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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April 23, 2024584: Daisy Hates Ticketmaster
Pre-show: Marco’s Sinus Situation & the one month a yellow car makes sense
The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
🚨 THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING 🚨
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Follow-up:
Filesystems (🛎), case sensitivity, and APFS volumes
Handedness & “jumped” vs. “jumps”
Pangrams
Clarifications on the xz sabotage (via Mat Gadd)
The Delta game emulator is now available!
🇪🇺 AltStore PAL
🌎 App Store
#1 free app!
Apple allows using used parts for repairs
Stephen’s take
Apple’s lobbying history
Apple press release
iFixit blog post
Ceiling fan switches
Lutron Caséta (smart home switches/dimmers/fan controls)
Lutron Sunnata (dumb dimmer)
Waveform lighting
Ticketmaster finally getting what it deserves?
Wall Street Journal
Broadband labels
M4 Macs are coming this year?
iPhone 16/16+ to have more RAM?
Mac desktop RAM chart
Mac laptop RAM chart
Installing audio apps is going to get easier?
Rogue Amoeba’s 2024 Sitrep
Ask ATP:
Is the M4 generation worth holding out for?
Why don’t we have 32-bit emulation? (via Joe Bezdek)
Will the [presumably HDR] phantom OLED iPad Pro work well as a second display with something SDR?
Post-show: Marco is going to The Sphere
Billy Joel: The 100th
The New Yorker on Billy’s helicopter rides
But apparently he’s given up the helicopter rides
Turn the Lights Back On
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI devices… now with more “Apple”!
Jony Ive & Sam Altman seeking funding for “personal AI device”
Apple’s screen-reading AI system
Paper (PDF link)
3Blue1Brown videos
But what is a GPT?
Attention in transformers, visually explained
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1h 34min
April 16, 2024583: I’ve Spent a Lot of Time in the Address Bar
Pre-show: Power problems
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New member special: ATP Insider: Computing Origin Stories
Follow-up:
How little kids write 4s
Marco sample
Casey sample
John sample
Field Notes
Three-step car buying process (via Paul Chernoff)
Rivian software update helps avoid trash EV chargers
Joe Lion on reticle limits
High-NA EUV
ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
Johny Srouji interview (Timestamp link to 34m28s)
Belkin phone holders
iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Apple TV 4K
Auto-Tracking Stand Pro with DockKit
A first look at 🇪🇺’s alternative app stores
Jason’s fresh-install experience
Apple opens App Store to “retro” game emulators
Official guidelines
James Thomson
Ben McCarthy’s forthcoming Ketchup app
First emulators arrive
iGBA removed for unknown reasons
Riley’s take
Apple’s clarification why iGBA was removed
Nintendo nukes Yuzu
The Verge initial coverage & follow-up
Ask ATP:
How does John manage new Safari windows? (via Jan Wedekind)
Do we use case-sensitive file systems on our Macs? (via Pedro Fernandes)
Unicode normalization
What kind of fan did Marco buy? (via Matt McCurdy)
Fanimation
Post-show:
Lutron Diva smart switch
Lutron Claro accessory switch for Diva dimmers on multi-way circuits
Members-only ATP Overtime: Visiting with old friends
Automattic acquires Beeper
NY Times coverage
Adium
texts.com
Humane AI Pin reviews
David Pierce @ The Verge
MKBHD
Cybertruck clip
Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?
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1h 40min
April 11, 2024582: Can’t Render, Fog It
Pre-show: SD-card failures
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Follow-up:
The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
Explanatory video
Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
ARM Exception Levels
DMP
Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏
LG DualUp Monitor
An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today
DAI
Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)
Max Tech’s take on “M4 Ultra” rumors
Reticle limits
NVIDIA GH100 GPU
Apple laying off 700+ workers
MacRumors
Apple 🤝🏻 Shutterstock
Reuters
Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine
Casey has tried Spatial Personas
Upgrade #507: Differently Social
Game Room (App Store link)
Battleship
Gucci (App Store link)
Trailer
Turok
Ask ATP:
How does one buy a car? (via Chandler Kent)
CarEdge
Deal School 3.0
What even is ownership, these days? (via Anonymous)
Egghead Software
SimCity copy protection (the red image on the right-hand side)
Overton Window
This article says Catalyst is abandoned; is it? (via Jonathan Sibley)
Post-show: Rivian Bluetooth & Fast-Charging Sitrep
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple making robots? 🤖
ImageWriter
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2h 29min
April 05, 2024581: A Different Way to Be Evil
Pre-show: John’s two-year anniversary
Follow-up:
WWDC lottery results
John’s Affinity Designer struggles
Marco’s convert stroke → shape suggestion from the bootleg
Offset path using Contour Tool (via Vitor)
Create Compound (via Julian Kissman)
Inconsistencies noted by Christian Meyer
Sam Abuelsamid on real-time OSes in cars
QNX
Wind River
Green Hills
Qualcomm Snapdragon Cockpit
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED fix is in Chrome 124 beta
Has Casey considered running any of his monitors in portrait? (via Bilal Khan)
LG DualUp Monitor
Apple IDs & real-world verification (via Simone Rizzo)
Non-email Apple IDs do still exist (via Erik)
Apple podcast transcripts & ☁️ computing (via Ben)
MacWhisper
Microsoft is learning from Apple’s mistakes and is pre-emptively splitting Teams off from Office
No UltraFusion interconnect on M3 Max?
