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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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

June 27, 2024593: Not a European Lawyer
Pre-show: Casey’s thought processes and traditions
The Last Dance
Follow-up:
iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia
Ricky Mondello on
Chrome Native Messaging JSON files documentations
Simeon (formerly Chrome, now Firefox) weighs in
Use alternative installation methods for Chrome extensions
Sideloading addons in Firefox
Niléane points out Network Locations was already back in Sonoma
iPhone Mirroring doesn’t help with rearranging your home screen (via Hunt 2013)
HomePods apparently have 1GB RAM
Some insight on InSight
Chess is around 35 years old
Infinite Mac
CarPlay
Next-Generation CarPlay Design System
Next-generation CarPlay Architecture
Apple Found in Breach of DMA
Apple Statement
Margrethe Vestager
Apple may delay features because of DMA
Press release
Ask ATP:
Does anyone keep track if rumor mongers’ claims are true are not? (via Todd Vaziri)
Post-show: An update on Erin’s car situation
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple plans thinner devices?
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2h 5min
June 18, 2024592: I Think He Won the Game
Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro
The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024
Theatre (App Store link)
Sandwich
SpatialGen
ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
Microsoft Recall
7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in
13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall
Microsoft blog post
CoPilot+PCs on Intel and AMD won’t get Copilot AI features
UTM has gotten told to pound sand
More from Michael Tsai
Dolphin and the App Store
Apple and Meta could face charges for violating 🇪🇺 DMA rules
Casey was in the keynote!!
tvOS
InSight will use your iPhone
InSight uses ML to identify actors and songs?
Turning off sports notifications on the Apple TV
watchOS 11 offers rest days
Matthew Willoughby with an excellent flex
“Apple ID” → “Apple Account”
macOS Sequoia
Using an Apple Pencil with an iPad in Sidecar already works!
Chris Chelberg has a galaxy brain moment
Network Locations have returned in Sequoia
Passwords.app passwords are still right-aligned
Sequoia window tiling can be disabled
Chess has been updated! (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
Comparison (via Cabel Sasser)
iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia (via Jonathan Freese)
Sequoia VMs allow logging into iCloud
Apple documentation
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence & third-party mail apps (via Rick Knowler)
Xcode AI code completions
Hardware requirements (via David Steer)
Apple’s AI training data
How to tell Apple “no thanks” on your website data
Tim Cook interview in the Washington Post
ST-S asks about Siri unsupported devices
Apple Silicon in Apple’s Private Cloud Computing servers
The Talk Show
Apple & OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet
Gurman’s report
The Sane on the impact of Apple Intelligence
iOS 18
Bezel indents
GIF
Caleb Denman on iOS flashlight features
Quinn’s video
Third-party cameras on the iOS lock screen (via ST-S)
WWDC video
Obscura
visionOS 2.0
Features not mentioned in the keynote
Customize your Home View
See your keyboard in any environment
Guest user improvements
Enterprise APIs
Other spots by The Verge
Swift
Moved out of github.com/apple
New home
Swift Testing
Github
HomeKit: You can now pick your HomeKit hub
CarPlay
New features
Next-gen CarPlay video
Post-show: Erin’s no-good, very bad week
A very expensive pebble
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Blue Ocean, revisited
John’s original blog post
Fairbuds noise-canceling earbuds have an easily swappable battery
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1h 58min
June 12, 2024ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
Holly Borla: Swift Language Engineering Manager
@holly on Mastodon
Ben Cohen: Senior Software Engineering Manager, Swift Team
@airspeedswift on Mastodon
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1h 1min
June 11, 2024591: That’s Why I Like Computers
Our WWDC 2024 recap episode.
