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TEH Podcast
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November 13, 2024TEH 235: ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends In This Episode: ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends
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: ChatGPT search engine.
- 2:30 It’s like Perplexity
- 2:50 Is this the end of Google?
- 4:00 You can set ChatGPT as default search engine
- 11:30 Leo: Perplexity search continues to impress me
- 12:00 GR: iPhone call recording
- 15:00 Locating the other caller
- 25:00 GR: Vinyl license plates not allowed everywhere – What is a digital license plate?
- Expensive digital screen!
- 26:50 Theft prevention… plate changes to the word “stolen”
- 35:00 GR: Apple Vision Pro, sales slow
- Apple announces visionOS 2 with 3D photo transformations and an ultrawide Mac display
- 40:00 LN: “Canon is releasing a new spatial lens for the EOS R7” – reminds me of something (Star Trek)
- 43:40 GR: AI Prime video recap
- Finding Kelsie Grammer
- 49:00 LN: One More Year (for $30).
- 51:00 Hardware requirements for Windows 11
- Conspiracy theories
- 53:00 GR: Social media stuff. Bluesky gets 1 million new subs, but Threads adds a million per day.
- Seeing a lot more engagement on both, but mostly Threads.
- Bio pages
- https://askleo.com/link-in-bio/
- https://macmost.com/social
Ain’t it Cool- 58:00 LN: Star Trek Prodigy, Netflix (yeah, I’m into escapism these days). Umbrella Academy too.
- 1:00:00 GR: Neal Stephenson’s Polostan, Bomb Light Cycle
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 1:03:20 LN: Going Passwordless Without Going Passwordless
- 1:04:13 GR: How To Record Calls On an iPhone
Transcript- teh235
...more October 30, 2024TEH 234: Apple’s New Macs and Minis. Perplexing conundrums with perplexity.ai, and Social Media Misinformation In This Episode: Apple’s New Macs and Minis. Perplexing conundrums with perplexity.ai, and Social Media Misinformation
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 Stories00:00 GR – New Apple products and features announced gradually.
- New iMac, new Mac mini, new Macbook Pro. + Apple intelligence
- Proof reading and re-writing
- Image generation to come
- 6:00 Records phone calls, and creates transcript
- iOS 18.1
- 8:20 Hardware. Lots of ports, multiple screens
- 16 Gigs of RAM.
- 9:50 Mac Mini
- 13:20 Upgrade storage now, avoid future issues
- 16:15 I use MacBook Air without limitations
- 18:00 LN – Virtual machines
- 20:00 Macbook Pro
- 22:20 Numeric keypad used for video editing shortcuts
- 29:43 LN – The existential dilemma that is perplexity.ai. Perplexity efficiently answers varied questions effectively.
- 33:23 Is it the end of innovation? Cycles mirror blogging’s rise and fall
- 41:15 LN – The newest AI slop on Facebook exploits suburban fear
- Being even more skeptical in an AI world
- Rage bait evokes skepticism in AI era.
- 44:16 You can ignore unverified information online.
- 49:00 GR – Archive.org. The death of a video podcast feed.
Ain’t it Cool- 54:00 LN: Rivals on Hulu. Guilty pleasure. Rich folk in the UK in the 1980’s. (David Tennant)
- 55:00 GR: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 58:00 LN: Ask Leo! and Facebook
- And, super-secret-you-heard-it-here-first:
- https://www.youtube.com/@AskLeoShorts/shorts (scary)
- 1:02:00 GR: What’s New In macOS Sequoia 15.1
Transcript- teh234
...more October 16, 2024TEH 233: Catching rockets out of the air. WordPress feud. Archive.org disaster. In This Episode: Catching rockets out of the air. WordPress feud. Archive.org disaster.
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: catching rockets out of the air
- 7:00 Space luxury hotel
- 8:00 whoisinspace.com
- 8:40 LN: WordPress feud
- Catching Up on the WordPress WP Engine Sitch
- 11:00 Everything is fragile
- 14:00 WordPress plugins
- 18:00 How plugins work
- 19:00 GR: Archive.org (The Way Back Machine)
- 20:00 Denial of service attacks
- 30:00 You can donate
- 31:00 GR: Are we getting pretty close to a universal translator-enabled world?
