<description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3#Range_extender_option_(i3_REx)"&gt;i3&lt;/a&gt;: 155/70R19&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_XC90#T8"&gt;XC90&lt;/a&gt;: 275/40R21&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.molex.com/en-us/part-list/connector-housings"&gt;Molex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://512pixels.net/2025/12/ford-ev-changes/"&gt;F-150 Lightning&amp;#8217;s demise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🗣️ Remember, &lt;a href="https://atp.fm/gift"&gt;ATP gift memberships&lt;/a&gt; are a thing!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🗣️ New &lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;ATP Members&lt;/a&gt; Special: &lt;a href="https://atp.fm/atp-movie-club-wargames"&gt;ATP Movie Club: WarGames&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://callsheetapp.com/movie/860"&gt;WarGames&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Follow-up:

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member&amp;#8217;s special&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/"&gt;Cloudflare&lt;/a&gt; update

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://hypercritical.co"&gt;Hypercritical&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marco&amp;#8217;s former TV (via &lt;a href="https://mstdn.social/@Wayner83/115661514629374915"&gt;Wayne Morgan&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Apple executive departures

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney&amp;#8217;s board

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/jeff-williams-nominated-to-the-walt-disney-company-board-of-directors/"&gt;Press release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/841237/apples-former-coo-has-been-nominated-to-join-disneys-board"&gt;The Verge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Apple 2030 &amp;amp; carbon credits (via Zach)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Split iMessage groups (via &lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@sirshannon/115709501031648829"&gt;sirshannon&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;AI-generated voice-matched dubbing

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@ifrnb/115723032695513060"&gt;Fran Besora&lt;/a&gt; tried the Spanish version&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@secundus/115728557575093819"&gt;Stefanus Secundus&lt;/a&gt; tried the German version&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@benmattison/115706825452701473"&gt;Ben Mattison&lt;/a&gt; had an &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ID8ZT3-po"&gt;odd YouTube experience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Siri and pronunciations (via &lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@greatindoorsman/115668052323109038"&gt;Paul Zadunajsky&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intel &lt;strike&gt;stealing&lt;/strike&gt; learning from chips it fabs

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thread by &lt;a href="https://mstdn.social/@joelion/115701999794135446"&gt;Joe Lion&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL"&gt;VHDL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.galois.com/articles/reverse-engineer-this-towards-provable-cryptographic-protection-for-circuit-ip"&gt;Galois blog post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/"&gt;Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/115720325616764980"&gt;Casey&amp;#8217;s tangentially-related rant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros"&gt;Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/838781/netflix-warner-bros-discover-bids-buyout"&gt;Dominic Preston at The Verge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://fortune.com/2023/04/14/netflix-cofounder-marc-randolph-recalls-blockbuster-rejecting-chance-to-buy-it/"&gt;From the past: Blockbuster&amp;#8217;s reaction to Netflix&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/mbrandolph/status/1646521722831798274"&gt;Marc Randolph&amp;#8217;s comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/839813/paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-hostile-takeover-bid"&gt;Paramount launches hostile $108B bid&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/845532/larry-ellison-paramount-wb-netflix-takeover-oracle"&gt;Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Larry Ellison&amp;#8217;s big dumb gift to his large adult son&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/paramount-hostile-takeover-warner-bros"&gt;Gruber&amp;#8217;s take&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/paramount-hostile-takeover-warner-bros"&gt;As per Brian Stelter&lt;/a&gt;, Netflix is prepared&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/tv/756298/paramount-plus-skydance-merger-complete-david-ellison"&gt;More Paramount context from Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/tv/756298/paramount-plus-skydance-merger-complete-david-ellison"&gt;Emma Roth at The Verge: CBS News was just taken over by a Substack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/business/793525/bari-weiss-cbs-news-glass-cliff"&gt;Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You&amp;#8217;re doomed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post-show: Casey asks for programming help

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/storekit/"&gt;StoreKit2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/userdefaults"&gt;&lt;code&gt;UserDefaults&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/notificationcenter"&gt;&lt;code&gt;NotificationCenter&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern"&gt;Singleton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/combine/publisher"&gt;&lt;code&gt;Publisher&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/environment"&gt;&lt;code&gt;@Environment&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection"&gt;Dependency injection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/environmentobject"&gt;&lt;code&gt;@EnvironmentObject&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;Members-only&lt;/a&gt; ATP Overtime: The State of TV

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fios/comments/1pcpvsk/im_now_in_the_dreaded_your_cablecards_will_stop/"&gt;Verizon FiOS stabs John &amp;amp; Casey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD"&gt;CableCARD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMCIA"&gt;PCMCIA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.tivo.com"&gt;TiVo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://getchannels.com"&gt;Channels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://shop.silicondust.com/shop/product/hdhr3-cc/"&gt;HDHomeRun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere"&gt;TVEverywhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sponsored by:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://notion.com/atp"&gt;Notion&lt;/a&gt;: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together.&lt;/li&gt;
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</description>