MacRumors
Vadim Yuryev
Apple Vision Pro Spatial Personas
Connected #496: I Tried to Put My Finger in Myke’s Mouth
Jason’s take
Stephen’s take
Apple’s MLS Playoffs immersive video
Jason’s take
Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Mad Max: Fury Road
Centered framing
The Fastest Cut: Furious Film Editing
Vroom
F1TV
MultiViewer
Post-show: New theme song! Thank you, Jonathan Mann!!
Members-only ATP Overtime:
Hardware vulnerability in Apple Silicon
Michael Tsai’s coverage summary
Explanatory video
xz Utils backdoor
The Verge coverage
xz attack shell script
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Compulsory xkcd
I am not a supplier
OSQI
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2h 10min
March 28, 2024580: Socks in the Knob-Hole
Pre-show: Marco’s recording situation
Under the Radar #289: Vision Pro Numbers
Follow-up:
Image captioning in iOS (via Jim Buell)
DMA compliance feedback session is live
Kara Swisher interviews Margrethe Vestager (Overcast link)
Gruber’s summary
Apple/Meta/Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations
European Commission press release
Dan Moren’s take
Reuters interview with Margrethe Vestager
Regarding third-party messaging apps and the DOJ suit
Artificial tooth monopoly led the DOJ to… Jersey‽
Forum shopping
Legal experts praise DOJ case
DOJ lawsuit thoughts from Gavin Laing
WWDC announced
Greg Jozwiak’s tweet
People are fed up with useless tech in their cars
EuroNCAP is doing the Lord’s work
New CarPlay is Apple’s last hope to crack cars?
Real-time operating system
QNX vs. Android Automotive
QNX
Ask ATP:
How soon after waking up do we engage with a device? (via Nick)
Everyone’s Sony alarm clock
What would cause us to go to 128 bit? (via Brian)
Post-show: John’s battles with Affinity Designer
PaintCode
Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of Apple ID
To be rebranded as “Apple Account”? (February 2024)
More from MacRumors (March 2024)
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1h 46min
March 22, 2024579: Use Your Words
Pre-show: We definitely recorded a day late because we’re clairvoyant and definitely not because of pyrotechnics.
Follow-up:
The M1 MacBook Air lives on at… Walmart
Warmart press release
Apple Silicon & Project Titan
Safari hangs (via Wade)
Apple’s DMA compliance efforts
Apple DMA compliance workshop
Gruber’s take
Kay Jebelli’s recap on Twitter
AI-generated transcript
Video of Riley Testut’s question/answer
John’s curious obsession with street widths
Marco: 8’ / ~2.5m
Underscore: 19’4” / ~6m
John: 23’5” / ~11m
Magnets in Apple Watch bands (via Harvey Simon)
Modern Buckle
Is podcast transcription is Apple’s first big cloud computing effort?
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
The Verge
Lawsuit PDF
Transcript of prepared remarks
Toot from Glyph
Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple AI updates
Another AI paper from Apple
VentureBeat summary
Stratechery recap (Paywalled)
Apple partnering with Google or OpenAI?
Bloomberg coverage
Humane Ai Pin
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1h 56min
March 14, 2024578: Weird Can Be Beautiful
Pre-show:
ATP Overtime
ATP Insider: John’s Windows
ATP 96: The Windows of Siracusa County
ATP Membership FAQ
AppStories
Follow-up:
Callsheet available on visionOS
“Put me on Aux” (via Sam Davies)
Spotify & free users (via Colin Meney)
256 GB M3 MacBook Air has 2× 128 GB NAND chips
iFixIt Teardown
Project Titan chip rumors
What happens when 🇪🇺 folks leave 🇪🇺 for a while?
