The TEH is a weekly show with several hosts who talk about tech, including news, reviews, and maybe a rant once in awhile. The main hosts have decades of experience in tech, and are all online entrepreneurs.
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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
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
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
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
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
Geeky Milestones: Mini PCs. Smart Glasses, and False Consensus in Tech
When AI Gets It Wrong: Schools, Cities, and the Rise of Digital Overreach
Navigating Windows 10 Armageddon... or maybe not. Dark motives and AI videos.
New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.
Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator.
Camping connectivity. Fiber isn't Fiber. Griping about Negativity. AI dating.
New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil?
Can You Trust AI? Fact-Checking. AI Coding and Streaming Trends
Epic vs Apple. AI brings voices back from the dead. The mess of RealID. Tech tariffs.
Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist?
AI Bots in Law Enforcement, Coding Assistants, Wilderness Connectivity, and Why Sherlock Holmes Won't Die
Podcasting with AI and YouTube. Genmojis, Quishing and more.
Microphones, Security Blunders, VPNs, and that tariff thing.
Tech travel, security bloops, getting the news, rewriting COBOL.
TEH 241: Search problems, hosting videos, moving servers. And... Why? But don't ask Why.
App Turmoil. A.I., Tiktok, App stores and censorship. Should we worry?
January's Surprises: TikTok Ban, Media Shifts, and Independent Journalism Trends
Facebook Fact Checking. New displays. AI in Housing.
Misinformation Madness: Debunking Viral Tech Myths from TikTok to iPhones
Is Google stealing content? New Social Media. Bomb Cyclone and connectivity. Is privacy a myth?
ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends
Apple's New Macs and Minis. Perplexing conundrums with perplexity.ai, and Social Media Misinformation
Catching rockets out of the air. Wordpress feud. Archive.org disaster.
When tech shuts down. Fancy locks. Prime day. Name salad.
Podcast AI. Future of search. Passkey resistance.
Apple buttons. Are AirPods hearing aids now? Windows force-upgrade.
Mediocre rumors. AI bubble. Amazing cameras and more.
Wordstar still exists, Google Pixel, AI movies? A little mini?
Friend, Azure and Google news. What's wrong with search?
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Crowdstrike. Can laptops change? Would you like a third thumb?
In This Episode: What is being forced on us? Can A.I. help education? Website ads. 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 1:18 LN: How much do we, or should we, let vendors “force” on us? MS: OneDrive MS: Microsoft Account MS: CoPilot MS: Recall generated enough backlash that they backed off 4:00 GR: In the Apple ecosystem. 7:00 iCloud drive iCloud data security overview: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651 20:00 Macs and pricing 31:00 LN: Cryptomator: The Most Secure Encryption for Your Cloud Storage! (And Boxcryptor Alternative) 32:00 LN: Education: AI: Exam submissions by AI found to earn higher grades than real-life students Experts say universities should focus on working out how to embrace the ‘new normal' of AI in order to enhance education. Via: The AI Fix podcast. 46:00 GR: Finally got rid of ads from my game sites (Ezoic, AdSense) Still ads: My game apps, YouTube Ain't it Cool 1:00:00 LN: The Boys (NOT for everyone) 1:03:00 GR: The Big Door Prize (Apple TV+) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:07:00 LN: The Technology Behind Ask Leo! - https://askleo.com/15110 1:07:15 GR: https://macmost.com/10-ways-to-organize-your-notes.html
Apple Intelligence? New OS features. A smarter Siri? And of course... privacy.
Can they see you? AI and screenshots. Search engine agendas.
Comparing PCs and Macs. AI in your OS? Or AI teachers?
In This Episode: Lots of AI. Software is art. iPad conundrum. 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 Aurora borealis. 3:00 Disruptions in tech... no tech apocalypse 4:00 GR: OpenAI announcements… rivalry Google: https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI 6:00 ChatGPT 40 9:00 GR: Google IO can see stuff. 10:00 Mac app... but no Windows app? 11:30 Apple mystery? 12:00 LN: Copilot? 14:00 LN: Star Trek Discovery 18:00 LN: Video resolution, and Android 24:00 GR: Singing 31:00 LN: What about Amazon? 33:00 LN: The “death” of programming (or coding) due to AI. 36:00 GR: It's more like documentation on steroid. 38:00 LN: Increased processing power 41:00 LN: Software can be art 45:00 GR: New iPad Pro with M4 SoC reignites “MacBook or iPad” conundrum 55:00 The future Ain't it Cool 56:00 LN: Hinterland on AmazonPrime/Acorn. Crime series set in Wales. 3 seasons (series). Muder du jour + a corruption arch. 57:20 GR: New Doctor Who episodes BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 00:59:00 LN: Why I've Stopped Using Google Search 1:04:00 GR: Third-Party Web App Installs
Travel tech, moon photos, reformating and an AI reading experiment.
Eclipse, Pay with palm, Discord chatting, Pins that are not quite Star Trek.
Saved by a Car app. Four hour work week? Apple Vision Pro still great!
AI everywhere. Sideways Moon Landing. Computer Screens that wrap, see through, and more.
Meeting photos. Is the future finally here? All the Tech that works.
Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro and Apple Vision Pro.
Apple Protection and Vision Pro, AI is faking it. And yes, Taylor Swift.
Apple woes, Vision Pro, Netflix History. Sorting data with ChatGPT.
SSD life, Server issues, AI copyright, Finding People
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