Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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February 20, 2025627: Dragged Across the Line
Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
VoIP
ATA
Ubiquiti Managed VoIP
Follow-up:
Apple Account transfers
Updated restrictions & guidelines
Stephen’s take
The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
WSJ opinion piece by Green & Stamos
Matthew Green’s blog post
macOS UNIX compliance
Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything.
Jay Peters at The Verge
Humane press release
Humane support document
iPhone 16e announced
Intro video
Apple TV app is now on Android
Netflix and foot-guns
The Verge, 14 February, 9:25 AM: Hell hath frozen over
Screenshot of linking Netflix account
Apple TV app
The Verge, 14 February, 2:17 PM: Netflix says “our bad”
Joe Rosensteel
Post-show: An update on Casey’s status board
Installation photo
HomeSeer HS-WD200+
Dongle
ZWave
ZWaveJS UI
Members-only ATP Overtime: Robots are, like, so in right now.
Meta
Bloomberg coverage
Tesla
As usual, Elon is a blowhard
Google
Apple
Kuo’s tweet
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2h 4min
February 13, 2025626: No Longer ery Good
Follow-up:
Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck)
First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert)
You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West)
Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”?
Tailgate Tub
Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers)
DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka)
Technical report
Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan)
macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto)
Thom at OSnews
Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another
The new JoyCons do act as a mouse
An alternative for Apple TV audio (via Nicholas Correnti)
/r/TVTooHigh
Casey’s new arrivals
WS2812B Addressable LED strip
Home is Where the Smart Is
WLED
ESP32
TRMNL
Hyperspace updates
Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real!
Slack
An aside about bug reporting
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK
Original Washington Post article
BBC coverage
ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
Ask ATP:
What planning/wireframing tools do we use? (via Glen Lam)
Is HFS+ still relevant in 2025? (via Mike Hatfield)
QNAP
Would John tell us more about the many pieces of detritus associated with files? (via Leon Cowle)
Post-show: Restaurant-tech update
Dante
Ubiquiti Flex (Useful little PoE switch)
Ubiquiti Flex 2.5G PoE (2.5G version with 10G uplink)
Ubiquiti Switch Flex XG (10G switch)
Members-only ATP Overtime: iOS 19 UI rumors and the design language of Apple Invites
Jon Prosser’s video
Invites & Sports apps
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1h 58min
February 06, 2025625: Time and Smoke
Pre-show: BBQ
ZZQ
Q
Follow-up:
New immersive video: Man vs. Beast
“Historical Commission”?
Sonos volume changes are local
DeepSeek censorship mechanism (via Matthew Cave)
Docker
Rosetta (via Brian Reiter)
Hypervisor.framework
Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter)
Sending email
Mailhog (via Matt Barlow)
Mailpit (via John Caruso)
Maildev (via Yves Serrano)
ddev.com (via Bram Esposito)
Also consider Development Containers (via Dewald Reynecke)
Marco’s TV audio sync issues
Match Format and Match Dynamic Range (via Marco Arment)
Quick Media Switching
Previously on ATP…
QMS marketing page
Demo video (via Nit)
Apple Invites
App Store
Web
Competitive (and very similar) app Partiful
It’s not great on Android
Demo video from Stephen Robles
Flighty
Sorry, iPad
Pornography on the iPhone
AltStore’s post
Riley’s response
AltStore’s second response
Jason’s take
Ask ATP:
Why are Casey and Marco so excited for cellular Macs? (via Matthew Fenselau)
Should one use their personal Apple ID on a corporate Mac (via Stephen Swift)
Localsend
↪️ Gruber
↪️ Underscore
Luna Display
Synergy
Post-show: Marco had a good weekend.
Dante
Food Safety Talk
Members-only ATP Overtime: Subsequent Sonos Stuff
Sonos’ take on the Apple TV?
Ventura OS?
