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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today Aug 10, 2016

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John's camera hunt continues
- The tradeoffs of zoom lenses
- Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm lens
- Sony RX10 III superzoom that John probably should get, but won't
- Fuji X-T2
- Sony A7R II, Marco's camera
  - iFixit teardown
  - Sony A7 II, the cheaper, older one
  - Differences between A7 II and A7R II
- Olympus OM-D E-M10, Casey's camera
  - Panasonic Summilux 25mm f/1.4 Micro 4/3 lens, Casey's 50mm-equivalent
The mediocrity of car infotainment systems
- QNX powers BMW iDrive
- Worse Products Through Software
The ARM Mac feedback that won't die
Planet of the Apps announces their advisers
Apple TV Guide
Apple launches bug bounties
Apple's new diversity numbers
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Why podcasts aren't VBR MP3s
- MP3 file structure
- More on frame headers, including the Xing VBR jump table
- Existing standard ID3 tags that could solve the problem, but appear not to be supported by anything:
  - ASPI: Not precise enough for long podcasts.
  - MLLT: Provides any precision level. A good candidate, but unsupported everywhere.
- A VBR version of this episode with Xing and MLLT tags
  - Compared to the CBR version, it's 25% smaller with better quality during the theme song

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181: Eat Your Vegetables Aug 04, 2016

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John rents a camera for his Long Island vacation
- Lens Rentals
- Sony α7R II
- John's rentals
- Sony RX10
- Casey's setup
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Temporarily-single dad life
Casey pretends _'s Tesla is his
- Casey samples the frunk
Apple hires Dan Dodge, co-creator of QNX
- QNX Operating System
- Real-time operating system
Swift 4
Rovi buys TiVo
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: yet more on TiVo

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180: Don’t Cry for John, Argentina Jul 27, 2016

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Follow-up:
- Pokémon Free-to-Play Dogs
  - The Sweet Home
- Looking at the bright side of Apple's ancient Mac lineup
Twitter Verification
- Attacks on Leslie Jones
- Federico Viticci of MacStories
- Twitter accounts:
  - Marco
  - John
  - Casey
  - ATP
  - Overcast
  - Verified
- Analog(ue) #85: Truly Terrible Human Beings
Marco's podcast post-production app
- Under the Radar #36: Should You Release Every App?
- Bugshot
- Quitter
- Piracy-reduction techniques
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- More on passwords and piracy protection
- How Tiff can play Inside
  - Samsung T3
  - VMware Fusion

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179: Free-to-Play Dogs Jul 21, 2016

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Follow-up:
- Casey's iMac Feedback
  - Pushover
- Pokémon Go
SoftBank to buy ARM
- Recode's take
- Gorilla Glass
Apple hardware stagnation
- Stephen Hackett's laptop reviews
How does Marco's Sidetrack work?
- Fast Fourier transform
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: What's appropriate to talk about on ATP?
- Erasure
- Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

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178: Mama Needs That Pokémon Jul 14, 2016

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Follow-up:
- Hackintoshes work sometimes
- Charles Perry's Mac Mini Story
- Contour Design RollerMouse Pro2
Casey's 5K iMac (Late 2015, 4GHz i7) Woes
- WindowServer: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continous seconds of unreadiness)
- Later RTFU tweet
Planet of the Apps
Pokémon Go
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show:
- Tesla Autopilot

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177: Paying for Someone to Blame Jul 07, 2016

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Follow-up: Dave Nanian of SuperDuper fame on HDMI CEC
Ripping Blu-rays for Apple TV:
- MakeMKV
- Subler
- Plex
- Infuse
- DS Video
- Don Melton's video-transcoding scripts
- The TV Database
- The Movie Database
- Follow-up on Marco's HDMI CEC woes
Follow-up: Matt Bischoff on ice cream ingredients
- Edy's vs. Dreyer's vs. Breyer's
iCloud Drive vs. Dropbox for file syncing
- Scrivener Sync
- macOS Sierra and the case of the missing files
- Dropbox Infinite
Hackintoshes still exist, apparently
- Marco's joke RT
- Old World ROM
- Isopoint Trackbar (more here)
The poor Mac Mini
- Motorola Rokr
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show Neutral: Honda Accord SE

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176: Yellow Sock Time Jun 30, 2016

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Follow-up:
More on APFS
- Space sharing
- Time Machine and file/directory clones
  - FSEvents
  - Hard links
- Atomic clones
  - TeachText
- Snapshots
  - BackupLoupe
Surprise HDMI CEC follow-up
- Logitech Harmony
- xkcd on standards
"Screen time" for kids
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
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175: Dance Palace Jun 27, 2016

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Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder
macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro
- /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
The Talk Show Live
- Marco's Pictures
- Deleting system apps on iOS 10
- Search ads using names of other apps
Apple Photos and controller search
- Example success
- List of strings for Photos search
Thunderbolt Display has been discontinued
Apple File System
- WWDC Video
- Btrfs
- Andrew File System
- Unicode
- Data integrity
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Email and parenting

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174: A Ding in the Room Jun 14, 2016

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Recorded live from Marco's hotel room at WWDC
Apple WWDC reactions
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann

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173: A Series of Heartbreaking Rejections Jun 10, 2016

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Follow-up:
- No 5K Monitor at WWDC
- iPhone "7" & SE: Third Time's a Charm
- macOS in official documentation?
  - Photo evidence
App Store changes announced this week
- Apple's official pages:
  - Subscription changes
  - Search ads
    - Example image
- Press interviews with Phil Schiller:
- Under the Radar #31: Today's App Store Announcements
- Brent Simmons' request for clarification
- People can't see ads
- Casey's take on DuckDuckGo
- Covariance & contravariance
WWDC Predictions
- Upgrade #92: WWDC 2016 Draft
Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: Marco changes an opinion

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