TEH 271: Extensions, Increases, RAM shortages, ClickFix danger, Use AI for Fun

In This Episode:

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: Windows Quickies:
  • Windows 10 ESU
  • 1:46 Windows 11 26H2
• 3:03 GR: Apple price increases
• 4:11 RAM shortages
• 12:30 GR: ClickFix attacks (https://hackmag.com/news/gizmodo-clickfix)
  • Macs targeted too
  • Apple fixed some parts, so switching tactics (Script Editor) https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/the-clickfix-scam-infect-your-own-mac 
  • 16:00 Why get more complex when simple keeps working?
  • 17:00 LN: https://askleo.com/tip-of-the-day-captchas-never-use-start-run/ (For my Tip of the Day subscribers)
• 21:00 LN: Today in AI: flooded with ads for a back relief product, I asked Claude: “is this real?” – the answer was genuinely helpful. – https://claude.ai/share/be7e88cc-ccca-4ebd-b0b4-6187eb510584 
  • 25:00 GR: Mark Twain poison medicine.
  • 27:40 Bonus for fun, what’s the English for 14,016,833,949,999,999,673,980,362,756,575,985,664 (38 digits)? – 20 character password made up of letters, numbers, and 10 different special characters. 20^72
    • 14 undecillion, 016 decillion, 833 nonillion, 949 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 673 quintillion, 980 quadrillion, 362 trillion, 756 billion, 575 million, 985 thousand, 664.
• 31:40 GR: The lucrative market for fake dashboards (https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter) 

Ain’t it Cool

• 35:00 LN: Dungeon Crawler Carl – with caveats
• 39:20 GR: Widow’s Bay

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 41:39 LN: How Long Should a Password Be? – https://askleo.com/4844 
• 42:19 GR: https://macmost.com/helping-others-with-their-macs-using-screen-sharing-through-messages.html

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