Accidental Tech Podcast

1 hour 59 minutes
696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
- Pre-show:
  - We are not dangerously capable
  - We convince ourselves not to pivot to video
  - Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2
    - FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈
- Follow-up:
  - It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)
  - Indexing for the new Spotlight
  - Passwords app does the hard thing
  - macOS 27
    - “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1
      
      Microsoft Bob
    - You can use Touch ID for Administrator access
    - There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
      
      sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
    - ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation
    - The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding
    - Corner radius ∆s, illustrated
    - Mickey hands are back
    - They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition
    - General Golden Gate icon changes
    - Touch Macs are coming
      
      Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS
      
      ST-S notices NSToolbar changes
    - You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window
    - HIG updates for menu icons
  - iOS 27
    - Siri AI pull down animation
  - iPadOS 27
    - ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge
  - tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)
    - Hardware compatibility
  - watchOS
    - Hardware compatibility
- Apple’s AI Tech Talk
  - Images
  - Quotes
  - Dan Moren vanity searches
    - An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”
  - Stephen Robles’ Siri AI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)
  - 3Blue1Brown transformers video
  - Apple’s announcement for third-gen models
  - Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs
  - LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
    - Filippone Stefano’s review
  - Ars Technica’s write-up
- Post-show: Casey’s trip results
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
  - OpenDoc
  - iPhone mirroring resizing
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15 June 2026, 8:34 pm
2 hours 51 minutes
695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua
- WWDC 2026
  - Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube)
  - Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight
  - Word wall
  - Rob Rhyne’s toot
  - Weird holes
  - Change Detection
  - .well-known
  - Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple
- Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon
  - Music Video
    - Craig’s toot
  - Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
  - TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince)
  - Sam Henri Gold
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape
  - White foldable phone
  - More details
    - Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel]
  - Case leaks
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9 June 2026, 3:34 am
2 hours 19 minutes
694: Potential and Homework
- Pre-show:
  - 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
  - John and dynamic DNS
    - Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL)
      
      Tailscale Funnel
    - DynDns.org
    - no-ip.org
- Follow-up:
  - Ferrari Luce
    - John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG)
    - John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
      
      Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy
  - Bambu’s battle with its users
    - They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins)
    - Jose agrees
  - Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith)
  - Moving files between volumes
    - Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file
  - Computer UI designer for Her (via Peter Puleio)
    - Previously on ATP
- WWDC 2026
  - All systems glow
  - Wallpaper
  - Gurman prediction
    - More at MacRumors
  - macOS 27, Vision Pro, and Ternus [oh my!]
  - Hardware that has been delayed by Siri
  - macOS 27 name
  - What are we dreading?
  - What we’re most excited for?
  - What will we miss?
- Post-show: Casey wants some advice
  - Callsheet
  - Channels
  - OAuth
  - VLAN
  - Jellyfin
  - Infuse
  - SenPlayer (App Store link)
  - Tailscale Service
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Nvidia announces RTX Spark
  - Previously, the DGX Spark
  - This is not a new chip (timestamp link to 55s)
    - They’re the same… but not
  - Surface Laptop Ultra
  - Ars Technica
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4 June 2026, 9:58 pm
2 hours 2 minutes
693: Negative Bonus Points
- Pre-show: Marco has something to commend
- Follow-up:
  - Formula 1 on Apple TV
  - The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave)
  - SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor)
    - SVG can do THAT‽
  - Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut?
  - SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko)
  - How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble)
  - If Finder moves are no good, are mvs the same?
  - Defrag lives on …in APFS
    - diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable
      
      [disk] is something along the lines of diske3 or disk3s1, that you get via diskutil list
    - MJ Tsai
  - AI Sentiment
    - AI levels… down?… your worst coworker (via Nathan)
    - Ireland compels data center developers to bring their own clean energy (via Ian Robinson)
      
      Large Energy User Action Plan
    - Perspectives on art
      
      Original Monet
- The Ferrari Luce
  - Previously on ATP
  - Purosangue
  - Jaguar I-Pace
  - BMW i3
  - BMW i8
  - GMA T.33
  - Porsche Taycan
  - Galleries
    - The Verge
    - Car and Driver
      
      Exterior
      
      Interior
  - Coverage
  - John’s EV Stupidity Checklist
    - Saturday Night Live
    - Affordance
- Post-show: RIP Destiny 2
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Bambu vs. its community
  - How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
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29 May 2026, 8:43 pm
2 hours 6 minutes
692: A Thinking Hitch
- Pre-show:
  - 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her
  - Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness
- Follow-up:
  - Cut/copy/paste in Finder
  - Terminal
    - John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes
      
      tcsh
      
      John’s Terminal settings Window tab
      
      John’s Terminal settings Tab tab
      
      Escape sequence extended tooltip
      
      .cshrc
    - Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files
    - Fancy shell prompts like Starship
      
      KornShell
    - Some other terminal resources
      
      The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek)
      
      The terminal, the TTY, and the shell
      
      The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans
      
      Wizard Zines
  - Ignoring node_modules and the like
    - In Dropbox
      
      Dropbox documentation (via Hunter Hillegas)
      
      …or use xattrs
      
      Dropbox documentation on ignoring files
      
      Automator example from Boz Bundalo
    - In Time Machine
      
      pnpm as an alternative to npm (via Paul Galow)
      
