566: True UK Elephant
Your favorite podcasters are back to do some vitally important singing stuffed animal follow-up, catch up on how the betas are going, make some autumnal predictions, get some troubleshooting advice, and answer your questions.
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420: ‘The Best Hatched Plan’, With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show for episode 420 on 4/20, but everyone’s sober, I swear. Topics include Trump’s dumb tariffs and Glenn’s smart new edition of his book Six Centuries of Type & Printing.
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Links:
Pre-order “Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition”.
My link to Glenn’s Kickstarter page.
“.BLUE proposes to create an Internet space in which businesses, organizations and individuals can create an Internet identity tied to the color and the concept of blue.”.
XKCD comic on open source dependencies.
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
765: Inventing the Internet, with Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman, freelance journalist, book author, editor, and comics and type historian, joins to share what he's up to and some of his favorite workflows.
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366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.
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Apple silicon woes:
Mark Gurman on the Mac Pro.
Wayne Ma at The Information on the graphics capabilities of the iPhone 14 Pro's A16 SoC.
Jeremi Gosney summarizing the situation with LastPass.
Seat 31B: "The Great Southwest Meltdown of 2022". Terrific explainer about how Southwest is different from other airlines.
Rubén Caballero -- formerly head of wireless technology engineering at Apple; now working for Microsoft.
Glenn's books on security.
Stochastic screening.
"Shift Happens" -- the keyboards book Glenn has been working on with Marcin Wichary since 2018.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about Elon Musk's impending acquisition of Twitter, Apple's credibility problem when arguing against being required to allow sideloading on iOS, and Glenn's new (and much-needed) book, Take Control of Untangling Connections.
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“Take Control of Untangling Connections” — Glenn’s new $10 book that explains everything there is to know about USB-C connectors and ports and adapters.
Glenn’s personal website, with a fun new URL.
Elon Musk is probably going to buy Twitter and take it private.
Matt Levine’s excellent Money Stuff column/newsletter for Bloomberg.
Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day, another outstanding email newsletter/column.
Apple Newsroom: “Apple TV+ Partners With Idris Elba on New Thriller ‘Hijack’”.
My quip.
Tim Cook’s speech stating Apple’s opposition to mandatory sideloading.
Sam Biddle (of The Intercept)’s response.
Matt Stoller’s response, which is even more deeply cynical than Biddle’s.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.
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My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
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Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
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Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
Apple Platform Security Guide.
Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
“Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
“Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.
, exquisitely synced to my remarks about it, thanks to Todd Vaziri.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
275: ‘Fake Faces’ With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include iPhone encryption, the privacy implications of widely-available reverse image search for faces, deep-learning-powered algorithmically-generated faces, and Jeopardy’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.
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This is Jeopardy:
Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time Tournament.
Glenn’s analysis of matches 1–3 for Motherboard.
Glenn’s archive of articles regarding Jeopardy.
Prisoner of Trebekistan, by Bob Harris.
Ken Jennings’s excellent Twitter account.
iPhone encryption:
Jack Nicas’s New York Times column on how iPhone encryption works.
My link to Nicas’s column, with a few additional thoughts.
Algorithmically-generated faces:
The Washington Post: “Dating Apps Need Women. Advertisers Need Diversity. AI Companies Offer a Solution: Fake People”.
Glenn on deep fake faces, last year for Fast Company .
Facebook removes profiles with fake pics.
Facial recognition search:
Kashmir Hill’s stunning report for The Times on Clearview AI, a Peter-Thiel-backed company that supplies law enforcement with facial recognition search, built using a library of billions of photos uploaded to the web.
Nelson Minar on Yandex’s reverse image search for faces, which is startlingly accurate, and available to anyone.
Screenshot of Yandex search results for my own face.
Miscellaneous:
Tiny Type Museum.
Election Ride Home podcast.
The intense concentration required by grandmaster-level chess burns thousands of calories per day.
YubiKey 5Ci — 2FA dongle with Lightning and USB-C jacks ($70 though).
Loyola Maramount’s 1990 high-scoring men’s basketball team.
Have I Been Pwned? — Fantastic resource where you can search to see if you have an account that was compromised in a data breach. Spoiler: you probably do.
Kashmir Hill, writing for Gizmodo last year: “I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell”.
The New York Times: “One Nation, Tracked”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
244: ‘Plagiarists and Fabulists’ With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include: rumors of new Mac hardware and Marzipan at WWDC, Samsung’s new phones unveiled at their “Unpacked” event, 5G networks, Apple’s purported foray into the credit card business, and more — including Glenn’s “Tiny Type Museum” Kickstarter project.
