Chit Chat Across the Pond

By: Allison Sheridan
  • Summary

  • Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show talking technology. It was originally part of the NosillaCast podcast (for the first 406 shows!)
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Episodes
  • CCATP #799 – Adam Engst on Apple's Screen Recording Permissions in Sequoia Beta
    Sep 8 2024

    Adam Engst joins me again, this time to talk about the patently wrong decision by Apple to include repetitive permissions requests for screen recording in the macOS Sequoia beta. As he explains in his article on TidBITS.com entitled Apple Reduces Excessive Sequoia Permission Requests, Shifts to Monthly, changing from weekly permissions requests to monthly is 4 times less wrong, but still 12 times per year wrong.

    We discuss the types of applications this will affect, from screenshot utilities like CleanShot, to menu bar modifiers like Bartender and Ice, as well as apps like Photoshop that simply use an eye dropper to let you choose colors outside of the app interface.

    Adam has a no whining policy in his community, so this isn't just a big complaint conversation, he explains some ideas he has the Apple could implement which might give users the desired security protections without causing them permissions fatigue.

    Even in this rather fist-shaking episode, Adam is a delight and we had a lot of fun chit chatting.

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    46 mins
  • CCATP #798 Adam Engst on Troubleshooting
    Aug 7 2024

    This week our guest is the venerable Adam Engst of TidBITS.

    Adam wrote an article recently about his solar inverters that ended up being a story about troubleshooting. That inspired me last week to tell you our troubleshooting story about our home network. We thought it would be fun to go through Adam's story and pick out ideas for troubleshooting and where our own weaknesses are.

    Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_08_06

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    56 mins
  • CCATP #797 – Adam Engst on His Quest for Alarming Notifications
    Jul 9 2024

    CCATP #793 for July 9, 2024, and I'm your host, Allison Sheridan. In case you missed the announcement, Adam Engst of TidBITS is now a member of the Podfeet Podcasts family as a continuing contributor to Chit Chat Across the Pond.

    In this week's episode, we talked about why Adam believes we need persistent calendar and reminder notifications. Adam is hyper-focused and when he's writing it's not uncommon for him to easily dismiss a notification of an upcoming event.

    Articles referenced in the conversation:

    * A Call to Alarms: Why We Need Persistent Calendar and Reminder Notifications.

    * In Your Face Provides Persistent Notifications for Events and Tasks

    * Just Due It: Persistent Notifications for Tasks - TidBITS

    * CalAlarm app Adam is testing for iOS

    Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2024_07_09

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    43 mins

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