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Accidental Tech Podcast

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

Copyright: © Copyright 2013–2024 Accidental Tech Podcast

Latest Episodes:

611: RAM Christmas Oct 31, 2024

Show notes

Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱)
- Submerged
- Sleep No More
Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz.
- Please don’t elect a racist with facist goals
- A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
- No, Kamala isn’t perfect, but she’s far better.
- I Will Vote
- vote.gov
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
October Macs
- Monday: iMac
  - Announcement video
  - The RAM drought is over!
  - 120Hz display‽
  - The turtle remains harpooned
  - Magic Keyboard with lock key‽ 🤨
    - Prior art
  - Relocated Fn key?
  - Quinn’s video
- Tuesday: Mac mini
  - Announcement video
  - Thunderbolt 5 vs. Thunderbolt 4
    - Apple Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable
- Wednesday: MacBook Pros
  - Announcement video
Post-show: Marco bought something. Because of course he did.
Members-only ATP Overtime: Security research on Private Cloud Compute
- Odd licensing
  - License
- Mike Hearn’s discoveries

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610: More Values in the Darkness Oct 24, 2024

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Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special
Follow-up:
- New iPad Mini
  - “Jelly Scrolling” is fixed?
    - David Pierce disagrees though
- Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham)
  - Apple may stop producing Vision Pro soon?
- Some follow-up from the most recent member’s special
- Photo editing
  - Exposing to the right
    - DPReview
    - More via Sam Doran
  - Color spaces
    - …are only applicable on JPEGs (via Léo Natan)
    - Daniel Laan’s take
  - What do we do with our computer’s color tweaks while editing (via Josh Harris)
  - John’s thoughts on cropping
- Parallelizing file compression/decompression
  - unxip (via Mihai Parparita)
  - More from unxip author Saagar Jha
  - Apple Archive (see also aa)
- “No hats, no walkmen” (via Dan Pierce)
iPhone SE 4 rumors
- Aside: iPhone product mix from ATP #609 Overtime
- Case leak
October Macs? 🧐
Ask ATP:
- How do we protect sensitive information like driver’s licenses? (via Jochen Marschall)
- How do we assist parents with account management and legacy planning? (via Kaleb)
- How do we clean our keyboards‽ (via Randall Miller)
  - KeyboardCleanTool
Post-show: John’s Quicksilver update
- Alfred
- LaunchBar
- Raycast
Members-only ATP Overtime: What even is a photo, anyway?

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609: You’re the Oreo Cookie Oct 17, 2024

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🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Tier List: Storage Media 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Marco updates
  - AutoSleep
  - iPhone leather backs
    - Suti PhoneBack
    - Nomad Magnetic Leather Back
  - HDR photos from big cameras
- Apple laptops can run without a battery connected
  - XKCD: Ravioli-Shaped Objects
- You can soon get Apple TV+ on Prime Video
- Soccer corner
  - “Drive to Survive” knockoff is coming (via Devon Dundee)
  - On Messi/MLS popularity
- Shipping Forecast (via Antony Johnson)
- Enabling/disabling audio modes on AirPods 4 w/ ANC (via Scott Zero)
- John’s AirPods update
- GPX exports for geotagging photos (via Ryan Mikulovsky)
  - Pedometer++
- More thoughts on global keyboard shortcuts in Sequoia (via Michael Berk)
  - NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents
- Passkey benefits
  - Import/export is forthcoming
    - Press release
    - 1Password blog post
- Apple says “🤨” to OpenAI claims about reasoning
- Google breakup is a possibility
  - Google’s response
New iPad Mini
Submerged
- Making of Submerged
- Vergence-accommodation conflict
Ask ATP:
- How do you get started editing photos? (via Maxel Amador)
- What’s the point in performance cores if they’re not used? (via Scott Schuchart)
  - Amdahl’s Law
Members-only ATP Overtime: What is the right product mix for iPhone
- Max Tech’s iPhone 17 naming wishcasting

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608: Boot to Toot Oct 10, 2024

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Follow-up:
- NotebookLM podcast
- Camera Control button material
- iPhone case suggestions
  - Spigen Ultra Hybrid T MagFit
  - Arc Pulse
  - Leather backs
    - Suti
    - Nomad
    - Atom Studios
- Sleep-tagging app suggestions
- Windows anti-malware app suggestions
- Adaptive Transparency report
- Wireless phone recovery
  - 9to5Mac screenshot
- End ↔ end encryption coming for iPhone ↔ Android RCS messages
- More tweaks to screen recording prompts
  - Jason’s toot
- Hotkey registration in Sequoia
  - Response from Apple frameworks engineer
- Liquid detection in Sequoia
Epic gets a win against Google
Apple nopes out of OpenAI investment
Ask ATP:
- Will John buy the new $700 Playstation Pro?
- Have the Vehicle Motion Cues helped John’s motion sickness? (via Justin Waring)
- When will the first true “built from the ground up for AI” phone be? (via Neil McGregor)
- Is it time to move to Passkeys?
  - Ricky’s post
Post-show: Adam’s gaming PC adventures
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI moats & trade secrets
- OpenAI doesn’t want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking”

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607: The Structure and Vibe of a Podcast Oct 04, 2024

