TEH Podcast

In This Episode: The Internet Archive saves an old car. AI Bird IDs. Claude code. Ringing Lost Dogs. 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: Internet Archive to the rescueMy wife is visiting my sister-in-law, and the parking brake in her 2000 Honda CRV (originally my mother’s car) froze up. The pull-lever i the center wouldn’t budge. I got messaged for help.I searched for “2000 honda crv maintenance manual”. The second entry is The Internet Archive’s scan of the ~1400 page manual. https://archive.org/details/HondaCRV19972000 I was able to send her images from the manual about how to access and lubricate the pull lever.This isn’t the first time IA has popped up randomly to help. It’s an amazing resource.5:45 LN: What bird is that?Another story of things coming together.My wife takes a photo with her phone (Pixel 4a) of a hawk sitting on a fence in our neighborhood. https://flic.kr/p/2rVhrLG The photo is auto-uploaded to her Google Photos account.I grab a copy and crop it. Original is 4032×3024, so there are lots of opportunities. Not bad. https://flic.kr/p/2rVjh8d 7:00 I fire up Topaz Gigapixel AI, and, with a little adjustment of settings, upscale the image 4x. I then crop it further to focus more closely on the bird. Also not bad, though there are some tell-tale signs that this was AI upscaled. https://flic.kr/p/2rVisjk 9:15 My wife asks me what kind of hawk that might be. No clue. So I decided to try … ChatGPT. I upload the upscaled image, and ask simply, “What kind of bird is this?”Likely ID: Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile)Based on the bulky buteo shape, overall brown upperparts, the pale “checkerboard” pattern on the wings, and the strongly banded tail (common in young birds before they develop the classic red tail), this looks most consistent with a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk.We do indeed have red-tailed hawks around here. It’s interesting that it ID’d a juvenile.15:00 Identify birds.https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ 18:00 LN: Claude CodeInstalled on my PC because it promised to be able to work on local data20:00 Non-trivial install (at least for Windows – WSL, and then you’re running in an Ubuntu bash shell).21:10 Scenario 1: My Obsidian vault – all plain text (.md) files. I can now ask questions and run analyses across the entire collection of notes.24:00 Scenario 2a: My personal blog. Pointed it at leo.notenboom.org – did OK, but incomplete.25:00 Scenario 2b: exported by personal blog content from WordPress as an XML file. Dense, lots of cruft. Gave that to Claude and got a very complete, detailed analysis / summary of what I’ve been doing there since 2004.27:00 Scenario 3: downloaded the contents of 23 years of Ask Leo! Articles.https://askleo.com/ask-leo-analysis-via-claude-code/ 38:00 GR: Ring Doorbell Superbowl Ad ?Pretty sure I was “ringing this bell” many years ago right herehttps://www.tiktok.com/@weratedogs/video/7605333665031245069 Ain’t it Cool GR: Dungeon Crawler CarlLN:Archive.org BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion LN: Managing Windows File Explorer’s Navigation Pane – https://askleo.com/188995GR:How To Keep Using Pages, Numbers and Keynote If You Don’t Want Apple Creator Studio Transcript teh_260

In This Episode: AI is still dumb. Who’s in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import. 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 0:30 LN: Been playing with Jan https://www.jan.ai/ 2:15 So MANY online AIs: ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, & others3:35 Privacy-focused: Proton’s LumoSelf-hosted: Jan (ultimate privacy?) – biggest complication is figuring out what LLM model to useGR:14:40 GR: Who owns TikTok now?15:50 TikTok is now owned (80%) by an investor groupOracle houses data (Larry Ellison) Was owned by Chinese ByteDance before (still 20%)Should you keep watching? (honestly can’t decide)21:00 Alternatives: YouTube Shorts is getting better, Instagram26:00 GR: mobile journalism tips30:00 Practice “quick draw” filming with your mobile phoneFamiliarize yourself with your camera resolution and upload settingsLN: auto-backup to cloud37:00 Remember if a friend is filming, you film too. Heck, film them filming things.44:00 LN: The death of “Check mail from other accounts:” took me down a pathFastMail Ain’t it Cool 55:10 GR: Sinners (HBO Max) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:00:06 LN: Why Am I Seeing So Many CAPTCHAs? – askleo.com/187517GR:https://macmost.com/10-secrets-of-the-mac-dock.html Transcript teh_259

In This Episode: Brief episode description 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: Gravity always wins6:00 LN: My new machine (you know, a “present” for getting sick?)AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X 24-Cores, 4200 Mhz128GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (and how I backed into this)12:00 Davinci Resolve “speed editor”13:00 GR: Apple Creator Studio https://www.apple.com/apple-creator-studio/Is it “freemium?”LN:28:00 GR: Strudel.cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M33:00 GR: AI fakes aren’t always going to be someone talking and saying something they didn’t. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/renee-good-car-ice-imageGR:Snopes Newsletters: https://www.snopes.com/newsletters/42:00 GR: Connections in the wildernessSatellite text messages, not just for emergrncies45:00 LN: Recent outage when everyone’s phone only said SOS? Ain’t it Cool 46:00 LN: Google Recorder (Pixel) – a tool I relied on49:00 GR: Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Audible) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:00 LN: An Unexpected Way Videos Can Expose Your Location – askleo.com/167448GR:https://macmost.com/why-ai-cant-replace-tech-help-yet.html Transcript teh_258 Video https://youtu.be/MwCkLv4RjLY

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