Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Technology

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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453: As the Prophecy Foretold

10.21.2021

Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event Start Up John’s Tweet Apple ✔️s (scroll way down) Monterey quick hits Monday, 25 October Tabs that look like tabs!! Snell’s coverage M1 Pro & M1 Max John’s “City of Chips” tweet John’s Self-FU John’s “City of ...

Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

10.21.2021 453: As the Prophecy Foretold Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event Start Up John’s Tweet Apple ✔️s (scroll way down) Monterey quick hits Monday, 25 October Tabs that look like tabs!! Snell’s coverage M1 Pro & M1 Max John’s “City of Chips” tweet John’s Self-FU John’s “City of ...
10.14.2021 452: It's Totally Leashed Pre-show: Apple Watch preorders Follow-up: Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive Microsoft store to allow third-party app stores Matryoshka doll-720p-RiP.mkv Yo dawg MTV’s Pimp My Ride Thomas Q Brady’s adventures with his iPhone 13 Pro Man + ...
10.07.2021 451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks Pre-show: Facebook’s outage BGP is a thing. Who knew? (John did.) Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet Explanation from Facebook Thank you to Hsiang-Ling Jennifer Lin’s parents! We’ve opened an on-demand ATP store! Quinn Nelson’s YouTube channel Follow-up: Anandtech ...
09.30.2021 450: Distending My Wardrobe Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Crypto donations — Absolve yourself of guilt for destroying the planet by helping destroy cancer instead! Pre-show: Some ...
09.23.2021 449: An Unclean Mouse Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Crypto donations — Absolve yourself of guilt for destroying the planet by helping destroy cancer instead! Pre-show: A ...
09.15.2021 448: Next Year, Which Is Now Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Crypto donations — Absolve yourself of guilt for destroying the planet by helping destroy cancer instead! Apple Event ...
09.09.2021 447: Lunchbox on Your Face Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Pre-show: Casey’s very big day Robert E. Lee Statue removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue What is a Hokie? ...
09.02.2021 446: Dead From Fraud Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Follow-up: Wirecutter moves behind a paywall Neven’s tweet Best blender is not a wasteland… sometimes. Cryptographic hashes vs. ...
08.26.2021 445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Follow-up: Follow-up from Hypercritical #31 on 24 August 2011 (via Philip Spedding) Overcast timestamp link Casey apologizes to ...
08.17.2021 444: It Should Definitely Bother Apple Follow-up: Disney PhotoPass (via Ryan D) Bug bounties (via Dan Chandler) Cryptocurrency and failed monetary systems CSAM Security Threat Model Rview of Apple’s Child Safety Features Joanna Stern’s interview with Craig Federighi Patriot Act Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1Password 8: ...
08.12.2021 443: A Storm of Asterisks Pre-show: Marco files a verbal Radar for Apple Music God Shuffled His Feet A Worm’s Life The Joshua Tree Illusion is Now Follow-up: Why is there no weather/Calculator iPad app? (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) AMD W6xxx video cards are “workstation” cards ...
08.05.2021 442: Bob’s Barbecue Pre-show: Phish is back. Yay? (Yay. -ed.) Days of the New’s new album Travis Meeks Days of the New II Follow-up: Apple Music Everyone (including Andrew Bement) pointed Casey to SongShift (App Store link) There are lots of third-party music ...
07.30.2021 441: Meals at Home Pre-show: LivePhish.com Playdate Collin Donnell Status Board Tamagotchi Follow-up: Everyone, but especially Americans, please get vaccinated! More Safari Updates Stroke around window widgets on macOS iPadOS Updates iOS Updates Sam Gross’ HIG observation Live Text will be available on Intel ...
07.20.2021 440: The Reality of Magnets Pre-show: Marco’s accident DJI Mavic 2 Follow-up: There are dozens of people who like compact Safari (via Anthony Lee) Perhaps wonky Safari is a nod to an AR future? (via Dan Blondell) Round Rects Are Everywhere! Mac Safari’s tab-close UI ...
07.15.2021 439: Eventually Converge on Correctness Pre-show: Casey’s macOS Bug Report Math Emporium Power Mac G4 Cube Crystal Garden Follow-up: New Safari tab interface in Monterey beta 3 Toppy Tabs Ribbon Word 6 Screenshot Elective AppleCare+ Repairs Photo Ingest Photo Mechanic Lightning to SD Card Camera ...
07.08.2021 438: Some Amount of Futzing Pre-show: Case-Liss Casey Liss ZZQ Q Barbeque Casey’s Shattered Windshield John’s iPhone case Follow-up: HomeKit and Bonjour/zeroconf Lutron Caseta Matter Thread Quinn’s Video HSTS and Safari (via Jakob) DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption Thoughts on Safari from Scott Sutton Safari Technology Preview ...
07.01.2021 437: The Right Side of the Mouse Pad Pre-show: Nostalgia for compulsory technology Toshiba e740 Microdrive Volvo XC90 Being old in a college town Top of the Stairs Follow-up: Safari reload update in Monterey beta 2 HTTP Strict Transport Security hstspreload.org Report for hypercritical.co iOS 15 can adjust ...
06.24.2021 436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door Pre-show: FAA’s TRUST program FAA Part 107 DJI Mini 2 Follow-up: Safari page reloading Pull-to-refresh John’s extension Finn Voorhees’ experiment Safari on iOS 15 & Monterey automatically upgrades HTTP → HTTPS… kinda iCloud Private Relay Rauli Rikama’s observations What about ...
06.17.2021 435: A Strong Number Four Pre-show: Freaks and Geeks Follow-up: Universal Control & device arrangement (via Andreas Beyer Bowden) More from Viticci Center Stage Object Capture quality Matt Waller’s Baby Yoda Mikko Haapoja’s pineapple macOS Monterey Live Text (OCR) works with captchas too! App Library ...
06.08.2021 434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 TextSniper iPad Multitasking Video iPad Menu Screenshots iPad Menu Video Mosaic NSUserActivity DUNS Number Synergy Fitt’s Law USDZ Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Post-show: Original Prince video What happened? Remastered version in which the outcome is ...
06.03.2021 433: Before We Leave the Dump Follow-up: Casey’s HDMI HOMI Update HDMI cable types Wi-Fi 6 Back to Work Thread Dolby Vision and raised blacks (via Kai Kontio) iMac Fans Jonathan Dietz’s Apple Silicon cost-estimate spreadsheet Apple Podcasts issues: Broken show notes? Apple Podcasts subscriptions delayed
05.27.2021 432: I Shouldn't Need to Wiggle Pre-show: Compacted sugar Fun Dip SweetTarts Candy Cigarette Big League Chew Follow-up: John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread High resolution image Chiplet AMD Discussing X3d Die stacking Keeping Up Moore’s Law with Chiplets Chiplet vs. Monolithic Some speculation about the next Mac ...