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

670: Institutionally Inescapable

DEC 19, 202599 MIN
Accidental Tech Podcast

670: Institutionally Inescapable

DEC 19, 202599 MIN

Description

<ul> <li>Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3#Range_extender_option_(i3_REx)">i3</a>: 155/70R19</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_XC90#T8">XC90</a>: 275/40R21</li> <li><a href="https://www.molex.com/en-us/part-list/connector-housings">Molex</a></li> <li><a href="https://512pixels.net/2025/12/ford-ev-changes/">F-150 Lightning&#8217;s demise</a></li> </ul></li> <li>🗣️ Remember, <a href="https://atp.fm/gift">ATP gift memberships</a> are a thing!</li> <li>🗣️ New <a href="https://atp.fm/join">ATP Members</a> Special: <a href="https://atp.fm/atp-movie-club-wargames">ATP Movie Club: WarGames</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://callsheetapp.com/movie/860">WarGames</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Follow-up: <ul> <li>Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member&#8217;s special</li> <li>John&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/">Cloudflare</a> update <ul> <li><a href="https://hypercritical.co">Hypercritical</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Marco&#8217;s former TV (via <a href="https://mstdn.social/@Wayner83/115661514629374915">Wayne Morgan</a>)</li> <li>Apple executive departures <ul> <li>Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney&#8217;s board <ul> <li><a href="https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/jeff-williams-nominated-to-the-walt-disney-company-board-of-directors/">Press release</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/841237/apples-former-coo-has-been-nominated-to-join-disneys-board">The Verge</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?</li> </ul></li> <li>Apple 2030 &amp; carbon credits (via Zach)</li> <li>Split iMessage groups (via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sirshannon/115709501031648829">sirshannon</a>)</li> <li>AI-generated voice-matched dubbing <ul> <li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ifrnb/115723032695513060">Fran Besora</a> tried the Spanish version</li> <li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@secundus/115728557575093819">Stefanus Secundus</a> tried the German version</li> <li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benmattison/115706825452701473">Ben Mattison</a> had an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ID8ZT3-po">odd YouTube experience</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Siri and pronunciations (via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@greatindoorsman/115668052323109038">Paul Zadunajsky</a>)</li> <li>Intel <strike>stealing</strike> learning from chips it fabs <ul> <li>Thread by <a href="https://mstdn.social/@joelion/115701999794135446">Joe Lion</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL">VHDL</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography <ul> <li><a href="https://www.galois.com/articles/reverse-engineer-this-towards-provable-cryptographic-protection-for-circuit-ip">Galois blog post</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li>Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/">Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/115720325616764980">Casey&#8217;s tangentially-related rant</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros">Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/838781/netflix-warner-bros-discover-bids-buyout">Dominic Preston at The Verge</a></li> <li><a href="https://fortune.com/2023/04/14/netflix-cofounder-marc-randolph-recalls-blockbuster-rejecting-chance-to-buy-it/">From the past: Blockbuster&#8217;s reaction to Netflix</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://x.com/mbrandolph/status/1646521722831798274">Marc Randolph&#8217;s comment</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/839813/paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-hostile-takeover-bid">Paramount launches hostile $108B bid</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/845532/larry-ellison-paramount-wb-netflix-takeover-oracle">Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Larry Ellison&#8217;s big dumb gift to his large adult son</a></li> <li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/paramount-hostile-takeover-warner-bros">Gruber&#8217;s take</a></li> <li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/09/paramount-hostile-takeover-warner-bros">As per Brian Stelter</a>, Netflix is prepared</li> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tv/756298/paramount-plus-skydance-merger-complete-david-ellison">More Paramount context from Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tv/756298/paramount-plus-skydance-merger-complete-david-ellison">Emma Roth at The Verge: CBS News was just taken over by a Substack</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/business/793525/bari-weiss-cbs-news-glass-cliff">Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You&#8217;re doomed</a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li>Post-show: Casey asks for programming help <ul> <li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/storekit/">StoreKit2</a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/userdefaults"><code>UserDefaults</code></a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/notificationcenter"><code>NotificationCenter</code></a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern">Singleton</a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/combine/publisher"><code>Publisher</code></a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/environment"><code>@Environment</code></a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection">Dependency injection</a></li> <li><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/environmentobject"><code>@EnvironmentObject</code></a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://atp.fm/join">Members-only</a> ATP Overtime: The State of TV <ul> <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fios/comments/1pcpvsk/im_now_in_the_dreaded_your_cablecards_will_stop/">Verizon FiOS stabs John &amp; Casey</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD">CableCARD</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMCIA">PCMCIA</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.tivo.com">TiVo</a></li> <li><a href="https://getchannels.com">Channels</a></li> <li><a href="https://shop.silicondust.com/shop/product/hdhr3-cc/">HDHomeRun</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere">TVEverywhere</a></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>Sponsored by:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://getguru.com/">Guru</a>: Your AI Source of Truth</li> <li><a href="https://notion.com/atp">Notion</a>: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together.</li> <li><a href="https://squarespace.com/atp">Squarespace</a>: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code <strong>atp</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://atp.fm/join">Become a member</a> for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!</p>