Accidental Tech Podcast - podcast cover

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusaatp.fm
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Episodes

447: Lunchbox on Your Face

Please donate to St. Jude . Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Pre-show: Casey’s very big day Robert E. Lee Statue removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue What is a Hokie? Teaching Marco geography Fire Island Follow-up: Australians: Get your shot! More arguing about geography Long Island Boroughs of New York City Apple delays CSAM protection features HomeKit camera TV PiP can be enabled/disabled per camera HomePods announce ...

Sep 09, 20212 hr 13 minEp. 447

446: Dead From Fraud

Please donate to St. Jude . Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Follow-up: Wirecutter moves behind a paywall Neven’s tweet Best blender is not a wasteland… sometimes. Cryptographic hashes vs. Apple’s CSAM Neural Hash What happens if governments get involved with CSAM detection? Reflections on Trusting Trust (PDF link) More Apple PR own-goals: Apple bans a pay equity Slack channel Music metadata MusicBrainz’s schem...

Sep 02, 20212 hr 5 minEp. 446

445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland

Please donate to St. Jude . Cancer sucks, and childhood cancer sucks a lot. Please donate any amount of money, if you can. Follow-up: Follow-up from Hypercritical #31 on 24 August 2011 (via Philip Spedding) Overcast timestamp link Casey apologizes to Collin Donnell Brent Simmons’ blog post Regarding 1Password and Electron What about the dependencies? (via KingOlegOne ) is-odd Roustem Karimov’s response Craft CSAM Neural Hash algorithm extracted ? Example collision 1 More examples App...

Aug 26, 20212 hr 3 minEp. 445

444: It Should Definitely Bother Apple

Follow-up: Disney PhotoPass (via Ryan D ) Bug bounties (via Dan Chandler) Cryptocurrency and failed monetary systems CSAM Security Threat Model Rview of Apple’s Child Safety Features Joanna Stern’s interview with Craig Federighi Patriot Act Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1Password 8: The Story So Far Electron iCloud for Windows Dave Teare’s Medium Post Casey’s Twitter rant Mac-assed Mac Apps 1Password’s funding On cross-platform UI frameworks Rust Snell’s ta...

Aug 17, 20212 hr 22 minEp. 444

443: A Storm of Asterisks

Pre-show: Marco files a verbal Radar for Apple Music God Shuffled His Feet A Worm’s Life The Joshua Tree Illusion is Now Follow-up: Why is there no weather/Calculator iPad app? (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa ) AMD W6xxx video cards are “workstation” cards Why Apple can’t pay bananas bug bounties (via Adrian ) Apple’s New Child Safety Features Apple’s FAQ Gruber’s explanation Matt Panzarino’s interview with Apple’s Head of Privacy Decoder with Nilay ...

Aug 12, 20213 hr 52 minEp. 443

442: Bob’s Barbecue

Pre-show: Phish is back. Yay? (Yay. -ed.) Days of the New’s new album Travis Meeks Days of the New II Follow-up: Apple Music Everyone (including Andrew Bement) pointed Casey to SongShift (App Store link) There are lots of third-party music players, which Marc Barrowclift reviewed Photos Regarding concert pairing WWDC 2018 keynote, 29m25s (via Benjamin ) See also KBase Deleting all your photos from Google Photos is… the worst. Photo editing tips from Henrik See also PHAdjustmentData A...

Aug 05, 20212 hr 56 minEp. 442

441: Meals at Home

Pre-show: LivePhish.com Playdate Collin Donnell Status Board Tamagotchi Follow-up: Everyone, but especially Americans, please get vaccinated ! More Safari Updates Stroke around window widgets on macOS iPadOS Updates iOS Updates Sam Gross’ HIG observation Live Text will be available on Intel Macs too ! TextSniper “Scorch marks” on Lightning connectors Electrical contact cleaner MagSafe “Soap Dish” Elective repairs for cosmetic damage at Apple stores RFSolution: How d...

Jul 30, 20212 hr 49 minEp. 441

440: The Reality of Magnets

Pre-show: Marco’s accident DJI Mavic 2 Follow-up: There are dozens of people who like compact Safari (via Anthony Lee) Perhaps wonky Safari is a nod to an AR future? (via Dan Blondell) Round Rects Are Everywhere! Mac Safari’s tab-close UI (via Guy English) Other multi-UI apps (via Daniel Jalkut) NetNewsWire Photos Extensions Darkroom flag & reject workflow (via Ben Gollmer) Write-up (on Medium 🙄) Raw Power (via Kyle McMahon) Introductory video Caveats OpenDoc The best news about...

