TEH 261: Solving Server Headaches With AI, Age Verification Dilemmas, and the Software Subscription fight.

In This Episode: Solving Server Headaches With AI, Age Verification Dilemmas, and the Software Subscription fight.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:15:15 — 68.9MB)

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!