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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 11/05/2025

    TEH 256: Geeky Milestones: Mini PCs. Smart Glasses, and False Consensus in Tech

    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

    52 min

  6. 11/02/2025

    TEH 255: When AI Gets It Wrong: Schools, Cities, and the Rise of Digital Overreach

    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

    52 min

  7. 10/15/2025

    TEH 254: Navigating Windows 10 Armageddon… or maybe not. Dark motives and AI videos.

    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

    54 min

  8. 10/01/2025

    TEH 253: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.

    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

    1h 10m
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