Disk-cloning drama, recognizing obscene waveforms, Storacusa progress, and the plug-in-hybrid life.

• Pre-show:
  • New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
    • Become an ATP Member to listen
    • ATP Gift Memberships
• 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)
      • Insta360 Titan
    • Software-based immersive video
      • Depth Anything
    • Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
      • Welcome to Light Fields
      • Deep View Video
    • Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
      • Demo for the Meta Quest
  • 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
• New Vision Pro content — again!
• Apple and bootable macOS backups
  • Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts
    • Original blog post from May 2021
    • Secure boot
    • asr: Apple Software Restore
• 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
      • SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
• 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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