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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

452: It’s Totally Leashed Oct 14, 2021

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Pre-show: Apple Watch preorders
Follow-up:
- Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
- Microsoft store to allow third-party app stores
  - Matryoshka doll-720p-RiP.mkv
  - Yo dawg
  - MTV’s Pimp My Ride
- Thomas Q Brady’s adventures with his iPhone 13 Pro
  - Man + River
  - IP Code
- Regarding bugs in your pasta (It’s not about the pasta!) (via Sharon Linne Faulk)
  - What bugs/larvae/eggs can you eat?
Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
- Joz’s tweet
Marco’s new Dropbox setup
#askatp:
- Why are progress bars so hard? (via Derek Aldridge)
- What’s a good automotive blog? (via Tom Jacob)
  - NetNewsWire
  - Jalopnik
  - YouTube Channels:
- Does John maintain his old hardware? (via Sean Cohen)
Post-show:
- The search for John’s backup winter hat

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451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks Oct 07, 2021

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Pre-show:
- Facebook’s outage
  - BGP is a thing. Who knew? (John did.)
  - Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
  - Explanation from Facebook
- Thank you to Hsiang-Ling Jennifer Lin’s parents!
- We’ve opened an on-demand ATP store!
  - Quinn Nelson’s YouTube channel
Follow-up:
- Anandtech on the A15
  - MacRumors’ summary
- On RAW data rates (via Brian Petersen)
  - Understanding ProRAW
- John’s motion sickness and gaming
- Marco’s updates
  - Kühl pants
  - Apple Silicone Case
  - Peel Cases
  - Nudient Cases
  - ProClipUSA Magafe Car Mount
  - 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 Marco’s deposit
  - Tesla ends leases as well as they build cars
Possible 14” and 16” MacBook Pro rumors
- Display resolutions
- What do we expect? What would we be surprised by?
#askatp:
- Would/should Apple make ergonomic accessories? (via Johnny Oliver)
  - Surface Arc Mouse
- Can the This website is using significant energy notices be stopped? (via Michael Hagan)
- When will we get CarPlay from watchOS? (via Yoni)
Post-show: Apple Watch Series 7 buying plans
- Apple Developer: Supporting Multiple Watch Sizes

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450: Distending My Wardrobe Sep 30, 2021

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Pre-show: Some navel-gazing (much like Episode 400)
- Sporkful’s Cascatelli
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
Follow-up:
- Returns
  - John Halter returns Surface Pros
  - Bernd Kilga returns an Elite Series 2 controller
  - Damian Shaw returns Surface Headphones
  - Christopher Dillon returns a Logitech MX Master
  - Ricky Wilson returns a Google Home Mini
  - Brian Donovan returns an iPad Smart Keyboard
  - Shiro Wilde returns an Apple TV 4K remote
- Mike Bollich-Ziegler makes an interesting observation about the iPad Mini
- Michał Goc does some digging about tennis serve speed
  - SwingVision
- Regarding fast pre-ordering from TJ Luoma
- Harrison Krebs has updates on eSIMs
  - KBase article
- Bastian Inuk points out there are many raw formats for video
- Marco’s security camera update
- On Dock auto-hide delay (via Danny Tsang)
  - Intel: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
  - Apple: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4 && killall Dock
iPhones 13 Pro Impressions
- Setup experiences
- Apple Watch unlock bug
- Colors & Size
  - MackWeldon Ace Sweatshort
  - Apple Silicone Case
  - Casey/Marco’s Cases: Nudient Thin V3
  - MKBHD on the MagSafe Duo
- Camera System
Post-show #askatp: On an ∞ timescale, when do we get neat under-screen tricks? (via Alex Murrell)

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449: An Unclean Mouse Sep 23, 2021

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Pre-show: A little bit more about Electron and 1Password 8
- Tauri
Garmin InReach
- Iridium satellites
iPhone
- “Thick iPhone is thicc” 🤣
- Ryan Jones’ camera bump chart
An aside about how optics works
iPhone [Reprise]
- Adrian Weckler’s 13 Pro vs. 12 Pro
- Halide on the evolution of iPhone cameras
- Geoff Hackworth notes safe areas are the same size
- On using iPhones for filming movies
- The Verge on battery sizes
- Gruber’s review (with streaming battery life information)
- LPTO screens
- Dual eSIMs
- 1× ↔ 3× macro transition
- On A15 performance
- Photographic styles
  - Fonzie
Marco’s iPhones
- Casey’s forthcoming case
- John’s case
Snell has new info on the iPhone Leather Wallet
iPad
- Power cables
- iPad Mini doesn’t support mmWave 5G
- iPad Mini is downclocked?
Apple Watch Series 7
- Golf swing & tennis serve speed
- On faster charging & satellite navigation
- Steve Troughton-Smith on the SoC
iOS 15 will not be a compulsory upgrade
Post-show: John’s bad mouse pad [Reprise]

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448: Next Year, Which Is Now Sep 15, 2021

