619: Master Plan to Take Over the World

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• “Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (atp.fm/atp-insider-making-the-show) (via Martim (masto.ai/@martim/113686057231538808))

• Can Marco recognize waveforms?

• Descript (descript.com)

• Emo Siri

• It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz (shakedown.social/@mielcarz/113685545604155849))

• She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin (mas.to/@Mountaineerdave/113686043691852630))

• Immersive video

• More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20241217-01) (via videoalex (mastodon.social/@Videoalex/113683686480750119))

• Insta360 Titan (insta360.com/product/insta360-titan)

• Software-based immersive video

• Depth Anything (depth-anything.github.io)

• Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin (mastodon.social/@jamesoloughlin/11368250716573…))

• Welcome to Light Fields (store.steampowered.com/app/771310/Welcome_to_L…)

• Deep View Video (augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo)

• Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (matthewtancik.com/nerf) (via Joseph Humfre)

• Demo for the Meta Quest (meta.com/experiences/meta-horizon-hyperscape-d…)

• John’s app

• More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian (mas.to/@dnanian/113685369218211608)

• Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks (aus.social/@marxy/113682582240451978))

• Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon

• New Vision Pro content (tv.apple.com/us/show/adventure/umc.cmc.5al10vz…) — again!

• Apple and bootable macOS backups (shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/comm…)

• Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner (bombich.com) has thoughts (bombich.com/blog/2024/12/19/bootable-backups-h…)

• Original blog post from May 2021 (bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-ba…)

• Secure boot (support.apple.com/guide/security/system-securi…)

• asr: Apple Software Restore (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Software_Restore)

• Ask ATP:

• Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)

• What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via mastodon.social/@tuckerk/113638443563793948)

• ~/bin

• /usr/local/bin

• Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland (mastodon.social/@thatsthequy/113654650947998388))

• What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein (mastodon.social/@torsteinv/113667572675239563))

• Fuji X-T5 (amazon.com/dp/B0BK2P7DMG?tag=marcoorg-20): black recommended for control legibility

• 27mm pancake (amazon.com/dp/B08TP4QYT2?tag=marcoorg-20) (41mm equiv.)

• 16-50 zoom (amazon.com/dp/B0D3WSY8W9?tag=marcoorg-20) (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality

• 16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (amazon.com/dp/B0DQLNWH2D?tag=marcoorg-20) (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality

• Fuji GFX 100S (amazon.com/dp/B08TLRKRKK?tag=marcoorg-20) (old version; this is the current one (fujifilm-x.com/global/products/cameras/gfx100s…))

• 50mm “pancake” (amazon.com/dp/B07TWYNDQ2?tag=marcoorg-20) (40mm equiv.)

• Olympus OM-D E-M10 (explore.omsystem.com/us/en/om-d-e-m10-mark-iv)

• Sony a7 III (amzn.to/4gN30uj)

• SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II (amzn.to/3Pfe1X9)

• Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV (volvocars.com/intl/cars/xc90-hybrid), ~6 months on

• Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024

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