Sonos has another round of layoffs
Letter from interim CEO Tom Conrad
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1h 57min
January 30, 2025624: Do Less Math in Computers
🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:
Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
Lenovo Legion Go S
Ryan London is trolling John
Black
Brown
John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
Hyperspace scrolling updates
AppKit vs. WebKit
NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell
Every UUID
Writing down every UUID
Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
Casey’s notification/LED project
Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration
ratgdo
ESP32
ESPHome
Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
WS2812B
Candy buttons
Historical commission application process
Switch replacement options:
HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)
DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off
Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
Ben Thompson’s FAQ
DeepSeek-V3 paper
DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
R1 is more open than OpenAI
OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought
Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
R1 censorship
Example 1
Example 2 (via Greg Pierce)
Example 3 (via Gruber)
Prompt engineering
The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer
Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor
Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
x86 images on Apple Silicon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence exits ✌️
…and also Chief Product Officer Maxime Boulat-Merlin ✌️
…and also Chief Commercial Officer Deidre Findlay
Wall Street Journal coverage
The Last King of Scotland
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1h 53min
January 23, 2025623: It’s About Human Connection
Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️
Jeff Atwood: Stay Gold, America
Follow-up:
Apple pauses notification summaries for news apps
Marco’s BMW does have dual-screen CarPlay
Acura RSX: Honda’s first all-original EV
Another 5K monitor enters the arena: ViewSonic VP2788-5K
Thom Bullock’s tweet
As per Dave Hamilton (of Mag Geek Gab), $800!
Fast directory sizing lives!
/System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util
man apfs.util
Apple sample code is on GitHub (via David Rönnqvist)
Backyard Birds
Food Truck
Video of an iPhone 16 Pro upgrade 128 GB → 1 TB (via Joe Beninato)
Also on YouTube
Tim Cook on Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware
Overcast link
Hyperspace updates
Van Halen’s Brown M&Ms
John’s Hyperspace Instructions
Ask ATP:
What should a nerd consider when buying a house? (via Jeremy Kelleher)
MoCA
Post-show: Casey’s Rube Goldberg machine… simplified?
ATP #376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle
Raspberry Pi Zero WH
UDP
Homebridge
Home Assistant
MQTT
Mosquitto
Eric Welander
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nintendo Switch 2 announced
The Verge coverage
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2h 9min
January 14, 2025622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process
Follow-up:
AirPod noises
Gui Rambo & AirBuddy
One of the noises is “the case battery is low” (via Zach)
Also, more on status lights (via Tom French)
Another noise is a calibration noise (via Ian Williamson)
Knowledge base
How to turn off charging sounds
Look, ma! We’re famous!
AirPod Noises (via Patch)
TVs at CES 2025
Hisense’s 116UX with RGB mini-backlight
Digital Trends coverage
HDTVTest coverage
DLSS
History (via Hampus Jensen)
Explanation (via flunkedflank)
Digital Foundry explanation video
Mac monitors
Some foreign options (via Henry Chen)
MacRumors thread
Kuycon G27-X
Another option (via Tim Ngwena)
Asus ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
Quick look video
DisplayHDR 600 spec
Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler)
🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮
The Verge
Google and Microsoft join in
Citizens United
Nvidia bends a knee
Charles Erwin Wilson’s nomination for Secretary of Defense
TestFlight subscriptions on macOS
TestFlight for ATP members
Name reveal
Manage subscriptions API
Marco and Casey price John’s app
Post-show Neutral:
Winter report card for Tina’s Civic
Casey has connected Erin’s car to Home Assistant
Marco’s new[-ish] car update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Honda EVs at CES
Afeela (Honda 🤝🏻 Sony) 1
Honda Zero
Ars Technica
Acura NSX
F-4 Phantom II
F-16 Fighting Falcon
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2h 25min
January 09, 2025621: I'll Meet You Any Time You Want
Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
20k Hz
The Sound of Apple 1.0
The Sound of Apple 2.0
Auto-Tone (Rivian)
statuslight.com
Follow-up:
That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
Former example
Actual link we couldn’t [previously] find (via K)
Another example
And another
The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
The Magic Mouse
The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
The Mighty Mouse did
MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
Editorialized reel
What will the new one be?
