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Why Your Spreadsheet Mangles José's Name
Episode 5487
Ever opened a UTF-8 CSV in Excel and watched José turn into "José"? That garbled text is called mojibake, and it's the visible symptom of a characte…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Why Hebrew URLs Turn Into Percent-Sign Gibberish
Episode 5486
A listener noticed something odd: Hebrew in a URL's domain renders beautifully in the address bar, but Hebrew in the path collapses into six lines of…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Hebrew and Your Own Jargon
Episode 5485
Daniel runs NVIDIA's Parakeet V2 on Android for dictation and wants two things: a Hebrew fine-tune, and a personal-vocabulary tune to catch tech jarg…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
When Governments Own the Pipes: Telecom's Open-Access Model
Episode 5484
What if the government owned every fiber line and cell tower, and every carrier simply rented space on the state's pipes? This week we dig into a lis…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
One Network: Israel's Deregulation and the Case for State-Fiber
Episode 5483
Israel's 2009 telecom reforms forced incumbents to host virtual operators and cut mobile prices by 60–80%. So why not go further — one physical netwo…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
When AI Edits Your Words: The Off Switch Problem
Episode 5482
Daniel built an AI agent to lightly edit his podcast prompts, and it works. So why does he keep turning it off? This episode digs into the measurable…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Small Models, Big Guardrails: PII Detection in ChatGPT
Episode 5481
When ChatGPT asks you to approve a tool call, something has already scanned the outgoing data for usernames, addresses, and other PII — and that some…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Writing a Personal Instruction for ChatGPT
Episode 5480
Most advice about custom instructions says make them longer. The evidence says the opposite: a leaner prompt can be functionally equivalent, four and…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Why Number Porting Takes 30 Minutes
Episode 5479
Mobile number porting is a legally mandated right, standardized by 3GPP and enforced in Israel since the mid-2000s. The consumer version is one sente…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
When AI Hands Out Your Phone Number
Episode 5478
A single 2015 forum post, one scraped phone number, and a chatbot that confidently hands it to strangers over a decade later. This episode digs into …
3 weeks, 3 days ago