Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show:
  • Top Four: Hot Pockets
  • Hot Pockets
  • Pizza Rolls
  • Fun Dip
  • Pixy Stix
  • Nerds
  • The Food that Built America
  • Smarties
  • Sprees
  • SweetTarts
  • Jelly Belly
    • Weird and Gross
• Follow-up:
  • The Letterboxd app (App Store) are native.
  • We know it’s at least in part Daniel Compton’s fault
    • Original acknowledgement
  • Future update to IceCubes will note verified URLs (via Henrik Nyh)
  • Apple Photos De-Duplication 😬
    • Aaron Gabbert’s experience
    • Mathew Schaffer’s experience
      • Example
  • Amazon will keep an archive of DPReview...?
  • Manual sensor shake on Sony cameras
    • MENU → Setup → Cleaning Mode→ Enter
  • Sony cameras & dual-base ISO
    • ISO on Sony cameras is often misunderstood
    • Photos to Photons: PDR Shadow vs. ISO
    • Photos to Photons: PDR vs. ISO
    • Dan Fox
    • Dual Base ISO explained
• General Motors hates your iPhone
  • Original Reuters report
  • Upgrade #453: At Large at Apple Park
  • Upgrade #454: The Home Home
  • Gruber’s post
  • MKBHD & RJ Scaringe
• Post-show: 🗣️ BREAKING NEWS 🗣️: The UltraMeh is still ultra meh.
  • Dell & Samsung 5K displays

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• Pre-show:
  • Marco’s window-washing woes
  • Chicken hat dregs
  • ❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️
• Follow-up:
  • Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion
    • Stable Diffusion Litigation
  • One more from CES: solid-state cooling
    • PC World video
    • Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
  • Twitter kills (some) third-party clients
    • Craig Hockenberry
    • The Verge
    • Twitter’s sole “statement”, five days later 🙄 × ∞
    • The Verge on “🫡”
  • Upgrade+ 442: Filing bug reports with Apple
  • An entry from the we-have-the-best-listeners file
• Apple’s Week of Announcements
  • New Macs
    • Dan Moren
    • Color-matched MagSafe cables!!️
    • iStat Menus
  • New HomePods 😱
• Post-show: Casey got the Belkin Continuity Camera doodad
  • External Display Mount
  • Laptop Display Mount

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• What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
  • LivePhish
  • Do By Friday #232: Panatee
  • Reconcilable Differences #152: Warnings of Gales in Trafalgar
• 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
    • Google Home Max was also discontinued
    • Echo Studio
    • Nexus Q
• 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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• Pre-show: Some thoughts on who should have agency over womens’ bodies
  • Roe v. Wade
  • In-vitro fertilization
  • Ectopic pregnancy
  • Evidence-based medicine
  • Trigger law
• Follow-up:
  • Using a M1 Mac mini as a Plex server
    • Other video transcoding
  • M2 MacBook Air available to order Friday at 8 AM OTTZ
  • Quick Pi-hole tip from Tod Weitzel
  • Advantages for Apple getting into Buy Now, Pay Later
  • A possible motive for bitcode deprecation
    • LLVM
  • Why passkeys will be simpler and more secure than passwords
  • Janis Peukert asks some questions about passkeys
    • appleid.apple.com
    • App-specific Passwords
  • On stateful hardware controls
    • Dancing faders (via Jordan McEwen)
    • Guitar amplifiers (via Samuel Cohen)
    • AirFrance Flight 447 (via Dave Rowenhorst)
    • Anton Yelchin’s odd death back in 2016
      • ZF 8HP transmission
• Apple announces Lockdown Mode
• M2 MacBook Pro thermal throttling issues
  • MaxTech’s video (timestamp link)
  • Gary from The Everyday Dad can’t reproduce the issue
  • Hardware Unboxed: Apple M2 Review
• Some notes on macOS Ventura Beta 3
  • System Settings
  • iCloud Shared Photo Library
• Post-show: Marco is diving into SwiftUI
  • Carbon
  • .if()

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• Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
• Follow-up:
  • Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
    • Sunday Ticket updates
      • On sale!
      • It was free yesterday... kind of
    • TV Everywhere
    • An alternative approach
    • DAZN
    • NFL Replay
    • Tailscale and Exit Nodes
  • Concert for One: Raye
    • NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
    • NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye
  • Using large external drives with macOS
    • Photos library
    • An anecdote from Marc Wickens
    • Booting from an external
    • Downloading large App Store apps
      • App Store → Settings
  • Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)
  • Apple Intelligence notification summaries
    • Steve Troughton-Smith
    • Chris Hancock
• DOJ says Google must sell Chrome
  • Google’s spin response
  • Ben Thompson’s take
• Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”
• #askatp:
  • Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)
    • iStat Menus
  • Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)
• Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS
  • Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread
  • Services on macOS
  • Making a system-wide service
  • ThisService (now defunct)
    • Github
  • In Automator
    • Save your .workflow files in ~/Library/Services/
    • To assign a keyboard shortcut:
      System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts (button) → Services (sidebar) → Text (list section)
  • FastScripts

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