05.20.2021 431: City of Chips ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot!
05.13.2021 430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot!
05.06.2021 429: Digital Speedo THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. (Don’t forget, members get 15% off!) Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot!
04.29.2021 428: A Series of Rectangles THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot!
04.22.2021 427: The Apology Remote Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot!
04.15.2021 426: Loaded Baked Potato Pre-show: [Hopefully not] Burning Down the House All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot!
04.08.2021 425: Hey Billionaire Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot!
04.01.2021 424: Ethernet Squid Pre-show: Read-only Tweetbot WatchConnectivity applicationContext userInfo messages Follow-up: [More] Tesla wheels of shame Belvedere, CA via Alistair Logie AirPods Max warranty repairs (via Harrison Krebs) WWDC 2021 Announced NSRunningApplication Radar Numbers 48190148 25521354 22088473 18980463 21253274 18890642 New Siri Default ...
03.25.2021 423: Fort of HomePods What would it take to get Marco into a concert? LivePhish Do By Friday #232: Panatee Reconcilable Differences #152: Warnings of Gales in Trafalgar Follow-up: Tesla Wheel of Shame Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet) DC (via TG Cid) Houston (via ...
03.17.2021 422: Sell a Third Box Neutral: The Wheel(s) of Shame™ ProClip USA MagSafe holder Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mach-E Tesla Model Y Ford Mach-E Follow-up: Clubhouse no longer requires contacts access Apple/ARM/TSMC Long writeup (via Marc Kagan) Fabricators RISC vs. CISC Family photo sharing ...
03.11.2021 421: The First Miniboss Pre-show: Marco is happy, though he shouldn’t be. ☯️ The iMac Pro is retired Gruber’s post Follow-up: One reason to choose Audi Kiss Guy is real! Interview Swift “header” views (via Ben Packard) ⌃⌘↑ and ⌃⌘↓ or Navigate → Jump ...
03.04.2021 420: I Have No Urge to Speak Follow-up: VPNs and Supervised devices Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres) Skydio’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon More on Clubhouse Chat room Gui Rambo’s investigations
02.25.2021 419: This Week’s Gasp Pre-show diversions: Posting the bootleg Casey’s [hopefully useLiss] worries Marco’s ball situation Sonos Move Casey’s Compulsory Icebreaker Requisite link Follow-up: Jef e’s doubts about SMART tools Contacts API updates Better Trust Through Better Privacy Autofill Everywhere Google’s astrophotography mode Magnets ...
02.18.2021 418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse! (That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed.) Chatroulette Party line Newton’s cradle Should Apple remove the Contacts framework? Follow-up: Living outside the east coast… or America. The UK explained The Concert for Charlottesville was posted ...
02.11.2021 417: Sand and Water Interface Pre-show: RIP, Call Recorder On re-installing or transferring macOS Launch Control launchd Pixelmator Pro If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move? Follow-up: DTKs are worth more now! iOS 14.5 Watch unlock Trying to ls ~/.Trash ...
02.04.2021 416: I Will Take Away Those Kudos Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience Follow-up: Tesla Model S/X round ...
01.28.2021 415: Sent Without Pants Follow-up: Marco’s new computer (This is not a joke. —Ed) T568A vs. T568B myths busted Reminiscing about the PowerBook G4’s ethernet port (via Travis Pouarz) The 30” Apple Cinema Display and print design (via Ted Barnes) Audio accommodations (via Christpher ...
01.21.2021 414: Promoted Onto the Roof Pre-show: John’s pecking order Follow-up: Curved screens to solve off-axis viewing (via Nathaniel Cohen) AirPods Max headband removal Quinn’s video Blind men and an elephant Waterfield Designs AirPods Max Case Brighter whites OxiClean /System/Applications/Utilities/Digital Color Meter Wiring Gigabit Ethernet T-568A ...
01.14.2021 413: Suddenly I'm the Marco Follow-up: Casey makes John reminisce about Atlanta[’s food] Waffle House Taco Bell CocoaLove Steak ‘n Shake Denny’s Perkins Follow-up: “Is it bigger than a breadbox?” The Feedback app will automatically run a sysdiagnose John’s bug (as mentioned on Twitter): FB8711530 ...
01.07.2021 412: Love Batteries Follow-up: Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”) Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accommodations → Audiogram Example app from Maciej Big Sur Update Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge How to do a SMC reset Apple T2 ...
12.30.2020 411: Are My Instructions Not Clear? Follow-up: Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395) sysdiagnose Settings → Privacy → Analytics & Improvements → Analytics Data More on Fitness+ HDR photos Settings → Photos → View Full HDR Screen brightness iPhone 12: 625 nits ...
12.22.2020 410: The Comfort Is Killing Me Pre-show: Living the M1 lifestyle Follow-up: AirPods Max Battery situation (via Barney) Snazzy Labs video Smart Case ∆s 9to5mac Apple Support Turns out, like the Pro Display XDR, the LG UltraFine 5K does have a fan. (via Joseph Duffy) Also, ...
12.17.2020 409: Midrange Snob Follow-up: Group MMS issues persist, and Casey is over. it. (FB8893003) AirPods Max and its competitors Beoplay H95 Marco’s Closed Headphones Mega-Review AirPods Max button and varying modes Passive (powerLiss operation) Marco’s Computing Situation LG UltraFine 5K Marc Edwards on ...
12.10.2020 408: Feature Headphones Pre-show: Casey’s great news! Mix Pre3-ii Call Recorder for Skype Audio Hijack IRC Marco’s Slightly Unpopular Opinion RealPlayer Marco’s new “experience” Follow-up: Is Apple-Silicon-Ready? brew and Rosetta Duplicating Terminal.app brew using arch Chiplets & Multi-chip Modules (via Adrian Sampson) Multi-Chip ...
12.03.2020 407: It Isn't a Big Grapefruit Pre-show: You heard it here first: Marco is really starting to justify a new Mac. Follow-up: You can restore stuff from iCloud here (via Ryan Fegley) Accelerated TensorFlow for macOS probably just uses the GPU Neural Engine can be used ...
11.25.2020 406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen Follow-up: Fast resolution switching on M1 Macs Apple engineer weighs in Demo video What about external monitors? Mac-optimized TensorFlow 2.4 fork makes things fly M1 Mac 8K render test Running iOS apps with IPAs iOS App Store Package CrossOver runs ...
11.19.2020 405: The Benevolence of the Powerful 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 ...
11.12.2020 404: With Four Hands Tied Behind Its Back Pre-show: THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY. Until the 14th. Act now! Remember that members get 15% off! iPhone 12 Mini, Max press reviews are out Gruber’s review MKBHD’s review Nilay’s tweet Panzer on the OIS Panzer on ISO range ...

