What prompted you to subscribe?
Itās widely suspected that the āiCloud leakā from a fair few years back where Celebs photos were stolen was due to same Celebs using the same passwords across multiple accounts, and other accounts being compromised.
People still wonāt learn.
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āI didnāt think it would happen to me.ā
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It was reported that the answer to one celebs password reset question was the name of her dog! Does it count as a hack if you can reset a password with a google search?
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Thatās a bit of a long story. A programmer friend of mine gave me an invitation to Gmail during the pubic beta but I held off using it as my primary email address until they added a delete function in January 2006. I guess Google thought we didnāt need to delete with 1GB of free storage 
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Later that year I registered a couple of domains and opened two free Google Apps for Your Domain accounts. When Google ended its free G Suite Legacy accounts in 2022 I upgraded one of my free accounts to a starter Google Workspace account ($6/month/user) and added my second domain as an alias.
Later I upgraded to a Business Standard account ($12/month/user) that came with 2TB of storage and some other features such as Cloud Search (the ability to search everything, files, calendars, contacts, spreadsheets, etc. with one query).
At that time I went all in on GW, Sheets, Docs, Tasks, etc. because everything works together. Now, as of January, Google has added Gemini to all Business Standard and above GW accounts (and raised the price to $14/month/user)
Iām not using AI much at this time but the Gemini app is available on iOS/iPadOS and seems to work well. And I expect to also use Apple Intelligence when it finally arrives because I can subscribe to my GW data through Apple Mail, Calendar, and Contacts, etc.
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Difficult does not mean it canāt be done reasonably well, of course. Especially with practice (checks notes on current ATP episode numberā¦)
I used to listen to a podcast that has (technically) gone on hiatus (realistically, itās ended) that was utterly brilliant despite covering largely the same beat. The reason was the hosts. They were hilarious, yet insightful. Opinionated, but open to other views. And crucially ā I donāt like to say it, but I think itās a truth for me ā none of them were American.
Cheers to dearly missed podcasts! My favorite is my favorite for similar reasons: three unique hosts, expert respectful discussion, some of the funniest things Iāve ever heard. One of the hosts died in 2019 which effectively ended it, even though the other two have published a handful of duo episodes.
Iāve listened to much of it twiceāwhen I started listening, there was so much I had to learn. The second time, I was about as much an expert as two of the hosts, and it was even better. When I disagreed it was fun for me, not frustrating. I get some of that dynamic when Siracusa and I diverge, at leastā¦
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Will no one tell them that the more times you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets? That amount of time spent beating a dead horse bears no relation to the degree of death?
Not completely ignorant, but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, as they say. There are some topics that fall within my wheelhouse where Iāve observed that he knows just enough to get himself in trouble.
Yes to this. The āView from Nowhereā style doesnāt reliably map well onto the āThree Dudes Talking About [insert topic here]ā genre of podcast. The ATP guys arenāt reporting; theyāre gabbing. (And I mean that as a compliment. Itās what gives podcasts their parasocial juice.)
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In the few episodes I listened to, Marco speaks with intense confidence on subjects where he has few or comically outdated data points (AI, Sonos, and more!). The āaskā section was particularly humorous because people are actually asking advice from someone who has little idea what heās talking about. Itās just not for me but, as I said, Iām glad it works for some folks!
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