Accidental Tech Podcast

626: No Longer ery Good

February 13, 2025 01:57:44 • Download (114 MB)

Merging Apple accounts, home-status displays, emotive robots, and why we really do want cellular Macs.

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

February 6, 2025 01:56:51 • Download (113 MB)

Zen and the art of restaurant wiring.

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

January 30, 2025 01:52:46 • Download (109 MB)

DeepSeek's impact, Apple's position in AI, updates on scrolling and home LEDs, and an adaptive apology.

🗣️ 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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ATP Movie Club: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

January 27, 2025

In this special members-only episode, we watch and discuss "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986).

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623: It’s About Human Connection

January 23, 2025 02:08:03 • Download (123 MB)

Nerdy home-buying considerations, Hyperspace updates, the surprisingly difficult engineering challenge of scrolling, and how we're going to get through all of this.

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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