 2025 update) – https://askleo.com/135037  50:55 GR: https://macmost.com/10-text-scams-to-watch-out-for.html Video https://youtu.be/-LIPO55dB28 Transcript teh_254

In This Episode: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.  This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories GR: New Apple Stuff 01:00 New iPhone 07:30 New iPhone Air? 20:00 Battery life 13:00 Air pods 15:20 GR/LN: Why do we suddenly need AI? We don’t. But benefits outweigh the downsides 17:00 Coding (old code book image below) 25:00 Writing 32:00 Copilot & Apple Intelligence forced on people 38:00 Talk to the computer like Star Trek 40:00 LN: When popular operating systems end Windows 10. What “end of support” really means Apple upgrades as well 45:00 Hardware implications 54:00 Windows backup 47:00 GR: should software shed old features over time? (Launchpad) Get Off My Lawn! 55:00 LN: You don’t trust OneDrive, but you trust Microsoft? You realize who controls the OS you use every day, right? Ain’t it Cool 103:00 LN: Less of a thing, more of a concept: technology in motion Rivian+connectivity+AI 104:00 LN: Episodes Wednesday, Season 2  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 Superman Movie 1:06:00 GR: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62005.A_Night_in_the_Lonesome_October BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 107:30:00 LN: How to Keep Using Windows 10 Safely after Support Ends –  108:10:00 GR: How To Launch Apps Now That Launchpad Is Gone  Transcript teh_253

In This Episode: Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories GR: Adventure Travel With Tech 1:30 iPhone-only! Challenging. Practiced ahead of time. Never needed VNC. 3:30 What I couldn’t do 5:30 Connecting 7:10 eSIM 13:00 Google voice 14:10 WhatsApp 17:20 Charging and batteries: Rapid charging 21:40 Backing up photos 26:00 Vertical photos, 3:35 Dirty camera sensors 33:40 GR: The equator is not where you think it is 38:00 LN: Boring summer, tech wise 39:00 AI / GPT 5 (yawn) 40:00 MS surprised with ESU (Extended Service Updates) Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment) 45:25 LN: Just because I talk about a paid service doesn’t mean they’re paying me! Ain’t it Cool 51:00 LN: So many. Backlog 🙂 Redux: Hail Mary. So good, esp audio performance. You don’t end up where you think you’re going to end up. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Audio: Steven Fry) Severance: started weird but oddly compelling. Resident Alien The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964 GR: I love all of these things, so I nod in agreement. I’m actually re-reading Hail Mary right now. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 57:00 GR: https://macmost.com/10-pro-features-of-the-mac-finder.html 59:00 LN: Why Do We Suddenly Need AI? – https://askleo.com/183047 Transcript teh_252 Video https://youtu.be/VkRnpdzfOlg

In This Episode: Camping connectivity. Fiber isn’t Fiber. Griping about Negativity. AI dating. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 00:00 Connectivity Challenges While Camping I know some would say “disconnect!”, but connectivity also enables some to get away at all. (Work, family, etc.) 07:31 Starlink’s Impressive Speedtest Results Starlink mini.  Speed test: https://flic.kr/p/2reaojP  Setup tested: https://flic.kr/p/2rdwANd Price and limits? 12:16 Fiber isn’t fiber. Microwave Dish on Building Roof 17:00 Competitor to Starlink 19:55 How Does Starlink Communicate? 23:59 Digital Photo Storage 27:21 “People like things you don’t” 35:44 Original files are saved 36:45 Unreliable Microsoft Software Track Record 41:40 RAW and JPEG Photo Workflow 44:18 “AI Dating: New Romantic Frontier” AI Companions: Friends and Lovers https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retreat-with-3-ai-chatbots-and-humans-who-love-them-replika-nomi-chatgpt/  https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/tech/snapchat-my-ai-concerns-wellness 50:23 ChatGPT as Romantic Confidant 54:21 Future of AI in Writing and Editing 59:57 Removing OneDrive from Windows Ain’t it Cool 59:57 LN: Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir – https://a.co/d/2Ux9i3u – audio (& a movie next year) GR: The Studio: Apple TV+ BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: My OneDrive-free Experiment – https://askleo.com/181477 GR: https://macmost.com/why-you-should-stop-storing-photos-as-files-and-use-mac-photos-instead.html Transcript 251 Transcript

