//podcastplus.net/feed/accidental-tech-podcast~b60ce953 Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:16:39 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/b3rjrujhczlnltr0/atp652.mp3 Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days. Follow-up: Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement Short Pump John cycled his mouse again AppleCare One Moving a device on a payment plan (via “ Clark Griswold ” and Anonymous) Tina’s iPhone Tina’s Mac Studio Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves iOS 26 beta 6  Liquid glass changes Smart TV interfaces over time “Shortcut” New Magic Remote Running your own mail server How does iCloud-on-your-domain work? (via potato.zip ) Hide my Email (via Peter Puleio ) Jason Diller thinks it’s not so bad Post-quantum cryptography Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray) Since iOS 17.4 for iMessage (via Saul Sutherland ) Apple Security Research blog post Compelled adoption (via Brian Jarvis) Chrome adopted it in 2024 (via sayrer ) 2024: State ... Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:37:12 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/b3rjrujhczlnltr0/atp652.mp3 https://atp.fm/audio/bnzmeklhs000n25f/atp651.mp3 Pre-Show: Brief vacation results Tim Cook kisses the… ring Video Follow-up: HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B TV shootout results Nilay’s comments AppleCare One iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators) iCare Calculator web app John’s experience B&H Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac , available for special order Retro computing corner Revisiting eWorld More on Tahoe Gus Mueller …on checkboxes …on sliders Beta 5  improves selection legibility Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford) Bleeping computer Art & science of UI design Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis) iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design Majin Bu iPhone 16 Apple’s “Answers” team Ask ATP: How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop? Jettison Why ... Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:41:25 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/bnzmeklhs000n25f/atp651.mp3 https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp650.mp3 Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem Follow-up: D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team Casey’s struggles with iperf3 Tutorial iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.) Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev) Research paper Apple security for unreleased devices Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy ) Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣 Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch) Apple support app → Chat Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message CloudFlare & AI crawlers Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen Thoughts from Aaron Zinck Thoughts from Anonymous JA3/JA4 fingerprint The 𝓍26 public betas are out Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave Tahoe beta 4 Contrast will decrease until morale improves Startup disk selection (cropped) Startup disk selection (full) News summ... Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:06:25 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp650.mp3 https://atp.fm/audio/rnj1bgvnrdzlmf94/atp649.mp3 Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link) CalDigit TS5+ (product page) iperf3 Follow-up: F1 (the sport, not the movie ) Apple expected to win rights F1 TV Vroom John’s video  != Casey’s immersive ride-along To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link John’s toaster update AirPods & AppleCare+ Keratoconus Water resistance IP54 AirPods Express Replacement Service B&H Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S ) defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro mandonam Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets 99% Invisible #626: Emoji Law Gruber’s theorized redactions Gruber’s predictions Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day Pre... Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:10:43 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/rnj1bgvnrdzlmf94/atp649.mp3 https://atp.fm/audio/yw90rdvbmmhoauex/atp648.mp3 Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners ️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings Follow-up: Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive SFSymbols 🏻 Tahoe Folders Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta Toolbars Safari Beta 1 image Beta 3 image The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar) Terminal Beta 1 image Beta 3 image iOS 26 Beta 3 Direct video link _David Smith’s beta 2 (?) video Stephen Hackett’s beta 3 video Matt Birchler: Liquid glass, now with frosted tips Steve Troughton-Smith pours water on the fire YouTube’s new player UI ... Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:03:01 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/yw90rdvbmmhoauex/atp648.mp3 https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp647.mp3 Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester Reconcilable Differences Follow-up: FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel ) Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta Developer downloads ↳ Direct link Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo) UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C) Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643 ) Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett ) Rebuttal Rebuttal of the rebuttal More from Gary Marcus The original rebuttal was… a joke? HDR in 𝑥26 iPadOS 26 window limits “Glass iPhone” demo ↳ Direct video link That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽ Apple A18 References spotted in code Jason on A18 speed Stephen on the technical limitations Ask ATP: Is adding permanent NVMe storage a ba... Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:52:33 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp647.mp3 https://atp.fm/audio/muzhwvdocg1sqwr1/atp646.mp3 Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase 11 June 2011 Documentation of the journey (spoilers!) John’s beloved Ninja Anova After Dark Follow-up: We’re doing good work here, folks YoLink leak sensors Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub Travel insurance is more than you think it is (via Jason Poole and Levi Dalton) Allianz concierge Window widget size in Tahoe Apple Intelligence is now allowed when booting from an external in Tahoe beta 2 Floating tab bars in iOS 26 Apple “Ducks” The Architect’s Lions Maybe don’t yank out removable storage in Windows either (via Adrian Mester ) It’s the world that’s wrong, not me: iPhone 16 Pro case edition “We Messed Up” Bullstrap open-bottom case Ads in YouTube Why not use uBlock Origin ? (via Igor Kulman ) …or perhaps Vinegar (App Store link) (via Michael Brown ) ... Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:12:49 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/muzhwvdocg1sqwr1/atp646.mp3 https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp645.mp3 Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront Belkin UltraGlass 2 Some Administrivia: ️ New ATP Member ’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers ️ Sneakers (1992) ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale Follow-up: Persistent icon replacement helper apps Pictogram Replacicon Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon updated! Louie Mantia tries again New menu bar background setting! Beta 2, with background Tahoe’s [Not-So-] Naked Robotic Menu Bar (via Vítor ) Beta 1, gray Beta 1, red Beta 1, white Safari toolbars (via Lewis Dorigo) Settings → Advanced → Show color in compact tab bar theme_color Yosemite Safari tabs From John’s review Installing betas and DFU mode macvdmtool (via Robert Sherry) DFU Blaster (via Brian LaShomb) InstallAssistant.pkg (via Andy Beyer-Bowden) iOS 26 Beta 2 Frost all the things! ... Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:18:36 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/atpfm/atp645.mp3 https://atp.fm/audio/y2e1mvbyehixwdzj/atp644.mp3 Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro Bespoke 3D-printed mount Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight What betas are we running? Virtual Buddy 𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0 ; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo ) ProcessInfo /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley ) SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16 null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26 Liquid Glass Adopting Liquid Glass Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith ) Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood ) Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky ) macOS Tahoe Whimsy returns ! (via Minimal Nerd ) Squircle Jail Squircle ∆ (via Yannic Lung ) Say Hello to the New Look of App Icons Squircle Jailbreak! (via Simon B Støvring ) Speaking of rounded ... Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:55:52 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/y2e1mvbyehixwdzj/atp644.mp3 https://atp.fm/audio/ohzpbkhhrm5zdwdu/atp643.mp3 Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions Mario Kart World WWDC F1 Sam Henri Gold Marcel Flighty Parcel Control Plane Acorn Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs Previously discussed on ATP #609 GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe Gary’s 1998 paper Gary’s 2001 book Sponsored by: Clic for Sonos : Elevate Your Sonos Experience with Clic Sponsored by Betterhelp : Give online therapy a try and get on your way to being your best self. DeleteMe : Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed! Tue, 10 Jun 2025 03:28:33 +0000 https://atp.fm/audio/ohzpbkhhrm5zdwdu/atp643.mp3