Accidental Tech Podcast

405: The Benevolence of the Powerful

11.19.2020 - By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaPlay

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Pre-show: Why are we recording early?

Follow-up:

Casey’s watch band

youtube-dl is back on Github

Github works with ICE, which is gross and should stop

Feel free to tell Github this is gross

Github’s statement about youtube-dl

EFF’s counterargument to the RIAA’s claim

Donate to the EFF

M1 chip name predictions (Overcast link) (via Cameron Deardorff)

ARM Macs and Touch

macOS 11.1 is in Beta

McGurk effect

Explainer Video

Text-based TikTok (via Erik Berlin)

Casey’s weird discovery

Casey got new watches

Gruber’s sizing pictures

Studio Neat Material Dock

M1 Mac Performance

Initial Benchmarks

M1 emulating x86 is still silly fast

Panzarino’s unxip’ing Xcode

Nilay Patel’s tweet

AnandTech’s review

Snell’s Xcode benchmarks

M1 MacBook reviews

App Store Small Business Program

Six Colors Summary

US taxes over the years

Post-show:

Casey is begging for help on FB8893003. Please, Apple. Please.

John’s iPhone 12 Pro cases sitrep

SENA case

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