Jul 20, 20212 hr 27 minEp. 440

439: Eventually Converge on Correctness

Pre-show: Casey’s macOS Bug Report Math Emporium Power Mac G4 Cube Crystal Garden Follow-up: New Safari tab interface in Monterey beta 3 Toppy Tabs Ribbon Word 6 Screenshot Elective AppleCare+ Repairs Photo Ingest Photo Mechanic Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader “Made for Apple Photos”? The Aeron was revised in 2017 (via Alexander ) Differences Casey’s Shocking News Post-show bonus #askatp : Does Adam still wear his Apple Watch? (via Andrew Blomquist ) Apple Watch SE Fam...

Jul 15, 20212 hr 53 minEp. 439

438: Some Amount of Futzing

Pre-show: Case-Liss Casey Liss ZZQ Q Barbeque Casey’s Shattered Windshield John’s iPhone case Follow-up: HomeKit and Bonjour / zeroconf Lutron Caseta Matter Thread Quinn’s Video HSTS and Safari (via Jakob ) DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption Thoughts on Safari from Scott Sutton Safari Technology Preview (“Purple Safari”) Eye-tracking Memoji? (via Daniel Yount) Executive images John mousepad update Managing Digital Documents (via Jason Abreu) 1Password for Families Fujits...

Jul 08, 20212 hr 22 minEp. 438

437: The Right Side of the Mouse Pad

Pre-show: Nostalgia for compulsory technology Toshiba e740 Microdrive Volvo XC90 Being old in a college town Top of the Stairs Follow-up: Safari reload update in Monterey beta 2 HTTP Strict Transport Security hstspreload.org Report for hypercritical.co iOS 15 can adjust more than just text size Settings → Accessibility → Per-App Settings On the need for Apple to defend in-app purchase revenue (via Abel Demoz) The Art of the Possible John’s Mouse Pad Woes SwitchGlass Cool, Geeky Mac Apps Bo...

Jul 01, 20212 hr 58 minEp. 437

436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door

Pre-show: FAA’s TRUST program FAA Part 107 DJI Mini 2 Follow-up: Safari page reloading Pull-to-refresh John’s extension Finn Voorhees’ experiment Safari on iOS 15 & Monterey automatically upgrades HTTP → HTTPS… kinda iCloud Private Relay Rauli Rikama’s observations What about embedded browsers? (via Maarten Hazewinkel) Private Relay is always used for known trackers (via Renaud Lienhart) FLoC You monsters that use unnatural scrolling Scroll Reverser Mos Avara so...

Jun 24, 20212 hr 55 minEp. 436

435: A Strong Number Four

Pre-show: Freaks and Geeks Follow-up: Universal Control & device arrangement (via Andreas Beyer Bowden) More from Viticci Center Stage Object Capture quality Matt Waller’s Baby Yoda Mikko Haapoja’s pineapple macOS Monterey Live Text (OCR) works with captchas too ! App Library in the dock is optional Safari 15 and Reload Button Instructions to restore old-style Safari tab bar Feature flag Many macOS Monterey features are Apple Silicon-only Apple’s fine print Maps app globe a...

Jun 17, 20212 hr 11 minEp. 435

434: A Squirmy Soup of Rectangles

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 TextSniper iPad Multitasking Video iPad Menu Screenshots iPad Menu Video Mosaic NSUserActivity DUNS Number Synergy Fitt’s Law USDZ Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Post-show: Original Prince video What happened? Remastered version in which the outcome is more visible Todd Vaziri Sponsored by: Mack Weldon : Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast ....

Jun 08, 20213 hr 4 minEp. 434

433: Before We Leave the Dump

Follow-up: Casey’s HDMI HOMI Update HDMI cable types Wi-Fi 6 Back to Work Thread Dolby Vision and raised blacks (via Kai Kontio) iMac Fans Jonathan Dietz’s Apple Silicon cost-estimate spreadsheet Apple Podcasts issues: Broken show notes ? Apple Podcasts subscriptions delayed 🤮 Apple’s Self-Serving Puff Piece 🤮 Thoughts on Flash On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation vDSP Functions WWDC 2021 Predictions Tick-tock WIMP Image map Casey’s WWDC 2021 Wishes Functional React...

Jun 03, 20212 hr 8 minEp. 433

432: I Shouldn’t Need to Wiggle

Pre-show: Compacted sugar Fun Dip SweetTarts Candy Cigarette Big League Chew Follow-up: John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread High resolution image Chiplet AMD Discussing X3d Die stacking Keeping Up Moore’s Law with Chiplets Chiplet vs. Monolithic Some speculation about the next Mac Pro Base-model 24” iMacs have only one fan MacBook Air’s rumored “ski feet” Lord Matthew’s theory Apple support document clarifies lossless streaming details John Voorhees’ ta...

May 27, 20212 hr 22 minEp. 432

431: City of Chips

ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉 Thank you, ATP Store purchasers! Follow-up: Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut ) NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo CMHeadphoneMotionManager 24” iMac Reviews, including Jason Snell’s Matching cords, accessories, desktop backgrounds, stickers, highlight colors, “hello” intro movie Highlight colors via Sebastiaa...

