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- TEH 275: What to Do With Old Macs. A day in the Life of a tech creator.
In This Episode: What to Do With Old Macs. A day in the Life of a tech creator.
Day in the Life of Tech Creators
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: What to do with my “Late 2013” Mac Pro?
- Currently: streaming music. 12 cores & 64GB RAM seem overkill for that. 🙂
- 13:50 LN: “A day in the life of an internet entrepreneur”
- 14:27 GR: produce a video a week.
- 24:00 LN: Very similar work days.
- 43:00 LN: This week’s “How I used AI”: image upscaling.
Original screen shotAfter asking Google Gemini to upscale by 300%.Gary’s original thumbnail.AI generated thumbnail.Ain’t it Cool- 54:00 LN: The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances: A Novel – Glenn Dixon
- 55:00 GR: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe – HBO
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 59:00 LN: Clickfix: What It Is and How to Avoid It – https://askleo.com/195093
- 1:00:01 GR: Denver Walking Tour Video: https://youtu.be/fpFTEG8OEdk
Transcript- teh_275
Videohttps://youtu.be/UJeTy2TCWF0
1 hr 6 min - TEH 274: AirPod Cameras, Book Scanning, and Digital Outrage: Tech’s Latest Controversies
In This Episode: AirPod Cameras, Book Scanning, and Digital Outrage: Tech’s Latest Controversies
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: AI podcasts / AI voices
- 1:00 NotebookLM – https://notebook.google.com
- 4:00 GR: My personal podcast
- 11:00 GR: AirPods “cameras”
- https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/
- I’m guessing these don’t record, and maybe don’t even use full color regular light
- Maybe one frame and low res and no ability to record at all
- Worried that there will still be some backlash
- 22:30 Apple vision pro
- 23:40 GR: Are AI companies really destroying rare books? I have an idea what is happening, and it isn’t as bad as it sounds.
- https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/airtag-reveals-amazon-scanning-destroying-books-for-ai-training-report/4030780
- https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/ (paywall)
- 32:00 Plagiarism issues
- 36:00 LN: When your cloud storage provider goes under?
- Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under
- Someone wise once said: “If it’s in only one place, it’s not backed up.” and “The cloud is only one place.”
- 43:25 Online backups as archival storage. Drives have raised in price.
- 46:00 GR: The whole Claude watermarking thing.
- https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content
- 48:00 Marked by choices of words
Ain’t it Cool- 55:00 LN: Spiderman Far From Home, and No Way Home (in prep for Homecoming)
- 57:00 GR: A Walk In the Park by Kevin Fedarko
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 59:00 LN: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for Sharing Links – askleo.com/195019
- 59:50 GR: Why Is My Mac Menu Bar Missing?
Transcript- teh_274
Videohttps://youtu.be/7FC4AihiTc0
1 hr 2 min - TEH 273: Social rage on Flock cameras. Fake worry about technology. And the Rise of School Security Drones.
In This Episode: Social rage on Flock cameras. Fake worry about technology. And the Rise of School Security Drones.
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 GR: Baseball with ipads.
- https://apnews.com/article/mlb-ai-ipads-ac940e2490557438f440514977832a74
- 5:30 Ai is not smarter. People have been doing this all along.
- 12:56 GR: City and counties are putting up cameras to record everything.
- https://www.404media.co/the-rise-of-anti-flock-influencers-who-make-things-up-for-clout/
- 23:00 LN: The OpenAI “breakout”
- – https://apnews.com/article/openai-hugging-face-hacking-ai-model-708cb598bc1e33cef560e7196adb2afa
- Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?
- Imagine if your AI could not only search the public internet, but also use stolen credentials to sign-in to private networks. That’s kind of what this is.
- It’s messy. Guardrails were apparently not at 100%
- Is it mimicking humans? Humans willing to use compromised credentials, that is.
- Concern, OF COURSE, is that today it’s data retrieval from a competitor, but it could someday be data poisoning, or worse.
- 34:00 GR: Drones to be used to try to stop school shootings:
- https://www.edweek.org/leadership/drones-to-stop-school-shootings-promising-tool-or-unproven-strategy/2026/05
- Will they really be effective?
- What are the costs? Budget vs just guards and more traditional methods. Budget vs spending money on actual education.
- 38:00 What about pepper balls?
- 39:00 Hacked pepper balls?
- 42:00 GR: Apple sued because of a third-party app. Is the only legal option for Apple to be 100% perfect when it comes to app store security?
