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

* Pre-show:

* We are not dangerously capable

* We convince ourselves not to pivot to video

* Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2

* FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈

* Follow-up:

* It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul)

* Indexing for the new Spotlight

* Passwords app does the hard thing

* macOS 27

* “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1

* Microsoft Bob

* You can use TouchID for Administrator access

* There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via Steve Troughton-Smith)

* sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist" -dict-add Enabled -bool NO

* ST-S points out the change in Apple’s documentation

* The Liquid Glass slider is part of Golden Gate onboarding

* Corner radius ∆s, illustrated

* Mickey hands are back

* They can’t leave well enough alone, Finder icon edition

* General Golden Gate icon changes

* Touch Macs are coming

* Pull-to-refresh comes to macOS

* ST-S notices NSToolbar changes

* You can resize the iPhone Mirroring window

* HIG updates for menu icons

* iOS 27

* SiriAI pull down animation

* iPadOS 27

* ST-S notes the menu is now aligned to the leading edge

* tvOS (Apparently it’s still an OS in the lineup —Ed.)

* Hardware compatibility

* watchOS

* Hardware compatibility

* Apple’s AI Tech Talk

* Images

* Quotes

* Dan Moren vanity searches

* An aside on Apple filtering out some frequencies during utterances of “Siri”

* Stephen Robles’ SiriAI review (timestamp link to 5m47s)

* 3Blue1Brown transformers video

* Apple’s announcement for third-gen models

* Instruction-Following Pruning for LLMs

* LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory

* Filippone Stefano’s review

* Ars Technica’s write-up

* Post-show: Casey’s trip results

* UniFi Travel Router

* GL-iNet

* Flex Mini

* Members-only ATP Overtime: The WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union

* OpenDoc

* iPhone mirroring resizing

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