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.

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@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.)