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
Could the reason for the Amazon vs Perplexity issue be the possible return rate of orders created by AI? Amazon has a very liberal return policy that could end up costing them a lot of money.
I assume that this is also the reason that some items have a warning that something gets returned a lot – kind of a warning to double check if it fits your needs.
This is the first time I noticed the credit for your synthetic announcer.
I miss the days when you did the announcing. Have you considered having an AI program create an announcer voice based on the two of you.
In the same area, your intro/exit music sounds like the tinny sound of a 60’s “pocket” radio with a crystal earphone. I dislike it but will continue listening to your very informative program.