In This Episode: New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil? This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 250 Episodes! 1:00 GR: New Apple stuff – Mac OS Tahoe Launch  3:30 Liquid Glass (People like change / people hate change) 4:20 Windowing on the iPad 9:30 macOS Automations 11:00 Clipboard history (Mac and Windows) 12:00 Lots of “Screening” features 13:00 Unknown number screening (good and bad?) 18:00 LN:  Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS Data collection in general. Many (many) people are paranoid, avoiding things like OneDrive/iCloud. Is the paranoia legit, or just misplaced? 21:00 The greater risk 24:00 Cloud storage can be encrypted 24:30 Location worries 27:00 It’s been going on a long time Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment) 29:30 LN: “I don’t understand it, therefore it’s wrong/evil/I don’t like it/no one should be using it/it’s a conspiracy/etc…” (aka Passkeys) 31:30 If it’s not perfect it’s crap. Sigh. 32:00 GR: “If something is not working for me, it must be broken for everyone” Ain’t it Cool! 35:00 GR: Stickies… 2023 movie “Missing” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10855768/ 40:40 LN: Department Q on Netflix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995114/ BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 42:00 GR: https://macmost.com/wwdc-2025-new-features-coming-to-ios-26-ipados-26-and-macos-26-tahoe.html  43:00 LN: Passkeys and Hardware Keys Transcript teh250 Video https://youtu.be/55MKt-sqlyw

In This Episode: Can You Trust Your AI? Fact-Checking, Streaming Trends, and Tech Tools of the Week This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 00:00 AI Misunderstandings and Media Missteps GR: AI Craziness Round-Up 2:00 Newspaper book list https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chicago-sun-times-ai-book-list-1.7539016 7:28 AI of a deceased person in court: https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-in-courtrooms/ (not really AI, just Ai to create animation/recreation) 11:00 Someone tried it for real: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-courts-nyc-5c97cba3f3757d9ab3c2e5840127f765 15:54 Musk Manipulates AI for Political Bias 21:01 Effective Review Techniques 28:56 LN AI Enhances Code Understanding LN What is “Vibe coding”? (And how AI taught me new PHP.) 31:53 GR Stack Overflow Challenges: Delays & Rudeness 34:00 Learn how to formulate questions 36:00 Ideal Phone Size Balance LN Thin and light, or thick(er) and rugged? Choose only one. (My screen cracked …again.) 44:00 LN shutdowns Arc browser https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025  Pocket, bookmarking service 48:00 YouTube Dominates TV Streaming GR The number one streaming TV platform? Just YouTube. https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/youtube-tops-disney-and-netflix-in-tv-viewing-nielsen-finds/ 54:04 Viral Videos vs. TV Shows 01:00:56 Clever Cameo Strategy in Series 01:03:48 “Back in Action” Ain’t it Cool 59:00 LN Murderbot (TEH 139 & 191) 1:01:00 GR Love and Robots season 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Death_%26_Robots BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:02:00 LN Can You Really Know Your PC Is Clean and Malware-Free? – https://askleo.com/180648  1:02:40 GR Screenshot tips https://macmost.com/17-iphone-screenshot-tips-and-tricks.html Transcript teh249.txt YouTube

In This Episode: Epic vs Apple. AI brings voices back from the dead. The mess of RealID. Tech tariffs. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:45 GR: Fee for the  privilege of using the app store 2:30 It’s in the news this week: Fortnite: Epic didn’t like paying Apple 30%, so they broke the rules, Apple kicked them out Judge ruled 9-out-of-10 items in favor of Apple, but not the link-to-external-site rules New ruling pushes Apple to allow links, and stop taking cuts from those external links 8:30 This is US-only. 10:30 MacMost cannot link to Patreon.  12:15 Fortnite has been banned. US users can’t get it on their phones. Supporting Articles:  https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/epic-games-just-scored-a-major-win-against-apple/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/apple-appeals-court-decision-that-forced-it-to-allow-links-to-external-payments-in-apps/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/amazon-kindles-ios-app-adds-new-get-book-button-following-apple-payments-ruling/ 15:00 What happens if it is all free? 22:00 LN: AI voice clones in the wild Jim Fagen comes back https://www.theverge.com/news/661911/nbc-nba-jim-fagan-ai-generated-voice-narration (James Earl Jones has a similar contract – already used as well prior to his death) 25:00 GR: Cloning my own voice 27:40 LN: Doing it in real time… changing accents. 32:15 LN: RealID is really here. And confusing. https://www.theverge.com/privacy/661475/real-id-act-deadline-may-7-tsa-dmv  GR: CO no problem at all really… 41:00 GR: PA (and other states) problems 43:30 GR: The tariffs on tech are here … 145%! Moving factories means you have to move all the parts, and raw materials 46:00 Tariff on movies? https://www.geekwire.com/2025/just-got-our-first-tariff-bill-seattle-area-hardware-startup-wyze-sheds-light-on-trade-policy-impact/ 47:00 GR: More satellite internet options, but also goodbye night sky https://www.theverge.com/space/657113/starlink-amazon-satellites Plug for Jay’s podcast “Deep Sage Nine” https://www.skylapser.com/podcasts/deep-sage-nine-starcast/ Ain’t it Cool 53:00 LN: So long Righteous Gemstones 53:50 GR: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Moon_Hits_Your_Eye BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 55:40 LN: The Enduring Myth of Annual Subscriptions to Windows – https://askleo.com/180253  56:30 GR: https://macmost.com/clean-up-your-contacts-app.html Transcript teh248

