Pastime | Episode
Pastime

696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

Accidental Tech Podcast | Jun 15 2026 | 01:59:04

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

ā€œGolden Gateā€ was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1

Microsoft Bob

You can use Touch ID 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 āˆ†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

Siri AI 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 ā€œSiriā€

Stephen Robles’ Siri AI 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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