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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun Dec 23, 2025

Show notes

Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time
Follow-up:
- Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID
  - 🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees
  - 🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?
- Chat math
- Metadata thread splitting & merging
- Colin spells it out for us
  - TV Everywhere
  - XMLTV
  - m3u8
  - IPTV Github Repo
  - 🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast
  - 506 Sports
- Custom pronunciations in iOS
  - Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations
    - See Apple support
  - Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations
    - See Apple support
  - Apple video guide
- Tahoe Studio Display flickering
- Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts
  - Previously 1
  - Previously 2
iPhone roadmap
- Article on The Information
iPhone XX rumor roundup
- Under-screen FaceID?
- Haptic buttons?
Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases
- Patent
Ask ATP:
- How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy)
- How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)
🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
Post-show: John’s bug
- FB21375029
- Sample project
Members-only ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend

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670: Institutionally Inescapable Dec 19, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires
- i3: 155/70R19
- XC90: 275/40R21
- Molex
- F-150 Lightning’s demise
🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: ATP Movie Club: WarGames
- WarGames
Follow-up:
- Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member’s special
- John’s Cloudflare update
  - Hypercritical
- Marco’s former TV (via Wayne Morgan)
- Apple executive departures
  - Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney’s board
    - Press release
    - The Verge
  - Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?
- Apple 2030 & carbon credits (via Zach)
- Split iMessage groups (via sirshannon)
- AI-generated voice-matched dubbing
  - Fran Besora tried the Spanish version
  - Stefanus Secundus tried the German version
  - Ben Mattison had an odd YouTube experience
- Siri and pronunciations (via Paul Zadunajsky)
- Intel stealing learning from chips it fabs
  - Thread by Joe Lion
    - VHDL
  - Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography
    - Galois blog post
- Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)
Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card
- Casey’s tangentially-related rant
Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers
Post-show: Casey asks for programming help
Members-only ATP Overtime: The State of TV

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669: Ternus, Take the Wheel Dec 11, 2025

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Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow
Follow-up:
- Apple Fitness+ is doing better than the Mac Pro
  - Workout Buddy
  - Previously with Jay Blahnik
- More adventures with Cloudflare
  - jramskov’s observation
  - TLS Certificate lifetimes
  - Alternatively, GitHub Pages
  - Some thoughts from an anonymous Cloudflare employee
    - Workers
    - Pages
    - R2
    - KV
    - Durable Objects
  - Oops… we broke it
    - Landon’s observation
    - 5 December Outage
      - React.js vulnerability
- Say my name, Siri!
  - Siri response preferences (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
    - Screenshot
  - AirPods and Contacts (via Oren Idan)
  - We’re… uh… sorry. Our bad.
    - Sean Santry
    - Reid Sorenson
- iOS 26 rollout 📈
  - Underscore on 20 November
  - Underscore on 8 December
- Intel 🤝 Apple Commentary
- Gruber is… not a fan… of Alan Dye
  - Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
Apple’s revolving door keeps spinning
- An anonymous observation
- Gurman, 6 December
- Gurman, 8 December
- Gurman’s departing executive tracker image
Post-show:
- Messages conversation merging
- A feature request
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Watch & Mac mini are no longer advertised as “carbon neutral”

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668: So Happy for All Parties Involved Dec 04, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Light Seal sizes decoded
  - Vision Pro Size Help tool
- JPEG XL lives… in PDF
  - Chromium ticket
  - jxl-rs: JPEG XL in Rust
- Chapter links in Apple Podcasts
- Malicious content delivery on Podcasts.app?
  - 404 Media article
Everybody is leaving Apple
- John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
  - Amar Subramanya’s first-week experience at Microsoft
- Alan Dye poached by Meta
  - Jason’s take
Cloudflare’s 18 November Outage
Ask ATP:
- Why can’t Siri pronounce names correctly? (via Tony West)
  - serra queue sah
  - Siri, what’s my full name
Post-show:
- What now, bagel snobs?
- Bullstrap Minimalist Case
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝 Intel?
- Intel 18A vs. TSMC N2
- MTr/mm²

