Tech News Radio: Recent Episodes
Steve Holden - Tech News Radio (technewsradio@gmail.com)
I am really enjoying getting news analysis from Christianity Today’s The Bulletin Podcast (Apple Podcasts, Substack Updates). There recent coverage of the big news stories has been very helpful in understanding these events, and they also cover many pressing less covered news events and issues.
The Russell Moore Show is also thoughtful and challenging.
I have been thinking of doing some pivoting related to domains and archive sites, and where things end up with the Typepad to WordPress transition.
I did create a The Podcraft Archive site but you can also get to them via: https://stevendholden.com/?s=podcraft. The MP3 links are all dead though, but the graphics should be good. The YouTube links all work, so you can still listen to those either via YouTube application or on in any browser.
I also created a Veteran Stories Archive but graphics aren’t going to work until I update them. So I’d rather update them once and have them live in my main blog. At some point I will add the category “VeteranStories” as a category for them for quick find.
Any “podcast” link https://stevendholden.com/?s=podcast will get you a ton of content as a worst case scenario in finding a previously published podcast.
Also I logged into Hover.com and tried to setup domain forwarding to the right location. It might take 24 hours to work itself out.
The big bummer I think is that most of the Google Search Engine links are going to be dying soon and will need to be “re-indexed” (however that works).
Also any RSS link is going to die, a well as any legacy podcast subscribe link. Bummer!
If you ended up here and struggling to find something previously published then just let me know (email/Bluesky).
I have been able to verify that https://savemyblog.com/ was able to export my Typepad.com blogs with graphics, files, etc. into WordPress.com import file.
Since 2003 I’ve been using Typepad for my blog hosting site and for many of my side-projects, podcasts, and reference sites. Now that Typepad is going to shut down at the end of September 2025, I have moved all those sites to WordPress and making this my main site and the other sites basically ARCHIVES using WordPress’ generous free site offering.
Over time I might move some of that material under this site but that is still in the concept design phase.
The biggest bummer is that all the graphics and formatting of these ARCHIVE sites are going to leave a lot to be desired. Much will be missing, and there is no easy way to fix them but by manually updating them. I will have to see how much juice can be squeezed to make that happen.
Meanwhile here are the current links:
- sholden.typepad.com > https://www.stevendholden.com
- TechNewsRadio.com (Archive) > https://technewsradio.wordpress.com/
- Christ Lutheran Church & School’s Grow-Pray-Study (GPS) Guide site (https://www.clcm-gps.com/) > https://christlamesa.wordpress.com/
- ThePodcraft Podcast (Archive) > https://thepodcraftarchive.wordpress.com/
- The Jersey Boys Podcast (Archive) > https://jerseyboyspodcast.wordpress.com/
- AztecMedia.net (Archive) > https://aztecmedianet.wordpress.com/
- VeteranStories.us (Archive) > https://veteransstories.wordpress.com/
I am also planning to take their current domains and redirect them to their corresponding WordPress site but that probably won’t happen to October 1, 2025.
Feel free to reach out if you have additional questions, suggestions, or thoughts.
Cheers!
I am just dropping this link here for historical purposes: Geeksquad in the Making? (Dec 2004)
I recently learned that one of the authors of The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living — Ryan Holiday — had his Naval Academy lecture cancelled:
For the last five years, I've been reading this book as part of my daily morning devotion practice (MORE INFO).
I am so sorry this happened.
Ideas matter. Freedom matters. Freedom of speech matters. Critical thinking matters. Learning matters.
Sticking your head in the sand is stupid.
Banning books is a sign of weakness and fear.
While you can't watch the planned talk, here is the video of the talk that Ryan recorded later:
Google recently created a new search option that provides no AI results.
Here is the basic link:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
The key part of the link above is the addition of &udm=14.
You will get a search result related to what %s is if you click the above link.
So you could change this to whatever you want, like (weather):
https://www.google.com/search?q=weather&udm=14
Anything you put in the search box will inherit the &udm=14 tag, and your search results on that page will continue to exclude AI results.
The last couple of days, I've encountered several situations where I wanted to quickly send content to my Kindle Paperwhite via the Amazon send to Kindle email service.
They support several formats (PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, HTM, HTML, PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, EPUB).
One piece of content I update weekly in Obsidian is in MD file format.
I converted that content to a graphic, to text, to PDF, and then to EPUB.
I found the EPUB to be the best for me.
The conversion was simple: I cut and pasted the content in Obsidian to an open document in Google Docs and then "Download" (from the File menu) the EPUB version.
Once downloaded, I use Google Gmail to attach the EPUB to an email to my personalized Kindle email address.
This article offers a wealth of valuable resources, including "20 Helpful Verification Tools for Journalists."
Download! (Size 0.692-MBs, Running Time 1m49s)Today's podcast references material from the following links:* https://kevinkelly.gumroad.com/l/recomindos * https://www.ubuntupit.com/no-more-windows-woes-wine-8-2-brings-better-compatibility-for-linux-users/ * https://cybersecuritynews.com/red-team-tools/
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Here are my DEF CON notes from the sessions that I attended in 2022 for DEF CON 30:
- DEF CON 30 Notes & References (PDF)
Please fell free to do what you want with these notes. I go to sessions so you don't have to.
Here some quick links to notes from previous years: 29 (2021), 28 (2020)*, 27 (2019), 26 (2018), 25 (2017), 24 (2016), 23 (2015), 22 (2014), 21 (2013), 20 (2012), 19 (2011), & 18 (2010).
*I do have notes for 28 (2020) but they still need work.
You can find some videos from DEF CON 30 (2022) here.
I plan on attending DEF CON 31 (2023). Follow along near real-time on Twitter @technewsradio, Instagram @otto_locke.
Here are my DEF CON notes from the sessions that I attended in 2021 for DEF CON 29: DEF CON 29 Notes & References (PDF) Please fell free to do what you want with these notes. I go to sessions...
Here are a few photos of the presentation by the NOC at Def Con 27 (2019). But first here is may favorite non-focused photo as it says a lot: Squirrels? Some WIFI User Tracking Some Traffic Analysis High-Level Network Diagram...
The following photos of slides that are some of my favorites from Def Con #27 (2019). Default Elevator Passwords SQL Injection's Found In Vendor Databases For Schools Radar Gun Frequencies Some References On How To "Mess With" Radar Guns Multi-Printer...
Here are my DEF CON notes from the sessions that I attended in 2019 for DEF CON 27: defcon27-2019-report_DRAFT.pdf Please fell free to do what you want with these notes. I go to sessions so you don't have to. Here...
Here are my DEF CON notes from the sessions that I attended in 2018 for DEF CON 26: defcon26-2018-report-technewsradio.pdf Please fell free to do what you want with these notes. I go to sessions so you don't have to. Here...
Here are my DEF CON notes from the sessions that I attended in 2016 for DEF CON 24: DEF CON 24 NOTES (2016) [PDF] Please feel free to do what you want with these notes. I go to sessions so...
Here are my DEF CON notes from the sessions that I attended in 2017 for DEF CON 25: DEFCON 25 NOTES (2017) [PDF] Please fell free to do what you want with these notes. I go to sessions so you...
Here are my DEF CON notes from the sessions that I attended and the presentation material that was shared: DEF CON 23 NOTES (2015) [PDF] In addition my previous notes (all in PDF) are available for 22 (2014), 21 (2013),...
A detailed conference report of the sessions attended has been posted: DEFCON22 (PDF). In addition, here is a summary of DEFCON 22 related news articles of potential interest: Founder of America’s Biggest Hacker Conference: ‘We Understand the Threat Now’ [Time]...
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