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/apple-sued-after-alleged-app-store-crypto-scam-cost-users-1-8m/
Ain’t it Cool- 47:00 LN: Furious. (Hulu) – Dark police murder mystery series staring Emily Rossum (Shameless)
- 48:00 GR: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Murderbot diaries series)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 49:00 LN: How Do I Find Good Local Computer Help? – askleo.com/25661
- 50:00 GR: How To Protect Yourself Against ClickFix Scams
Transcript- teh273
Videohttps://youtu.be/e6gikp0TX-U
54 min - TEH 272: Practical uses of AI. Trying to get on a bus. What’s up with Satellites.
In This Episode: Practical uses of AI. Trying to get on a bus. What’s up with Satellites.
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.
Our guest is …
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories- o:00 LN: This week’s AI: Google Flow
- “A Corgi in a space suit walking on the surface of Mars where he encounters the Curiosity rover.” https://labs.google/fx/tools/flow/shared/video/1f04a3af-79d7-4a53-8c94-f83442f3b179
- 4:00 GR: My use of AI this week: mini golf app https://oliomo.com/minigolfscorepad/
- 8:00 LN: Investigation: “Does this EULA restrict the number of machines I can install the product on:”
- 12:00 Interpreting manuals
- 18:00 LN: Is AI poisoning search results in a different way?
- Images: “corgi playing guitar”
- “-ai” may or may not help?
- 24:00 GR: Tap-to-ride is cool, but also needlessly confusing
- Seattle: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-light-rail-broke-records-for-world-cup-how-many-riders-paid/ “Data shows that between 58% and 74% of riders paid …”
- 40:00 GR: Sun-Reflecting Satellites: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/the-fcc-just-approved-a-sun-reflecting-satellite-and-astronomers-already-hate-it/
- Very weird set of plusses and minuses
Ain’t it Cool- 49:00 LN: Silo
- 50:00 GR: The Emerald Mile (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15803144-the-emerald-mile)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 51:00 LN: Stop Spreading Manure – https://askleo.com/9419
- 52:00 GR: https://macmost.com/keep-small-notes-always-in-reach-on-your-mac-with-stickies.html
Transcript- teh272
Videohttps://youtu.be/gO6tmKY5UQ0
55 min - TEH 271: Extensions, Increases, RAM shortages, ClickFix danger, Use AI for Fun
In This Episode:
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: Windows Quickies:
- Windows 10 ESU
- 1:46 Windows 11 26H2
- 3:03 GR: Apple price increases
- 4:11 RAM shortages
- 12:30 GR: ClickFix attacks (https://hackmag.com/news/gizmodo-clickfix)
- Macs targeted too
- Apple fixed some parts, so switching tactics (Script Editor) https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/the-clickfix-scam-infect-your-own-mac
- 16:00 Why get more complex when simple keeps working?
- 17:00 LN: https://askleo.com/tip-of-the-day-captchas-never-use-start-run/ (For my Tip of the Day subscribers)
- 21:00 LN: Today in AI: flooded with ads for a back relief product, I asked Claude: “is this real?” – the answer was genuinely helpful. – https://claude.ai/share/be7e88cc-ccca-4ebd-b0b4-6187eb510584
- 25:00 GR: Mark Twain poison medicine.
- 27:40 Bonus for fun, what’s the English for 14,016,833,949,999,999,673,980,362,756,575,985,664 (38 digits)? – 20 character password made up of letters, numbers, and 10 different special characters. 20^72
- 14 undecillion, 016 decillion, 833 nonillion, 949 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 673 quintillion, 980 quadrillion, 362 trillion, 756 billion, 575 million, 985 thousand, 664.
- 31:40 GR: The lucrative market for fake dashboards (https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter)
Ain’t it Cool- 35:00 LN: Dungeon Crawler Carl – with caveats
- 39:20 GR: Widow’s Bay
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 41:39 LN: How Long Should a Password Be? – https://askleo.com/4844
- 42:19 GR: https://macmost.com/helping-others-with-their-macs-using-screen-sharing-through-messages.html
Transcript- teh_271
Video45 min - TEH 270: Bot Traffic Crashing Servers, AI in Politics, and Bank Annoyances
In This Episode: Bot Traffic Crashing Servers, AI in Politics, and Bank Annoyances.
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: Adam, our synthetic announcer and pronunciation.
