Accidental Tech Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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• Follow-up:
  • Overcast 2024.8.2 update
  • Downsides to visual screen capture indications (via Josh Hattersly)
  • John makes it through the Apple Intelligence waitlist
  • Getting Apple Intelligence to create a memory of dirt-covered children (via Simon)
  • Prompt-injection on Apple Intelligence by Evan Zhou
  • Adding grammar constraints to LLMs
    • Llama documentation (via Stephen Tierney)
    • LLM Generation with Grammar Augmentation
      • More from an author
    • A summary found on Reddit
    • OpenAI’s “structured outputs”
  • Android’s superior notification history vs. iOS (via Nate)
• Apple’s Fall 2024 iPhone Event
  • Apple doubling RAM in Macs?
    • Desktop RAM history
    • Laptop RAM history
  • iPhone 17 (2026) to feature 12GB RAM?
  • iPhone 16 camera improvements
    • Halide
      • Process Zero
    • JPEG-XL
• Ask ATP:
  • Restore a new phone from backup or start anew? (via Tom Thorpe)
  • What happens to Apple Intelligence training for next year? (via Michael Quinn)
• Post-show: It’s time for fall vaccinations
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Foldable all-screen MacBook rumors
  • Concept art

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• Pre-show:
  • App Store reorganization
• 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Domestic Workflows
• Follow-up:
  • iPhone 16 “Capture Button” (via Aaron Dippner)
  • iPhone 16 Pro’s fourth color
    • More from MacRumors
    • Microsoft Zune
      • Available on Amazon!
  • System color picker (via Gus Mueller)
    • NSColorPanel
  • Screen recording Vista prompts (via Craig Hockenberry)
    • Persistent Content Capture
    • Moom
    • Remote access software (via Anonymous)
  • CIRP Mac sales report from last week’s Overtime (via Phil Marshall & Josh Lowitz)
  • Patreon maybe is using Apple as a scapegoat?
  • ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED lives on (via AJ)
    • Arc known issues for the Sequoia beta
    • Reddit thread
  • Fortnite is on iOS in 🇪🇺
    • On the Epic Games store
    • Also on AltStore PAL
    • Epic puts its money where its mouth is
• Apple’s AI prompts discovered in public betas
  • Reddit thread
  • Cabel’s issue
• Your new best friend is AI
  • Reveal trailer
  • ELIZA
  • Hang in there!
  • Tamagotchi
• Ask ATP:
  • How should we manage batteries on our devices? (via Jake DeGroot)
    • macOS: System Settings → Battery → The (i) next to Battery Health → Optimized Battery Charging
  • Do people actually update their ★☆☆☆☆ reviews if issues get fixed? (via Patrick)
    • An aside about Overcast plans, including a bombshell
  • Should apps have open bug trackers? (via shac ron)
  • Why don’t most podcast apps show per-episode show art? (via Mike Shafer)
• Post-show: Revisiting Marco’s kink
  • Ubiquiti Cameras
  • Flex switch
• Members-only ATP Overtime: More rumors about Apple robots
  • Gurman
  • Supply chain
    • 9to5Mac on manufacturer
    • MacRumors on plans

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• Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro
  • The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024
  • Theatre (App Store link)
  • Sandwich
  • SpatialGen
• ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
• Microsoft Recall
  • 7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in
  • 13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall
    • Microsoft blog post
• CoPilot+PCs on Intel and AMD won’t get Copilot AI features
• UTM has gotten told to pound sand
  • More from Michael Tsai
  • Dolphin and the App Store
• Apple and Meta could face charges for violating 🇪🇺 DMA rules
• Casey was in the keynote!!
• tvOS
  • InSight will use your iPhone
  • InSight uses ML to identify actors and songs?
  • Turning off sports notifications on the Apple TV
• watchOS 11 offers rest days
  • Matthew Willoughby with an excellent flex
• “Apple ID” → “Apple Account”
• macOS Sequoia
  • Using an Apple Pencil with an iPad in Sidecar already works!
  • Chris Chelberg has a galaxy brain moment
  • Network Locations have returned in Sequoia
  • Passwords.app passwords are still right-aligned
  • Sequoia window tiling can be disabled
  • Chess has been updated! (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    • Comparison (via Cabel Sasser)
  • iCloud Keychain browser integration in Sequoia (via Jonathan Freese)
  • Sequoia VMs allow logging into iCloud
    • Apple documentation
• Apple Intelligence
  • Apple Intelligence & third-party mail apps (via Rick Knowler)
  • Xcode AI code completions
  • Hardware requirements (via David Steer)
  • Apple’s AI training data
  • How to tell Apple “no thanks” on your website data
  • Tim Cook interview in the Washington Post
  • ST-S asks about Siri unsupported devices
  • Apple Silicon in Apple’s Private Cloud Computing servers
    • The Talk Show
  • Apple & OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet
    • Gurman’s report
  • The Sane on the impact of Apple Intelligence
• iOS 18
  • Bezel indents
    • GIF
  • Caleb Denman on iOS flashlight features
    • Quinn’s video
  • Third-party cameras on the iOS lock screen (via ST-S)
    • WWDC video
    • Obscura
• visionOS 2.0
  • Features not mentioned in the keynote
    • Customize your Home View
    • See your keyboard in any environment
    • Guest user improvements
    • Enterprise APIs
    • Other spots by The Verge
• Swift
  • Moved out of github.com/apple
    • New home
  • Swift Testing
    • Github
• HomeKit: You can now pick your HomeKit hub
• CarPlay
  • New features
  • Next-gen CarPlay video
• Post-show: Erin’s no-good, very bad week
  • A very expensive pebble
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Blue Ocean, revisited
  • John’s original blog post
  • Fairbuds noise-canceling earbuds have an easily swappable battery

