687: You Can Bend This Line

• Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco

Roon Nugs

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• 🗣️ New ATP Member • Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom • 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 •

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