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Accidental Tech Podcast

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

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ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen Jun 12, 2024

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Holly Borla: Swift Language Engineering Manager
- @holly on Mastodon
Ben Cohen: Senior Software Engineering Manager, Swift Team
- @airspeedswift on Mastodon

591: That’s Why I Like Computers Jun 11, 2024

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Our WWDC 2024 recap episode.

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590: Buy Your Car an iPhone Jun 06, 2024

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Pre-show: Marco’s fans
Follow-up:
- Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
- Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
- 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
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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589: The Correct Amount of Rocks May 31, 2024

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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?
- 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
Post-show: Marco’s desk setup
Members-only ATP Overtime: Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law

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588: Sync Up Your Cycle May 24, 2024

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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]
Post-show: Parental Vision Pro demos
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝 OpenAI

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587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me May 16, 2024

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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
  - 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.
- 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
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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586: Do a Barrel Roll! May 09, 2024

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Follow-up:
Apple’s May Event
Post-show Neutral: The Cybertruck has landed across the street from Casey
- Pontiac Aztek
- Subaru BRAT
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585: Everyone Heard the Same Nonsense May 02, 2024

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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
- 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
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584: Daisy Hates Ticketmaster Apr 23, 2024

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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 🚨
- Remember members get 15% off!
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
- 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
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583: I’ve Spent a Lot of Time in the Address Bar Apr 16, 2024

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Pre-show: Power problems
The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
- Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
- Remember members get 15% off!
New member special: ATP Insider: Computing Origin Stories
Follow-up:
- How little kids write 4s
- 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
- 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
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- Automattic acquires Beeper
- Humane AI Pin reviews

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