Episode 619

619: Master Plan to Take Over the World

Disk-cloning drama, recognizing obscene waveforms, Storacusa progress, and the plug-in-hybrid life.

December 26, 20242h 12m

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Show Notes

Pre-show:
- New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
  - Become an ATP Member to listen
  - ATP Gift Memberships
Follow-up:
- “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
  - Can Marco recognize waveforms?
  - Descript
- Emo Siri
  - It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)
  - She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)
- Immersive video
  - More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)
    - Insta360 Titan
  - Software-based immersive video
    - Depth Anything
  - Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
    - Welcome to Light Fields
    - Deep View Video
  - Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
    - Demo for the Meta Quest
- John’s app
  - More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian
  - Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)
  - Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon
New Vision Pro content — again!
Apple and bootable macOS backups
- Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts
Ask ATP:
- Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)
- What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)
  - ~/bin
  - /usr/local/bin
- Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)
- What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)
  - Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
    - 27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)
    - 16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality
    - 16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality
  - Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)
    - 50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)
  - Olympus OM-D E-M10
  - Sony a7 III
    - SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
- Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024