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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

453: As the Prophecy Foretold

452: It's Totally Leashed

451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks

450: Distending My Wardrobe

449: An Unclean Mouse

448: Next Year, Which Is Now

447: Lunchbox on Your Face

446: Dead From Fraud

445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland

444: It Should Definitely Bother Apple

443: A Storm of Asterisks

442: Bob’s Barbecue

441: Meals at Home

440: The Reality of Magnets

439: Eventually Converge on Correctness

438: Some Amount of Futzing

437: The Right Side of the Mouse Pad

436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door

435: A Strong Number Four

434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles

433: Before We Leave the Dump

432: I Shouldn't Need to Wiggle

431: City of Chips

430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food

429: Digital Speedo

428: A Series of Rectangles

427: The Apology Remote

426: Loaded Baked Potato

425: Hey Billionaire

424: Ethernet Squid

423: Fort of HomePods

422: Sell a Third Box

421: The First Miniboss

420: I Have No Urge to Speak

419: This Week’s Gasp

418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call

417: Sand and Water Interface

416: I Will Take Away Those Kudos

415: Sent Without Pants

414: Promoted Onto the Roof

413: Suddenly I'm the Marco

412: Love Batteries

411: Are My Instructions Not Clear?

410: The Comfort Is Killing Me

409: Midrange Snob

408: Feature Headphones

407: It Isn't a Big Grapefruit

406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen

405: The Benevolence of the Powerful

404: With Four Hands Tied Behind Its Back

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