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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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631: The Colors Are the Pepperoni Mar 20, 2025

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Pre-show: Casey received a present
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner: Metallica immersive concert
- Colorful Macs
  - MacBook Adorable
- “Hidra”
  - List of Apple codenames
  - Hidra
- M3/M4 interposers (via Jonathan Dietz Jr.)
  - M3 Max does not have a D2D (“die-to-die”) interface
    - EE Times 🇯🇵
    - Tech Insights
  - …nor does the M4 Max
  - Reticle limits
  - Apple Silicon info Google Sheet
- Apple’s multi-OS redesign (via Jon Tatum)
  - Under the Radar #314: Optimism vs. Pessimism
Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Ask ATP:
- Do we set our phones on a surface face-up or face-down? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- What’s up with version numbers these days? (via Joe O’Connor)
  - Semantic Versioning
Post-show: Restaurant soft opening results
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple News+ Food
- Paprika

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630: Time to Spiral Mar 13, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner
  - New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo
  - Spatial Gallery
  - Metallica immersive special is coming
    - Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
- iPad Air corner
  - “2× bass” false alarm
    - 404
  - Appeal
    - Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
    - 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
- Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
  - Example video from Fabian
- More on colors (via Yossi Kanner)
- MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography
- Regarding the “Hidra”
  - ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
    - Interview with Srouji (timestamp link)
  - Lernaean Hydra
- Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra
- Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6
  - GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
    - 10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 231,757
    - 20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 209,003
  - CPU:
    - M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
      - ~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 2,813
      - ~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 3,921
    - M3 Ultra multi-core: 28,119
      - ~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 21,373
      - ~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 25,647
  - More from Ars Technica
- Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
  - ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (Overcast link to 1:31:16)
- Threads timeline setting update
  - ATP #616: I Have No Grippers
  - The Verge’s article (25 November 2024)
- Thoughts on Feedback
Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
Post-show: John’s speaker update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
- VW’s ID.Every1 Concept
- Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹

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629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me Mar 07, 2025

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🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Corporate Logos
Tim Cook teaser
- History lesson
Mac Studio
- General announcement
- M3 Ultra announcement
- M3 Ultra
  - Ars Technica
  - It is 2× M3 Max
  - According to to 🇫🇷 website: no interposer in M4 Max
  - Gurman in April 2024
M4 MacBook Air
- Announcement
iPad
- 6GB RAM, as was foretold
- Gurman misssed on this one
iPad Air
- Announcement
- Audio regression?
Post-show:
- Casey does free labor for Apple
- John’s computer speakers are dying ☹️
  - Possible replacement #1: Kanto ORA
  - Possible replacement #2: Kanto ORA4
Members-only ATP Overtime: Siri is falling ever-further behind
- Next-gen Siri is delayed? (14 February)
- Apple Intelligence Reaches Make-or-Break Point? (3 March)
- Siri remains trash
- Amazon steps up to the AI plate
  - Interview with Panos Panay

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628: There’s a Certain Smell Feb 28, 2025

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Pre-show: Marco messed with the system
Follow-up:
- New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing
  - Bono Autobiography
- Prospects for humanoid robots
- macOS testing (via Anonymous)
- With apologies to Joe Rosensteel
- Netflix’s Apple TV integration
  - It’s more than just the app (via Serena)
  - What purpose does the TV app serve? (via Daniel Luz)
  - Implementation details (via Anonymous)
- iPhone 16e
  - Name implications
  - Possible role? (via Patch)
- Apple C1
  - MagSafe isn’t a problem
    - No, really
  - C1 is “just the start”
    - Wendover video link
  - It’s really quite impressive (via Pedro Fernandes)
    - 0.0000000000000316 W
  - Andru Edwards’ Behind-the-Scenes Tour
  - Qualcomm licensure? (via Casey in episode 476 at around 40m)
  - Gurman on future Cx chips
- Apple investigates custom Wi-Fi chips as well
- Apple approves new wording for emails
  - Not just in the EU
- Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK
  - Full statement
  - Screenshot
  - Time for pressure (via Berbakay)
🎉 Hyperspace is out!!! 🎉
iPhone 17 camera bumps
- Leak
Apple pledges $500B domestic spend
- Upgrade #552: Table for Six
- Woes in North Carolina
Post-show: The Hyperspace icon
Members-only ATP Overtime: New “Apple-like” camera: Sigma BF

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627: Dragged Across the Line Feb 20, 2025

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Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
Follow-up:
- Apple Account transfers
  - Updated restrictions & guidelines
  - Stephen’s take
- The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
  - WSJ opinion piece by Green & Stamos
  - Matthew Green’s blog post
- macOS UNIX compliance
- Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything.
iPhone 16e announced
- Intro video
Apple TV app is now on Android
Netflix and foot-guns
Post-show: An update on Casey’s status board
Members-only ATP Overtime: Robots are, like, so in right now.

