584: Daisy Hates Ticketmaster

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Marco’s Sinus Situation & the one month a yellow car makes sense
• The ATP Store is BACK baby! 👕
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• Follow-up:
  • Filesystems (🛎), case sensitivity, and APFS volumes
  • Handedness & “jumped” vs. “jumps”
    • Pangrams
  • Clarifications on the xz sabotage (via Mat Gadd)
  • The Delta game emulator is now available!
    • 🇪🇺 AltStore PAL
    • 🌎 App Store
      • #1 free app!
  • Apple allows using used parts for repairs
    • Stephen’s take
    • Apple’s lobbying history
    • Apple press release
    • iFixit blog post
  • Ceiling fan switches
    • Lutron Caséta (smart home switches/dimmers/fan controls)
    • Lutron Sunnata (dumb dimmer)
    • Waveform lighting
• Ticketmaster finally getting what it deserves?
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Broadband labels
• M4 Macs are coming this year?
• iPhone 16/16+ to have more RAM?
  • Mac desktop RAM chart
  • Mac laptop RAM chart
• Installing audio apps is going to get easier?
  • Rogue Amoeba’s 2024 Sitrep
• Ask ATP:
  • Is the M4 generation worth holding out for?
  • Why don’t we have 32-bit emulation? (via Joe Bezdek)
  • Will the [presumably HDR] phantom OLED iPad Pro work well as a second display with something SDR?
• Post-show: Marco is going to The Sphere
  • Billy Joel: The 100th
  • The New Yorker on Billy’s helicopter rides
  • But apparently he’s given up the helicopter rides
  • Turn the Lights Back On
• Members-only ATP Overtime: AI devices… now with more “Apple”!
  • Jony Ive & Sam Altman seeking funding for “personal AI device”
  • Apple’s screen-reading AI system
    • Paper (PDF link)
  • 3Blue1Brown videos
    • But what is a GPT?
    • Attention in transformers, visually explained

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