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• Follow-up:
  • Marco has settled on the Peak Design case
  • What even is in Shared Photo Libraries, anyway?
• The 🇪🇺 USB-C mandate passes a vote
  • Christina Warren’s tweet
  • MFI
  • mophie 3-in-1 travel charger with MagSafe
• AI Art
  • Cortex #133: The Ethics of AI Art
  • Projects
    • DALL-E
    • Stable Diffusion
      • DiffusionBee to run it on an Apple Silicon Mac
    • Midjourney
    • Google Imagen
  • Artist found private medical record photos in AI training image set
  • Everything is a Remix
  • Ornithopter
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Light & Magic
• #askatp:
  • Can we give a primer on macOS window management? (via Philipp)
    • Philipp, I’m so sorry for my beloved co-hosts muddying the waters even worse, despite my best efforts -CML
  • How do we plan & track app development work? (via Dan Leehr)
  • How does John manage color on his TV? (via David Comay & Jeff Nachbar)
    • THX Tune-Up
    • FILMMAKER MODE
    • Calman Color Calibration Software
• Post-show: Casey tries to recover from our earlier debacle
  • SwitchGlass
  • Front and Center

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• Pre-show:
  • Marco has glasses
    • Too big according to John
    • Too big according to anyone
    • “Big Steve Jobs energy”
    • The Steve Jobs frames (we think)
  • …and iPhone cases
    • Pitaka MagEZ Case 3
    • Peak Design Everyday Case for iPhone
  • ATP Movie Club: Episode 3: Edge of Tomorrow
    • Remember, only for members!
• Follow-up:
  • iCloud Shared Photo Library limitations
  • There are lots of creaky clear cases out there
  • Stage Manager will support older iPads
    • UIScreen.main
    • NSScreen.main
  • When the always-on iPhone display goes dark
  • Black-and-white always-on Lock Screen
    • Settings → Focus → {focus mode} → Options → Enable Dim Lock Screen
  • Casey has some Apple Store experiences
    • Apple Watch Ultra
      • Alpine Loop
      • _’s Video
    • Returning a Solo Loop
      • TechCrunch coverage from 2020
• Marco masquerades as a wedding photographer again
  • Sony ɑ7R III
  • Sony 90mm Prime Macro Lens
  • Photo Mechanic
  • Retrobatch
• #askatp:
  • Does the always-on display increase burn-in risk? (via Steve Holroyd)
  • What is our version control strategy? (via Thomas Ferraro)
    • GitHub Flow
    • Oh 💩, Git!?!
  • Do we use the production or beta versions of our own apps? (via Nick Clinch)
• Post-show:
  • Casey moves from Heroku → Linode
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio Code Server
    • VS Code Remote Development
    • X Windows
    • DynamoDB
  • John encourages Marco to walk through a forest and fight dragons

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• Pre-show:
  • Relay FM Feuding Families
  • ATP Movie Club: Episode 2: The Rundown
    • Remember, only for members!
    • Casey’s traumatic moment, captured
• Follow-up:
  • Apple Pay and “valid” addresses
  • iPhone 14 has revised, easily-repairable internals
    • Repair costs
    • SIM tray spacer
  • John’s second iPhone case
    • Bullstrap case
    • Ryan London case
  • Marco’s case updates
    • Pitaka Case
  • Casey’s on the HDHomeRun Prime with Channels Train
    • PCMCIA
  • Glasses updates
    • Blue-blocking lenses were universally panned
    • Zenni Optical
  • Apple’s upgrade guide (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen)
• iPhones 14 Pro Experience
  • John on the Podcastathon
  • Apple’s guidance on transferring watches
  • John’s status bar
  • Halide
  • Ryan Jones’s chart about camera bumps
  • Paste warning is a bug
  • Gruber’s chart
• Post-show:
  • Marco’s car wears a watch (image)

