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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

601: Foreheads Over the Years Aug 22, 2024

Show notes

Pre-show:
- App Store reorganization
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows
Follow-up:
- iPhone 16 “Capture Button” (via Aaron Dippner)
- iPhone 16 Pro’s fourth color
  - More from MacRumors
  - Microsoft Zune
    - Available on Amazon!
- System color picker (via Gus Mueller)
  - NSColorPanel
- Screen recording Vista prompts (via Craig Hockenberry)
  - Persistent Content Capture
  - Moom
  - Remote access software (via Anonymous)
- CIRP Mac sales report from last week’s Overtime (via Phil Marshall & Josh Lowitz)
- Patreon maybe is using Apple as a scapegoat?
- ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED lives on (via AJ)
  - Arc known issues for the Sequoia beta
  - Reddit thread
- Fortnite is on iOS in 🇪🇺
Apple’s AI prompts discovered in public betas
- Reddit thread
- Cabel’s issue
Your new best friend is AI
Ask ATP:
- How should we manage batteries on our devices? (via Jake DeGroot)
  - macOS: System Settings → Battery → The (i) next to Battery Health → Optimized Battery Charging
- Do people actually update their ★☆☆☆☆ reviews if issues get fixed? (via Patrick)
  - An aside about Overcast plans, including a bombshell
- Should apps have open bug trackers? (via shac ron)
- Why don’t most podcast apps show per-episode show art? (via Mike Shafer)
Post-show: Revisiting Marco’s kink
- Ubiquiti Cameras
- Flex switch
Members-only ATP Overtime: More rumors about Apple robots
- Gurman
- Supply chain
  - 9to5Mac on manufacturer
  - MacRumors on plans

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600: Everyone Ends Up at Crab Aug 15, 2024

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Pre-show: 🎉 Happy 600 Episodes, ATP! 🎉
- Clear Channel
- ATP #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
Follow-up:
- Vista-fication of macOS
  - Is the problem really the UI? (via Nathanial Cohen)
  - What if it’s actually about domestic abuse?
  - The alerts will now be monthly
- How gas stations make money (via David)
- Gurman news dump
  - iPhone 16 camera button
  - Advantages of a plastic Apple Watch SE
  - iPhone 17 Slim won’t fold
- Apple sends checks for butterfly keyboards
- Vision Pro updates
The M4 Mac mini will be very mini
- Carcinisation
Apple vs. Patreon
Post-show: John uses a Meta Quest
- Playstation Move
Members-only ATP Overtime: 2023 Mac sales as per CIRP

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599: Where Did Salad Go? Aug 08, 2024

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Pre-show: Mophie 3-in-1
- Analog(ue) #228: We Don’t Have to Talk About Air Conditioning (Posted on Sunday, 11 August)
Follow-up:
- Apology Tour
  - Mistaken theme song
  - “Users hate all change”
    - Sonos still reeling after new app release
- Curbside charging does exist in the US! 😱
  - PlugNYC (via Gareth Edwards)
  - Berkeley (via James Brown)
  - Seattle (via kiiile)
    - Volts Podcast
  - Baltimore (via Seth Carus)
  - North Carolina (via Juan Boyce)
  - Portland (via Sam Grover)
- A spiritual visit from the Color Czar
- CrowdStrike
  - Lawsuits and EULAs
  - Release propagation
    - Risky Business #756
  - Auto-disabling crashing kernel extensions
  - Recovering unbootable Windows machines
    - Integrated lights-out
  - A discussion about computing monoculture spurred by Michael Cook
- Windows Vista macOS Sequoia’s new way to nag
  - Jason files a Feedback
    - FB14689927
  - John dupes it as FB14698922
  - Jason writes it all up
  - Craig Hockenberry has a possible solution
    - Persistent Content Capture
  - Jason found some good news though
Google is ruled a monopolist
Apple’s hidden AI prompts discovered in macOS beta
- Original Reddit post
Post-show: Marco’s Rivian drama
Members-only ATP Overtime: KOSA and the role of government in keeping kids safe online
- The kids are alright

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598: Three-Burner Stove Aug 01, 2024

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Follow-up:
- Rivian Repair
  - Becki & Chris (timestamp link) (via Matt Rigby)
  - Marco’s Repair Breakdown
    - Parts: 39%
      - Right Uniside assembly quarter panel: $2,751
      - Bumper cover: $940
      - Right tail lamp assembly: $630
      - Right quarter panel glass: $537
    - Labor: 53%
    - Miscellaneous & taxes: 8%
  - PDR videos
  - Pictures of the R1S side panel
    - Post
    - Image
- Another example of outrageous car body panel prices
- EV charge port locations (via Craig Ritchie)
- Gas-hole locations (via David Barber)
- Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1
  - …with a waitlist for the beta
CrowdStrike
iPhone 17 “slim” rumors
Post-show: Overcast launch & Callsheet renewals
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI & Search

