In This Episode: Tech travel, security bloops, getting the news, rewriting COBOL.

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.)

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• 00:00 Wi-Fi and Tech while traveling in New Zealand
  
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  • Low tech small motels
    
  • What do we call a stand-alone camera now?
    
  
  
  
• 10:03 Switching Between Phone and Camera
  
• 14:04 “Tech Industry’s Quiet Month”
  
• 15:00 Signal Mishap
  
• 17:51 Data Privacy Paradox
  
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  • If they can see it… they can save it
    
  • 24:00 Data protection
    
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo 
    
  • https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
    
  
  
  

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• 30:47 GR: Tech journalism is filling the gap in political journalism (Wired, 404Media, The Verge, etc).
  
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  • DOGE is tech based
    
  • Teen Vogue
    
  • Maybe it is that political writers can’t keep up with the tech in politics, but tech writers can keep up with the politics in tech
    
  
  
  
• 38:20 GR: They think they can rewrite Social Security’s COBOL code base in months
  
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  • https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
    
  • The last 10% could take 20 years
    
  • They probably plan to use AI to do it
    
  • The COBOL zero, and how databases count people
    
  
  
  

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• 47:40 LN: Adolescence – Amazing for a few reasons (emoji)
  
• 51:00 GR: The Residence on Netflix
  

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• 52:00 LN: Let’s Chat About: Civility – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyU4B90QdBo 
  
• 54:45 GR: Working On Your Mac Without Distractions In Monk Mode  https://macmost.com/working-on-your-mac-without-distractions-in-monk-mode.html
  

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