Certified Apple Consultant Pat Dengler joins me to tell the harrowing story of how her neighbor was seconds away from being scammed out of $30,000. In an elaborate web of lies with multiple people involved, she was connected supposedly to Amazon, the FBI, lawyers, and more, and every single person gave their IDs and return […]
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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show on the topic of technology, or sometimes just with someone really interesting.
CCATP #803 Adam Engst on Obituary Scams Triggering iPhone Security Warnings
We have Adam Engst of TidBITS back again to talk about an unusual and clever scam experienced by one of his TidBITS readers. It involved fake obituaries triggering iPhone security warnings triggering App Store downloads. You can find Adam’s written article on the topic at tidbits.com/…. mp3 download Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter […]
Continue readingCCATP #803 – Adam Engst on Invasive Location Tracking and Tips On How to Manage
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst and I discussed his October 24th article entitled Exposé Reveals Ongoing Smartphone Location Tracking Threats. He explained how much easier it is now for your precise location to be determined because of your online activity, in spite of the safeguards Apple has instituted in […]
Continue readingCCATP #801 – Sam King of GigSky & How to Use a US Phone Number Using WiFi Calling with a Foreign eSIM
I had the pleasure of interviewing Sam King, chief revenue officer for eSIM provider GigSky. As an unwritten policy, I don’t generally interview people who sell products or services, but since it’s my own guideline, I can color outside the lines when I want to, and this is one of those times. We do a […]
Continue readingCCATP #800 – Adam Engst on Limiting iPhone Charging to 80%
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to join in the fun conversation about limiting your iPhone’s charging to 80%. He wrote up an article entitled Does Limiting an iPhone’s Battery Charging to 80% Increase Lifespan? in which he references an article by Juli Clover of […]
Continue readingCCATP #799 – Adam Engst on Apple’s Screen Recording Permissions in Sequoia Beta
Adam Engst joins me again, this time to talk about the patently wrong decision by Apple to include repetitive permissions requests for screen recording in the macOS Sequoia beta. As he explains in his article on TidBITS.com entitled Apple Reduces Excessive Sequoia Permission Requests, Shifts to Monthly, changing from weekly permissions requests to monthly is […]
Continue readingCCATP #798 Adam Engst on Troubleshooting
This week our guest is the venerable Adam Engst of TidBITS. Adam wrote an article recently about his solar inverters that ended up being a story about troubleshooting. That inspired me last week to tell you our troubleshooting story about our home network. We thought it would be fun to go through Adam’s story and […]
Continue readingCCATP #797 – Adam Engst on His Quest for Alarming Notifications
CCATP #797 for July 9, 2024, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this week’s episode, we talked about why Adam believes we need persistent calendar […]
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CCATP #796 – Bart Busschots on PBS 168 – Introduction to YAML
In Programming By Stealth, we’ve completed our series on the jq language and now Bart Busschots brings us a two-part miniseries about the YAML data format. He takes us through the history of data formats we’ve “enjoyed” such as fixed-width text files, Comma Separated Value files, through to JSON and XML. All of them had […]
Continue readingCCATP #795 — Bart Busschots on PBS 167 of X – jq: Recursion, Syntactic Sugar, Some old Friends and a Few Honourable Mentions
It was actually bittersweet for Bart and me this week as he taught the final installment in our series of Programming By Stealth about jq. As Bart says partway through our recording, he thought this would just be a few episodes but it took 13 episodes to go through everything Bart thought was fun about […]
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