Pastime | Episode

705: Relentless in a Gentle Way

Accidental Tech Podcast | Aug 20 2026 | 02:30:22

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! 🎉
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