Jetpacks Are Overrated: a technology show

Seamus gets his (rather polite) rant on about 8K TV. Why you don't need it in your living room. Why it's just not viable on multiple fronts. But why this also means it's a brilliant time to buy a television! Because a 4K TV is likely to be the longest lasting television purchase you’ll make since the cathode ray era.

Here's a great guide to the science of TV sizing and resolution:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

And here's a Hollywood study showing that there was no discernible difference for our eyeballrs:

https://www.techhive.com/article/3529913/8k-vs-4k-tvs-most-consumers-cannot-tell-the-difference.html

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A fascinating chat with Marc Rogers, head of cybersecurity at Okta and long-time leader of SecOps for legendary hacker conference DEFCON. We talk about the CTI League, an amazing collective of hackers helping to secure hospitals and take down bad actors aiming to use COVID-19 as a security threat. Plus a look at the future of passwords and where authentication is going next.

Want to help CTI League? Here's the link to all the details: https://cti-league.com/

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Information is at the front line of so many of today's battles. Fighting the good fight by tracking down the coronavirus and trying to stop it in its tracks, but also wrecking the digital town square with disinformation. There's a lot of work to do, and a lot of empathy required, to ensure we come out the other side of it all better than we were before this started.

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Google. Microsoft. Apple. Zoom. All the rest of you out there doing calendars. The coronavirus crisis is the perfect time to give us our time back. Reset the defaults. 5 minutes at a time. It’s good for today, it’s great for tomorrow.

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We're all discovering together what tech can and can't help with right now. Part tech. Part culture. But keep at it. We'll smooth out the troubles and we will get through this. Stay smart, be safe.

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Wondering what the deal is with 5G? We visited Optus HQ in Sydney to put a lot of the big questions to Harvey Wright, the Head of 5G at Optus, to help understand what's happening right now and in the years ahead. How the roll out is going, his ambitions for fixed 5G, and when people realistically should buy 5G hardware.

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I spent a week scanning 5,000 old photos with the Epson FastFoto F680W scanner. It taught me a lot about what I should try to take pictures of, and how I should take them. It was a good scanner too!

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Exploring Apple's growing efforts to defend privacy, not just as a question of better securing our data, but in stopping it from being collected in the first place.

It's more than rhetoric. It's not just a feature anymore. It's becoming its own service and it could make the whole web a better place for everyone - not just people who own iPhones.

Check out the Maciej Ceglowski article, "The New Wilderness":

https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

Check out my article for the Australian Financial Review on the Sign in with Apple announcement at WWDC:

https://www.afr.com/technology/technology-companies/apple-takes-a-bite-out-of-facebook-and-google-s-surveillance-duopoly-20190607-p51vk5

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Seamus talks to the Aussie developers behind two award winning apps, Streaks and ProCreate. Quentin Zervaas from Crunchy Bagel, the maker of Streaks and Outcast, and Jess Clarke & Michael Shaw from Savage Interactive, the maker of ProCreate.

We talk about the value of attending a big developer event like WWDC, and how they've taken on the world from Adelaide and Hobart to become some of the most respected app developers in their respective categories.

Find Crunchy Bagel's apps here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/crunchy-bagel/id1084571682

Find Savage Interactives apps here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/savage-interactive-pty-ltd/id363433636

Find more shows from Byteside at https://byteside.com/

And catch Seamus on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/seamus

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This week on Jetpacks Are Overrated, a conversation about the state of passwords. From biometrics to two-factor authentication, there’s a lot of new tools in the mix that might lead some to feel like there will be a version of our future out there on the horizon where we can finally stop having to remember so many damn passwords!

This episode does NOT sell you such a promise, unfortunately, but it does take a close look at where we’re at with the whole idea of being authenticated online. And the good news is that while passwords are here to stay, we’ll get asked to type them in less and less often.

My chat today is with Alex Salazar, Vice President of Product Strategy at Okta, which is a company specialised in digital authentication. They help companies simplify logins by offering tools like single sign-on across a whole bunch of web services, or making it easier for companies to use their tools to improve how they let their users login, all that kind of thing.

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