Accidental Tech Podcast

You Can Bend This Line

  • Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
    • Roon
    • Nugs
  • 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
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  • Follow-up:
    • Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
      • Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though
    • The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
      • Previously:
        • Eric Portis on Color Spaces
        • Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything
    • Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
    • Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
      • Others with this issue
      • Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago
    • Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
      • See also:
        • Krebs on Security
        • Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman)
  • Ads are coming to Apple Maps
    • Newsroom
  • AI-generated code & copyright
    • AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted
    • Can coding agents “relicense” through clean-room re-implementation?
      • No right to relicense this project
    • Monkey selfie
    • Claude, rewrite yourself
  • Ask ATP:
    • When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason)
    • Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)
  • Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
    • Alex’s overview
    • Screenshot of a Linux machine
    • Screenshot of a Mac
  • Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance
    • Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
    • What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
      • MK1 High Density Rack Mount
    • Bandwidth comparisons
      • Thunderbolt 5
        • 80 Gbit/s symmetric
        • 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
      • SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
        • 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
        • 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
      • PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
        • 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
        • 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
        • …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
          • 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
    • Internal vs. external SSD
      • 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
      • OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
      • OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
      • PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
        • Kickstarter (ended November 2024)

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