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626: No Longer ery Good Feb 13, 2025

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Follow-up:
- Flighty has other perks (via Stephen Klinck)
- First reports of Invites use in the wild (via Jim Weinert)
- You can use a cable with Sidecar (via Matt West)
- Why not use a Wi-Fi hotspot for “cellar Macs”?
  - Tailgate Tub
- Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers)
- DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka)
  - Technical report
- Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan)
- macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto)
  - Thom at OSnews
- Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another
- The new JoyCons do act as a mouse
- An alternative for Apple TV audio (via Nicholas Correnti)
  - /r/TVTooHigh
- Casey’s new arrivals
  - WS2812B Addressable LED strip
  - TRMNL
- Hyperspace updates
  - Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real!
  - Slack
- An aside about bug reporting
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK
- Original Washington Post article
- BBC coverage
ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
Ask ATP:
- What planning/wireframing tools do we use? (via Glen Lam)
- Is HFS+ still relevant in 2025? (via Mike Hatfield)
  - QNAP
- Would John tell us more about the many pieces of detritus associated with files? (via Leon Cowle)
Post-show: Restaurant-tech update
- Dante
- Ubiquiti Flex (Useful little PoE switch)
- Ubiquiti Flex 2.5G PoE (2.5G version with 10G uplink)
- Ubiquiti Switch Flex XG (10G switch)
Members-only ATP Overtime: iOS 19 UI rumors and the design language of Apple Invites
- Jon Prosser’s video
- Invites & Sports apps

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625: Time and Smoke Feb 06, 2025

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Pre-show: BBQ
- ZZQ
- Q
Follow-up:
- New immersive video: Man vs. Beast
- “Historical Commission”?
- Sonos volume changes are local
- DeepSeek censorship mechanism (via Matthew Cave)
- Docker
  - Rosetta (via Brian Reiter)
    - Hypervisor.framework
  - Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter)
  - Sending email
    - Mailhog (via Matt Barlow)
    - Mailpit (via John Caruso)
    - Maildev (via Yves Serrano)
  - ddev.com (via Bram Esposito)
  - Also consider Development Containers (via Dewald Reynecke)
- Marco’s TV audio sync issues
  - Match Format and Match Dynamic Range (via Marco Arment)
  - Quick Media Switching
    - Previously on ATP…
    - QMS marketing page
    - Demo video (via Nit)
Apple Invites
Pornography on the iPhone
Ask ATP:
- Why are Casey and Marco so excited for cellular Macs? (via Matthew Fenselau)
- Should one use their personal Apple ID on a corporate Mac (via Stephen Swift)
  - Localsend
  - ↪️ Gruber
  - ↪️ Underscore
  - Luna Display
  - Synergy
Post-show: Marco had a good weekend.
- Dante
- Food Safety Talk
Members-only ATP Overtime: Subsequent Sonos Stuff
- Sonos’ take on the Apple TV?
  - Ventura OS?
- Sonos has another round of layoffs
  - Letter from interim CEO Tom Conrad

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624: Do Less Math in Computers Jan 30, 2025

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🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:
- Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
- Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
- Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
  - Lenovo Legion Go S
- Ryan London is trolling John
  - Black
  - Brown
- John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
- Hyperspace scrolling updates
  - AppKit vs. WebKit
  - NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell
  - Every UUID
  - Writing down every UUID
- Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
- Casey’s notification/LED project
  - Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
    - Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration
    - ratgdo
  - ESP32
    - ESPHome
  - Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
    - WS2812B
    - Candy buttons
  - Historical commission application process
  - Switch replacement options:
    - HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
    - Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)
DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off
- Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
- Ben Thompson’s FAQ
- DeepSeek-V3 paper
- DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
- R1 is more open than OpenAI
  - OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought
- Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
- R1 censorship
  - Example 1
  - Example 2 (via Greg Pierce)
  - Example 3 (via Gruber)
  - Prompt engineering
  - The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer
  - Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor
Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
- x86 images on Apple Silicon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup

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623: It’s About Human Connection Jan 23, 2025

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Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️
- Jeff Atwood: Stay Gold, America
Follow-up:
- Apple pauses notification summaries for news apps
- Marco’s BMW does have dual-screen CarPlay
- Acura RSX: Honda’s first all-original EV
- Another 5K monitor enters the arena: ViewSonic VP2788-5K
  - Thom Bullock’s tweet
  - As per Dave Hamilton (of Mag Geek Gab), $800!
- Fast directory sizing lives!
  - /System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util
  - man apfs.util
- Apple sample code is on GitHub (via David Rönnqvist)
  - Backyard Birds
  - Food Truck
- Video of an iPhone 16 Pro upgrade 128 GB → 1 TB (via Joe Beninato)
  - Also on YouTube
- Tim Cook on Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware
  - Overcast link
Hyperspace updates
- Van Halen’s Brown M&Ms
- John’s Hyperspace Instructions
Ask ATP:
- What should a nerd consider when buying a house? (via Jeremy Kelleher)
  - MoCA
Post-show: Casey’s Rube Goldberg machine… simplified?
Members-only ATP Overtime: Nintendo Switch 2 announced
- The Verge coverage

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622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process Jan 14, 2025

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