In This Episode: When the Internet Was Not Down: Cloudflare, Outages, and Automatic Buying.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 49:56 — 45.8MB)
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