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  1. 7H AGO

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 08/20/2025

    TEH 252: Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator. 

    In This Episode: Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator. 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: Adventure Travel With Tech 1:30 iPhone-only! Challenging. Practiced ahead of time. Never needed VNC. 3:30 What I couldn’t do 5:30 Connecting 7:10 eSIM 13:00 Google voice 14:10 WhatsApp 17:20 Charging and batteries: Rapid charging 21:40 Backing up photos 26:00 Vertical photos, 3:35 Dirty camera sensors 33:40 GR: The equator is not where you think it is 38:00 LN: Boring summer, tech wise 39:00 AI / GPT 5 (yawn) 40:00 MS surprised with ESU (Extended Service Updates) Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment) 45:25 LN: Just because I talk about a paid service doesn’t mean they’re paying me! Ain’t it Cool 51:00 LN: So many. Backlog 🙂 Redux: Hail Mary. So good, esp audio performance. You don’t end up where you think you’re going to end up. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Audio: Steven Fry) Severance: started weird but oddly compelling. Resident Alien The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964 GR: I love all of these things, so I nod in agreement. I’m actually re-reading Hail Mary right now. BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 57:00 GR: https://macmost.com/10-pro-features-of-the-mac-finder.html 59:00 LN: Why Do We Suddenly Need AI? – https://askleo.com/183047 Transcript teh_252 Video https://youtu.be/VkRnpdzfOlg

    1h 1m
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