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2h 31min
June 06, 2024590: Buy Your Car an iPhone
Pre-show: Marco’s fans
Peltier plate
Marco’s mount
The alternative stronger cooler
Cooler only, without charging
Follow-up:
Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
Commercial
Snapdragon Computex Keynote
Previously, for Intel
Apple’s M1 ad with John Hodgman (“PC”)
Gruber’s take
Jason on macOS permissions dialogs
Windows Recall is a security “disaster”
Steal everything in two lines of code
AMD enters the AI chat
Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs
When Apple said “The M2 iPad Air has 10 GPU cores” they really meant “9 GPU cores”
Performance wasn’t affected though
How LLMs learn
Retrieval-augmented generation (via Adeiko)
Problems with RAG
Research paper
On ∞ context (via Stephen Tierney)
Research paper
WWDC Preview
Read my lips: no new hardware
Developer app immersive environment
OpenAI deal
XCTest
Fluent Assertions
Ask ATP:
Any chance the expected late-2024 M4 MacBook Pro gets Thunderbolt 5? (via James)
Any chance we’ll get 16GB RAM in the eventual M4 MacBook Air? (via David Martin)
Could the lack of cellular Mac be because there’s no Apple modem? (via Winnie Lewis)
Post-show Neutral: Kid cars, revisited
ATP Neutral: Car shopping
Casey’s Wireless CarPlay adapter
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s in-car dreams are a bit of a 🎢
Mercedes says “nothx”
Decoder episode
Polestar says “maybes”
Decoder episode
Apple 🤝 Rivian?
Digitimes (Paywalled)
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2h 37min
May 31, 2024589: The Correct Amount of Rocks
Follow-up:
New Vision Pro Content
Experience Immersive (“Sizzle Reel”)
Adventure Episode 2: Parkour
What If…?
Jason Snell’s review
Even the low-storage 13” iPad Pros have 12 GB of RAM, despite only using 8 GB? 🤨
Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the tweets X’s in this whole 🤬 thread, because Twitter X won’t show threads unless you’re logged in. Well done, Elon. Great work. 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 Now we’re junking up our show notes because we 💙 our listeners more than we hate him. And we really hate him.
Shahram Mohktari (iFixIt Lead Teardown Technician)
Could it be binning?
Maybe, but unlikely. For real
M4 iPad Pro flicker?
Pulse-width modulation
Reddit thread 1
Reddit thread 2
Reddit thread 3
Reddit thread 4
MacRumors
TOPS measurements (via Michael Thompson)
iCloud Drive & node_modules (via Eric Jacobsen)
nosync-icloud
asimov
Excluded directory list
Audio routing during Vision Pro guest mode (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
Gurman on what to expect at WWDC
Neven Mrgan gets an email
Breaking news on Siri “scripting”
App Intents
NSUserActivity
LLM check-in
Google scrambles to manually clean up its AI-generated mess
Pachinko
3Blue1Brown neural networks playlist
Chapter 5: But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers
Chapter 6: Attention in transformers, visually explained
Google on its LLM goals at I/O
Post-show: Marco’s desk setup
KEF Q150
Sonos Era 300
Sonos Move
Sonos Combo Adapter
Sub (Gen 3)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law
Legal challenges that lie ahead for TikTok — in both US & China
TikTok sues the US government
TikTok seems to be dodging App Store commissions in Epic fashion
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1h 58min
May 24, 2024588: Sync Up Your Cycle
Follow-up:
John’s iPad Pro (M4) review
MKBHD’s magnets reel doesn’t show the rail; it’s on the cover. (via Odin)
The iPad Pro can bend, but it’s difficult
JerryRigEverything @ 8m40s
Quinn’s stunning Pencil Pro observation
Sebastian de With
Zoom audio for Marco’s town meetings (via Steve J Stutz, among others)
Delta gets its first legal challenge
The Verge
The reason behind the lack of GameCube/Wii emulators on iOS
Original blog post
No New Mac Studio nor Mac Pro Until Mid-2025?
Microsoft pushes [again] toward ARM PCs [and AI]
Blog post
The Verge
Windows RT
Ars Technica
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus
Nuvia
Copilot+PC Surface Laptop
…with fans?
WorksOnWoA
Copilot+PC roundup
Surface Pro
Microsoft Recall
Demo short
Ars Technica
Rewind
Post-show: Parental Vision Pro demos
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝 OpenAI
OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson clone voice
Altman’s tweet
…after she told them to go outside & play hide and go 🤬 themselves
Maybe they didn’t copy her voice?
