Accidental Tech Podcast

2 hours 13 minutes
710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
  - New treats
    - John
      
      iPhone 18 Pro
      
      John’s case
      
      AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case
      
      IP57
      
      Dust protected
      
      Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes
      
      Oddities
      
      Volume control
    - Marco
      
      Apple Watch S12 Ceramic
      
      Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?
      
      Mac mini
    - Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum
  - How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri)
  - Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman)
  - Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores
    - Chart
  - Apple watch “Readiness Score” seem to be mostly bunk? (via Michael Katz)
- iPhone Duo dev tools released
  - Aaron Vegh’s video
- Post-show: Marco’s Mac mini update
  - Ubiquiti WAN Switch
  - GL.iNet Comet Q and the PoE one
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti’s new home Wi-Fi that does “full-duplex MLO
  - Previously discussed on ATP #672: Wi Hyphen Fi
  - The Disappointing Truth about Wi-Fi 7
  - Introductory video
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24 September 2026, 5:13 pm
2 hours 7 minutes
709: Steel-Cable Insurance
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
  - The Marco Offset™
- Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video
  - Comparison video
  - Previously, in 2018
- Making of (via Techzha)
- Preliminary Geekbench scores
  - A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)
    - CPU
    - GPU
  - M6
    - CPU
    - GPU
  - M5 Ultra
    - CPU
- iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2
- Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)
  - Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space
- Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera
- iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)
- iPhone Duo
  - How will iPhone Mirroring work?
  - No Action Button 💔
  - The Duo does have a split keyboard
  - An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo
  - Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2
    - Thomas Ricker at The Verge
  - Stephen Robles insights
    - iPhone side-dock example
    - MagSafe accessories will be… tough
  - A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)
  - Apple Pencil support
  - Fake bezel
    - Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac
    - Demo video (Twitter link)
- iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing
- Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)
- Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)
- John’s cheap S3 setup
  - Configuration
  - CLI invocation:
    aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \ --bucket my-cool-bucket-name \ --lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \ --transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class
- _DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales
  - Gruber’s breakdown
    - iPhone 17: 36.5%
    - iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%
    - iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%
    - iPhone 17e: 2.5%
    - iPhone Air: 1.5%
- Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The triumphant return of the Genius Bar?
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17 September 2026, 9:26 pm
3 hours 4 minutes
708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
  - The Marco Offset™
- September 2026 event
- Post-show: Jetty update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU
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10 September 2026, 6:04 pm
2 hours 5 minutes
707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
  - The Marco Offset™
- Follow-up:
  - Luz fooled me, Jerry!
    - Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
    - Mea culpa
  - Apple fooled us all
  - Siri blobs fix
    - System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)
  - John is happy with new Macs timetable
  - Are photo libraries on external disks supported?
    - Knowledge base
    - Iris
  - Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro
    - Dithering
  - Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron)
- ✅ Tim Cook exit interview
  - AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link)
- Phil takes another step toward the door
  - Emma Roth at The Verge
  - Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too
- iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews
- iPhone event preview
- Post-show: John’s storage update
  - Backblaze B2
  - Amazon S3
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro
  - 10 May: Mark Gurman
  - 3 June: Juli Clover at MacRumors
  - 21 August: Gurman
  - 30 August: Gurman
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3 September 2026, 3:43 pm
2 hours 37 minutes
706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight
- Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows
  - Screen clips
  - Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)
  - TPU for AMS
- 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Follow-up:
  - macOS 27 UI tweaks
    - Redesigned stoplights in β6
      
      Video
      
      Stoplights
      
      Stretchy buttons
      
      Video
      
      Porsche 911, 996 generation
      
      In defense of the fried egg Porsches
      
      Turning off the Siri logo
    - macOS 27 got the new Preview icon
  - LLM determinism when temperature = 0
    - Write-up by Horace He
    - IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
  - 𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas
    - See also
  - Other people’s phones
    - Not sped up! All 1×!
    - i vs. I
- Apple iPhone event announced
- New Mac mini and Mac Studio
  - Core size comparison
  - SME replaces AMX in the M6
    - Exploratory Github Repo
    - AMX instruction set
    - SME Introduction
    - Hello SME
    - Longhorn Toot 1 and Toot 2
  - Marketing page section (via Daniel Luz)
    - Oops, it was a joke and we didn’t get it!
  - High Yield diagram
  - M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max
  - Mac mini
    - Video support summary from Tim Hardwick
    - Mac mini pricing history
      
