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🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Follow-up:
Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
Apple insists it’s still going to make fetch happen ship next-generation CarPlay
Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
Lenovo Legion Go S
Ryan London is trolling John
Black
Brown
John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
Hyperspace scrolling updates
AppKit vs. WebKit
NSCell vs. NSTableViewCell
Every UUID
Writing down every UUID
Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
Casey’s notification/LED project
Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
Home Assistant Nice G.O. integration
ratgdo
ESP32
ESPHome
Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
WS2812B
Candy buttons
Historical commission application process
Switch replacement options:
HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)
DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off
Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
Ben Thompson’s FAQ
DeepSeek-V3 paper
DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
R1 is more open than OpenAI
OpenAI’s justification for hiding chain of thought
Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
R1 censorship
Example 1
Example 2 (via Greg Pierce)
Example 3 (via Gruber)
Prompt engineering
The Questions the Chinese Government Doesn’t Want DeepSeek AI to Answer
Self-hosted doesn’t seem to censor
Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
x86 images on Apple Silicon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence exits ✌️
…and also Chief Product Officer Maxime Boulat-Merlin ✌️
…and also Chief Commercial Officer Deidre Findlay
Wall Street Journal coverage
The Last King of Scotland
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