- Experience with ElevenLabs video translation
- 35:00 iPhone Translation app
- Conversations across languages becoming commonplace
Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)- 40:50 LN: Facebook removing posts
- Newsletter is reliable
Ain’t it Cool- 46:20 LN: https://go.askleo.com/ama/B07N1WW638 – TP-Link WiFi Extender
- 48:00 GR: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 52:00 LN: Is a Passkey Two-Factor Authentication? – https://askleo.com/174464
- 53:00 GR: Things You Can Do With an Apple Trackpad That You Can’t Do With a Mouse https://macmost.com/things-you-can-do-with-an-apple-trackpad-that-you-cant-do-with-a-mouse.html
Transcript (automated)- TEH 233
...more October 09, 2024TEH 232: When tech shuts down. Fancy locks. Prime day. Name salad. In This Episode: When tech shuts down. Fancy locks. Prime day. Name salad.
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- 4:25 LN: Domain registrar changes hands.
- Businesses don’t last forever… but can they have Exit plans, compare and contrast Kaspersky.
- Ultra AV
- 9:00 Feedburner example, Apple changes
- 15:00 GR: Changes to my new smart lock
- 17:00 Apple tech new smart lock
- 26:00 Features add complexity
- 30:00 GR: The revolt against Prime Day needs to start with the journalists
- 38:00 GR: The mystery of the name salad YouTube comments
Get off My Lawn!- 49:00 LN & GR: getting to the point ← → Not enough info
Ain’t it Cool- 55:00 LN: Penguin (MAX)
- 56:40 GR: I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom by Jason Pargin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203578812-i-m-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doo
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 1:02:05 LN: You’re Never Too Old! https://askleo.com/20433
- 1:02:55 GR: Using the Built-In Mac Password Manager https://macmost.com/using-the-built-in-mac-password-manager.html
Transcript- Automated transcript (pdf)
...more October 02, 2024TEH 231: Podcast AI. Future of search. Passkey resistance. In This Episode: Podcast AI. Future of search. Passkey resistance.
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: NotebookLM – AI makes a podcast
- https://notebooklm.google.com/
- Used this article: https://askleo.com/you-are-not-too-old-for-technology/
- Created this podcast- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzgxNpTyl1g –
- 3:00 GR: Creating a podcast with NotebookLM
- 4:30 They were a bit annoying…
- Video: Club MacMost Exclusive: Using Notebook LM to Digest Information
- Education. How it can be used in college, and meetings
- 8:30 TikTok – AI realizing it’s AI… the podcasters realize they aren’t real
- It’s a notebook. The podcast is just a part
- 15:15 GR: Dualities in how people perceive AI (LLM)
- 16:00 Plagiarism. People often go right to the bad uses. But “plagiarism” isn’t unique to AI.
- 17:30 Cliffnotes
- People can fake stuff lots of other ways.
- All knowledge comes from some place else
- 24:40 LN: The progression of search: Yahoo! -> AltaVista Search -> Google -> ???
- 26:15 Not Kagi.com, though it’s good as a traditional search engine
- 26:25 Perplexity.ai is giving me amazing answers
- 32:30 Searching for ourselves
- 40:10 GR: When did we start talking about Passkeys?
- Passkeys have problems: https://world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-have-problems-but-passkeys-have-more-95285df9
- Passkeys are failing to catch on, and for even more reasons than this post states
- It’s hard to explain
- 52:00 LN There’s ALWAYS another way to sign in. Bootstrap problem
- 55:00 LN: I asked perplexity.ai to “explain passkeys to me like I’m 5”: https://www.facebook.com/askleofan/posts/pfbid0BfnQoYMfQ5FmkuudovxEHuLvwm2oMFgRtWpmn1RhUoZKCizjdnvD99RSmn9KL354l
Get off my lawn!- 57:00 LN: Complaining. Because one thing is wrong/broken/insufficient, then all things are wrong/broken/insufficient.