      Technical explanation
      
      Supply chain protection
  - 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later? 🤨
  - Reminders
    - Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders?
    - Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard)
    - Updates in 26.5
    - Flexibits
- Why does everyone hate AI?
- Post-show: Marco gets geeky
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Googlebook & Aluminum OS
  - Why does the Googlebook exist?
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21 May 2026, 9:51 pm
1 hour 55 minutes
691: A Menlo Phase
- Pre-show:
- Follow-up:
  - CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey)
    - Bloomberg
  - “Hot lot” (via Anonymous & Matt Jones)
  - Ultra/Neo/etc
    - Is the “iPhone Ultra” the 20th anniversary iPhone? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
    - Did we forget about “Studio”? (via Karan J)
    - What’s the ∆ between an iMac Neo and a Studio Display? (via Zoran Nešić)
  - Time Machine
    - …with lots of small files (via Jon Wilson & Andrew Hathaway)
      
      Asimov
    - …with spinning disks (via Ben Mattison & Carlos Pereira)
    - …period (via David Fokkema)
      
      lsof
- Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for fumbling AI Siri
- Apple is flirting with Intel and Samsung
  - Apple’s Newsroom post about US manufacturing
  - Apple and Intel have reached an agreement? (Apple News+ link)
- Ask ATP:
  - How do we actually move files around our Macs? (via Brandon Whichard)
    - Yoink
    - MD5
  - Do we use a profile/theme for Terminal windows? (via Chris Harper)
    - Prompt 3
  - Do we use any other IDEs? (also via Chris Harper)
    - LSP
    - Intelephense
- Post-show: .nofollow
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Non-developers building apps
  - Ben Dansby
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14 May 2026, 3:45 pm
1 hour 55 minutes
690: Turn Left at the Next Tree
- Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
- Follow-up:
  - Backblaze & cloud backups
    - Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
      
      Support document
    - Maestral
    - Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz)
  - Neo-ing… other things
  - Mythos
    - What makes this different (via William Moran)
    - GPT-5.5 is equivalent?
    - cURL security/bug reports
  - Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI
  - AI is still ruining everything
  - An examination of Apple’s CapEx
- Ultra all the things
  - iPhone Ultra
  - MacBook Ultra
  - AirPods Ultra
  - iPad Ultra
  - Apple Watch Ultra 4
  - Mac Ultra
  - iMac Ultra
- Ask ATP:
  - What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy)
- Post-show: Marco’s Great Saunter
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Adobe has also forgotten how to make good software
  - Jason’s take
  - Foster Brereton
    - somebehemoth
    - Neywiny
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8 May 2026, 4:11 pm
1 hour 56 minutes
689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm
- Pre-show: Mythos
  - Anthropic’s blog post
- Follow-up:
  - ATP Store
    - Yes, it happened again.
    - The ATP Neo Silver made it!
  - UPenn is an Ivy
    - Kieran Healy’s story
    - Marina Epelman’s thought
      
      US News & World Report 2026 Best Engineering Schools
  - Gurman’s transition coverage
    - Tim Cook’s remarks to employees
    - Comparison between Cook & Ternus
  - The Ability to be Hotter
    - New material proves to be more heat conductive
- Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage
  - Backblaze Mac Release Notes for version 9.2.2.878
  - Backblaze Windows Release Notes for version 9.2.2.877
  - Response on Reddit
    - Reparse point
    - Additional response on Reddit
  - Backblaze blog post
  - MJ Tsai roundup
  - Alternatives:
    - Arq
    - Parachute for iCloud
- Ask ATP:
  - What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe)
    - ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
    - 2014 Honda Accord
  - Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason)
  - How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz)
    - Bug report
    - Gruber’s take
- Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things?
  - MaxTech’s musing
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30 April 2026, 9:10 pm
2 hours 6 minutes
688: A Company Man
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
  - GL.iNet KVM security issues?
    - Mark Wadham’s write-up
    - Dan Godin at Ars Technica
  - MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn)
  - Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon
  - More component delays
- It’s Ternus time
- Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Media consumption & the limits of human perception
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21 April 2026, 4:40 pm
1 hour 55 minutes
687: You Can Bend This Line
- Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
  - Roon
  - Nugs
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
- Follow-up:
  - Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
    - Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though
  - The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
    - Previously:
      
      Eric Portis on Color Spaces
      
      Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything
  - Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
  - Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
    - Others with this issue
    - Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago
  - Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
    - See also:
      
      Krebs on Security
      
      Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman)
- Ads are coming to Apple Maps
  - Newsroom
- AI-generated code & copyright
- Ask ATP:
  - When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason)
  - Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)
- Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
- Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance
  - Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
  - What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
    - MK1 High Density Rack Mount
  - Bandwidth comparisons
    - Thunderbolt 5
      
      80 Gbit/s symmetric
      
      120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
    - SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
      
      109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
      
      142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
    - PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
      
      1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
      
      16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
      
      …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
      
      17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
  - Internal vs. external SSD
    - 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
    - OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
    - OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
    - PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
      
      Kickstarter (ended November 2024)
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16 April 2026, 6:26 pm
2 hours 2 minutes
686: Write Two Letters
- Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
  - Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
    - Stephen Robles
      
      1
      
      2
    - Casey’s snarky toot
    - Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop
  - John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)
  - How much hotter can a Mac get?
    - Mac Studio power consumption
    - Mac Pro power consumption
  - Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
  - Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
  - RetinaDisplays.com
  - CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
    - They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
    - The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
      
      Mechanical Watch
    - CIE updates from 2015
    - On Apple’s CMF
  - Long Island and “mainland”
    - United States v. Maine (via Craig Bowers)
- The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
- Marco’s letter to John Ternus
  - A Tale of Two Letters
- Ask ATP:
  - How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
- Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
  - Regex to detect user anger
  - “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)
  - Future plans
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9 April 2026, 7:53 pm
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