Accidental Tech Podcast684: It’s Not What Young People Do
https://atp.fm/684
WWDC 2026 hopes, the state of passkeys, more on podcast transcripts, and how businesses manage fleets of Macs.
Connor Mason@atpfm they waited to announce the Mac Pro discontinuation until after you recorded
TheEJJ 🇨🇦
Edward Munn@atpfm Emergency Mac Pro episode please.
DavidSchaubRather than the Mac mini cluster, why not just have each user do a 20th or 40th (well within Apple's background task limits) of each podcast to build up the transcripts?
David Schuetz ** looking for work **@dschaub @atpfm @marcoarment I’m curious how to prevent servers getting spammed with fake transcripts, then. (And also for user generated transcripts of private podcasts).
It’d be taking in a lot of untrusted input…
@darthnull @atpfm @marcoarment
How is it different than any of the other server requests coming from Macros own app to Macros own server?
@dschaub @atpfm @marcoarment He could at least authenticate his worker apps. Or they only respond to server initiated push (job queue) and pull (job results) commands.
So it should be difficult to inject malicious content that way. You’d need to hack one of his Mac mini…ons.
Let the overcast client submit results, now you just need to hack your own Mac.
With the Mac Pro being discontinued...
There are users with use cases that the Mac Studio cannot do.
Do you think:
- Apple would make an Apple branded external ThunderBolt PCIe card chassis?
- Apple would extend the Thunderbolt spec to allow bonded parallel Thunderbolt connections to mitigate how slow TB is vs PCIe (i.e. 1/4 the speed)?
charlesesmith@atpfm Mostly for @caseyliss – you know how everyone who uses Home Assistant is like "that's too hard" before they inevitably join the ~~cult~~ community and then won't shut up about how great it is? 👋
This is a post about unRAID. Run docker containers, VMs, and manage a RAID array all in a way that's barely more difficult than the commercial stuff like Synology. VPNs or tailscale? You got it. Replace Dropbox/SynDrive? Nextcloud is like 3 clicks.
@atpfm @caseyliss It’ll support basically any disk your hardware does and it runs on anything from a potato to enterprise servers. I spent $300 on ebay hardware (not including disks) more than *12* years ago that has been running unraid for the last 6 or so and survived multiple disk failures without data loss, and the only downtime is for power outages
USB Type-Steve 
@charlesesmith @atpfm @caseyliss
The general loop of Home Ass for me has been as follows:
- Be frustrated/flabbergasted by the dizzying and confusing array of options
- FAFO until you get stuff to work
- Loosely get the hang of it (and spend at least 4 straight hours getting gud with it)
- Set it the way you want
- <Months/years pass>
- You log back in and need to add a new device
- Repeat step 1
Awax@atpfm what young people _used_ to do was pay a service to send notifications because reading a doc is booooring (if that doc actually existed, right @caseyliss
?)
Those people are not young anymore.
What young people do _today_ is have Claude vibe code what @marcoarment wrote himself 10 years ago.
AI coding is not killing SaaS. It is killing low added value SaaS.
BoxOfRain@atpfm
In my work (globally distributed scientific computing) https://htcondor.org/index.html is often used for distributing parallel workloads across many hosts.
In my work (globally distributed scientific computing) https://htcondor.org/index.html is often used for distributing parallel workloads across many hosts.
Graham
Jeff Huff@atpfm
Apple also had their own Beowulf like cluster software that shipped on Mac OS X that came from NeXT.
Mutesplash@atpfm You're doing great with the bootleg. If anything, it has improved because of the liminal space where it's only for us!
joshhunt
Federico Martinez@atpfm
@caseyliss you should check out this video on using Proxmox Backup Server on a VPS with cheap S3 compatible storage. Idk how different it is from what you are already doing, but it could be useful https://youtu.be/o3hXcZqKpxE?si=HBfZuBi7062oPYoh
@caseyliss you should check out this video on using Proxmox Backup Server on a VPS with cheap S3 compatible storage. Idk how different it is from what you are already doing, but it could be useful https://youtu.be/o3hXcZqKpxE?si=HBfZuBi7062oPYoh
How I use PROXMOX Backup Server with Cloud S3 Storage! Full PBS+S3 Setup Guide
Andrew Herron@atpfm On the topic of synology drive replacements, I recently set this up as a self-hosted dropbox replacement, and it has an app to act like iCloud Drive too. I've been fairly happy, maybe it will work for Casey:
Jake Rozin@atpfm for what it’s worth, I thought the glasses discussion pre-(pre-?)show was great! I’m here to encourage more such topics.
Marcos Huerta@atpfm re transcript search for @marcoarment - my approach with a python library for searching transcripts I made with Whisper: Everything went into sqlite, I kept the highest resolution in a segments database, then I chunked the segments into a few sentences and put those into a sqlite FTS5 database. The segments let me make high time res links (for overcast time links).
There are probably more sophisticated ways to do this - it's set up to search across podcasts.
Code is here if anyone is curious:
Jan Wedekind@atpfm @caseyliss I'm in a similar boat wrt Synology and eyeing Unifi. But tbh, if my DS918+ died, I’d just buy a newer model. I can literally take my mixed-capacity discs, stick them in the new NAS, and it's done (I've done this 2-3 times). In 15y, not a single glitch. So even if I only use it as a dumb NAS + Drive now, and I share your grumpiness about their stupid HDD policy, that rock-solid reliability is worth it. If that gets worse, it’d be a different story…