- Fallacy of composition – assuming that something true of part of a whole must also be true of the whole.
- 58:00 GR: Luddites / the new OS has nothing I need so I’m not upgrading.
Ain’t it Cool- 59:40 LN: Silo on Apple TV (Fallout vibes)
- 1:02:00 GR: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 1:03:05 LN: What’s the Difference Between OneDrive and Google Drive and Similar Services? – askleo.com/174112
- 1:04:40 GR: 15 New Hidden iOS 18 Features https://macmost.com/15-new-hidden-ios-18-features.html
Transcript- AI-generated (Otter.ai)
...more September 11, 2024TEH 230: Apple buttons. Are AirPods hearing aids now? Windows force-upgrade. In This Episode: Apple buttons, Are AirPods hearing aids now? Windows force-upgrade.
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- 1:30 GR: New Apple Stuff
- 3:30 New Camera Control button – Apple suddenly likes more buttons
- Physical slide button
- 12:40 AirPods Pro – Apple is trying to disrupt a new industry and everyone can get behind it
- 15:00 Hearing aids
- 31:00 Buy now, new features later – this is becoming the standard as hardware/software out of sync
- Difference between old way (Apple Vision Pro) and new way (iPhone 16)
- 35:00 LN Then there’s Tesla… what if the promise never comes?
- 38:40 LN: Windows world is boring. Most “exciting” news is that users of Win 11 22H2 will, apparently, be force-upgraded to 23H2 (or 24H2?) when 22H2 reaches end of support next month.
- Much wailing and gnashing of teeth is expected.
Ain’t it Cool- 43:00 LN: https://11foot8.com/ – Guilty pleasure.
- 48:00 GR: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits (Book) by Jason Pargin
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 49:30 LN: OneDrive Is Not Backup – askleo.com/173547
- 51:00 GR: How To Find Out What’s New After a macOS Or App Update
...more August 28, 2024TEH 229: Mediocre rumors. AI bubble. Amazing cameras and more. In This Episode: Mediocre rumors. AI bubble. Amazing cameras 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- 2:00 GR: iPhone event coming (Sept 9).
- Apple intelligence
- Release schedule
- 10:00 Apple Intelligence
- 12:00 GR: AI is not a Bubble
- 13:00 NFTs were a bubble
- 16:00 Creative AI
- 20:00 LN: Durov & Telegram? Why it matters. What We Know About the Telegram Founder’s Arrest
- 28:00 To snoop or not to snoop
- 33:00 FBI snooping
- 36:00 GR: Taking pictures with a 60-megapixel camera (Sony Alpha 7CR)
- 40:00 No zooming required
Get off my lawn!- 55:00 LN: Bill Gates (“It’s Bill’s fault…” comments)
- 57:00 GR: Steve Jobs (“This would have never happened if Steve Jobs was still alive” comments)
Ain’t it Cool!- 1:00:40 LN: Slow Horses (Apple+) – Brit Cop show.
- 1:02:30 GR: Bad Monkey (Apple TV+)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 1:04:20 LN: Why Didn’t Microsoft Fix This Horrible Bug? – https://askleo.com/4927
- 1:05:00 GR: Extreme Mac Productivity Ideas https://macmost.com/extreme-mac-productivity-ideas.html
...more August 14, 2024TEH 228: Wordstar still exists, Google Pixel, AI movies? A little mini? In This Episode: Wordstar still exists, Google Pixel, AI movies? A little mini?
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- 1:45 Anniversary of Ask Leo!
- 2:30 LN: Wordstar (’81-’82). ‘Logical, beautiful, perfect’ WordStar rises again: How you can type faster with this old tech
- 5:40 LN: Pixel 9. https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_9_pro
- 6:30 Fold
- 7:20 With AI… Gemini
- 8:00 Camera (of course) 8K vid
- 8:50 SOS
- 10:00 New earbuds & watch
- 10:30 But do they sell? (FD: I have 6 Pro)
- 16:50 GR: Been playing with filmmaking AI stuff
- 18:30 Made a little movie
- LTX Studio – https://ltx.studio/
- Runway ML – https://runwayml.com/
- Hedra – https://www.hedra.com/
- 23:40 Uses in documentary filmmaking?