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667: Wisdom and Treachery Nov 25, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- Bryan’s toot
Follow-up:
- macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electron slowdown (per shamelectron)
- Gurman says “not so fast, my friend”
- Gaming in ARM
  - Anti-cheat complications (via Tyler)
  - Windows 11 on ARM (via David Gaw)
- OpenAI Egg update
  - Interview video
  - Fred T
- Apple N1 > Broadcom
- An iPhone camera cluster theory
- The UK is still trying to make fetch happen get themselves a back door
  - Financial Times
Apple Fitness+ is “Under Review”
Fast charging & battery health
- Juli Clover summary @ MacRumors
Ask ATP:
- Now that Marco owns a restaurant, does he tip differently? (via Max Velasco Knott)
- What do we think about third-party packages? (via Eric Jacobsen)
- Is organizing /Applications a poor choice? (via Nathan)
- Are our kids better than we are at video games yet? (via Omri Arbiv)
Post-show: The saga of Overcast episode images
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we ever be forced to put away our phones? (via Philip McDermott)

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666: We Have Nothing That Hot Nov 20, 2025

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🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
Follow-up:
- The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
  - Wikipedia
- Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
  - Paperlike
  - Rock Paper Pencil
- Steam Machine
  - EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidSchaub)
- PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via Jesús Santaigo Narváez)
  - Wikipedia
  - PS Dev Wiki
- Steam Frame
  - Lenses (via Michael)
  - Spec chart (via James O’Loughlin)
  - Top strap image
  - Steam → Apple Vision Pro using ALVR (via Iain Wallace)
    - Guide on Reddit
- SteamOS
  - Is not universally supported (via DavidSchaub)
  - Alternatives (via solmnmagus)
    - Bazzite
    - CachyOS
  - Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)
  - Screw it, I’m installing Linux
- Steam strategy
  - Is Steam-on-ARM popular?
    - Hardware survey (via Lars Boris)
      - Additional thoughts from Ava
  - Steam has only one person to answer to (via charlesesmith)
- Single thread performance ranking (via Steven Op de beeck)
- “High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)
John mourns the recent news
- GPU issues (via Colin Cornaby)
- GeekBench Metal scores
  - Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
  - Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra
- The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
Tim Cook to step down as early as next year
- Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 (starts at 35:51)
  - As discussed in ATP #425: Hey Billionaire
- Financial Times, 14 November 2025
- Gruber’s take
- Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors
  - Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines
Post-show: Declan discovers “HyperCard”
- Rage-baiting
Members-only ATP Overtime: The App Store on the web
- Dan Moren @ Six Colors
- MJ Tsai
- Apple shipped its source maps
  - Svelte
- See also: Apple Maps on the web
  - Announcement
- See also: Apple Podcasts on the web
  - Juli Clover @ MacRumors

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665: My Basement Is Beautiful Nov 14, 2025

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Follow-up:
- John has some new Vision Pro treats
  - Flight Ready
- In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
  - ATP Tier List: Storage Media
- Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
  - We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
  - Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles)
    - Subscriber audio chapters are a mess
- New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only?
  - Mark Gurman’s coverage
  - MD101
- Tahoe & Electron app fixes
  - Discord is fixed (via Dayton Lowell)
  - Microsoft Teams Classic is likely to never get fixed (via Adam Wunn)
- macOS Emoji Picker
  - ⌃ ⌘ Space
  - Rocket
- Pogo-stick robot
  - Boston Dynamics
- A butt-dialing theory from Trey Carpenter
iPhone Pocket
- Paul’s analogy
- Gruber’s post
iPod Socks
- On eBay
New Steam Hardware
- Initial coverage
- Steam Controller
  - TMR not Hall Effect
  - Understanding the difference
- Steam Machine
  - Images on The Verge
- Steam Frame
  - More photos
Post-show: Marco goes to Home Depot
Members-only ATP Overtime: Affinity graphics apps go free, and some people are upset
- Press release

