Alright, I just want to start off and say, this podcast is not going well today. I'm on my third freaking take and I did something really stupid. I interviewed a guy using my iPhone, a guy from Australia using my iPhone while he was ripping out a kitchen in a very sketchy neighborhood in Clearwater, just so that I could do a podcast about something called pass keys, a bit more on that in a minute. So in this edition of The Daily Grateful, we're going to talk about pass keys because the recording from him did not work out.
There were people hammering. His sister was talking on the phone to her mother back in Australia. It was pain in the ass, but we got this done. I was able to go to a pretty cool thing.
There's a piece of software. There's a whole podcasting thing called Riverside and even if you're not a subscriber to Riverside, which I'm not, it allows you to put a recording in there and it'll transcribe it for you. I said, oh, that's nice because none of the audio was usable. I wanted to use the audio in this podcast.
I wanted to talk to the guy, but the conditions weren't good. So I was listening to the audio and I found out I couldn't understand the damn guy. So I stuck it into Riverside and Riverside did a reasonably good job of transcribing it. And then I said, okay.
And then I said, I then took it over to another AI called Claude.ai and I said, please take this mess and edit it and make it halfway usable. And I was totally surprised. Well, that's pretty cool. I just got to tell you, Claude's pretty damn cool.
So anyway, what I want to talk about today is a pass key and you're saying, what in the hell is a pass key? That's what I said because my buddy Doc, who is the president of the Tampa Bay Technology Center calls me up the other night and says, we need to do a class on pass keys. I said, what else pass key? And I've heard pass keys popping around here and there.
I mean, I've been using computers since the early 80s back when it was DOS and I learned about passwords. Well, then passwords got more, you know, you got to do more stuff with passwords. You want to know what my password used to be? This is terrible.
My password used to be my then girlfriend's telephone number with the letter C at the end of it. I use that pass or that password for years. Well, now, you know, then they said, no, it's not a good password. Someone can crack it.
Especially my ex-girlfriend. But anyway, I didn't get to even more, you know, bizarre. I started using my favorite ex-wife's son's birthday. I said, nobody's going to do, you know, no, not good enough.
So anyway, I now have a long and complicated couple of passwords and I have sticky notes. If you want my password, break it to my house and right here in the studio on the dresser that's sitting right over there are like four sticky notes with different passwords on it. So as I understand it, a pass key, a pass key will eliminate all of that because pass keys as I understand it from reading the transcription of my interview with the guy who while he's ripping out a kitchen. And I need to have him come over and rip out my bathroom, but he doesn't have time.
Makes me mad because he was ripping a kitchen out like you wouldn't believe. And he said he's going to have a kitchen done. He's going to have a thing ripped out. He hoped to have it ripped out yesterday and then all cleaned up.
And then he's going to go back in there today or tomorrow and install a whole new kitchen at, you know, wow, I said, could you do that to my bathroom? Because I could have your bathroom done in a day or day and a half. I said, how much are you going to charge me? Because I can't, I got to get back.
And he's got, you know, him and his sister friends of mine anyway, pass keys. They're cooler, they're the cooler smarter cousin, OK, who actually showed up at the gym? That's what he said. Instead of typing out a password that you're going to forget or you're going to have to go to your sticky notes like I do have over here, you just have to remember a simple pass key.
And it uses something called cryptigraphy, whatever that is. And it's centered on your device, like on your iPhone or on your tablet or on your computer or on your iPod. Does anyone have an iPod anymore? That's like, you know, weird.
I was watching some damn television show yesterday where it was an old television show quite obviously because they were trying to track a kidnapper, excuse me, and they were using an iPad or an iPod and my son used to have one, my son, Jamie used to have one. It kind of looks like an iPhone. I forget what it's called, but it does everything an iPhone does, except you could actually make calls with it on Wi-Fi and you can FaceTime and you know, stuff like that. But anyway, but nobody has those anymore.
But you can use it on all your devices. And it's one pass key. If you want to use one pass key so I can get rid of all these damn sticky notes. And what it is, is it centered on your device?
It is located on your device. So if you are a hacker living in another country and you get my pass key and you try to go into my company, you can't. You cannot. You cannot because you got to type that pass key into this device.
I got to sit here. Here's my computer. I got to type it right into my device. So I thought, okay, that's cool.
I still don't know. I said, you got to come over my house and show me how to use. He cleared to come over my house. He's got a rip out of kitchen.
He said, no, no, no. We've got a bathroom. We got to do too. So I'm busy.
So I said, okay. So anyhow, that's the latest thing is pass keys. I asked him, do I need a different pass key for each device. And he said, no, he goes, I use the same pass key on everything.
I use it on my Apple computer, I, you know, he says, my Apple laptop. I use it on my iPhone. I use it on my iPad. I said, good.
You use it on your IBM Selectric typewriter. He goes, what's that? Anyhow, so it won't work at the gym where I, this gym that I go to, well, not very often, has a locker system with, you put in a code, won't work there. So you got to, you know, hang on to that.
So I am sorry to announce that my first attempt of doing a remote recording for podcasts, just using my iPhone failed miserably. And by the way, I shouldn't have to do this because in this drawer, I got a bunch of portable recording devices that are really, really cool. I mean, I got some, I got some really, I got a task cam little recorder that has two microphones into it. Plus, if I want to, I can plug these professional microphones into it.
I can carry it with me and I can do that anywhere. But it's in the drawer. I didn't, you know, I got the idea as I was going over there. I was going over there for another reason.
And then I said, he's going to know about Pasky, damn it. So the first, totally and completely failed. I would play some of the audio for you, but it is so crackly. And you know, there's people in the background who are cussing and you know, I think I was annoying everybody but him.
I was definitely annoying everybody except him. And then he got to the point where I got to get this damn kitchen out of here. So that's how we do it. I'm going to try and do better for you.
I'm going to try and do a remote version of the Daily Grateful using some of my really cool equipment here that I never use. That's what I need to do. I'm going to, I'm going to do that. So at least it'll get better.
I hope I pray and I got to get out of here because it's 9 16 a.m. in the morning on February 11th. I've got a 10 o'clock doctor's appointment. I got to go to.
I've got a 12 o'clock board meeting. I've got to go to and I'd like to get my damn haircut today. So that's three things actually recording the podcast is four things and I've got a three thing rule. I have to go to the doctor.
I have to go to the board meeting, but the haircut will be so nice because I have a very mean barber. This woman, she's rural to me. She waxes my ears. You want to talk about pain?
Anyway, but she does it in such a loving way. We'll see you tomorrow.