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Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule — Glenn’s latest project on Kickstarter.
“The Old Guard of Mac Indie Apps Has Thrived for More Than 25 Years”.
WSJ report on Apple teaming With Goldman Sachs to issue a credit card.
Costco’s remarkable low-fee exclusivity deal with Visa.
“Gurman on WWDC 2019: Marzipan Marches Forward and the New Mac Pro”.
“Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction?”
Glenn’s story on Erik Spiekermann marrying digital design with letterpress printing.
Jack Dorsey on The Bill Simmons Podcast.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
197: ‘Nancy Reagan Was Right’ With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn’s new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more.
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Hands On: The Original Digital — Glenn’s new book on type, printing, and punctuation.
Updates on Glenn’s progress.
Glenn’s piece for Meh on the long history of intentionally blank pages.
Vic Gundotra is now a staunch iPhone proponent.
Great Moments in Vic Gundotra History.
Vic Gundotra tears into Apple for being “closed” at IO 2010 keynote.
Matt Drance on Gundotra and Google rewriting Android’s history.
One more dose of Vic Gundotra hypocrisy for good measure.
Apple inadvertently leaks HomePod OS, spilling many beans.
Apple Removes VPN apps from Chinese App Store.
Apple Park is mostly open workspaces.
WSJ profile on Jony Ive and Apple Park.
Jason Snell on open workspaces.
Yours truly getting cute with footage from “Brazil”.
XKCD: Wi-Fi vs. Cellular.
Glenn’s Wi-Fi mesh networking explainer for TechHive.
Wi-Fi Net News — Glenn’s old weblog dedicated to Wi-Fi news.
Soulver — a terrific app for Mac and iOS that’s sort of a cross between a spreadsheet and calculator.
Rebecca Slatkin on Twitter.
Studio Neat Frameographer.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
175: ‘Uncle Joe’s Bathtub Gin’ With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include indoor plumbing, a spoiler-free discussion about HBO’s excellent “Westworld”, our favorite beverages, Apple’s AirPods launch debacle, Apple TV single sign-on, and more.
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HBO’s post-Westworld Easter Egg laden site for Delos Inc..
Ask Siri about “Westworld”.
“A History of the World in Six Glasses”, by Tom Standage.
Interesting New York Times story from January on Donald Trump’s brother Freddy, who drank himself to death in 1981.
Glenn’s review of NewerTech’s $49 NuPower 60-Watt dual USB-A/USB-C charger — a single charger that can charge both a MacBook and iPhone at the same time.
Tim Cook purportedly emails customer saying AirPods should ship over the “next few weeks”.
Yours truly on what’s going on with the AirPods delay: unexpected manufacturing problems.
Thoroughly Considered: the Studio Neat podcast.
John Paczkowski summarizing the inauspicious partner list at the launch of Apple’s single sign-on service for TV content.
Farhad Manjoo explains why he thinks gadgets are dying as a category: smartphones, probably.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
162: ‘Special Bullying Venue’ With Glenn Fleishman
Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include security vulnerabilities on MacOS and iOS, ransomware, counterfeit products and outright fraud on Amazon, and online harassment and “free speech”.
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Motherboard: “How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law”.
New Ransomware Takes Your Money, Deletes Files Anyway.
John Norstad, developer of the fantastic early-1990s Mac anti-virus utility Disinfectant.
F-Secure tests the customer service of ransomware pirates.
isbn.nu: Glenn’s long-standing book search and price comparison site.
Glenn’s two new books on Slack: Take Control of Slack Basics and Take Control of Slack Admin.
Randi Harper’s Good Game Auto Blocker utility for Twitter.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
149: ‘With Apologies to Hamilton’ With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman joins the show. The primary topic: Apple’s legal battle against the FBI regarding the iPhone and encryption. Other topics include Aaron Burr’s resurgence in popularity, the U.S. founding fathers’ use of cyphers and codes in their correspondance, next week’s Apple event, USB battery packs, and more.
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Political action committee changes name from “Trump Has Tiny Hands PAC” to “Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands”.
Donald Trump back in October 2013: “As an addition, Apple must go to a larger screen now—asap! They’re losing their standing in the market!”.
Wordnik.
Low self-discharged (LSD) nickel–metal hydride batteries.
Walt Mossberg’s review of the modular Eero home Wi-Fi system.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
116: Workflows with Glenn Fleishman
David and Katie sit down with Glenn Fleishman to discuss his work as a freelance writer and editor, working from home, BBEdit, and what it takes to become a two-time Jeopardy Champion.
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