In This Episode: Podcasting with AI and YouTube. Genmojis, Quishing and more.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 54:40 — 50.0MB)
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
- 1:00 LN: AI. Using AI voices.
- Using AI ethically, or scamming
- 7:20 LN: I’ve been experimenting with a YouTube Playlist.
- YouTube is apparently the #1 podcast platform
- DaVinci Resolve is awesome
- 10:00 GR: Apple finding interesting new ways to train AI while protecting privacy
- https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/differential-privacy-aggregate-trends
- Apple Genmoji
- 22:45 It’s about trust
- 25:00 LN: Quishing
- Stickers can ‘override’ a QR code
- What is a QR code
- https://askleo.com/whats-a-qr-code/
- 32:00 Dynamic QR codes
- 33:00 GR: Mythic Quest cancelled, but last episode to update to add an ending
- 38:00 LN: Rivian truck… rolling computer
- Calculates weight and range
Ain’t it Cool
- 44:15 GR: Doctor Who is Back with an episode about AI
- Black Mirror
- 47:00 LN: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – Reacher -> Ritchson -> this movie.
- Completely under the radar. WW II heist-like, with Ocean’s 11 vibes.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
- 51:00 GR: 10 Reasons Your Mac May Be Acting Strange and How to Fix It
- 52:00 LN: I Use BitLocker. Are My Backups Encrypted? –
Re: decoding QR – Decades ago, before scanners were common, company I worked for created custom meter faces and wanted to be able to include small logos or shapes on them.
We purchased the official documentation for the fax encoding and used our multiline phone system to send a fax from a machine to a fax card in a PC.
I wrote a program that read the file and decoded the scan lines into a text DXF file so that our cad user could open it in autocad and trace the outlines.
Rivian range: Does your camper have a generator on it that could run a low level charger? Would be a way to hack a longer range when pulling it.
Yes, I am the weird person that would at least try it to find out.
No generator, but it wouldn’t help all that much. EVs in general charge three ways:
– DC “fast” chargers. Think Tesla’s supercharger network, but there are also now many 3rd party networks as well. Basically gas stations for electrons. Depending on the capacity (there’s lots of variation), they can fully charge my Rivian in about two hours or so.
– 240v – Look up NEMA 14-50 sockets. You’ll find those at trailer campsites, often. Some people will have one of these added to their home when they get an EV if they can. Charges basically “overnight”. It’s the cell-phone scenario: you plug in when you get home, and in the morning you have a full “tank” of electrons. But it is multi-hour, so perfect for overnight. Unfortunately many of the commercial charging stations you might see provide only this or an equivalent, which limits their usefulness.
– 120v – your wall plug (and what most generators would provide). A charging source of very very last resort. I think it would take something like 2-3 days to fully charge my car. Pragmatically if forced to use this you would charge only long enough to make it to one of the previous options. Again, hours. If you’re running a generator that’s a LOT of (fossil) fuel.