TEH 163: New social media? Traveling tech disasters. Check your Two Factor.

In This Episode: TEH 163: New social media? Traveling tech disasters. Check your Two Factor.

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

• 0:20 LN: Twitter alternatives? Playing around..
  • 1:15 https://bitclout.com – Twitter on the block chain
    • 1:56 Crypto Bros… What?
  • 3:56 https://mewe.com, alternative to Facbook
  • 4:21 https://wt.social, a wiki Twitter
  • 5:40 http://mastodon.social, has a sense of location
  • 8:33 https://counter.social, so far feels friendly. Gets a nod
    • Only Sky Article
  • 16:00 Scary ones
  • 18:16 Why it doesn’t matter
  • 22:51 Discord – http://discord.com, focusing on groups
  • 27:17 Slack – https://slack.com
  • 30:06 LN: What I like about Twitter and Facebook
  • 31:00 GR: What about TikTok?
  • 36:50 Instagram, difficulties
  • 38:00 Linkedin, do we need resumes?
  • 45:00 Remember MySpace? And Skype.
  • 46:00 Facebook messenger audio
• 47:20 LN: My Wi-Fi / internet sucked while traveling. Testing an extender.
• 51:27 LN: My phone died while I was traveling.
  • What that meant for my Two Factor Authentication.
  • 56:30 Banking
  • 59:23 GR: iPad has a double authentication, and password vault authentication

Ain’t it Cool

• 1:01:50 LN: Enjoying Picard, looking forward to Strange New Worlds
• 1:03:27 GR: Empire of the Summer Moon (Book) by S.C. Gwynne

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 1:07:31 LN: I Think I’ve Been Phished. Now What?
• 1:08:08 GR: Test Your Network Speed On a Mac