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597: Apple Watch Shuffle Jul 24, 2024

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Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers (via Josh Osborne)
- EU approves Apple’s commitments to open NFC access
  - EU announcement
- Apple approves emulator UTM SE after initial rejection
  - infinitemac.org
- More on robots.txt (via Mike Lewis)
Maybe Open AI ain’t such a great group, after all
Apple Watch SE with… plastic casing?
New HomePod Mini color
- Press release
Apple “Home Accessory”
- Touchscreen HomePod rumors
Ask ATP:
- Should one even bother learning an ancient language today?
- What’s the correct placement for an EV charger? (via Thomas Brock)
- How do we keep our backup vortexes from becoming backup black holes? (via Russell Fitzpatrick)
  - Arq Backup
- Why doesn’t Apple include a small battery in desktop Macs? (via Ty Bolt)
Post-show: Marco’s 🍌 has come home
- Before photo
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Product Longevity

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596: A New Foundation for Progress Jul 16, 2024

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Pre-show: Casey’s phoenix
Follow-up:
- More on “S-Tier” (via kuriko)
- More on the HP iPod (via Voline)
- David Schaub identifies the iMac clone that Apple sued over
- European Union regulations & profits (via Yury Molodtsov)
- More on non-competes (via Gary Havens)
- 🇹🇼/🇺🇸 Culture Clash explained (via Ryan Lee)
Overcast’s 10th Anniversary… Launch!
🎉 × 1️⃣0️⃣
- Blackbird
- FCModel
Post-show: Casey’s new office audio setup
- Era 300
- Premium Immersive Set with Arc (Casey has the same Arc soundbar, the same Sub Gen 3, but One SLs as rears)
- Sub (Gen 3)
- Move (Casey has a Move 1)
- Roam (Casey has a Roam 1)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Notarization changes in Sequoia
- Follow-up

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595: The Best Secret Store Jul 10, 2024

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Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe
- Fully Herman Miller Jarvis
Follow-up:
- An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss from the iPod Tier List special (via Scott Shuchart)
- The origins of S-Tier in tier lists (via David Schaub)
  - Grading in Japan
- AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphone
- Another entry for Brexit-style name for Apple rage-quitting the EU (via Terry Gilbert)
- What’s the justification for allowing AI crawlers? (via Manu)
- Cloudflare has 1-click AI crawler blocking
- Epic Games & Apple continue to bicker
Tech and Labor
Ask ATP:
- Is moving to a bundled password manager safe (via Trager)
- Is Apple’s embrace of AI enough to prevent it from being the next crypto? (via Jamie)
- What makes iCloud Keychain different than the Windows Recall database? (via Jon Wilson)
- Is Apple still a privacy-first company? (via Steven Wood)
Post-show: John still isn’t allowing holes in his house
- Technology Connections video on heat pumps
- Inverted U-shaped heat pumps
Members-only ATP Overtime: Feature Requests for Death

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594: We Just Found It on the Doorstep Jul 05, 2024

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Pre-show:
- Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
- New member’s special: iPod Tier List
Follow-up:
- Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
- An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
- One EU citizen’s perspective on DMA (via Nicolai Brunvoll Ernst)
- Suggestions for “Brexit”-style colloquialisms for Apple leaving the EU
  - iQuit (via Oliver Thomas)
  - iLeave (via Jared Counts)
  - AXiT (via Frederik Björeman)
- CarPlay audio
  - New version of Casey’s dongle
- Using AirPods Pro as hearing protection (via Kirk Northrop)
- Apple is using Google Cloud infrastructure to train/serve AI
  - AxLearn
  - AxLearn Infrastructure
Apple’s “Help Me Choose” Wizard
- Giulio Montagner discovers the dark truth
- A PCI Express break-out box compatible with Apple Silicon Macs
AI Training & Data Rights
Google Zero
Music industry giants cry copyright foul on AI firms
Figma pulls AI tool after it apes Apple’s design
I Made This - John’s post about AI and the act of creation
Monkey selfie copyright dispute
Post-show: John’s Mac Pro[blems]
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Vision Pro plans
- Gurman’s take
- Jason’s take

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593: Not a European Lawyer Jun 27, 2024

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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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592: I Think He Won the Game Jun 18, 2024

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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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