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664: Humanity Gets in the Way Nov 06, 2025

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Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
- Don’t Stop Believin’…
An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
Follow-up:
- The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison)
- More dashed Mac Pro dreams
  - Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature
  - Variants
    - P = A_
    - G = A_X / A_Z / M_
    - S = M_ Pro
    - C = M_ Max
    - D = M_ Ultra
    - X = M_ Pro/Max/Ultra
  - Examples
    - A11 = H10P
    - A12X = H11G
    - A14 = H13P
    - M1 = H13G
    - M2 Pro = H14S
  - GPUs use G instead of H
  - More island/chip names from 26.1 RC:
    - Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/arm/cpuid.h
    - Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/mach/machine.h
    - Apple codenames
- John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe
- John’s un-fixed Electron apps
- More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1
- M5 MacBook Pro speed tests
  - MaxTech
Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
- Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Balance
An aside about nanotexture displays
- Marco’s current iPad paper-texture overlay
Casey upgraded to Tahoe
- Funky sidebar icon
/r/overcast
- Under the Radar #330: Engaging with Reddit
- Meltdown in the ProCreate subreddit over a painting of Master Chief
Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing
- Tinkercad
- Bambu
- Eric Welander’s video about Gridfinity
- Toybox
Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
- WSJ Article (or On Apple News+)
- QWOP

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663: Defending the Honor of The Cheesecake Factory Oct 30, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco’s airplane neighbors
- Flighty
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro
  - Mac Virtual Display
    - On Intel it’s only up to 3K 🤭 (via Thomas Cheng)
    - Apple Support
  - Tapping-and-holding × allows for hiding other windows (via Nick Anthony)
  - Vision Pro vs. ski goggles
- Apple 🤝 Vapor Chambers
  - Would it come to the MacBook Air (via Andy Lang)
  - Coming to the iPad Pro?
- Apple’s MLS deal
  - …is worldwide; not US-only
  - Apple advertises in Korea (via Jake Lee)
- John’s Shortcuts bug
  - Calum’s example
  - Fleedar’s example
  - lukens77 on Reddit (via eurozerozero)
  - Is it all Shortcuts-related files?
    - Possible fix from gleeful
      - Overwrite If File Exists
- Fixing the “iconic plateau” (via Gordon Mcdowell)
- The Cheesecake Factory does, apparently, make everything fresh
  - ATP Inside: The Restaurant, Season One
  - Cube Rule
Mac Rumors
- M6/OLED MacBook Pro?
  - Previously from Mark Gurman
- Brendan Shanks’ discovery
𝓍OS 26 β4 includes Liquid Glass toggle
- iOS/iPadOS: Settings → Display and Brightness
- macOS: System Settings → Appearance
- Example image
- Lock Screen swipe for camera can now be disabled, too
  - Settings → Camera → Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera
Is Tahoe safe yet?
Post-show: More of John’s impressions of the Vision Pro
Members-only ATP Overtime: How does one actually make an app? (via not that coach mike)

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662: Just Break the Law Oct 23, 2025

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Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️
- An aside about outerwear
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
Follow-up:
- Recognition corner
- Casey begs for help
  - Callsheet List bug (FB17661404) is fixed in 26.1 🎉
  - However, Menu(::primaryAction:) is broken (FB20755661)
- Some M5 Vision Pro clarifications
  - The M5 does have Memory Integrity Enforcement
- The M5 MacBook pro without a charger is actually cheaper in most regions
  - EU is €100 cheaper without / €35 with (via Nick Heer)
  - UK is the same though
- The non-determinism of LLMs (via Heiko Hotz)
  - New chat
  - Mira Murati’s company piece discussing non-determinism
The M5 Vision Pro
- Dual Knit Band
- HDCP
- Television
- Theater
- New Developer Strap (behind Apple Developer paywall)
  - MacRumors coverage
Post-show: John’s weird Finder animation bug
- AVIF
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