Don’t add glue to your pizza sauce, kids
Cabel’s take
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2h 24min
May 16, 2024587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me
New member special: ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
Raven scanner (defunct)
Fujitsu Ricoh ScanSnap iX1600
Follow-up:
Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
Charlie Chapman’s 📱💨
AppleCare+ for educational-discounted products (via Carter Sanderson)
Extend your AppleCare+ coverage
iPad nano-texture glass
Arun Maini interviews Ternus & Joswiak 1 2 3 4
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iPad Pro Smart Folio angles
MKBHD’s reel
Smart Folio Keyboard reliability
Apple stickers (via Scott)
The M4’s “next-generation ML accelerators” (via Wade Tregaskis)
NEON
M4 Neural Engine: 38 trillion ops/sec vs. M3’s 13 trillion ops/sec
Tom’s Hardware
M4 with 1 disabled P-core vs. M3 with no disabled P-cores
Apple announces new accessibility features
Vehicle Motion Cues demo video
Shelly Brisbin’s take
John’s brief iPad Pro review
iPad Pro dissatisfaction
Federico Viticci: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
Steve Troughton-Smith: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)
John Gruber: The M4 iPad Pros
Ask ATP:
Will the M4’s new display driver set us up for a 2-external-display computer with M4? (via Rumee Ahmed)
Why is there so much discussion about CPU power in iPads but not iPhones? (via Mike Runcieman)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
Meta announcement
Meta Quest 🤝 Xbox
Post-show: John’s latest remote IT software adventure
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2h 4min
May 09, 2024586: Do a Barrel Roll!
Follow-up:
More on RAM in base-model Macs
HomeKit light controls UI
Holoplot speakers in the Sphere
Festival speakers
One last ride for FineWoven?
Apple’s May Event
🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺: Charger sold separately
And no soup stickers for anyone
Apple’s commercial hullabaloo
Hydraulic Press Channel
Federico’s Thunderbolt image
Quinn Nelson’s Tandem OLED video
Binning
Rick Williams’ question
Logitech Combo Touch keyboard
Apple Pencil Pro box designs
Infuse
Post-show Neutral: The Cybertruck has landed across the street from Casey
Pontiac Aztek
Subaru BRAT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Silicon in AI servers?
MacRumors in April
MacRumors in May
The Wall Street Journal on May 6
The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+ link)
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2h 28min
May 02, 2024585: Everyone Heard the Same Nonsense
Pre-show: Casey’s after-action report
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
RelayFM Podcastathon 2023 Part 1 & Part 2
Follow-up:
It’s possible to toggle a dimmable light in Home.app (via Dan Sturm)
The Hayes AT command set is still going strong 😱 (via Pedro Fernandes)
TSMC unveils 1.6nm process for 2026 chips
Anandtech’s coverage
Rabbit R1 reviews
Stephen Robles
MKBHD
David Pierce @ The Verge
Ben Lovejoy @ 9to5Mac
Dave2D
Riley Testut on Delta availability
iPadOS is classified as “Gatekeeper” under the DMA
No new Vision Pro until late 2026?
May 7 Apple event
Tim Cook’s tweet
M4 iPad rumor
Ask ATP:
Did Marco give up on fussy coffee, as Casey’s prophecy foretold? (via Charlie Sorrel)
Trade Coffee (literally sponsoring this episode)
YES PLZ (has previously sponsored)
Cometeer frozen coffee pods (Marco’s referral link)
Can we give WWDC tips? (via Andy)
Are we worried about charging station privacy? (via Wade)
Automakers are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior with Insurance Companies (11 March 2024)
GM Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers (22 March 2024)
Post-show: Marco’s after-action report
The Sphere
How the Sphere Works
The Verge’s coverage
Pillow Jets video (🍄🎆)
Drew Carey’s review (NSFW)
AmazeVR
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Limitless pendant
Previously on ATP…
Introductory video
The Verge coverage
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2h 17min

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