      …inflation-adjusted
    - Apple Upgrade program lease [un]availability
    - Gruber on pricing
    - Advertisement
      
      Behind the scenes
  - Mac Studio
    - Gruber on pricing
    - Advertisement
- John’s purchasing journey
  - The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler
  - The accessory that’s also a spoiler
- New […ish] keyboards!
  - MacRumors coverage
  - Apple Part Number: MJM4LL/A
  - Previously: MXK83LL/A
  - John’s keyboard (previously)
    - MMMR3LL/A
    - A2520
- New polishing cloth!
  - MacRumors coverage
  - Copland Supply
- Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux when performing file system operations?
  - Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Actually Slow, It’s MacOS Fault
  - Benchmark 1
  - Benchmark 2
  - Linus Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)
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27 August 2026, 7:13 pm
2 hours 30 minutes
705: Relentless in a Gentle Way
- Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil
  - Daikin
    - Home Assistant integration
  - Home Assistant Green
- Follow-up:
  - The OpenAI doughnut
    - What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
    - Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)
      
      Biconcave disc
  - Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem
  - Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)
  - RAMageddon
    - Apple gets lower display prices
    - Apple raises trade-in values
- 🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉
- AI watermarking
  - Steganography
  - How Claude’s text watermark works
  - Pseudorandom number generator
  - A wonderful visual guide
  - Some 3Blue1Brown homework
    - LLMs explained briefly
      
      Next-word prediction probabilities
    - Transformers, the tech behind LLMs
      
      Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable
      
      Image
  - Gruber’s take
  - Some responses to Gruber
    - Dan Moren
    - Daniel Jalkut
  - Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals
  - Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”
    - I Made This
- Post-show: Casey has news
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)
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20 August 2026, 8:45 pm
2 hours 8 minutes
704: Past the Ternus Horizon
- Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn
- Follow-up:
  - Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬
    - SQLite bug write-up
    - Blackbird
  - Post-show Neutral
    - Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing
      
      CarEdge (via John Siracusa)
      
      Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)
      
      Wall Street Journal (News+ link)
      
      The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)
      
      The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men
      
      Your Car Buying Advocate (via Ian McCullough)
      
      Two options from Colin Macdonald
      
      Automatch Consulting
      
      Insight Auto Consulting
    - Casey makes some discoveries over the last week
      
      Justification from the midwest dealer
      
      Ventilated seats
      
      Laser headlights
    - Marco takes a spin as well
  - John’s passwords pro-tip
  - Codex Micro (via St. Chris)
    - Icon keys
  - John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon CableCARDs 😭
  - Backups
    - Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)
    - …but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen)
      
      Transcend JetDrive
      
      BaseQi Adapter
    - Are backups even necessary? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
  - Apple Upgrade
    - Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)
    - Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)
  - RAMpocalypse
- New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons
  - Siri
  - Chess
  - John pours one out for his homie
  - Keir’s observation about icon composition
  - Safari
  - Preview
  - Settings
- Apple Watch overhaul rumors
  - The Casio watch everyone has (it’s small; here’s a bigger one if you want, or a more modern one with step-counting)
- John’s Passwords pro tip
- Post-show: John’s macOS update woes
- Members-only ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors
  - Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?
  - Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
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13 August 2026, 10:03 pm
2 hours 32 minutes
703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast
- Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”
  - Adam Wunn’s blog post
  - Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine
- Follow-up:
  - Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.]
    - Build #1172 includes ~~Siracusa~~ Replay Mode
  - Be wary of Sonos + Pi-hole or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein)
  - Ubiquiti High Availability
    - Redundant Power Supply USP-RPS
    - SmartPower Cable USP-Cable
  - “Odd” RAM amounts (via Joe Lion)
  - Multiple Apple accounts (via TJ Usiyan)
  - Some science about Sony’s axe of PlayStation discs
- SuperDuper 4
  - Previously in the SuperDuper blog…
- Apple Upgrade Program
- macOS 26.4 adds Battery Charge Limit
- Ask ATP:
  - What are good backup strategies? (via Todd Vaziri)
    - Backblaze (former sponsor)
    - Tailscale (former & future sponsor)
  - What the heck is a Docker container? (also via Todd Vaziri)
    - Wizard zine
- Post-show: Casey is car shopping again
- Members-only ATP Overtime: OpenAI hardware progress
  - Codex Micro
    - Gruber
      
