Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

582: Can’t Render, Fog It Apr 11, 2024

Show notes

Pre-show: SD-card failures
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! 👕
- Runs until Sunday, 28 April. Don’t wait!
- Remember members get 15% off!
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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**581: A Different Way to Be Evil** Apr 05, 2024
Show notes

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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580: Socks in the Knob-Hole Mar 28, 2024

Show notes

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
- 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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579: Use Your Words Mar 22, 2024

Show notes

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
- 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
Post-show Ask ATP: What do John & Marco have against multiple monitors, anyway? (via Tony)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple AI updates

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578: Weird Can Be Beautiful Mar 14, 2024

Show notes

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
Ask ATP:
- How come old software doesn’t continue to work anymore, particularly on mobile? (via Erik Neu)
- 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

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**577: Colorful Criticism** Mar 07, 2024
Show notes

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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576: Quiet Little Leech Feb 29, 2024

Show notes

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)
- CrackGate
Application Submission Feedback regarding Project Titan
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

575: Walk a Little Faster Feb 22, 2024

Show notes

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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574: Weird Forking Scenario Feb 15, 2024

Show notes

Pre-show: Casey’s Persona Surprise
Follow-up:
- iPad Pro 11” PPD
  - PPD calculator
- A note on field of view and eye movement
- Some discussion about Mac Virtual Display fidelity
- Turning off Apple Vision Pro
- The Developer Strap (requires login) is Thunderbolt capable
  - Orion (HDMI display app for iPad)
  - Casey’s HDMI capture dongle
- “Real” vs. “Fake” 3D (via Matt Rigby)
  - Rotoscoping
  - More thoughts from friend-of-the-show Todd Vaziri
  - More [now un-paywalled!] thoughts from FotS Joe Rosensteel
- iMessage will not be regulated as part of DMA
  - WhatsApp interoperability strategy
- Riley Testut of AltStore weighs in on third-party marketplaces
- What is a €1M “line of credit”, anyway?
Apple Vision Pro
- Guest mode
  - HDCP
  - Voices of VR Podcast with Bert Nepveu
- Fitts’ Law on Dithering
- ⌘-Tab
- EyeSight
Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro after-action report
- Casey’s blog post

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573: Look at It Harder Feb 08, 2024

Show notes

Follow-up:
- YouTube API weirdness (via Christian Selig)
- John’s [latest] Photoshop complaint
- €0.50 is “50 cents”
- Prescription lens pairing
- Wide Lightning™ and Wider Lightning™
  - Developer Strap (requires developer account)
- Vision Pro weight discussed in Vanity Fair
- Bluetooth peripherals
- Intel Macs & Mac Virtual Display
  - Support Document
- Vision Pro syncs when not in use
- Performance throttling
- Vision Pro for movies & TV
  - Color reproduction
  - iFixit estimates resolution
  - “Ideal” field of view for movies
  - Pixels per degree:
    - iPad Pro 11” @ 14” / 35cm = 67 ppd
    - 65” 4K TV @ 5 feet / 1.5m = 76 ppd
    - Pro Display XDR @ 2 feet / 0.6m = 100 ppd
  - Real vs. Fake 3D
- iFixit Teardown
  - Video part 1
  - Video part 2
Vision Pro initial thoughts
Post-show: Casey’s Vision Pro train experience
- Casey Neistat’s video

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