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• Extended Pre-show:
  • Marco finally catches up to Casey & John
    • Dilating drops
  • 🎉 ATP EPISODE 500!!! 🎉
    • catatp
    • ATP Episode #400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
    • Mac OS iguana easter egg (video)
    • Mac OS iguana easter egg explanation
    • Some discussions about a 🆕 special members-only perk
• Follow-up:
  • John’s Polarizer & lens protector
    • Special relativity
    • Variable Neutral Density Filter
    • Bell’s Theorem (via Stepan Dolezal)
    • Polarizing Filter (via Rob Sayre)
    • UV Filters are useless? (also via Rob Sayre)
  • iPhone focal lengths spreadsheet (by Colin Robertson)
    • 2× crop goes from 9.8 × 7.3mm → 4.9 × 3.65mm
    • Prior 2× cameras were 4 × 3mm
  • Satellite location sharing
    • Collect calls
  • Apple Watch S8 is basically the same CPU as S6 & S7
  • Apple Delays iCloud Shared Photo Library
  • Dynamic Island name recommendation from Dan Engler
    • API
    • The Verge’s iPhone 14 Pro review
      • Subpixel rendering
      • Pentile display
  • Krebs unequivocally walks back the Ubiquiti reporting
• What did the hosts order last week?
  • John’s black-leather iPhone 12 Pro case
  • John’s forthcoming black-leather iPhone 14 Pro case
• Marco races the clock
• Don’t miss a special treat before the after-show. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
• Post-show: Marco asks for tips about 👓

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• Pre-show: A bidding war for a good cause
• Apple Event, September 2022
  • Apple Watch Series 8
  • Apple Watch SE (2nd generation)
  • Apple Watch Ultra
    • Panerai
      • Luminor Tourbillon GMT
    • Photos from Matt Panzarino
    • Size comparison by Neil Cybart
    • GPS L5
  • AirPods Pro (2nd generation)
    • Helly R!
  • iPhone 14 & 14 Plus
    • Emergency SOS via satellite
    • Iridium
    • Garmin Inreach Mini 2
  • iPhone 14 Pro & Pro Max
    • John’s Tweet about 🤢 “Dynamic Island” 🤢
    • Anti-aliasing
• Don’t miss a special treat before the after-show. (Thanks, Jonathan!)
• Post-show: Leaks abound

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• Pre-show: Marco has leveled-up as a nerd. 🤓
  • HP M182nw
• Follow-up:
  • John’s polarizer and lens protector
  • Calibration of Rock Band instruments (via Johannes Zander)
  • Casey got buzzed by Apple Maps cars
    • “Image Collection” Locations (via Holgr in the chat)
• Apple Watch Series 7 exit interview
• iPhone 13 Pro exit interview
  • John’s black-leather iPhone 12 Pro case
• iPhone 14 & 14 Pro expectations
  • Single pill/lozenge?
    • Gurman confirmation
  • Garmin InReach
• Apple Watch Series 8 expectations
  • G-Shock
  • Garmin adventure watches
• AirPods Pro 2?
• Don’t miss our special ending theme (thanks, Jonathan Mann!)
• Post-show: 👃🏻❓
  • Levoit HEPA Air Purifier with Toxin Absorber Filter
  • Fresh Wave Odor-“Removing” Gel
  • Zero Odor Pro

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• Pre-show Netural: In a shocking piece of news, Marco’s Defender hasn’t exploded (yet)!
  • Marco’s “Thule”
  • Casey’s WireLiss CarPlay Adapter
  • 🇸🇪 Study on Touchscreens vs. Physical Controls
  • Example XC90 touchscreen
• Follow-up:
  • On people copying S3 API
  • CarPlay navigation voice volume
    • Former setting, prior to iOS 15 (via Daniel Finley)
    • Use the driver’s side volume control on the wheel to adjust volume (via Josh Biggs)
  • Postpartum doulas are a thing (via Matt Rigby)
  • 4K TV
    • FiOS channel stand-by banner recording
    • A godawful map of 4K over the air
      • A rough crack at a vastly improved map via chatroom user SageOlson
    • RVA has 4K
  • Audio/video sync
    • Catchin’ Sync (also via Matt Rigby)
    • Catchin’ Sync on the App Store
    • John’s first attempt at sync (H265)
    • John’s second attempt at sync (WebM 1)
    • John’s third attempt at sync (WebM 2)
  • TiVo ad skipping
  • Casey’s feedbacks
    • FB10566546 is fixed! 🎉
    • FB11080380 is fixed, but includes a new regression. ☯️
    • Five other bugs have had no responses yet, though. 💔
  • Marco’s bug (FB10758252) is fixed! 🎉
  • Running to the press never helps
    • Martin Pilkington
    • Björn Skoglund
• Apple Event is Wednesday, September 7
• iPadOS is delayed
• The recent Plex Hack
• #askatp:
  • How in the world are some app updates multiple hundreds of megabytes‽ (via Bart Kowalski)
    • Paws
    • Swagger
  • What do we think of Svalt? (via Robert Campbell)
    • Thermal Pads
• Post-show: Casey’s modified his car
  • 19” Englishtowns
  • 18” Pretorias

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