TEH Podcast

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December 18, 2024TEH 237: Misinformation Madness: Debunking Viral Tech Myths from TikTok to iPhones
In This Episode: Misinformation Madness: Debunking Viral Tech Myths from TikTok to iPhones

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 GR New OS update includes image-generating AI.
04:00 Mixed reactions to Apple’s playful image generator.
It’s not designed for professionals
07:51 ImageWand and Genmoji: Creative emoji customization tools.
10:36 Custom emojis bring out the complainers
13:00 A bug that only you see
15:00 Challenge people to try it
16:00 TikTok Apocalypse
January 19th 2025
Uncertainty over app functionality
19:00 Will it stop entirely?
22:00 Don’t know what will happen
23:02 People don’t understand why it’s happening
25:00 Quote from Ghost Busters:
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!
26:11 Phone number requirements for online accounts
Mistrust and conspiracy thinking.
29:56 TikTok myth: People think AirDrop can steal credit cards.
31:45 Rage bait
33:15 Does iPhone erase data after 10 failed attempts?
37:17 GR Train might be set up to transport solar-charged batteries into city.
Charge train-size batteries with clean energy
39:56 Diesel trains now, electric later – solar-powered efficiency.
Cab View Holland
43:23 Historic electric trolley system dismantled, replaced by buses.
43:40 Denver used to have electric trollies
46:14 Electric scooters and e-bikes reshape Denver transit.
52:23 No recording until New Year, happy holidays.
See you in 2025
Ain’t it Cool
47:44 LN: Youtube: Calmed by Nature
48:40 GR: Death In Paradise on Britbox
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
51:30 LN: Why Do Services Like Google and Microsoft Ask for a Phone Number? – https://askleo.com/3648
51:57 GR: 10 Creative Uses For Apple Intelligence Image Playground
Transcript
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December 04, 2024TEH 236: Is Google stealing content? New Social Media. Bomb Cyclone and connectivity. Is privacy a myth?
In This Episode: Is Google stealing content? New Social Media. Bomb Cyclone and connectivity. Is privacy a myth?

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
01:40 GR: Is Google stealing content?
Public notes on websites:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305922/google-app-ios-inserting-search-links-websites
11:07 GR: Youtube’s beginning years Like TikTok, but from a more innocent time:
https://ben-mini.github.io/2024/img-0416
Search for img_ on Youtube
15:59 LN: BlueSky is starting to deliver real time news
18:58 GR: Loving Bluesky right now
20:00 Using lists
33:10 LN: Powerless for two days. Steps taken, lessons learned.
6kw generator
36:00 Dirty power won’t re-charge UPS’s
37:30 Then the Internet went out
38:20 Cellular network went down
Coincidence? I think not.
46:33 GR: Is privacy a myth?
https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/
There doesn’t seem to be a solution for mobile phone location tracking.
https://ssd.eff.org/module-categories/basics
Ain’t it Cool
51:22 GR: Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse 5) by Dennis E. Taylor
54:24 LN: Dune: Prophecy (Max)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
55:50 LN: How AI is Revolutionizing Scams: Can We No Longer Trust Our Eyes or Ears? – https://askleo.com/175501
56:34 GR: 10 Hidden Copy and Paste Functions on a Mac https://macmost.com/10-hidden-copy-and-paste-functions-on-a-mac.html
Transcript
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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
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1h 6min
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 Stories
00:00 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
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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)
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55min
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
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1h 6min
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
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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
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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
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1h 11min
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
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1h 1min

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