In This Episode: Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist? This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 2:00 GR: Amazon to display tariffs on sales pages https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/amazon-display-tariff-costs/  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.YBfn.59P1C3tTA7zr&smid=url-share  Made in the USA A/B test: https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa 12:00 Americans have so many things to tack onto a price: sales tax, tips, service charges, shipping/delivery, more fees, now tariffs 22:03 Patron-Only Course Benefits 23:00 GR: Reddit users ‘psychologically manipulated’ by unauthorized AI experiment https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/openai-used-this-subreddit-to-test-ai-persuasion/  27:00 Is “Change My View” the best place to test? Seems people are obviously open to having their views questioned there. So it just tests whether AI is good at it in that situation. 33:00 Can AI change your view? 34:00 GR: What if AI is lying about credentials? 35:00 Chatting with a cow 36:00 Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-studio-therapy-chatbots-lie-about-being-licensed-therapists/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter 40:00 Is “lying” a human thing? AI is told “you are a licensed therapist” and then why are we surprised at the answer when we ask it “are you licensed therapist?” 42:00 LN: (maybe) what is AI anyway? 44:00 Can AI block spam? Ain’t it Cool 45:00 LN: Last of Us (coolish), Ludwig (brit) 47:00 GR: Ludwig on Britbox BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:40 LN: How Does Security Software Protect Me After Windows 10 End of Support? https://askleo.com/179899  54:40 GR: How To Use the Ports On Your Mac Correctly  https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-ports-on-your-mac-correctly.html Transcript TEH247.txt

In This Episode: AI Bots in Law Enforcement, Coding Assistants, Wilderness Connectivity, and Why Sherlock Holmes Won’t Die This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 GR: This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops  Already being done by spammers 5:20 Zero criminals found 13:15 LN: Recent episode of Leverage: Redemption 15:00 LN: Are software engineers doomed?  OpenAI’s Sarah Friar talks about A-SWE (Agentic Software Engineers). : https://youtu.be/2kzQM_BUe7E?feature=shared&t=691  Helps with monotony 25:00 GR: Nature and Off-grid. Are we close to when you can never truly be off-grid? What will we lose when that happens? 32:00 Satellite + solar for WiFi Satellite SMS 33:00 US/Canada already here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120930 Ain’t it Cool 39:00 LN: Watson – Sherlock and Daughter – Paramount+ Sherlock keeps on giving 41:00 GR: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 43:00 LN: My Most Referenced Articles 45:00 GR: 10 Easy Ways To Customize Your Mac Transcript teh_246

In This Episode: Podcasting with AI and YouTube. Genmojis, Quishing and more.  This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 LN: AI. Using AI voices.  Using AI ethically, or scamming 7:20 LN: I’ve been experimenting with a YouTube Playlist.   YouTube is apparently the #1 podcast platform DaVinci Resolve is awesome 10:00 GR: Apple finding interesting new ways to train AI while protecting privacy https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/differential-privacy-aggregate-trends Apple Genmoji 22:45 It’s about trust 25:00 LN: Quishing Stickers can ‘override’ a QR code What is a QR code https://askleo.com/whats-a-qr-code/  32:00 Dynamic QR codes 33:00 GR: Mythic Quest cancelled, but last episode to update to add an ending 38:00 LN: Rivian truck… rolling computer Calculates weight and range Ain’t it Cool 44:15 GR: Doctor Who is Back with an episode about AI Black Mirror 47:00 LN: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – Reacher -> Ritchson -> this movie. Completely under the radar. WW II heist-like, with Ocean’s 11 vibes. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 51:00 GR: 10 Reasons Your Mac May Be Acting Strange and How to Fix It 52:00 LN: I Use BitLocker. Are My Backups Encrypted? – Transcript teh_245