Ridiculous mouse rumor
Gurman’s take
Hello, Computer
Death to buttons?
Death to ports? (In the name of handedness)
Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J)
Perhaps a common charging approach?
Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
CES 2025
TVs
What’s John got his eyes on?
Sony 💔
Samsung’s new QD-OLED
HDTVTest
Digital Trends
LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
Microlens
Tandem OLED
Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
“Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
HDTVTest on the Z95B
More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
Big TVs are big
LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
Dell no longer makes XPS computers
Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
Engadget’s take
Nvidia’s announcements
Nvidia announces RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
DLSS 4
Explainer video from Nvidia
Deep learning super sampling
John’s post featuring a video about the responsiveness of touch interfaces
Nvidia AI supercomputer “Digits”
~~Concepts of~~ a plan for desktop CPU
TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
Post-show:
Thanks, Patrons 💙
Marco bought something.
HDCP
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels
BBC report 1 and report 2
Apple’s response
Allen Pike’s Apple Intelligence evaluation
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2h 13min
January 04, 2025620: Mostly Cookies
Pre-show:
Holiday results
Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace
Casey’s impending mess
John needs technical support
Follow-up:
Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!)
On Recents in the Finder sidebar
Michael Starke points out it isn’t new
Odin points out it’s a default
Joe Lion has complaints
Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens)
Vison Pro teardown
Samsung’s screen breakthrough
Sony’s OLED microdisplay
Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs
Original blog post
~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches
iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
MKBHD asks Tim Cook about the Magic Mouse
Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
Casey’s super-shady installation
LoRa
Casey’s starter pack
YoLink FAQ
John’s starter pack
Water Leak Detector
YoLink store at Amazon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing
WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
Direct video link
Slides PDF
About Apple File System
Apple File System Reference
dirstat.h
dirstat.c
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1h 47min
December 26, 2024619: Master Plan to Take Over the World
Pre-show:
New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
Become an ATP Member to listen
ATP Gift Memberships
Follow-up:
“Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
Can Marco recognize waveforms?
Descript
Emo Siri
It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)
She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)
Immersive video
More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)
Insta360 Titan
Software-based immersive video
Depth Anything
Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
Welcome to Light Fields
Deep View Video
Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
Demo for the Meta Quest
John’s app
More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian
Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)
Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon
New Vision Pro content — again!
Apple and bootable macOS backups
Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts
Original blog post from May 2021
Secure boot
asr: Apple Software Restore
Ask ATP:
Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)
What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)
~/bin
/usr/local/bin
Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)
What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)
Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)
16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality
16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality
Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)
50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)
Olympus OM-D E-M10
Sony a7 III
SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024
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2h 13min
December 19, 2024618: Type System Says No
New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
Follow-up:
John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
Christian Kent’s correction/joke
More app name ideas…
Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
Pinstripes are back, baby!
Jeff Johnson
Reddit post
Is Siri… emotional… now?
Marco’s new e-ink toy
Integrations
API
Note that it’s backordered for a bit
New Wildlife immersive video episode
Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
_’s toot
Quicktime VR
Matterport
Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
PlayStation VR2
Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Post-show: John’s app progress
Casey’s thoughts on [dire lack of] Apple documentation
Meet StoreKit for SwiftUI (WWDC 2023)
Apple’s Backyard Birds sample app
map(_:)
Hacking with Swift
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
5K is 5120 × 2880
Marc Edwards’ chart
Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
At the time of recording, on sale for $720
Jason’s review
ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
Review by D. Griffin Jones
BenQ PD2730S
ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
Apple’s plans
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2h 17min

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