Chit Chat Across the Pond

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Chit Chat Across the Pond Podcast

Chit Chat Across the Pond is an interview show talking technology

  1. 8 SEPT

    CCATP #799 – Adam Engst on Apple's Screen Recording Permissions in Sequoia Beta

    Adam Engst joins me again, this time to talk about the patently wrong decision by Apple to include repetitive permissions requests for screen recording in the macOS Sequoia beta. As he explains in his article on TidBITS.com entitled Apple Reduces Excessive Sequoia Permission Requests, Shifts to Monthly, changing from weekly permissions requests to monthly is 4 times less wrong, but still 12 times per year wrong. We discuss the types of applications this will affect, from screenshot utilities like CleanShot, to menu bar modifiers like Bartender and Ice, as well as apps like Photoshop that simply use an eye dropper to let you choose colors outside of the app interface. Adam has a no whining policy in his community, so this isn't just a big complaint conversation, he explains some ideas he has the Apple could implement which might give users the desired security protections without causing them permissions fatigue. Even in this rather fist-shaking episode, Adam is a delight and we had a lot of fun chit chatting.

    46 min

  2. 7 AUG

    CCATP #798 Adam Engst on Troubleshooting

    This week our guest is the venerable Adam Engst of TidBITS. Adam wrote an article recently about his solar inverters that ended up being a story about troubleshooting. That inspired me last week to tell you our troubleshooting story about our home network. We thought it would be fun to go through Adam's story and pick out ideas for troubleshooting and where our own weaknesses are. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_08_06

    56 min

  3. 9 JUL

    CCATP #797 – Adam Engst on His Quest for Alarming Notifications

    CCATP #793 for July 9, 2024, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this week's episode, we talked about why Adam believes we need persistent calendar and reminder notifications. Adam is hyper-focused and when he's writing it's not uncommon for him to easily dismiss a notification of an upcoming event. Articles referenced in the conversation: * A Call to Alarms: Why We Need Persistent Calendar and Reminder Notifications. * In Your Face Provides Persistent Notifications for Events and Tasks * Just Due It: Persistent Notifications for Tasks - TidBITS * CalAlarm app Adam is testing for iOS Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_07_09 Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle Podfeet 15-Year Anniversary Shirts Referral Links: Parallels Toolbox - 3 months free for you and me Learn through MacSparky Field Guides - 15% off for you and me Backblaze - One free month for me and you Setapp - One free month for me and you Eufy - $40 for me if you spend $200. Sadly nothing in it for you. PIA VPN - One month added to Paid Accounts for both of us CleanShot X - Earns me $25%, sorry nothing in it for you but my gratitude

    43 min

  4. 7 JUL

    You May Need to Resubscribe to the NosillaCast

    So ... I made a wee mistake this morning when I accidentally told the NosillaCast feed to move to the Chit Chat Across the Pond feed! I thought I fixed it right away, but then Louis Trapani told me that he was seeing all of the NosillaCast content slopped into Chit Chat Across the Pond! Evidently, the fix didn't "stick". Overcast subscribers are fine because the RSS feed is ok, but Apple Podcasts subscribers may not ever get the NosillaCast again unless you resubscribe. I can't believe I did this on the day before my 1000th episode and I'm very sorry and sad! I sure hope you see this and you'll resubscribe and get all that NosillaCast goodness - especially the 1000th episode! Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_07_06

    2 min

  5. 5 JUL

    What happened to Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite?

    Well hello there, this is Alison Sheridan and I have a very special announcement for July 5th, 2024, to the Chit Chat Across the Pond light audience and the Programming By Stealth audience. If you were subscribed to the Lite feed, you may have noticed that your Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite logo changed into the Chit Chat Across the Pond logo and that you see a whole pile of recent episodes that are all Programming By Stealth. As a Programming By Stealth learner, you won’t have noticed a difference yet, but you also care about this. I’ve decided to make some changes to the podcast, which I’m pretty sure will benefit everyone. There will be a full explanation of all of the changes in the NosillaCast on episode 1000, but let’s talk about you first. The first change is that we’ve stopped publishing Programming by Stealth as part of Chit Chat Across the Pond. If you want the Programming By Stealth content, then you’ll need to subscribe to the standalone podcast that we’ve always had. Since Programming By Stealth won’t be in the regular Chit Chat Across the Pond feed, that means it IS the Lite feed. I’ve done a fancy redirect thingy that folded the Lite audience into the “full fat” Chit Chat Across the Pond feed so you don’t have to do a thing to get your regular Lite content. I will be publishing Lite episodes more often with a HUGE guest! If you want to read about the new guest and all of the changes and why, check out this post: Changes Coming to the Podcasts — All Good News! (https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2024/07/podcast-changes-2024/)

