Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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

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May 27, 2021432: 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 Pro
Base-model 24” iMacs have only one fan
MacBook Air’s rumored “ski feet”
Lord Matthew’s theory
Apple support document clarifies lossless streaming details
John Voorhees’ take
Bluetooth data transfer speeds
Lossless vs. Lossy Encoding
MP3 & AAC & Opus
FLAC & ALAC
HomePod & HomePod mini will support lossless
HDMI eARC
Spatial Audio and AirPods from David Steer
Apple TV 4K (2021 edition)
Matt Craig’s tweet
Installation/Migration Process
One Home Screen
Settings → Users and Accounts → [you] → One Home Screen
Accessibility → Increase Contrast → Focus Style
Home-button function
Remote
Dave Mark’s jog wheel demo video
Paul Hudson’s remote retrospective
Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
HDMI CEC
Calibration
HDTVTest
THX Tune-Up
rtings.com
DolbyVision raised blacks fixed?
Casey’s Apple TV Woes
Wiring Diagram
Forthcoming HDMI Cable
Sonos Amp
Belkin SoundForm Connect
Post-show: Casey’s Fan Resolution
Casey’s fans
Lutron Caséta Smart Fan Speed Control
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2h 22min
May 20, 2021431: City of Chips
ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Thank you, ATP Store purchasers!
Follow-up:
Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut)
NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h
Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo
CMHeadphoneMotionManager
24” iMac Reviews, including Jason Snell’s
Matching cords, accessories, desktop backgrounds, stickers, highlight colors, “hello” intro movie
Highlight colors via Sebastiaan de With
Gasoline stabilizers
Apple Music adds Spatial Audio & Lossless at No Cost
Listening to Spatial Audio with AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
Super Audio CD
LaserDisc
Laserdisc: An Introduction
Laserdisc’s Failure: What Went Wrong
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
Laserdisc: Features, Follies & Evolution
XM Radio
Xiph.org: wave/”stair-step” sample-rate explainer
DAC
Loudness war
Tidal
Pono
A2DP
aptX
AAC
AirPods Max and lossless over the cable (via Micah Singleton)
Mastered for iTunes
LivePhish
FLAC
MacBook Pro Ransomware Leak
Casey’s battery/hub
MacBook Air Rumors
John Prosser’s Video
Dr. Drang on Battery Life
Gurman’s Report
GeForce RTX 3090
macOS 11.4 beta supports new AMD graphics cards
AMD 6900 XT
The Connection Machine
Post-show: Casey & John’s Adventures with Eero
Eero lights explanation
Eero’s comparison page
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2h 9min
May 13, 2021430: 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! 🚂💉
Colonial Pipeline
How long does gas last?
Follow-up:
Overpriced AirTag mounts
AirTag Leather Key Ring
AirTag Leather Loop
Belkin Secure Holder with Key Ring for AirTag
Marco’s recommended solution
Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
sudo fdesetup authrestart
Or, optionally, sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
softwareupdate -ia
AppleTV and spatial audio
AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
Apple’s bad hire
Sommer Panage’s response
🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 He’s already fired
Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on iMessage for Android in 2013
Common carrier
Steve Jobs 1997 Q&A
Schiller wondering about the 30% cut… in 2011
#askatp
Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
Synology Drive
Synology Cloud Sync
Bartender
Rocket
Vanilla
Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
Sarbanes-Oxley
How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
Nifty MiniDrive
The Case for RAID
Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
Github Pages
Jekyll
Hosting SQLite Databases on Github Pages
xkcd: The General Problem
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1h 56min
May 06, 2021429: 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! 🚂💉
Follow-up:
Some notes about the ATP store
[email protected]
Casey’s fans (the spinny kind)
Bond Bridge
Purchases last week
AirTag quick impressions
Spree
Whistle
FileVault performance
About encrypted storage on your new Mac
FileVault and remote management
John’s macOS 11.3 woes
FB9095615
Jason Snell on 12.9” iPad and the old Magic Keyboard
Jason Snell on driving a Model 3
Sam Abuelsamid on vehicle-to-load
Jonny Smith’s review of the Hyundai Ioniq 5
The Basecamp fiasco
Casey Newton’s summary posts
#1: Breaking Camp
#2: Inside the All-Hands Meeting that Led to a Third of Basecamp Employees Quitting
Basecamp’s posts
Changes at Basecamp
Basecamp’s new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
Let it all out
Mosaics of positions
On making decisions
An Update
Ruby on Rails
Woke
Anti Defamation League’s Pyramid of Hate
#askatp
What do we use to take notes? (via David Barber)
Due
AnyList
Day One
Would we prefer writing against an abandoned API or the new hotness? (via Xarph)
ColdFusion
Berkshire Hathaway shares
Marco’s .WAV-parsing bug: FB9097026
Where are the APFS de-duping space-saving scripts? (via whophd)
diskDedupe (App Store link)
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2h 4min
April 29, 2021428: 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! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Apple TV
Calibration
Remote Design & Pricing
No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
Apple TV pricing
Apple TV / iTV
High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
AppleCare+ for Apple TV
Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
iMac
Power brick/cable
Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
143 watts
VESA mount
Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
iPad
12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
Center Stage will have an API
iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
AirTags: for tracking your luggage
Apple Premium Podcasts
John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
DoE Map Search
Mobil Speedpass
#askatp
What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
Mat Honan’s tale of woe
What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire
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1h 53min
April 22, 2021427: The Apology Remote
Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Apple Card Family
Apple Podcasts App Updates & Subscriptions
RSS Feed Access
Podcast Index
Robot or Not #141: Podcasting
User-Agent string
ALAC
AirTag
Hermès Luggage Tag
Gui Rambo’s discovered battery replacement video
Press release
What to do if you find an AirTag or get an alert that an AirTag is with you
AppleTV
Ted Lasso Season 2 Trailer
Siri Remote Image
Thread radio
24” iMac
iMac ad featuring the rainbow Apple logo
iPad Pro
Pro Display XDR
Magic Keybaord
Post-show:
Ted Lasso’s Secret Shortbread
House of Prime Rib
The beer-and-sausage place
The vegan Indian place
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2h 38min
April 15, 2021426: Loaded Baked Potato
Pre-show:
[Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Thanks, Paul
Follow-up:
Smart outlet update
Reconcilable Differences
For eero:
Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connect to my network → Temporarily pause 5 GHz
Electrical resistive heating
Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
Casey has a CarPlay apostrophe epiphany
Charging the i3
Go buy SuperDuper!
