Episode 445

445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland

NeuralHash collisions, Safari design updates, Apple's recent PR war against itself, and Marco's experience at a Phish concert.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

August 26, 20212h 3m

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Follow-up:
- Follow-up from Hypercritical #31 on 24 August 2011 (via Philip Spedding)
  - Overcast timestamp link
- Casey apologizes to Collin Donnell
  - Brent Simmons’ blog post
- Regarding 1Password and Electron
  - What about the dependencies? (via KingOlegOne)
  - is-odd
  - Roustem Karimov’s response
  - Craft
- CSAM Neural Hash algorithm extracted?
- Safari 15 Updates
A quick aside about battery health
Apple’s PR war against itself
- Thursday, 15 July: Apple cracks down on remote work
- Wednesday, 4 August: Apple places female EPM on leave after tweeting about sexism in the office
  - Ashley M. Gjøvik’s tweets 1 2
- Thursday, 5 August: Apple’s CSAM roll-out
- Monday, 9 August: Apple shuts down employee-run surveys on pay
  - Cher Scarlett’s Survey
- Monday, 16 August: Apple forces FlickType for Watch out of the App Store
  - FlickType’s statement
  - Miguel de Icaza’s take
- Monday, 23 August: #AppleToo
  - The Verge’s coverage
#askatp
- How does one manage a large library of photos? (via Colin)
- How does one search for specific tech problems? (via Sam)
  - Rubber duck debugging
- Is there any point in updating Java anymore? (via Mark Slutsky)
Post-show: Marco went to a Phish concert!
- Phish at Atlantic City Beach, 2021-08-15
  - Official video of a song that night
  - Aerial video of the beach venue
- Dave Matthews Band also played somewhere on 2021-08-07 (But you can’t listen to it, apparently. Probably for the best. –ed.)