    2 min

  6. 27 APR

    CCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and Functionality

    In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about weather apps. He’s a serious weather nerd by necessity, living in Ireland and being an avid bike rider. As he walks through the apps he’ll explain which ones fall down on privacy, which ones have good apps for everything from the watch to iOS to the Mac. He’ll even go through how he uses different widgets to help him decide how much rain gear to wear. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_04_26 Join the Conversation: • allison@podfeet.com • podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: • Patreon Donation (https://www.podfeet.com/patreon) • PayPal one-time donation (https://podfeet.com/paypal) • Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle (https://www.zazzle.com/podfeet_podcasts_coffee_mug-168735677754947563) • Podfeet 15-Year Anniversary Shirts (https://cottonbureau.com/products/podfeet-15-year-anniversary-shirt#/4278978/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-red-tri-blend-s) Referral Links: • Parallels Toolbox - 3 months free for you and me (https://podfeet.com/parallelstoolbox) • Learn through MacSparky Field Guides - 15% off for you and me (https://podfeet.com/macsparky) • Backblaze - One free month for me and you (https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01zmio) • Setapp - One free month for me and you (https://setapp.sjv.io/c/4835528/343321/5114) • Eufy - $40 for me if you spend $200. Sadly nothing in it for you. (https://share.eufylife.com/v1/shopping/s/g/e-GkwxRA-) • PIA VPN - One month added to Paid Accounts for both of us (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/buy-a-vpn/1218buyavpn?invite=U2FsdGVkX182XdJGIOFG6t8UZUmK_QY_fyujdZB6ekM%2C0CVvGHU-flt21G9A5Nj-fL1Yet0) • CleanShot X - Earns me $25%, sorry nothing in it for you but my gratitude (https://cleanshot.sjv.io/4P249n)

    50 min

  7. 14 APR

    CCATP #791 – Bart Busschots on Submarines, Lasers, and Vacuum Cleaners???

    In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk Dyson vacuums. I know that doesn't sound too technical but you'd be surprised how advanced the tech is in the new devices. I share a few of my Dyson stories too and we both talk about our love for everything Dyson. Hide your pocketbooks before listening because all Dyson products are super expensive!

    35 min

  8. 4 FEB

    CCATP #785 — Helma van der Linden on Porting XKPASSWD from Perl to JavaScript

    This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite is a stretch to the word “Lite”. I’d call it a crossover episode of Lite and Programming By Stealth. Helma van der Linden joins me to tell the story of how she has successfully started the new version of Bart’s fabulous xkpasswd password generation service. xkpasswd.net was written in perl ages ago and depends on very old and outdated libraries. Bart spent many months teaching the Programming By Stealth students the tools we (and he) would need to port the code over to JavaScript. His plan all along was to have students help him make the new version of XKPASSWD a reality. It turns out that Helma is an extraordinary student and has done most of the work to make it a minimal viable product, all without Bart’s help. In this conversation, we’ll talk about how she did this without getting _too_ nerdy. Some nerdy but not too nerdy. If you’d like to give the very beta version of the new tool a try (without knowing any coding), check it out at bartificer.github.io/xkpasswd-js/. In a few days, Bart will have it up as the beta version of the _real_ xkpasswd at beta.xkpasswd.net. This beta version is not feature-complete, but it allows you to create 1-10 passwords that use the default preset from the original xkpasswd. You can’t choose different presets, and you can’t make customized passwords, but at least it does create long, strong, memorable, and typable passwords. And it’s REALLY pretty! We end with the call for others to come help work on the code. The GitHub repo is at github.com/bartificer/xkpasswd-js. (https://github.com/bartificer/xkpasswd-js) If you have or create a GitHub account, you can contribute to the project. If you don’t have programming skills but you have feature requests, it counts as contributing if you use the “issues” tab for the GitHub project to post your feature request. Helma is great fun and we had a blast talking about what she’s accomplished so I think you’ll enjoy the conversation no matter how nerdy you might be. Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_02_03 (https://podfeet.com/transcripts/CCATP_2024_02_03.html)

    1h 1m
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Chit Chat Across the Pond is an interview show talking technology

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  • Channel
    Podfeet Podcasts
  • Creator
    Allison Sheridan
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2024
  • Episodes
    148
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Creative Commons no commercial use, share and share alike with attribution
  • Show Website
    Chit Chat Across the Pond

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