Accidental Tech Podcast

471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine

02.24.2022 - By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaPlay

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Pre-show: Casey messes with Marco during his very difficult day

Celiac

Important follow-up: in short, actual celiac disease cannot be cured, so the people in question most likely had other forms of gluten intolerance

Colostrum (the pills Marco got — ask a doctor, YMMV)

Thera Cane

Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience

It’s All Too Much

NIMBY

Follow-up:

Getting an older car to always play Maps’ directions over Bluetooth (via Paul Violante)

Settings → Maps → Spoken Directions → Directions on Radio

Some interesting feedback on brake-by-wire systems

Marc Barrowclift’s Fourth Annual iOS Music Player Showcase (via Aidan Trager)

Casey attempts a victory lap around John

Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience

Note the relevant section was in the members’ only after-show

Feedback received on John’s Streaming App Spec

The NVIDIA/Arm deal has been scuttled

Previously: Doubts about the NVIDIA/Arm deal

Announced 20 September 2020 (!)

Apparently .NET Core can trace its roots to Silverlight (!)

Developer deliberately corrupts popular open-source packages

Previous NPM disaster covered on ATP

Semantic Versioning

Log4j vulnerability

xkcd #2347: Dependency

Tech companies called to the principal’s office

Discourse tries to lead by an $82,500 example

#askatp:

Two-fer from Omri Arbiv:

What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?

James Hoffmann’s Aeropress technique

Ratio Eight

Baratza Virtuoso

YES PLZ

Trade Coffee

Intelligentsia

Is John still subscribed to cable?

Do we have a good system for maintaining family contacts? (via Paul Walker)

Post-show Robot or Not:

Bonus #askatp: Do we say we’re “in front of” or “behind” the computer? (via Niek van de Pas)

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