Accidental Tech Podcast

649: Prove It With Cameras

July 22, 2025 01:56:31 • Download (112 MB)

Our broken and drowned electronics, Apple's lawsuit against Prosser, Cloudflare's power exercise, and Marco's solution to sunscreen.

Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
- CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
- CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
- iperf3
Follow-up:
- F1 (the sport, not the movie)
  - Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
    - F1 TV
    - Vroom
  - John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
    - To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link
- John’s toaster update
- AirPods & AppleCare+
- Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S)
  - defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO
- Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro
  - mandonam
Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets
Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day
- Press release
- ChangeDetection.io
- Stratechery (paywalled)
Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen
- John hat that he likes
- John hat that is cheaper but he likes less
- 🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel (eBay)
- 🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed (eBay)
- Australian sunscreen video
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648: Part of the Movement

July 17, 2025 01:55:28 • Download (112 MB)

Jeff Williams' retirement, Liquid Glass revisions, and our review of F1® The Movie. While supplies last. Terms apply.

Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
- Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
- SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
  - Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder
  - Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder
  - Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder
  - FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta
- Toolbars
  - Safari
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
    - The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar)
  - Terminal
    - Beta 1 image
    - Beta 3 image
  - iOS 26 Beta 3
- YouTube’s new player UI
- “Clear” iPhone mock-up was by Gavin Nelson in April 2025
- HDR controls in iOS 26 (via Gui Rambo)
  - Demo project
✌️ out, Jeff Williams
- Gruber
- Gurman
Casey ponders the purpose of AppleCare
- Casey in Dongletown
Post-show: John & Casey review F1
- Plumber Problem
- Guenther Steiner
- Brad Pitt drives a F1 car for the first time
- Vision Pro Brad Pitt ride-along (Vision Pro users, scroll down)
- Casey’s pinball machine
Members-only ATP Overtime: 2020 Hindsight
- John Giannandrea

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ATP Tier List: Pizza Toppings

July 15, 2025

Ranking the entire set of pizza toppings available in central Long Island in the 1900s.

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647: You Get One Exclamation Point

July 7, 2025 01:58:30 • Download (114 MB)

Job advice for CS graduates, whether external drives should be USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire, and a draft of how we'd make the worst MacBook.

Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
- Reconcilable Differences
Follow-up:
- FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
- Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
  - Developer downloads
  - ↳ Direct link
- Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)
- UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)
- Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643)
  - Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)
  - Rebuttal
  - Rebuttal of the rebuttal
  - More from Gary Marcus
  - The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨
- HDR in 𝑥26
- iPadOS 26 window limits
- “Glass iPhone” demo
  - ↳ Direct video link
- That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage
Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽
Ask ATP:
- Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil)
  - CalDigit TS5+
- What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms)
  - Atto Xtend SAN
- How does a new grad land a job?
Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected
- YouTube Premium Lite
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU

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646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

July 1, 2025 01:57:22 • Download (113 MB)

John made an important purchase.

Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase
- 11 June 2011
- Documentation of the journey (spoilers!)
- John’s beloved
- Ninja
- Anova
- After Dark
Follow-up:
- We’re doing good work here, folks
  - YoLink leak sensors
  - Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub
  - Travel insurance is more than you think it is (via Jason Poole and Levi Dalton)
    - Allianz concierge
- Window widget size in Tahoe
- Apple Intelligence is now allowed when booting from an external in Tahoe beta 2
- Floating tab bars in iOS 26
- Apple “Ducks”
  - The Architect’s Lions
- Maybe don’t yank out removable storage in Windows either (via Adrian Mester)
- It’s the world that’s wrong, not me: iPhone 16 Pro case edition
  - “We Messed Up”
  - Bullstrap open-bottom case
- Ads in YouTube
  - Why not use uBlock Origin? (via Igor Kulman)
  - …or perhaps Vinegar (App Store link) (via Michael Brown)
RIP FireWire
Apple marketing continues to misfire
Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
- OpenAI/Meta leadership talent rivalry
Ask ATP:
- Is it worth buying a laptop where Tahoe is preinstalled? (via François-Olivier Leblanc)
- How much faster will an M4 be than an M1 for Xcode Simulator launches? (via Alistair Logie)
- How do we choose a new UPS? (via David Levine)
Post-show: Marco restaurant-tech MVPs… from his co-hosts!
- Tailscale (Tailscale is a prior sponsor)
  - Casey’s introductory post
  - Tailscale 4via6
- YoLink temperature sensors (even cheaper with a smaller temp. range)
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we pay developers like athletes?
- Sam Altman claims Meta has made $100M offers
  - Jack Altman’s podcast
  - Reuters coverage

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