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Apple Event
- Apple TV+
- iPad
- iPad Mini
- Apple Watch Series 7
- iPhone 13
  - Thinner but taller notch?
  - Rack focus
- iPhone 13 Pro
  - Unsane
  - Red Cameras
Post-show: iPhone 12 exit interview

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447: Lunchbox on Your Face Sep 09, 2021

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Pre-show:
- Casey’s very big day
  - Robert E. Lee Statue removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue
  - What is a Hokie?
- Teaching Marco geography
  - Fire Island
Follow-up:
- Australians: Get your shot!
- More arguing about geography
  - Long Island
  - Boroughs of New York City
- Apple delays CSAM protection features
- HomeKit camera TV PiP can be enabled/disabled per camera
  - HomePods announce faces too!
- App Store lawsuit is only for iOS apps?
- John’s “bad mouse pad” update
  - Simpsons Chili Cook-Off
- John’s favorite percentage: 9.6%
- Google Drive for Desktop
- Forcing Photos.app to download all your photos
  - Photos → Library → All Photos
  - ⌘A
  - File → Play Slideshow
Apple Event
- MacBook Pros? :(
- Apple Watch Series 7 (renders based on rumors)
- Airstream
- Apple Pippin
- Half-Life: Alyx
- HoloLens
- Oculus Quest
Post-show #askatp: Will the iPhone ever drop the number? (via Doug McArthur)

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446: Dead From Fraud Sep 02, 2021

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Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can.
Follow-up:
- Wirecutter moves behind a paywall
  - Neven’s tweet
- Best blender is not a wasteland… sometimes.
- Cryptographic hashes vs. Apple’s CSAM Neural Hash
- What happens if governments get involved with CSAM detection?
  - Reflections on Trusting Trust (PDF link)
- More Apple PR own-goals: Apple bans a pay equity Slack channel
- Music metadata
  - MusicBrainz’s schema
Marco has a request: how do you get a 9-year-old coding?
Apple’s class-action settlement with “app developers”
- Bloomberg
- Under the Radar #225: The Fragmented Future
📣 BREAKING 📣 Apple will allow “reader” apps with their own purchase systems to link out (details to be determined later)
- Apple’s definition of “reader” apps
Korea: Apple & Google must allow developers to use other payment systems
Home security cameras and HomeKit Secure Video
Post-show: Casey’s Dock experiments
- Connected #358: Roast My Dock
- SwitchGlass

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445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland Aug 26, 2021

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Please donate to St. Jude. Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can.
Follow-up:
- Follow-up from Hypercritical #31 on 24 August 2011 (via Philip Spedding)
  - Overcast timestamp link
- Casey apologizes to Collin Donnell
  - Brent Simmons’ blog post
- Regarding 1Password and Electron
  - What about the dependencies? (via KingOlegOne)
  - is-odd
  - Roustem Karimov’s response
  - Craft
- CSAM Neural Hash algorithm extracted?
- Safari 15 Updates
A quick aside about battery health
Apple’s PR war against itself
- Thursday, 15 July: Apple cracks down on remote work
- Wednesday, 4 August: Apple places female EPM on leave after tweeting about sexism in the office
  - Ashley M. Gjøvik’s tweets 1 2
- Thursday, 5 August: Apple’s CSAM roll-out
- Monday, 9 August: Apple shuts down employee-run surveys on pay
  - Cher Scarlett’s Survey
- Monday, 16 August: Apple forces FlickType for Watch out of the App Store
  - FlickType’s statement
  - Miguel de Icaza’s take
- Monday, 23 August: #AppleToo
  - The Verge’s coverage
#askatp
- How does one manage a large library of photos? (via Colin)
- How does one search for specific tech problems? (via Sam)
  - Rubber duck debugging
- Is there any point in updating Java anymore? (via Mark Slutsky)
Post-show: Marco went to a Phish concert!
- Phish at Atlantic City Beach, 2021-08-15
  - Official video of a song that night
  - Aerial video of the beach venue
- Dave Matthews Band also played somewhere on 2021-08-07 (But you can’t listen to it, apparently. Probably for the best. –ed.)

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444: It Should Definitely Bother Apple Aug 17, 2021

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Follow-up:
- Disney PhotoPass (via Ryan D)
- Bug bounties (via Dan Chandler)
- Cryptocurrency and failed monetary systems
- CSAM
1Password 8: The Story So Far
On cross-platform UI frameworks
Post-show: Marco’s stolen bike

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443: A Storm of Asterisks Aug 12, 2021

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Pre-show: Marco files a verbal Radar for Apple Music
Follow-up:
- Why is there no weather/Calculator iPad app? (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
- AMD W6xxx video cards are “workstation” cards
- Why Apple can’t pay bananas bug bounties (via Adrian)
Apple’s New Child Safety Features
#askatp
- What’s our current thoughts on accelerating the heat death of the universe cryptocurrency (via Lalo Vargas)
- Is there any way to limit Messages’ size on disk? (via Richie Aharonian)
- What camera/lens should I rent for a Disney World trip? (via Andrew Nelson)
Post-show: Some more camera banter

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