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  1. 18h ago

    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 shot After 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 Video https://youtu.be/UJeTy2TCWF0

  2. Aug 18

    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 Video https://youtu.be/7FC4AihiTc0

  3. Jul 29

    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 Video https://youtu.be/e6gikp0TX-U

  4. Jul 15

    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 Video https://youtu.be/gO6tmKY5UQ0

  5. Jun 30

    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 Video

  6. Jun 25

    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 Video https://youtu.be/dBq36eJSvT0

  7. Jun 10

    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 Video https://youtu.be/PEr1RMD3EaA

  8. Jun 3

    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 Video https://youtu.be/3p3G94fTSjE

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