      Quinn’s take
    - Stack Overflow keyboard
  - Rumored speaker
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6 August 2026, 10:02 pm
2 hours 30 minutes
702: Isolate the Evil
- Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks
- Follow-up:
  - Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post
  - Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)
  - Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)
  - Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis
    - Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability”
  - An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing”
    - macOS
    - iOS
  - More clipboard changes in macOS 27
    - Video in question
  - Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies
    - P. A. Semi
  - Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom
    - Hartley Charlton at MacRumors
  - Slate Truck price & availability announced
    - Previously on ATP
- Apple 🤝 Ford
  - CarPlay is Additive
- Safari on 𝑥OS 27
- Ask ATP:
  - How is Overcast transcription going? (via Pete Ottery)
  - How does Apple achieve “growth the hard way”? (via Elijah)
  - How do you create a second Apple account for doing development without a different phone number? (via James)
    - With an aside lamenting the way Apple Stores work
- Post-show: How does John pack?
  - InstaCrate
  - Shibumi
    - Wind Assist
- Members-only ATP Overtime: New information about the iPhone 18 family
  - RAM
  - “Side RAM” on the Pros
    - Supposed leaked drawings
  - Battery capacities
  - Bodies
    - Colors
      
      Original mockups
    - Thicker?
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27 July 2026, 7:28 pm
2 hours 10 minutes
701: I Improved My Town
- Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe
- 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji
- Follow-up:
  - Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App
    - LosslessCut
  - Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience
  - Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle
  - Sony 💔 💿
    - A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis)
    - CD sales are going up
  - Price increase corner: Apple Music edition
    - Chart by BasicAppleGuy
    - AppleCare+ too
  - FileMaker
    - In defense…
      
      CVE
      
      Monday.com
    - Marco got Robert Thompson off FileMaker after 18 years
      
      Scratch
    - And a special thanks to Adam Wunn 🙌🏻
- Gurman on post-Mac Pro plans
- EU drops battery removal requirement for Apple Watch & AirPods
  - Six additional categories
  - The Monkey’s Paw
- OLED iMacs?
- Ask ATP: What does Marco (or other adults) use 3D Printers for? (via Jack Johnson)
- Post-show: How Marco fixed AirPlay in Overcast
  - WSOLA
  - F Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The internal “roles” system in LLMs, and how it relates to prompt injection vulnerabilities
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23 July 2026, 9:43 pm
1 hour 56 minutes
700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies
- Pre-show: Anniversary Corner!
  - catatp (see also Statistics)
  - Bootleg visualization
- Follow-up:
  - Public beta check-in
  - Casey’s iMessage notification issue
  - Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers!
  - Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files
  - Mac-assed Mac Apps
  - Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter)
    - LaunchAgent
      
      ~/Library/LaunchAgents
    - Casey’s former keyboard
      
      Tina’s keyboard: MMMR3LL/A
  - Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring)
  - Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via Anonymous)
  - Gurman on M𝓍 Ultra servers
- Follow-out to Upgrade #627: What ~~was~~ is FileMaker
  - Agentic development
- Goodbye, Maestral 🫡
  - Gruber
- Apple Sues OpenAI
- Post-show: Casey vacation results: nerd edition
  - Unifi Travel Router
  - Formerly, GL.iNet KVM
  - GL Comet Q
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Sony announces the end of PlayStation discs
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16 July 2026, 6:18 pm
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