Link. Normal humans cannot imagine his mind.
Men’s Journal RSS feed.
Link. Lots of feeds. For middle aged and old men and women.
Catalyst in Catalina: a comprensive deb survey
Link. Not clear is Apple will fix it, kill it, or let it fester
Catalina Screen Time reports are fake news
Link. “Mac remains a product in our lineup.” Burn.
“If you have macOS or other Apple installers, chances are that they’ll be signed, or use as an intermediate certificate authority, by a certificate which expires very shortly.”
Link. Oh, crap. What a screw-up.
Detecting laptops in cars: “They turn on bluetooth scanners and follow the beacon to find electronics”
Link. Break-ins. Power down
“Republicans’ continuing support for Trump is a rejection of democracy and the rule of law.”
Link. For the GOP there really isn’t any law any more. Democracy in America is in critical condition.
Massive child exploit site busted – “Two users of the Darknet market committed suicide after the execution of search warrants.”
Link. 23 children rescued. Hundreds arrested. The IRS is good at this.
Aftermath: what viral feels like
Link. Remember the Butterfly Effect?
“Looking back, the era since the fall of the Berlin Wall seems like one of complacency, or opportunities lost. Enormous inequalities – of wealth and opportunity – have been allowed to grow”
Link. Wrong path taken.
Global Map of the Internet
Link. ref
Michael Tsai Patreon link: if you value your data.
Link. Michael, TidBITS, and Macintouch are your best guides to the many risks of using Apple products. If you are an Apple user, you need them. Pay here.
Apple dev is broken: “I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software.”
Link. Cook doesn’t use software.
iOS 13’s Forced “Find My” Notifications: “set notifications for when she get to a certain location for dinner prep on my end. She says this will end up pissing her off if she can’t turn these off for me.”
Link. Yeah, will be very annoying. Especially if Emily is driving!
Yahoo Groups Shutting Down – “Groups.io seems like the best successor and is free for unlimited members, funded by premium features”
Link. Gaggle free for 20. Also, Google Groups.
An ode to the File: “The file has been replaced with the platform, the service, the ecosystem.”
Link. Data Freedom strangled in its infancy.
The end of smartphone VR: “we’ve seen decreasing usage over time of the Daydream View headset,”
Link. I need display class resolution.
“They will follow him until he is stopped, and the farther they follow, the more they are his.”
Link. Those Dark Lord fantasy novels didn’t come from nothing.
Catalina “softwareupdate” Can Download Old Installers
Link. Save this.
Twitter for Mac: “Project Catalyst seems like an unmitigated disaster”
Link.
Podcasts in Catalina – a “huge regression”
Link. Archived podcasts are toast.
“FAA, Hart said, was “not being able to hire and retain the leading engineers in this industry in a rapidly developing, rapidly evolving technological situation.”
Link. Casualty of GOP war on government.
“what might happen if you plastered parts of Mars with a thin, two to three centimeter layer of silica aerogel.”
Link. Farming Mars.
“why Mohammed might have decided to kill Khashoggi”
Link. Future Saudi King is as nutty as Trump. The murder made no sense.
Om meditates on big tech.
Link. I am the only human being who advocates taxing ad clicks. Externality managed.
Diet soda and junk research.
Link. It’s not personal.
“Anyone raising a teenager knows that nagging is more effective electronically than face-to-face.”
Link. This doesn’t get much attention. Is true.
19 Road Trips From Montreal To Adorable Small Towns – MTL Blog
Link. Done almost all.
Don’t trust Apple.
Link. Made in China.
“The actual man Columbus had little conscious understanding of or much to do with the reign of horrors his arrival in the Caribbean rapidly brought in its wake.”
Link. Our current historical understanding.
Fiona Hill, former Senior Director of European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, is unlikely to be innocent
Link. She joined the mob.
“Truman’s administration, when Secretary of State Dean Acheson described America’s new “defense perimeter” in a speech, saying it ran from southern Japan through the Philippines. That left out the Korean Peninsula”
Link. GOP can be comforted by thought Korean War was, so far, worse. McConnell owns this too.
“68 percent of white 11th-graders were enrolled in at least one AP or IB course, but just 12 percent of black students were.”
Link. Daughter’s St Paul, MN public school is similar. Minority white, but not in AP. When her school computer didn’t work she used mine. Many ways our money helps her.
Google Is Funding Climate Change Denialism
Link. Corruption corrupts.
Canada has world’s worst telcom industry.
Link. Needs more competition
Mail Data Loss in Catalina: “If you moved the message to a mailbox on the IMAP server, other devices see it as deleted, and that deletion status eventually syncs back to the original Mac, where the message disappears as well.”
Link. Apple doesn’t believe in testing their software.
Warren: “Democratic presidential candidate bought a political ad on the social network this past week that purposefully includes false claims about Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, and President Trump”
Link. I’m a fanboy now.
Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not to Anger China’
Link. MAGA.
“to make sense of where the world economy is today and might be tomorrow, we need a story about how we got here. By ‘here’, I mean today’s world of ultra-low real and nominal interest rates, populist politics and hostility to the global market economy
Link. I’m in.
“The entropy of a black hole is, indeed, the maximum possible amount of entropy that can exist within a given particular region of space.”
Link. All the stories that can be told.
PhotoSync – Photo Transfer and Backup App | For iOS & Android
Link. Discovery is hard problem. Only saw this because dev mentioned it (appropriately) in Twitter thread. I’m ideal market though.
“he knew within the first kilometre than he would achieve his goal”
Link. apex. 34yo.
Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15.
Link. Forever Mojave.
ios 13 unusable on ipad air 2.
Link. Bug. Happily I’m on 12.
“Silent errors don’t show up in metrics, so nobody is rewarded for either fixing or revealing them.”
Link. Why we can’t have useful error messages.
“We, former members of the Watergate special prosecutor force, believe there exists compelling prima facie evidence that President Trump has committed impeachable offenses”
Link. No doubts.
GOP fiscal responsibility: “deficit is up by 26 percent since fiscal 2018 and a whopping 48 percent since 2017.”
Link. Do they do anything right?
Michael McKinley, a principled bureaucrat.
Link. Most likely able to gov retire but still noble
Smartphone is ultimate social control technology.
Link. Remember the 1984 Apple ad?
“if Trump were cannier and more self-controlled, the march to autocracy might well be unstoppable”
Link. The GOP is more corrupt than I imagined. And I imagined they were pretty bad.