Types of EVs
Follow-out: Upgrade’s Discussion of TouchBar and HomePod
Apple event on 20 April
#askatp
Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod? (via Josh Errickson)
What’s the point of BCC in email? (via Chuma Nnaji)
How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
Armv9
AnandTech’s Write-Up
Explore the Armv9 Architecture
iOS Device Compatibility Reference
Post-show Neutral
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1h 49min
April 08, 2021425: Hey Billionaire
Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Fork Hands
FU: Why two doses?
Reverse Engineering the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Follow-up:
How is John replacing a router with a switch?
Ubiquiti Flex Mini
Handoff vs. AirPlay 2
Zach’s point about WWDC announcement date
Yep, Apple uses Webex
Microsoft Teams
Perhaps it’s too many UDP packets?
Heating your house via cryptomining?
Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
NSRunningApplication was added in Snow Leopard
FB7603765 is fixed!! 🎉
Tesla Model 3 Delivery Checklist
Cryptocurrency 000 101
Proof of work
Proof of stake
Ethereum
But how does Bitcoin actually work?
Github repo
Fiat currency
Pyramid scheme
Supreme Court: Oracle vs. Google
Ars Technica write-up
MJ Tsai’s write-up
Clean room
GNUstep
ApplicationKit
Kotlin
Arial
New York
Geneva
San Francisco
Swing
POSIX
Tim Cook Interview with Kara Swisher
Overcast link
Dithering (see the 7 April episode)
Upgrade #346: Float It Like a Hologram
Outside Online Interview
Tim Cook’s ∞ Timeline
Apple Leadership
oh no
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s injured Tesla
BMW i3
Neutral #4: If You See a Cursor, They Blew It
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2h 31min
April 01, 2021424: 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 Voices
Sample Recording
Another Sample Recording
Ubiquiti Breach
An aside about cryptocurrency
CDO
Bitcoin summary
But how does Bitcoin actually work?
Air gap
eero
pfSense
Their recent “whoopsies”
John’s Networking Situation
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
AirPort Extreme
USW Flex Mini
Recurrent laryngeal nerve - Wikipedia
Recurrent laryngeal nerve - YouTube
Four Nines
#askatp
Should one use a non-administrator user account? (via Michael)
How do I mash together 400 video clips into one file? (via Duncan Wilcock)
ffmpeg
Casey’s primer on ffmpeg
In short:
Create a file that refers to all 400 file names. Call it, say, files.txt
Each line of that file reads file 1.mp4, file 2.mp4, etc. One file per line.
Maybe something like this? ffmpeg -f concat -i files.txt -vf scale=4096:2160 three-hour-movie.mp4
How does Overcast scrape iTunes? (via Brandon Wees)
SOAP
Post-show:
Bell follow-up
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1h 59min
March 25, 2021423: 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 Aaron Farnham)
App Store Pricing Policing (via Tim)
Games and Notarization
On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
HomePod follow-up
Google Home Max was also discontinued
Echo Studio
Nexus Q
Some Membership Housekeeping
Refunds for a very small group of you! 💰
ATP Membership can be paid in 💶 or 💷! 💸
ATP’s mid-year 👕 (& more!) are coming soon! 🤑
Mac OS X 10.0 is 20 years old today!
John’s reviews & retrospectives
robots.txt
Google Play Drops Commissions 30% → 15% for first $1M in revenue
Marginal tax rate
#askatp
When did photos become more than just files? (via Matt Fenselau)
What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates? (via Dan Young)
Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
Comparing Update Sizes from Mojave to Big Sur
How would we wire our houses if we could do it all over again? (via Matt Youens)
Cat6
Ubiquiti
Dream Machine
Post-show Neutral:
Casey’s new dongle
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1h 57min

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