Accidental Tech Podcast

426: Loaded Baked Potato

April 15, 2021 01:48:48 • Download (105 MB)

Home electrical work, dumb Wi-Fi networks for allegedly smart devices, and predictions for next week's Apple event.

Pre-show:
- [Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
- All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
  - Thanks, Paul
Follow-up:
- Smart outlet update
  - Reconcilable Differences
  - For eero:
    Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connect to my network → Temporarily pause 5 GHz
- Electrical resistive heating
  - Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
  - Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
- Casey has a CarPlay apostrophe epiphany
- Charging the i3
  - Go buy SuperDuper!
  - Types of EVs
Follow-out: Upgrade’s Discussion of TouchBar and HomePod
Apple event on 20 April
#askatp
- Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod? (via Josh Errickson)
- What’s the point of BCC in email? (via Chuma Nnaji)
- How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
Post-show Neutral

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425: Hey Billionaire

April 8, 2021 02:30:17 • Download (145 MB)

Oracle v. Google, Tim Cook's interview, the next Apple CEO, and BMW vs. CarPlay.

Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
- Fork Hands
  - FU: Why two doses?
- Reverse Engineering the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Follow-up:
- How is John replacing a router with a switch?
- Ubiquiti Flex Mini
- Handoff vs. AirPlay 2
- Zach’s point about WWDC announcement date
- Yep, Apple uses Webex
- Microsoft Teams
  - Perhaps it’s too many UDP packets?
- Heating your house via cryptomining?
  - Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
  - Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
- NSRunningApplication was added in Snow Leopard
- FB7603765 is fixed!! 🎉
- Tesla Model 3 Delivery Checklist
- Cryptocurrency 000 101
Supreme Court: Oracle vs. Google
- Ars Technica write-up
- MJ Tsai’s write-up
- Clean room
- GNUstep
- ApplicationKit
- Kotlin
- Arial
- New York
- Geneva
- San Francisco
- Swing
- POSIX
Tim Cook Interview with Kara Swisher
- Overcast link
- Dithering (see the 7 April episode)
- Upgrade #346: Float It Like a Hologram
- Outside Online Interview
- Tim Cook’s ∞ Timeline
- Apple Leadership
- oh no
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s injured Tesla
- BMW i3
- Neutral #4: If You See a Cursor, They Blew It

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424: Ethernet Squid

April 1, 2021 01:58:29 • Download (115 MB)

WWDC's announcement, WatchConnectivity, read-only Twitter apps, Ubiquiti's trouble, network-switch fashion, and the latest hot news about cryptocurrency.

Pre-show:
- Read-only Tweetbot
- WatchConnectivity
Follow-up:
- [More] Tesla wheels of shame
  - Belvedere, CA via Alistair Logie
- AirPods Max warranty repairs (via Harrison Krebs)
WWDC 2021 Announced
- NSRunningApplication Radar Numbers
  - 48190148
  - 25521354
  - 22088473
  - 18980463
  - 21253274
  - 18890642
New Siri Default Voices
- Sample Recording
- Another Sample Recording
Ubiquiti Breach
- An aside about cryptocurrency
- Air gap
- eero
- pfSense
  - Their recent “whoopsies”
John’s Networking Situation
#askatp
- Should one use a non-administrator user account? (via Michael)
- How do I mash together 400 video clips into one file? (via Duncan Wilcock)
  - ffmpeg
  - Casey’s primer on ffmpeg
  - In short:
    - Create a file that refers to all 400 file names. Call it, say, files.txt
    - Each line of that file reads file 1.mp4, file 2.mp4, etc. One file per line.
    - Maybe something like this? ffmpeg -f concat -i files.txt -vf scale=4096:2160 three-hour-movie.mp4
- How does Overcast scrape iTunes? (via Brandon Wees)
  - SOAP
Post-show:
- Bell follow-up

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423: Fort of HomePods

March 25, 2021 01:56:41 • Download (113 MB)

Our walls are full of pipes and wires, our wheels are covered in spray paint, our photos have left the filesystem behind, and our HomePods need to lose a few amps.

What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
Follow-up:
- Tesla Wheel of Shame
  - Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet)
  - DC (via TG Cid)
  - Houston (via Aaron Farnham)
- App Store Pricing Policing (via Tim)
- Games and Notarization
  - On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
- HomePod follow-up
Some Membership Housekeeping
- Refunds for a very small group of you! 💰
- ATP Membership can be paid in 💶 or 💷! 💸
- ATP’s mid-year 👕 (& more!) are coming soon! 🤑
Mac OS X 10.0 is 20 years old today!
- John’s reviews & retrospectives
- robots.txt
Google Play Drops Commissions 30% → 15% for first $1M in revenue
- Marginal tax rate
#askatp
- When did photos become more than just files? (via Matt Fenselau)
- What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates? (via Dan Young)
  - Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
  - Comparing Update Sizes from Mojave to Big Sur
- How would we wire our houses if we could do it all over again? (via Matt Youens)
  - Cat6
  - Ubiquiti
    - Dream Machine
Post-show Neutral:
- Casey’s new dongle

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422: Sell a Third Box

March 17, 2021 02:00:58 • Download (117 MB)

MagSafe in the car, more on family sharing, hope for colorful Macs, and a fond farewell to the HomePod.

Neutral:
- The Wheel(s) of Shame™
- ProClip USA MagSafe holder
- Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mach-E
- Tesla Model Y
- Ford Mach-E
Follow-up:
- Clubhouse no longer requires contacts access
- Apple/ARM/TSMC
  - Long writeup (via Marc Kagan)
  - Fabricators
  - RISC vs. CISC
- Family photo sharing clarifications
- Moving your data around
  - privacy.apple.com (via Ezekiel Elin)
  - Data Transfer Project (via Igor Makarov)
    - Adapters
    - Verge write-up
  - Got Your Back (via Hung Nguyen)
    - GAM
    - The Horcrux
- Why the iMac Pro was discontinued (via Sören)
  - Skylake-X and Skylake Xeon-W Discontinued
RIP HomePod
- iPod Hi-Fi
- AnyList
#askatp
- Why aren’t there more background notifications from apps that aren’t running? (via Nathanael Mol)
- Why does Overcast do processing server-side? (via Michael Hellwig)
- How much of iOS is still macOS? (via Surabh Kulkarni)
Post-show: iMac Color Rumor

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