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Pre-show: Windows woes
Follow-up:
- Thank you, listeners. 💙
- Hard-wired camera indicator light
- AirPods 4 bass & new MagSafe puck (via Wayne Dixon)
- Quinn’s AirPods 4 review
- The A18 is not a binned A18 Pro
  - Fabian Häusler’s interpretation
- The tiny ∆ between These AirPods
- iPhones 16 battery life
- Battery limiting
  - AlDente app for managing charge settings
- Electrical battery release with reversed polarity (via David Schaub)
- Verizon activation problems
  - Verizon self-service (via Steven)
- Bullstrap case review
  - Peel Magnetic iPhone 16 Pro Case
- Apple Store experience (via Eli Liebman)
Marco’s call for help
Masimo founder resigns as CEO after board ouster
- More from Matt Levine
- More from Ben Thompson
Meta Orion
- Meta Connect overview
NotebookLM
- Simon Willison’s writeup
- I Made This
Post-show: Torturing John Again
- Better Pasta
Members-only ATP Overtime: Kids and phones at school
- The Verge coverage
  - California’s Phone-Free School Act

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606: A Decade of Half-Presses Sep 24, 2024

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Follow-up:
- John filename extraction from Photos
  - From the ATP Insider: Photo Workflows special
  - John’s AppleScript
  - Other suggestions
    - Shortcuts (for example, Josh Woodward’s)
    - osxphotos (via Muli)
    - Directly read SQLite database
      - Suggestion from Will Leinweber
    - Use Swift/PhotoKit
      - Example from Alex Mazanov
        
        SwiftBar
- Always sending photos to the shared library (via Alexander Faxå)
- JPEG-XL in iOS 18 on iPhone 16
- iPhone apps and spying via the microphone
  - Eavesdropping via Siri
  - Secure Exclave
- iPhone 16 & 16 Plus battery removal
  - iFixIt teardown
  - iFixIt blog post
- Jeff Johnson figured out how to silence the monthly screen recording prompts
iPhone 16 Pro Impressions
AirPods 4 with ANC Impressions
Apple Watch Series 10 Impressions
Post-show Neutral: Volvo EX90’s annoying “feature”
Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta kicks Apple when it’s down

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605: Manage the Moisture Situation Sep 17, 2024

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Pre-show: It’s early 🥱
- ATP live announcement post
Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Insider: Photo Workflows 🗣️
Follow-up:
- John finally admits what Casey and Marco knew last week
- It’s MicroLED not Micro OLED. The offending party has been sacked.
- AirPods 4 listening time
  - Specifications
  - AirPods 3 listening time
- Case Updates
  - Beats iPhone 16 Pro Case with MagSafe Midnight Black
  - Bullstrap Minimalist Case Black Edition
- iPhone 16 vs. iPhone 16 Pro (via Steve Stutz)
- New charging speeds
- iPhone 16 Pro demand is… not great?
- USB sync speeds
- A Public Service Announcement by Dave Mark
  - Apple support article
- Preview does support HDR
  - Test pattern
- FDA issues AirPods hearing aid certification
  - FDA press release
- Apple Watch bands
  - Titanium watch bands (via Wolf)
    - Milanese Loop
  - New link bracelet (via Josh Harris)
    - Gold link bracelet in 2015
- Third-party cases and the iPhone 16 flash
  - Torras
- Apple Intelligence notification summary memes are surely coming
  - Joe Kimberlin
  - More from Cabel Sasser
- Zach Kahn provides details on Apple Podcasts charts
- Huawei’s newspaper phone
Apple starts activation locking components
- Thieves attempt to get a victim to remove activation lock (via Like Kanies)
Ask ATP:
- Do our phones listen to us or not? (via Yoav Zoldan)
  - Cox Media’s admission
  - 404 reveals a pitch deck
- How do we feel about MagSafe these days? (via Peter Wagoner)
  - Qi
- What are our credit card setups? (via Jonathan Cirillo)
  - American Express Platinum
  - Apple Card website
Post-show Neutral: A Rivian update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Will Apple pull a Google?
- Apple cuts jobs in online services division
- Ping

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604: Minimized Embiggening Sep 12, 2024

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Apple September 2024 Event
Post-show: Marco’s 🪿 after-action report
- Goose
- Volvo XC90 Recharge
Members-only ATP Overtime: iPhone 16 Case Conundrum

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603: Too Smart to Move Sep 05, 2024

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Follow-up:
- Mac mini redesign updates from Mark Gurman
- Minimum Mac RAM (via Brian)
  - Apple’s 1996 revival
- JPEG XL support (via Kelly Thompson)
- FTC’s noncompete ban was blocked 👎🏻
- World vs. App Store
iPhone 15 exit interview
Apple Watch Series 9 & Ultra 2 exit interview
Ask ATP:
- How hard is it to maintain server compatibility for old Overcast clients? (via PG&E Delenda Est)
- Does following a podcast in Overcast “help the show” in Apple Podcasts or other ways? (via Marc Robinson)
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s Rivian service
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI Angst
- Authors sue Anthropic for training AI using pirated books
- NaNoWriMo’s self-own

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602: A Glimpse of a Better World Aug 29, 2024

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Pre-show: Apple’s packaging is still ★★★★★
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Follow-up:
- Overcast 2024.8.2 update
- Downsides to visual screen capture indications (via Josh Hattersly)
- John makes it through the Apple Intelligence waitlist
- Getting Apple Intelligence to create a memory of dirt-covered children (via Simon)
- Prompt-injection on Apple Intelligence by Evan Zhou
- Adding grammar constraints to LLMs
- Android’s superior notification history vs. iOS (via Nate)
Apple’s Fall 2024 iPhone Event
Ask ATP:
- Restore a new phone from backup or start anew? (via Tom Thorpe)
- What happens to Apple Intelligence training for next year? (via Michael Quinn)
Post-show: It’s time for fall vaccinations
Members-only ATP Overtime: Foldable all-screen MacBook rumors
- Concept art

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