In This Episode: Microphones, Security Blunders, VPNs, and that tariff thing. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:00 LN: Microphones 4:20 LN: Hollyland Lark M2S wireless lapel mics 10:10 LN: Troy Hunt A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/  Lessons 2FA not invulnerable, but … Your password manager can help, but … Hunt uses 1password. 19:00 Passkeys Use of Passkeys would have avoided the sneaky phish 26:00 Paswordless is the most secure 28:00 GR: I hate VPN Why is the experience still so bad when traveling? 36:00 GR: Tariffs Interesting that Apple stock is down 30%+, but only about 10% of iPhones are sold in the US How will this change tech? Can’t manufacture in US May push more radical change to keep sales going 48:00 LN: New car. Rivian Nintendo Switch 2 54:00 GR: No, stop calling minor changes a “redesign.” Ain’t it Cool 59:00 LN: Proton VPN 🙂 Works well! 1:01:00 VPN in New Zealand 1:03:00 GR: Around the World In 80 Days (Palin) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:06:00   No, No One Is Forcing You to Buy a New Machine – https://askleo.com/179314  GR: https://macmost.com/using-mac-mail-categories-and-how-to-turn-it-off.html Transcript 244 Transcript

In This Episode: Tech travel, security bloops, getting the news, rewriting COBOL. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 00:00 Wi-Fi and Tech while traveling in New Zealand Low tech small motels What do we call a stand-alone camera now? 10:03 Switching Between Phone and Camera 14:04 “Tech Industry’s Quiet Month” 15:00 Signal Mishap 17:51 Data Privacy Paradox If they can see it… they can save it 24:00 Data protection https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo  https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651 30:47 GR: Tech journalism is filling the gap in political journalism (Wired, 404Media, The Verge, etc). DOGE is tech based Teen Vogue Maybe it is that political writers can’t keep up with the tech in politics, but tech writers can keep up with the politics in tech 38:20 GR: They think they can rewrite Social Security’s COBOL code base in months https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/ The last 10% could take 20 years They probably plan to use AI to do it The COBOL zero, and how databases count people Ain’t it Cool 47:40 LN: Adolescence – Amazing for a few reasons (emoji) 51:00 GR: The Residence on Netflix BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 52:00 LN: Let’s Chat About: Civility – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyU4B90QdBo  54:45 GR: Working On Your Mac Without Distractions In Monk Mode  https://macmost.com/working-on-your-mac-without-distractions-in-monk-mode.html Transcript 243

In This Episode: Shortest Episode Ever This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.   (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories Power outages and shortest episode ever

In This Episode: Search problems, hosting videos, moving servers. And… Why? But don’t ask Why. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories Web site searching Using WordPress search 05:54 Created Custom Database Search Engine 10:20 AI-Powered YouTube Video Finder 16:00 Video Hosting Explained 21:48 Vimeo Reliability and Issues bunny.net 29:33 Efficient Video File Management 33:24 Server Migration issues 35:00  cPanel -> Webmin transition 39:00 Migrating a thousand email accounts 40:05 IPv4 Issue and Linux Networking Insight 48:00 Do you need a website? Get off My Lawn! 50:13 LN: Microsoft pushing features. How ‘bout we just make a product that’s good enough that people want it, rather than forcing it on existing users? Lack of faith in your own product. Microsoft! 51:00 GR: Stop asking “why” Ain’t it Cool 56:00 LN: I was hoping to mention White Lotus, but … episode disappoints. Stay tuned, as they say. Instead: Dexter: Original Sin. 59:00 GR: Reflecting on SNL  BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:01:00 LN: What Happens at Windows 10 End of Support? – https://askleo.com/145971 1:02:30 GR: https://macmost.com/how-and-why-to-use-safe-mode-on-a-mac.html Transcript teh241