Accidental Tech Podcast

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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

382: Static Ad Removal Jun 12, 2020

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Reactions to last week’s show
Follow-up:
- Race/racism book list
- On writing into web forms
  - SMART Board
  - Nero Burning ROM
  - Jaz Drive
  - XJACK
  - WASTE
    - Justin Frankel
      - Personal site
    - Icecast
    - SHOUTcast
    - Audio Hijack
    - Cockos
    - LICEcap
    - Gnutella
- On Casey’s SMB issues
- Home.app scenes rather than automations, via Hugo Jobling
- Daniel Jalkut corrects us about powerbox
- Android Live Captions 1 2 (via David D’Arcy)
  - Voice Control on iOS
Donate to Black causes
ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!!
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- Forecast
ARM Macs are coming! For real this time!
Post-show: Membership Pricing Tiers that Never Were

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381: Uncomfortable Truths Jun 04, 2020

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Black Lives Matter
Follow-up:
- Netscape Navigator, Lynx, and atp.fm (via Alex Chan)
- OpenDoc Parts
- Windows has a clipboard manager (via Max Nuding)
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Casey’s TV issues
- CEC - Consumer Electronics Control
Android vs. iOS Speech-to-Text Speed
- Initial demo (via Dave Mark)
- Follow-up
Catalina and SMB shares
- The operation can’t be completed because the original item for {RootFolder} can’t be found.
macOS 10.15: Slow by Design
- Jeff Johnson’s follow-up about shell scripts
Gaming MacBook Pro
#askatp
- What view do we use in Finder? (via The Weakest Muscle)
- How do we clean our screens? (via Stefan)
  - Volvo Genuine Microfiber Polishing Cloth for Digital Displays
- How do we protect our kids from the internet? (via Peter)
  - YouTube SafeSearch
  - Cloudflare DNS for Families

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380: Wires Are Great May 28, 2020

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Pre-show: Live-stream icecast saga
New old-style websites
How do we trust clipboard managers‽
- Little Snitch
Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i
Casey’s DNS Diversion
- Disabling Chrome’s async DNS resolver
HBO ditches Apple TV Channels
Follow-up: Joe Rogan himself
Let’s buy Casey a 13” MacBook Pro
Microsoft’s Fluid Office “document”
- OpenDoc
- Object Linking and Embedding
#askatp
- What’s the best Wi-Fi/networking setup? (via Benjamin Sharbaugh)
  - Eero
  - Ubiquiti UniFi
    - Dream Machine
    - nanoHD Access Point
- How do we move Xcode signing assets between Macs? (via Jeffrey Wilkinson)
  - Windows Registry
  - DLL Hell
- But, like, really: Overcast for Mac? (via Chris Niles)
Post-show: Face masks 😷

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379: The Everything’s OK Alarm May 21, 2020

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Pre-show: ATP has a new website. (Neutral too!)
- John talks about Flatland on Sophomore Lit
Follow-up:
- MiniDV import details
  - HandBrakeCLI
  - exiftool
- Causes for soliciting promo codes
  - Lime-a-Rita
- Destiny & Cursors
- iOS 13.4 adds Shared iPad for Business (via Sir Cathy)
- Are Casey’s Raspberry Pis hardened?
  - John’s smoke detector story from Hypercritical
Joe Rogan takes his show to Spotify
- NetNewsWire
#askatp
- What clipboard managers do we use? (via Play My Jam)
- Is iOS 13 ready yet? (via Luke Arthur)
- Would dropping Boot Camp bring backlash? (via someone)
Post-show: Life at home status updates

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378: Whale Quench May 14, 2020

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Pre-show: Dave Matthews Band was live
- Totally unrelated: youtube-dl
Follow-up:
- Casey's Garage Project
  - Instagram Story
  - Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
- Synology Cloud Sync & Dropbox
- RSI and voice control
  - Writing Perl by voice by Emily Shea (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
  - Hand free computing via Philip Brocoum
  - Phonetic Alphabet
Craig Federighi on AppStories #162
- Cursor control
- Closing apps
"Give me your app for free"
- Dun & Bradstreet
John digitizes Mini-DV tapes
- iDive
- Super 8
- RCA VHS Camcorder.jpg)
- CVC GR-C1
  - MKBHD's video
#askatp
- If Apple releases an ARM-based Mac, would we buy first-gen machines? (via Jamie Bender)
- What file system (🛎) should one use for external backups? (via Unai Herrán)
- Will iPadOS ever become multi-user? (via Pascal Lindelauf)
  - Optimizing Apps for Shared iPad
Post-show Neutral: 2022 Golf GTI
- Isn't Tesla cancelled now?
- Honda Urban EV Concept

