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  1. 16H AGO

    TEH 264: Hacked Traffic Signals. Pokémon Go makes Pizza Bots. AI generated confusion.

    In This Episode: Hacked Traffic Signals. Pokémon Go makes Pizza Bots. AI generated confusion. 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: Another hacked traffic signal They have passwords! https://denverite.com/2026/03/16/denver-crosswalks-hacked-anti-trump-message-explained/ 7:00 LN: Confusing parking lots 12:00 Public transportation 16:00 GR: Pizza robots – mined from Pokemongo https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/ 19:00 Limits of Google maps 21:00 LN: Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling to prove he’s not an AI clone – the future of AI  This is currently the worst AI we’ll see; it’s only getting better and more difficult to detect. Even without AI being used, accusations of AI are an issue. What happens when we can believe … nothing? 29:00 GR: https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/ Flawed because the inputs must be guessed AI slop: does it hurt jobs? Will it hurt spammers and junk news? 32:00 LN: “Slop” – prejorative thrown about for both good/useful and bad/misleading AI usage Seems to be repeating same fears we’ve had for a while, before AI Bots answering questions instead of websites 38:00 GR: Is a job that didn’t exist 20 years ago really “lost” if AI replaces it? LN: Were buggy whip manufacturers’ jobs “lost”? And if so, was there a responsibility to somehow preserve them? Get Off My Lawn! 46:00 LN: But whatabout… !!!  Occasionally: an honest question about something more More commonly: an attempt to one-up / bring down the original premise/content/whatnot 48:00 GR: If only they would add… Ain’t It Cool! 55:00 LN: Young Sherlock (Amazon Prime), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8599532/ 56:00 GR: Fackham Hall, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29008225/ BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 59:00 LN: Why Password Managers Are [Still] Safer than the Alternatives – https://askleo.com/5555 1:00:00 GR: https://macmost.com/macbook-neo-full-review.html Transcript teh264 Video https://youtu.be/YIfe8MZXC4k

    1h 4m

  2. MAR 11

    TEH 263: Apple’s Cheapest MacBook Ever.  When AI makes friends with AI. Tech Bubble Insights.

    In This Episode: Apple’s Cheapest MacBook Ever.  When AI makes friends with AI. Tech Bubble Insights. 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: MacBook Neo I wasn’t right, but that’s OK Why this is more interesting than I thought The tablet-replaces-the-PC future is now dead Low power opens possibilities 19:31 LN: What is the point behind moltbook? Meta to Acquire AI-Only Social Media Platform Moltbook https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-to-acquire-ai-only-social-media-platform-moltbook-0d9cd9d6 https://www.moltbook.com/  29:00 Why does Meta want this? 30:20 GR: AI Psychosis https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter 32:50 People think the AI is talking to them 50:00 LN: The car wash test Gemini: meh Claude: fail OpenAI GPT 5: fail 57:00 GR: Holding AI in check 59:00 LN: Frustrating surveys Ain’t it Cool 1:00:00 LN: The AI Fix podcast –  5 ways the AI bubble could burst VC with some very interesting perspectives on AI Random for flavor of the discussion: The number of hours worked by the average knowledge worker has only increased due to technology. We use AI. Across every part of the business at my new firm. I think there’s the potential that if we end up getting more efficient models, which everyone wants, that actually makes all of the infrastructure spend that has happened Less. 1:03:00 GR: Anaconda (movie 2025) The Bridgerton X Naked Gun spoof that Leo was talking about is “Farkham Hall”. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:05:00 LN: How Do I Gain Administrative Access to a Secondhand Computer? – https://askleo.com/12356 1:06:00 GR: 15 Ways the MacBook Neo Is Different From Other MacBooks Transcript 263 Video https://youtu.be/_ekuvBlQXTs

    1h 8m

  3. MAR 4

    TEH 262: Apple announcements. Coding with AI. Copyright and AI.

    In This Episode: Apple announcements. Coding with AI. Copyright and AI. 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: New Apple Stuff Might be a new low-end Macbook. 8:00 Lightweight? 13:00 GR: Vibe Coding Limits Coding with AI 20:00 LN: Learning how to ask for what you want Different possibilities for the future 30:00 GR & LN: Let’s talk about why we use AI art again in light of https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright  38:00 Faking real 40:00 How will it apply to video? How about using AI as a CGI tool? 46:00 LN: Server moves. Very geeky, but kinda interesting maybe. And how I took 50 sites offline with a single click. Oops. Ain’t it Cool 55:00 LN: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke – (Audio) 56:00 GR: Rental Family (Disney+) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 58:00 LN: How Does Cloud Storage Work? – https://askleo.com/75658   59:00 GR: 10 Ways To Start Recording Video With Your iPhone Fast https://macmost.com/10-ways-to-start-recording-video-with-your-iphone-fast.html Transcript teh_262 Video https://youtu.be/E5OqViJQREk

    1h 1m

  4. FEB 25

    TEH 261: Solving Server Headaches With AI, Age Verification Dilemmas, and the Software Subscription fight.

    In This Episode: Solving Server Headaches With AI, Age Verification Dilemmas, and the Software Subscription fight. 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 LN: More Claude tricks 1:00 Slow server log analysis 11:00 Ask Leo! Question repository analysis 19:00 Journal recovery https://leo.notenboom.org/my-writing-journey/  21:00 LN: Age verification & Discord? https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/what-a-great-way-to-kill-your-community-discord-users-are-furious-about-its-new-age-verification-checks-and-are-now-hunting-for-alternatives 24:00 GR: Protecting children vs protecting privacy: https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/reddit-and-discord-are-both-in-trouble-over-controversial-age-verification-service/  To protect kids: age verification But then that violates privacy as you have to confirm your ID Another aspect: blocking kids from social media makes it harder for them to have a political voice (organize for protests, etc) 30:00 Some call for Google and Apple to take this over 34:00 Maybe we need some sort of special org? But even then how would they do both? 49:00 GR: Software subscriptions (again) You don’t “own” your software Software needs updating, it isn’t a consumable or physical product 1:06:00 Gary’s journal is transcribed while we talk! Ain’t it Cool 1:09:00 GR: Knight Of the Seven Kingdoms 1:10:00 LN: same BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:11:00 GR: Using Text Files As a Productivity Tool 1:12:00 LN: The Nirvana Fallacy https://askleo.com/179344 Transcript teh_261 Video https://youtu.be/rqqqs9D96ZY

    1h 15m

  5. FEB 11

    TEH 260: The Internet Archive saves an old car. AI Bird IDs. Claude code. Ringing Lost Dogs.

    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

    1h 4m

  6. JAN 28

    TEH 259: AI is still dumb. Who’s in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import.

    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

    1h 3m

  7. JAN 21

    TEH 258: Gravity Wins: Leo’s Fall. So many subscriptions. Faking AI Fakes.

    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

    1 hr

  8. 11/20/2025

    TEH 257: When the Internet Was Not Down: Cloudflare, Outages, and Automatic Buying.

    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

    50 min
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