696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It
https://atp.fm/696

Lots of details from macOS Golden Gate, Apple's AI Tech Talk, road trips, and failed Bobs.

Accidental Tech Podcast: 696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

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

@atpfm this episode didn’t have an @overcastfm transcript when I clicked in and I was astounded! I musta caught it right away

@CodingItWrong
That’s wild.

I’m surprised how often an episode of something I DL doesn’t have a transcript. I kind of enjoy clicking the transcribe button, feels like my phone is doing its part! (TBH it’s not clear from the UI if my phone does the transcription and uploads it, or if it just moves it to top of the queue for the Beowulf cluster of 48 Mac minis).

I briefly had the thought that Marco could set it so his favorite/pet podcasts get better treatment in the transcription queue, but that’s a rookie dev mistake. Galaxy brain knows you want your stuff to follow the same code path as everyone else so you actually catch bugs and don’t give your stuff a different/non-representative experience.

@atpfm @overcastfm

@atpfm skipped visionOS 27 but covered tvOS 27?! 🙃
@atpfm So, the M2 Ultras aren’t supported for the biggest models locally, but they’re also what’s running even larger models in private cloud compute? I’m not sure how that makes sense.
@lukeratta I think maybe they running only the AFM 1 and 2 models, and all AFM 3 models are on Nvidia in Google’s datacenter.
@siracusa Ah, that makes sense. Thank you.

@atpfm It has always been possible to authenticate sudo with Touch ID. It needed some finagling in the form of adding "auth sufficient pam_tid.so" to /etc/pam.d/sudo. This has been very convenient.

(This would work until every point release of macOS, and then need to be re-added after an upgrade reset the file.)

@harish I have done that in the past, but what we were talking about is when the macOS GUI wants admin access. The PAM changes never affected that, I believe.
@siracusa Sorry, I misunderstood. I didn’t realise you were talking about the GUI.
@atpfm @siracusa at this point it seems like you'll be able to run Windows games emulated (with good/decent performance) on Linux on Apple Silicon (thanks to all the work Valve has put in!) sooner than playing on actual Windows.

@djc @atpfm @siracusa

Apple won’t be able to best the range of dGPUs available to Windows users.

The transition that will (or has for 32 bit games?) happen:
- it will be easier to play Windows games on Macs than play OLD Mac games on Macs.

@atpfm When in doubt for 2/3 syllable Indian names, where the two syllables are spelled out as the same letter, odds are, stress isn’t on the second syllable.
Source : named our son, with three syllables with A pronounced differently in each.

For Amar, see reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWfAwsf4gLk&feature=youtu.be

Ek Jagah Jab Jama Hon Teenon Amar Akbar Anthoni | Kishore Kumar | Dance Song

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@atpfm Maybe I’m the only one in your audience, but I like podcasts with videos, so I’d like you to reconsider your stance on this.
@atpfm “Just say I do it all” 🤣
@atpfm @siracusa Did I detect a Seinfeld Movie Phone reference from you in this episode?
@ridogi Yes, though I mostly bailed on it at the last second.

@atpfm
Thanks for the in-depth explanation of some of the AI pieces coming in 27!

What I didn’t get from any of it yet, will I be able to casually tell it something via “Hey Siri,” like:
“I put the screws for the bed in the closet in the guest room,”
and have it still remember that two years later?
Or will I still have to keep sending emails to myself?

@ritchey_de I would not rely on the "memory" feature of any LLM-based agent product for longterm storage.
@siracusa
Agreed. Yet such a feature would be very useful to me.