Accidental Tech PodcastMar 26

684: 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.

Accidental Tech Podcast: 684: It’s Not What Young People Do

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Show threadDavidSchaubMar 27

@atpfm
@marcoarment

Rather 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?

Show threadDavid Schuetz ** looking for work **Mar 27

@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…

Show threadDavidSchaub

@darthnull @atpfm @marcoarment

How is it different than any of the other server requests coming from Macros own app to Macros own server?

Mar 27 at 2:20amWeb
Show threadDavid Schuetz ** looking for work **Mar 27

@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.