687: You Can Bend This Line

• Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
  • Roon
  • Nugs
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• Follow-up:
  • Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
    • Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though
  • The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
    • Previously:
      • Eric Portis on Color Spaces
      • Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything
  • Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
  • Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
    • Others with this issue
    • Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago
  • Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
    • See also:
      • Krebs on Security
      • Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman)
• Ads are coming to Apple Maps
  • Newsroom
• AI-generated code & copyright
  • AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted
  • Can coding agents “relicense” through clean-room re-implementation?
    • No right to relicense this project
  • Monkey selfie
  • Claude, rewrite yourself
• Ask ATP:
  • When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason)
  • Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)
• Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
  • Alex’s overview
  • Screenshot of a Linux machine
  • Screenshot of a Mac
• Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance
  • Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
  • What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
    • MK1 High Density Rack Mount
  • Bandwidth comparisons
    • Thunderbolt 5
      • 80 Gbit/s symmetric
      • 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
    • SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
      • 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
      • 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
    • PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
      • 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
      • 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
      • …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
        • 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
  • Internal vs. external SSD
    • 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
    • OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
    • OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
    • PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
      • Kickstarter (ended November 2024)

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