Tage Bushman joins me this week to talk about his career path to become a Professor at Western Technical College. It’s a fascinating subject for obvious reasons. The ground has been shifting constantly since he first got into tech, but now with AI, things have gotten even more “interesting. Tage teaches in the Cybersecurity program […]
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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 #818 — Adam Engst on New Mac Migration
Adam Engst recently wrote a post on TidBITS describing his journey migrating from a 27″ Intel iMac to an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. He entitled the article Switching from a 27-inch iMac to a 14-inch MacBook Pro: A Fresh Start. I asked him to come on Chit Chat Across the Pond so he could walk […]
Continue readingCCATP #817 — Adam Engst on Arc Browser Demise and the Rise of Dia
This week, our guest is Adam Engst, writer, editor, and publisher of the fabulous TidBITS Newsletter. In late May, The Browser Company announced that they are discontinuing their ground-breaking web browser Arc. As soon as I saw the headlines, my heart sank for people like Tom from Ontario, who first introduced the NosillaCast audience to […]
Continue readingCCATP #816 — Bart Busschots on Raindrop.io — the Bookmark Manager He Actually Likes!
Bart Busschots joins me to talk about his trials and tribulations finding a good bookmark manager to replace Pocket, which he never really liked in the first place. He tells us everything he loves about Raindrop.io. Unlike most Chit Chat Across the Pond episodes, there’s a full blog post below if you’d rather read than […]
Continue readingCCATP #815 — Bart Busschots Clarifies VPNs and iCloud Private Relay
On Chit Chat Across the Pond #814, Adam Engst and I discussed the results of a VPN survey he conducted with the TidBITS subscribers. From there, we got into a discussion where Adam challenged the common wisdom that we need a VPN when we’re on public WiFi networks. We got a bit mired in some […]
Continue readingCCATP #814 — Adam Engst on Deep Linking and VPN Survey
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst joins me to talk about two recent articles he wrote for TidBITS. The first topic is life-changing for me. Have you ever wanted to send someone a link to a specific spot on a long web page? With text fragments, most, if not […]
Continue readingCCATP #813 — Bart Busschots on Quantum Computing & Cryptography
This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond is going to be a bit different. On the NosillaCast #1042 for April 27th, Bart Busschots and I recorded his usual segment on Security Bits, but the majority of it was a deep dive. The subject was whether cryptography as we know it is doomed because of […]
Continue readingCCATP #812 — Adam Engst on Answer Engines
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst from TidBITS talks about how traditional search engines like Google and Bing no longer provide valuable information because they surface unreliable content first. Instead of using traditional search engines, he’s been testing tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Claude to see […]
Continue readingCCATP #811 — Adam Engst on Measuring AI Transcription Accuracy
This week, Adam Engst joins us to talk about some work he did to try to measure the accuracy of several different AI models in creating audio transcriptions. He let me help him with some of the transcriptions so I was invested in his findings. We’ll learn about ways to measure accuracy, including Word Error […]
Continue readingCCATP #810 — Steve Mallard on Evolution of Music Tech
You know I’m not a music person, but I’ve invited Steve Mallard onto the show to talk about a topic he’s quite passionate about – the evolution of music tech. He is not an expert in this field, he just finds the history fascinating. Steve will take us back to the first acoustic guitars, and […]
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