- 4:21 LN: Some random, short items on AI
- Bots and cloudflare
- 6:00 Claude and bot blockers
- 8:20 AI in politics (which is not AI in politics) – both are scary, though one is “normal”
- https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5856359/ai-anthropic-congress-spending-openai-midterms-election
- 10:15 Mythos fallout? (Server owners, keep checking for updates.)
- 11:55 Fable fail
- 13:30 GR: Bank switch tech standards
- Basically: My bank was bought by another bank, switch was “automatic” which meant I should have only had several hours of work to do 🤬
- Range: enter new routing+account. Scan driver’s license. Send pennies to confirm. Phone call where they called my bank. Login through a link system. No way but to email customer service (still waiting to hear back).
- 30:00 GR: Human Consent Registry https://rslmedia.org/
- 36:40 GR: A rant about click bait scaring people without providing details – https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/
Ain’t it Cool- 42:00 LN: Gemini for … odd tasks.
- 47:30 GR: Claude Cowork to pick photos
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 52:25 LN: Common Cloud Objections: Yes, They Can See Your Data. No, You Shouldn’t Panic. – https://askleo.com/193269
- 53:00 GR: https://macmost.com/an-early-look-at-siri-ai.html (Club MacMost Exclusive)
Transcript- teh_270
Videohttps://youtu.be/dBq36eJSvT0
59 min - TEH 269: Exploring Apple’s AI Upgrades and the Changing Landscape of Online Search
In This Episode:
Exploring Apple’s AI Upgrades and the Changing Landscape of Online Search
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.
Our guest is …
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories- 0:00 GR: Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference)
- They’ve largely stopped talking about each OS separately
- 2:25 Golden Gate
- 4:50 Not liking liquid glass. Rollback on design a bit
- 6:00 Focus on speed and reaction times
- 7:50 “Siri AI”
- Functional AI: Safari tabs, custom Safari extensions, Photo extend/reframe, build a Shortcut, act on files
- 12:50 Safari Notify me
- 16:00 Photos
- 19:20 Shortcuts
- 22:40 AI privacy
- 25:00 Splintering of OS features: US, EU, China.
- 30:00 Release dates
- 31:20 LN: AI search
- Google’s announcement:
- https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
- 34:00 Switching to ChatGPT
- 35:50 Kagi
- 37:00 Control with a question mark
- 40:40 Results depend on how you phrase your question
- 41:45 Semi-related: Better search customization coming in Windows 11 (i.e. no Bing, no Store) –
- https://hothardware.com/news/windows-11-disable-bing-search-single-toggle
Ain’t it Cool- 43:10 GR: Hacks series finale
- 44:50 LN: World of Warcraft
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 46:20 LN: You Can’t Un-Ring a Bell: What Really Happens to Your Data When You Post Anything Online – https://askleo.com/24288
- 47:50 GR: https://macmost.com/3-ways-to-keep-icloud-files-and-photos-local.html
Transcript- teh_269
Videohttps://youtu.be/PEr1RMD3EaA
51 min - TEH 268: Airline Bluetooth Scare. Understanding the Cloud. Is AI Creepy?
In This Episode: Airline Bluetooth Scare. Understanding the Cloud. Is AI Creepy?
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 GR: Police department’s social media tactics lead to arrests — and criticism
- https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/21/police-departments-social-media-tactics-lead-to-arrests-and-criticism/
- (“The online attention can have long-lasting consequences for those named in the posts”)
- GR: Reserecting Vine
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/jack-dorsey-funds-divine-a-vine-reboot-that-includes-vines-video-archive/
- 7:00 LN: Neo competitors arrive.
- Microsoft’s surface laptop ultra – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-laptop-ultra
- https://www.howtogeek.com/nvidia-rtx-spark-laptops-are-doomed-to-fail-heres-why/
- Nvidia chip based (ARM) – doomed IMO
- GR: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/macbook-neo-outsold-every-other-mac/
- 14:00 GR: Plane turned around with bluetooth device name
- https://apnews.com/article/united-flight-newark-spain-bluetooth-device-ccdd9c111084ca0b8f5127f1baa74465
- 29:00 LN: Cloud Storage, Objections, and a great AI use case
- Can cloud services see your data?
- Do cloud services use your data?
- Do cloud services own your data?
