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IEC Cables: Terminate, Split, or Extend?
Episode 5609
Daniel wrote in with four questions about IEC 60320 cables: can you terminate them yourself, do adapters matter, are splitters safe, and how long can…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
When Your ISP Bot Won't Let You Talk to a Human
Episode 5608
What happens when a voice agent understands you perfectly and still can't help? This episode unpacks a real ISP support call where a customer with a …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
BYO Modem, But Only If We Approve It
Episode 5607
Bezeq, Israel's main fiber provider, does allow customers to bring their own modem — but only approved models, and only after you submit the device's…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Custom GPTs Retire: Skills, Plugins, and MCP Explained
Episode 5606
OpenAI is retiring custom GPTs on December 11, 2026, with a migration path to plugins built on Skills and MCP servers. This episode walks through the…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
From Dolium to Cup: Rome's Wine Supply Chain
Episode 5605
How did wine actually get from the vineyard to a Roman cup? No bottles, no corks, no personal cellars — instead, a three-tier vessel system that trea…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Fixing Typos Without Rewriting the Prompt
Episode 5604
Daniel dictates his prompts, catches typos by hand, and keeps running into the same wall: fixing a misspelling is not the same job as understanding w…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Ancient Wine Mixer Who Ran the Party
Episode 5603
In ancient Greece and Rome, wine was almost never drunk neat — and the person who decided how much water went in held surprising power over the eveni…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Why Crowds Kill Without Panic
Episode 5602
Most coverage of crowd disasters leads with "panic," but the research says otherwise: victims of crushes almost never die running from anything. This…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
How Image Forensics Catches Fake Ghosts and Deepfakes
Episode 5601
A listener named Daniel asks how people actually determined whether a photograph was real or altered — in the pre-digital era and now. We trace image…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Alien Abductions: 4 Million Claims, Zero Evidence
Episode 5600
A 1991 Roper poll produced the famous figure of nearly four million American abductees — but the same survey counted ghost-seers at eleven percent, a…
3 weeks, 1 day ago