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377: $10 Worth of Headaches May 07, 2020

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Pre-show: Getting financial information from Apple
- AppFigures
- Changing App Store company names
  - LLC
  - DBA
Follow-up:
- Casey's Garage Project
- Debugging memory problems in Xcode
- ARM Predictions (via Colin McKellar)
- Installing an OS on a computer without a monitor
  - Etcher
WWDC date announced
Hats
New 13" MacBook Pro!
🎉 GOODBYE BUTTERFLY KEYBOARD! 🎉
TGPro fan control app
#askatp
- After the obvious, what should one do to alleviate RSI? (via Thom Anthony)
- How do I make my videoconferences sound better? (via Jack Johnson)
  - ATR2100x
  - Microphone Mega-Review
    - Kerry
Post-show:

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376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle Apr 30, 2020

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Pre-show: Casey makes his life [more] difficult for himself
Dropping Dropbox
- Synology Drive
- Transmit
Follow-up:
- John's new video card
  - It's big
- Mac Pro Wheels & Feet Measurement
- iPad Pro Magic Keyboard
  - Dangerous keyboard use
- Car alternators do generate AC
- Really really use an unpainted post when jump-starting a car
COVID-19 ~~Contact Tracing~~ Exposure Notification
- NSHipster's Overview
iOS 13.5 Improvements
Google Making its own Chips
ARM chips in Macs

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375: Wobbly Goblin Apr 24, 2020

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Pre-show: Homeowners associations
- Lien
- Law of large pull requests
Follow-up:
- Mac Pro wheel stability
- W5700X is a decent deal after all
iPad Pro Magic Keyboard impressions
#askatp
- Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping? (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
- What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college? (via Nate J)
- PHP is nuked from orbit. The world rejoices. What does Marco do? (via Asajz)
Post-show: Neutral

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374: Screwdriver Testing Harness Apr 16, 2020

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Pre-show: Modern PHP
- PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design
- Apple Push Notification Service: Token Authentication
Follow-up:
- Retro Gaming
  - OpenEmu
  - Provenance
  - MiSTer (via James Thomson)
  - Light guns and CRTs
- 360° audio (via Ibrahim Al-Alali)
  - nugs.net
Completing the Mac Pro Rollout
- Mac Pro feet/wheels
- Radeon Pro W5700X
iPad Pro Magic Keyboard now available for ordering
- Screens
- Dr. Drang's keyboard-weight speculation
New iPhone SE
#askatp
- How do we make time for listening to our favorite shows? (via Aadi Bhure)
  - Overcast usage
- Do we automate our recording setups? (via Hunter Holland)
- What podcast episode are we most proud of having recorded, and why?
Post-show: Newfound home computer needs
- Ray-traced Minecraft RTX

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373: This Jerk, Right Here Apr 09, 2020

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Pre-show: Search Engines before Google
- WebTV
- BNC connector
Follow-up:
- Synology RAID rebuild time
  - Getting progress
    cat /proc/mdstat
  - lvm
- Dark Sky acquisition & location data
- Weather data consolidation
  - Dark Sky's data sources
  - Trump continues to fill the swamp
Casey's Computer Corner
- BBEdit
- Arq Backup
New PS5 controller
Raspberry Pi
- Pi-Hole
  - Installation instructions that Casey used
- CanaKit — the kit Casey bought
- Raspbian
Retro gaming
- Special guest Tiff Arment joins us
- Emulation:
  - RetroPie
  - 8bitdo SN30 Pro
  - Wave Race 64
  - 32X
  - Neo Geo
  - 3DO
  - Sega Saturn
  - Rotary phone
  - Kontra/Konami Code
- Famicom vs. NES controllers
- Improving the original experience
- Connecting to the TV
  - Technology Connections: How Did Old TVs Work?
    - Racing the Beam
    - CRT skeletons
  - RF modulator
  - Composite video
  - S-Video
  - Component video
  - RGB over SCART
- Scaling console video output to modern TVs

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