- 45:00 GR: Asking AI to do something and then being creeped out that it did it well
- https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/941388/gemini-spark-ai-agent-trip-planning
- 50:00 GR: Guess you didn’t escape the “subscription” after all
- https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-no-edit-documents/
Ain’t it Cool- 55:00 LN: Eupohoria
- 56:00 GR: Boys Series finale
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 1:01:00 LN: Mythos About Mythos – https://askleo.com/192235
- 1:02:00 GR: https://macmost.com/7-skills-you-need-to-master-mac-pages.html
Transcript- teh_268
Videohttps://youtu.be/3p3G94fTSjE
1 hr 4 min - TEH 267: Apple’s AI, Google I/O Updates, and the BitLocker Yellow Key Security Flaw
In This Episode: Apple’s AI, Google I/O Updates, and the BitLocker Yellow Key Security Flaw
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 GR: What will the new Siri be like? (WWDC coming up)
- Stand-alone app
- Voice assistant that understands what you mean
- Gemini but not Gemini, Gemini model running on Apple’s servers, doing Apple things
- 12:30 LN: Bitlocker busted?
- Yellowkey exploit
- 16:00 How encryption keys are really stored
- 22:00 GR: Folding Phones?
- Big deal or niche product?
- Really looks like Apple is doing this soon (iPhone Ultra)
- Pixel Fold: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_10_pro_fold?hl=en-US&pli=1
- 33:00 GR: Google I/O stuff, audio glasses, AI agents
- Glasses without any visual component: just mic, speaker and camera?
- 36:00 LN: https://bee.computer/
- 41:00 Hot take: People don’t want agents, as people don’t normally have assistants. Normal people talk to other people (chat)
- Also: Could it come to a point where it is all just moving too fast?
Ain’t it Cool- 57:00 GR: I’ll Miss Stephen Colbert
- 1:00:00 LN: New Murderbot – Platform Decay
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 01:01:16 GR: https://macmost.com/10-reasons-why-you-should-be-using-icloud-photos.html
- 01:03:43 LR: Has BitLocker Been Broken? What YellowKey Means to You – askleo.com/192620
Transcript- teh_267
Video1 hr 6 min - TEH 266: Are you an AI? Robot music… is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos.
In This Episode: Are you an AI? Robot music… is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos.
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- 3:08 LN: “How Do I Know You’re Not AI?” – Article coming up “tomorrow” as we record this.
- A problem that’s only going to get “worse”, for some definition of worse
- As things improve, will it matter? Good content is good content regardless of the source, right?
- 7:00 GR: Starting to suspect PR pitches are using a lot of AI
- Every one now starts with flattery
- Suggestions can be totally of the wall
- 12:00 GR: AI Music
- Needed music, Suno was easy and “safe”
- What are the alternatives?
- Music without soul? Or, not all art needs to be Art.
- 15:00 Link to video montage: https://vimeo.com/1187110569/1742b3aeb4
- Cain Walker: https://www.youtube.com/@CainWalkerMusic real or AI?
- 27:00 LN: Anthropic’s Mythos: hype or legit concern?
- Pronunciation controversy? 😏
- Supposedly extra good at identifying vulnerabilities
- “We have identified thousands of additional high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities that we are working on responsibly disclosing to open source maintainers and closed source vendors.”
- Just as good at fixing?
- Project “glasswing” – a select few, but you know it’ll get out
- Not targeted at vulnerability detection, just a Really Good Model that happens to do this well. What else will it do well?
- 30:00 Is this the future of AI Model releases?
- Assessing Claude Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity capabilities – Anthropic
- Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems – Hacker News
- 37:00 GR: Ditching VPN
- I’m done wasting my vacation time
- 46:00 LN: Didn’t work in the hospital either
- 47:00 GR: Travel: Real camera kept winning
- Big sensor, big glass, viewfinder, but also mindfulness
- 54:00 Dehazing… How I saved Machu Picchu
Ain’t it Cool- 58:00 LN: The Boys – not for the faint of heart, but fascinating, and the subtle and not-so-subbtle digs to current events are great. (Daredevil also.)
- 59:00 GR: “Apple: The First 50 Years” by David Pogue
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 1:01:00 LN: How Do I Know You’re Not AI? – https://askleo.com/191783
- 1:02:00 GR: 10 Weird macOS Features That Are Somewhat Useful (2026)
Transcript- teh_266
Machu PicchuMachu Picchu as shot. Click for larger image.Machu Picchu after “dehaze” applied. Click for larger image.Videohttps://youtu.be/xqu_aV429rA
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