May 20, 20212 hr 8 minEp. 431

430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉 Colonial Pipeline How long does gas last? Follow-up: Overpriced AirTag mounts AirTag Leather Key Ring AirTag Leather Loop Belkin Secure Holder with Key Ring for AirTag Marco’s recommended solution Unattended restart with FileVault enabled sudo fdesetup authrestart Or, optionally, sudo fdesetup authrestart -delay...

May 13, 20212 hr 55 minEp. 430

429: Digital Speedo

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. (Don’t forget, members get 15% off!) Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉 Follow-up: Some notes about the ATP store [email protected] Casey’s fans (the spinny kind) Bond Bridge Purchases last week AirTag quick impressions Spree Whistle FileVault performance About encrypted storage on your new Mac FileVault and remote management John&#8...

May 06, 20212 hr 3 minEp. 429

428: A Series of Rectangles

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉 “Fully vaccinated” Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview CEO question timestamp link Spring 2021 Apple Event Apple TV Calibration Remote Design & Pricing No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope Apple TV pricing Apple TV / iTV High-frame-rate HDR compatibility? AppleCare+ for Apple TV Extended AppleCare+ for Macs iMac Power brick/cable Upg...

Apr 29, 20212 hr 53 minEp. 428

427: The Apology Remote

Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉 Spring 2021 Apple Event Apple Card Family Apple Podcasts App Updates & Subscriptions RSS Feed Access Podcast Index Robot or Not #141: Podcasting User-Agent string ALAC AirTag Hermès Luggage Tag Gui Rambo’s discovered battery replacement video Press release What to do if you find an AirTag or get an alert that an AirTag is with you AppleTV Ted Lasso Season 2 Trailer Siri Remote Image Thread radio 24...

Apr 22, 20213 hr 37 minEp. 427

426: Loaded Baked Potato

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 SuperD...

Apr 15, 20212 hr 49 minEp. 426

425: Hey Billionaire

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 ...

Apr 08, 20213 hr 30 minEp. 425

424: Ethernet Squid

Pre-show: Read-only Tweetbot WatchConnectivity applicationContext userInfo messages 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 CDO Bitcoin summary But how does Bitcoin actually work? Air gap eero pfS...

Apr 01, 20212 hr 58 minEp. 424

423: Fort of HomePods

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! �...

Mar 25, 20212 hr 57 minEp. 423

422: Sell a Third Box

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 Shared Albums Shared Album Limits 1Password for Families Grosse Point Blank Moving your data around privacy.apple.com (via Ezekiel Elin) Data Transfer Project (via Igor Makarov) Adapters Verge write-up Got Your Back (via H...

Mar 17, 20212 hr 1 minEp. 422

421: The First Miniboss

Pre-show: Marco is happy, though he shouldn’t be. ☯️ The iMac Pro is retired Gruber’s post Follow-up: One reason to choose Audi Kiss Guy is real! Interview Swift “header” views (via Ben Packard) ⌃⌘↑ and ⌃⌘↓ or Navigate → Jump to Next/Previous Counterpart Logging into vaccinate.virginia.gov Families: how do they work? No iLife is an Island Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos Google Takeout Twitter Archive ATP #155: Edit, Crop, ...

Mar 11, 20212 hr 4 minEp. 421

420: I Have No Urge to Speak

Follow-up: VPNs and Supervised devices Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres ) Skydio ’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon More on Clubhouse Chat room Gui Rambo’s investigations 🧵 “Ephemeral” Clubhouse Steve Jobs Stories Clubhouse is recording you John “tried” Twitter Spaces Super Follows Twitter “Communities” Overcast 2021.1 Watch Connectivity WatchKit UIApplicationDelega...

Mar 04, 20212 hr 15 minEp. 420

419: This Week’s Gasp

Pre-show diversions: Posting the bootleg Casey’s [hopefully useLiss] worries Marco’s ball situation Sonos Move Casey’s Compulsory Icebreaker Requisite link Follow-up: Jef e’s doubts about SMART tools Contacts API updates Better Trust Through Better Privacy Autofill Everywhere Google’s astrophotography mode Magnets and MagSafe (via Ante Söderholm) More on Supervised iPhones (via Marc Wickens) Support document More on Clubhouse Upgrade #340: Secret Sauce Hacking with ...

Feb 25, 20212 hr 15 minEp. 419

418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call

Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse ! ( That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed. ) Chatroulette Party line Newton’s cradle Should Apple remove the Contacts framework ? Follow-up: Living outside the east coast… or America. The UK explained The Concert for Charlottesville was posted Should timers sync? (via Richard Harris) What can Mobile Device Management really do? (via Chris Harper) Support article Helpful PDF An alternate way to think about RAM vs. SSD-wear tradeoffs (via Jona...

Feb 18, 20212 hr 21 minEp. 418