- 29:45 Olympics
- 32:15 GR: Mac mini mini
- Uses: Servers / render farms, portability, security, Apple Vision Pro as a screen, etc.
- 40:00 Batteries.
- 44:00 Jackery https://go.askleo.com/ama/B08P2Q83BY
Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)
- 46:00 LN: Bruh
- 48:30 GR: Social media clickbait
Ain’t it Cool- 52:00 LN: Foundation S2 (Apple)
- 53:25 GR: Decameron (Netflix)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 57:30 LN: What Is Modern Authentication? – https://askleo.com/172824
- 58:50 GR: Extract Parts of PDFs With Preview https://macmost.com/extract-parts-of-pdfs-with-preview.html
...more August 07, 2024TEH 227: Friend, Azure and Google news. What’s wrong with search? In This Episode: Friend, Azure and Google news. What’s wrong with 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.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories- 1:00 LN: Follow-up, sort of: AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
- 6:00 LN: Monday’s Azure outage. Not so much about Azure itself, but again about shared points of failure.
- Last week: DDoS attack
- This week: perhaps a config change
- Previous week: SolarWinds: a bug fix gone wrong.
- 14:00 LN: Google
- “A judge ruled Monday that Google violated antitrust law by paying other companies to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers”
- “In his comments in court, Nadella dismissed as “bogus” Google’s argument that it’s easy for users to change their search defaults,” – Ironic, VERY Ironic.
- ‘Google is a monopolist’: Tech giant loses antitrust suit over search business in huge victory for DOJ
- 20:00 GR: What will Apple do? Ask you to choose? Make or invest in a search engine? (Is Bing the default in Edge?)
- 24:00 LN: Why I’ve Stopped Using Google Search
- AI content SEO
- We talk about how Google is a monopoly from the website content creator site.
- 35:00 What if search engines go away?
- 42:00 For lots of people the search engine is the internet
Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)- 57:00 LN: Periods are passive aggressive?
- 58:15 GR: Question, answer, crickets…
Ain’t it Cool- 1:00:30 LN: Exploding Kittens (Netflix) Tom Ellis, Lucifer
- 1:02:00 GR: Time Bandits
BSP – Blatant Self Promotion
- 1:05:45 LN: Why I Avoid Windows’ Default Folders – askleo.com/172543
- 1:06:30 GR: ClipTools version 1.5 https://macmost.com/whats-new-in-cliptools-1-5.html
...more July 31, 2024TEH 226: AI cheaters? Apple Intelligence? Do you need a new friend? And… Stay off my lawn! In This Episode: AI cheaters? Apple Intelligence? Do you need a new friend? And… Stay off my lawn!
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- 1:35 LN: AI & plagiarism
- Via AI Fix podcast, episode 9.
- Instructor assigns essay to be written. The instructor then takes each essay, gives it to ChatGPT, and asks “is this AI generated?” 100% of the time: the answer comes back “yes”. Instructor then chastises class.
- Hilarity ensues. Students are… back atcha!
- 8:00 Discussed before: a growing problem. The solution will be out of the box.
- 21:00 GR: Apple Intelligence, first look at Mac version.
- 30:00 Using AI
- 35:00 GR: Friend… texting yourself? https://www.friend.com/product.html
- 47:00 GR: Create your own AI ChatBot in … Instagram? https://aistudio.instagram.com
Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)
- 52:30 LN: are extra syllables really that hard?
- 54:20 GR: is spell check that hard? (referring to Reddit posts, mostly)
Ain’t it Cool- 56:00 LN: Rail CowGirl https://www.youtube.com/@RailCowGirl – Norway Train ASMR
- 57:40 GR: Sunny (Apple TV+)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion- 1:01:10 LN: Should I Update to Windows 11? – askleo.com/135037
- 1:02:06 GR: https://macmost.com/how-to-erase-and-reset-your-mac.html
...more
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