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705: Relentless in a Gentle Way
20 August 2026

705: Relentless in a Gentle Way

Accidental Tech Podcast

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    Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil


      Daikin


        Home Assistant integration

      Home Assistant Green

    Follow-up:


      The OpenAI doughnut


        What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
        Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)


          Biconcave disc


      Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem
      Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)
      RAMageddon


        Apple gets lower display prices
        Apple raises trade-in values


    🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉


      E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
      Skybridge
      Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App


        Kanban

      Quitter
      Forecast

    AI watermarking


      Steganography
      How Claude’s text watermark works
      Pseudorandom number generator
      A wonderful visual guide
      Some 3Blue1Brown homework


        LLMs explained briefly


          Next-word prediction probabilities

        Transformers, the tech behind LLMs


          Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable
          Image


      Gruber’s take
      Some responses to Gruber


        Dan Moren
        Daniel Jalkut

      Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals
      Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”


        I Made This


    Post-show: Casey has news


      CarMax
      Previously on ATP…
      BMW i4
      San Remo Green
      A Better Route Planner
      EV Stupidity Checklist

    Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)


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    Tailscale: A secure network that just works


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