Epic’s developer account reinstated
Gruber’s take
Upgrade #503: We Own the Refs, the Stadium, and the Field
More options for 🇪🇺 distribution
Getting ready for Web Distribution
Newly proposed Apple flow
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED gets first attempted fix
Original feature
Google Gemini’s revisionist history
Reconcilable Differences #228: Big Filter Boy
Stratechery: Aggregator’s AI Risk
Gemini refuses to answer election questions
Reuters
Ask ATP:
How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)
Super Smash Brothers
Mega Man 2
OpenEmu
Would Apple be better off trading lower App Store commissions for higher hardware prices? (via Ryan Maloney)
Playdate
Swift on the Playdate
Pico 8
Post-show Neutral: Rivian R2 & R3
Members-only ATP Overtime: Rabbit r1
Interview with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu
Neuro-symbolic model
CueCat
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1h 52min
March 07, 2024577: Colorful Criticism
Pre-show: Old men talk about old car stereos
Follow-up:
John’s notes export via privacy.apple.com
Apple Vision Pro & Project Titan (via James Anthony)
JIBO
gita (the robot Casey was thinking of)
Gurman’s article (or on Apple News)
Apple Vision Pro’s inevitable future (via Matt Johnson)
M3 MacBook Airs
Gurman on forthcoming Apple events
Hector Martin on two displays
Apple confirms backport of two-display support to M3
RIP the 🧀
Apple fined $2 billion by EU for App Store practices
The Verge
EU ruling
Apple’s response
Sherman Antitrust Act
AltStore has received its MarketplaceKit entitlement
Apple’s DMA policy updates
Updated rules
Apple terminates Epic’s developer account
Epic’s blog post
Example tweet
Post-show Ask ATP: If we could solve one of Apple’s legal problems, what would it be? (via Marc Robinson)
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1h 57min
February 29, 2024576: Quiet Little Leech
Pre-show: Marco is many things, but patient is… not one of them.
Blackbox
Crouton
Joanna Stern’s video
Television (App Store link)
ForeFlight Voyager
Flight Control
Follow-up:
Vision Pro demand
Clarification about Apple’s new iMessage encryption
Extracting data from iCloud (via John Males)
Apple Privacy
Magnets and compasses
…in ✨ space ✨ (via Adam Wuerl)
…can be canceled out by Core Motion (via Zev Eisenberg)
Vision Pro & motion blur (via Orlando Herrera)
Meta’s “Pixel Codec Avatars” vs. Personas (via Gottfried Chen)
Facebook video
Uncanny valley graph
Casey’s podcast appearance
CrackGate
Application Submission Feedback regarding Project Titan
MacRumors coverage
New York Times coverage
Tim Cook on cars in 2017
MJ Tsai
Jeff Johnson
Ask ATP:
What email clients do we use? (via Joe)
Claris Emailer
Entourage
Why hasn’t Marco fallen off the deep end explored a DIY mechanical keyboard? (via Warren Bakay)
How interested are we in LLMs & generative AIs?
sdxl⚡lightning
Post-show: WWDC wish-casting
...more
1h 60min
February 22, 2024575: Walk a Little Faster
Pre-show:
Vision Pro comfort
Light Seal Sizes Decoded
ATP Movie Club: Steve Jobs
Follow-up:
Vision Pro motion blur (via Chase)
Blur Busters
Vision Pro and warped images
Eyes as input vs. output (via Tony DiTaranto)
Fitts’s Law and the Dock
Apple 🤝🏻 Qualcomm
Apple & Patents
Mangets & Compasses (via Harvey Simon)
Modern buckle
Line/letter of credit (via Brian Coffey)
Vision Pro
Personas
…are getting better in 1.1?
1.0 → 1.1 examples
Charlie Chapman’s example
Persona Studio (App Store link)
Apple defends against future iMessage attacks
Apple blog post
Ask ATP:
How do we evangelize Mac-assed Mac apps? (via Ian Malczewski)
If we could get one new API for our apps, what would it be? (via Julian Gamble)
Could Marco best/first/favorite Phish concerts? (via Winnie Lewis)
Reconcilable Differences
Live Phish
Post-show: Using a high-end camera and gear for Vision Pro panoramas
Fuji GFX
Canon dual fisheye lens
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