Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
- 1 hour 57 minutes628: There’s a Certain Smell
- Pre-show: Marco messed with the system
- Follow-up:
- New “Boundless” immersive episode: Arctic Surfing
- 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
- C1 is “just the start”
- 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
- Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in the UK
- Full statement
- Screenshot
- Time for pressure (via Berbakay)
- 🎉 Hyperspace is out!!! 🎉
- iPhone 17 camera bumps
- Apple pledges $500B domestic spend
- Post-show: The Hyperspace icon
- Members-only ATP Overtime: New “Apple-like” camera: Sigma BF
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28 February 2025, 12:13 am - 2 hours 3 minutes627: Dragged Across the Line
- Pre-show: Restaurant adventures continue
- Follow-up:
- Apple Account transfers
- The UK’s no-good, very-bad law
- macOS UNIX compliance
- Goodbye, Humane. We hardly knew you. And you hardly knew anything.
- iPhone 16e announced
- 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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20 February 2025, 2:36 pm - 1 hour 57 minutes626: No Longer ery Good
- 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”?
- Why not AirPlay to Sonos speakers? (via Ryan Powers)
- DeepSeek censorship across models (via Sebastian Raschka)
- Has Apple ever… used… Screen Time? (via Jonathan)
- macOS UNIX certification (via Paulo Pinto)
- 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)
- Casey’s new arrivals
- Hyperspace updates
- Reclaim 1️⃣ file for real!
- Slack
- An aside about bug reporting
- Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally for the UK
- ELEGNT: Expressive & Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
- Ask ATP:
- 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
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13 February 2025, 6:42 pm - Follow-up:
- 1 hour 56 minutes625: Time and Smoke
- Pre-show: BBQ
- 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)
- Docker vs. OrbStack (also via Brian Reiter)
- Sending email
- 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
- 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)
- Post-show: Marco had a good weekend.
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Subsequent Sonos Stuff
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6 February 2025, 10:27 pm - 1 hour 52 minutes624: Do Less Math in Computers
- 🗣️ 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
- Ryan London is trolling John
- John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
- Hyperspace scrolling updates
- Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
- Casey’s notification/LED project
- Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
- ESP32
- Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
- 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
- Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
- R1 censorship
- Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup
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30 January 2025, 7:33 pm - 2 hours 8 minutes623: It’s About Human Connection
- Pre-show: #GALP 🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️
- 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
- 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)
- Video of an iPhone 16 Pro upgrade 128 GB → 1 TB (via Joe Beninato)
- Tim Cook on Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware
- Hyperspace updates
- Ask ATP:
- What should a nerd consider when buying a house? (via Jeremy Kelleher)
- Post-show: Casey’s Rube Goldberg machine… simplified?
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Nintendo Switch 2 announced
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23 January 2025, 4:40 pm - 2 hours 24 minutes622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process
- Follow-up:
- AirPod noises
- Gui Rambo & AirBuddy
- One of the noises is “the case battery is low” (via Zach)
- Also, more on status lights (via Tom French)
- Another noise is a calibration noise (via Ian Williamson)
- How to turn off charging sounds
- Look, ma! We’re famous!
- AirPod Noises (via Patch)
- TVs at CES 2025
- Hisense’s 116UX with RGB mini-backlight
- DLSS
- History (via Hampus Jensen)
- Explanation (via flunkedflank)
- Digital Foundry explanation video
- Mac monitors
- Some foreign options (via Henry Chen)
- Another option (via Tim Ngwena)
- Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler)
- AirPod noises
- 🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮
- TestFlight subscriptions on macOS
- TestFlight for ATP members
- Marco and Casey price John’s app
- Post-show Neutral:
- Winter report card for Tina’s Civic
- Casey has connected Erin’s car to Home Assistant
- Marco’s new[-ish] car update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Honda EVs at CES
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14 January 2025, 5:58 pm - Follow-up:
- 2 hours 12 minutes621: I'll Meet You Any Time You Want
- Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
- Follow-up:
- That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
- The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
- Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
- The Magic Mouse
- The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
- The Mighty Mouse did
- MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
- What will the new one be?
- Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
- Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
- CES 2025
- TVs
- What’s John got his eyes on?
- Sony 💔
- Samsung’s new QD-OLED
- LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
- Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
- “Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
- HDTVTest on the Z95B
- More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
- Big TVs are big
- LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
- Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
- Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
- Dell no longer makes XPS computers
- Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
- Engadget’s take
- Nvidia’s announcements
- TVs
- TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
- Post-show:
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels
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9 January 2025, 5:26 pm - 1 hour 46 minutes620: Mostly Cookies
- Pre-show:
- Holiday results
- Casey’s impending mess
- John needs technical support
- Follow-up:
- Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
- FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
- The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!)
- On Recents in the Finder sidebar
- Michael Starke points out it isn’t new
- Odin points out it’s a default
- Joe Lion has complaints
- Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens)
- Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs
- Original blog post
- ~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches
- Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
- iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
- Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
- Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing
- WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
- About Apple File System
- Apple File System Reference
- dirstat.h
- dirstat.c
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4 January 2025, 2:53 am - Pre-show:
- 2 hours 12 minutes619: Master Plan to Take Over the World
- Pre-show:
- New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
- Become an ATP Member to listen
- ATP Gift Memberships
- New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
- Follow-up:
- “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
- Can Marco recognize waveforms?
- Descript
- Emo Siri
- It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)
- She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)
- Immersive video
- More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)
- Software-based immersive video
- Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
- Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
- John’s app
- More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian
- Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)
- Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon
- “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
- New Vision Pro content — again!
- Apple and bootable macOS backups
- Ask ATP:
- Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)
- What’s the
correct
location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)
- ~/bin
- /usr/local/bin
- Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)
- What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)
- Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
- 27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)
- 16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality
- 16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality
- Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)
- 50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)
- Olympus OM-D E-M10
- Sony a7 III
- Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
- Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
- Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024
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26 December 2024, 4:02 pm - Pre-show:
- 2 hours 16 minutes618: Type System Says No
- New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
- Follow-up:
- John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
- A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
- Christian Kent’s correction/joke
- More app name ideas…
- Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
- Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
- Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
- John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
- Pinstripes are back, baby!
- Is Siri… emotional… now?
- Marco’s new e-ink toy
- Integrations
- API
- Note that it’s backordered for a bit
- New Wildlife immersive video episode
- Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
- Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
- PlayStation VR2
- Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
- Post-show: John’s app progress
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
- 5K is 5120 × 2880
- Marc Edwards’ chart
- Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
- At the time of recording, on sale for $720
- Jason’s review
- ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
- BenQ PD2730S
- ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
- Apple’s plans
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