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Author Archives: jgordon
iPhones with decent passwords cannot be hacked?
Link. It’s easy to remove the password timing controls on anything older than an iPhone 11, but supposedly there’s no hack on the secure enclave itself. So a good quality alphanumeric password will block decryption.
Is only defense against artificial personae a shutdown of online discussion?
Link. Authenticated personae registration services can enable safe and validated conversation
“for 5G, development, performance, cost, and time to market were all prioritized over security, which was treated as an afterthought.”
Link. Grim.
“U.S. economy is locked in much the same pattern as before the recession — a cycle of boom and bust for ordinary Americans, with smoothly rising prosperity for those at the top”
Link. It will take another monster crisis to fix.
SARS 2.0: “The central government dispatched Dr. Zhong, a renowned expert with a reputation for bluntness”
Link. Authoritarian regimes have to keep a few credible people around for crisis like this.
Crypt32.dll hack was probably in use.
Link. Russia or China most like. May explain why no time to patch before public.
Top 6 Happiest Countries In The World
Link. “Mostly service industry jobs of either taking people up mountains or carrying their corpses down mountains”. A good one.
Tour Down Under 2020: Power Meters Of the WorldTour Men’s Teams
Link. Bike tech geekery.
The Evils of tech companies.
Link. Mixes deeply evil with the relatively principled (Cloudflare, Apple, Disney) but overall remarkably thoughtful. A useful reference for historians.
More details on Cheney torture programs to emerge.
Link. FBI involvement in particular. GOP was in bad shape then, but it got worse.
Early interventions for autism.
Link. I read this as murky. Basic problem is that “autism” is a messy diagnostic classification.
State of Migraine Therapy
Link. Minimal progress post triptans.
“many nonwhite patients prefer practitioners who share their racial identity and that they receive better care from them”
Link. The “nonwhite” modifier is probably extraneous.
“ApoE4 increases the odds that people will survive to adulthood and have children.”
Link. It also increases dementia risk
Ginkgo tree longevity: “genes in the cambium contain no program for senescence, or death, they say, but continue their program for making defenses even after hundreds of years”
Link. Cambriun is home of immune system
Adoption of a surgical checklists in Africa.
Link. Improvement guaranteed.
Before Nixon went after DNC he went after Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatric history.
Link. Trump is not without precedent.
“birthrate in China fell to 10.48 per thousand last year, the lowest since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949″
Link. Article omits gender skew (selective female abortion) as contributor. Was that censored?
Index fund variants: equal weighting
Link. Does Vanguard offer one?
Texas vs California history texts.
Link. I read this as mostly good news. Texas favors guns and business and dislikes birth control, California includes gay/trans stories. I expected TX to be worse.
Suleimani hit: Trump says no strategic reason.
Link. Whatever the outcome, Trump’s cover story was a lie.
“Four in 10 Americans — and 55% of women between 18 and 54 — say they would prefer to live in a socialist country over a capitalist one.”
Link. Not enough to elect a Sanders, but does shift Dem strategy.
U.S. Says China Is No Longer a Currency Manipulator
Link. “United States had last labeled China a currency manipulator in 1994. The designation, while seen as a type of public shaming, is largely symbolic”
Veterans secually harassing veterans at VA facilities.
Link. Surveillance cameras didn’t work. I believe her, but also believe impossible to file charges.
NYT explains Amazon’s Ring porch camera.
Link. Much of this I knew only vaguely.
Trump’s defense: Sure I did it. I did it all. Hell, that was the least of it. So what?
Link. The GOP is making this simple for the historians. The party and their Evangelicals became increasingly corrupt, white non-elite saw doom, Trump’s acquittal was the final judgment.
“Mr. Xi’s name repeatedly appeared as “Mr. Shithole.”
Link. Errant translation but terrific nickname. Hope it sticks
Google disguising ads as search results
Link. Maybe theiir business isn’t as good as people think.
California: “An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians April 22, 1850”
Link. I wonder what the legislators thought they were doing and how the newspapers wrote about it. Before civil war, clearly inflienced by culture of black enslavement.
Turn off Live Photos for existing pictures.
Link. Photos.app feature.
DEVINNUNES2020.COM
Link. Power to the cow. Buy the shirt.
And Trump corrupts the National Archives.
Link. Satanic.
MarsEdit gives up on Blogger.
Link. Google sucks.
““as a culture we are barely coming to grips with the power of YouTube, Facebook, and to some degree, Twitter, as means of spreading mass-market disinformation”
Link. The feedback loops, delivery velocity, and evolution are all novel.
Flash eulogy.
Link. Where it came from. How it fell from grace.
MSP Bicycling history.
Link. Lots of bike paths before the car.
Apple TV: the Apple ad plague begins.
Link. Feel the hate.
Free public transit begins in America
Link. Hell yes.
“The current domestic terrorism statute does not carry any criminal penalties.”
Link. why not?
Swatting a tool of white racist terrorists.
Link. Clever.
Prometheoarchaeum: a new ancient microbe.
Link. Pre-eukaryote?
GOP Opportunity Zone tax break is a font of corruption.
Link. Shock.
“it did prove the existence of one channel where an iPhone could be forced to update to a compromised version of iOS”
Link. What the FBI wants
“scientists could repair the damaged livers, clearing them of fat deposits and facilitating tissue regeneration, for example.”
Link. Awesome work
“GRU operatives began hacking into various subsidiaries of Burisma Holdings, apparently looking for emails or other documents”
Link. Planting “evidence” more likely.
YouTube RSS: “The combined URL + Channel ID is the Feed URL of that YouTube channel, and can be added to my feed reader”
Link. RSS is the best
Typewriter Keylogger: Soviet brilliance
Link. The engineers should get a special award
SMS hacking is easy: “all 5 carriers used insecure authentication challenges that could easily be subverted by attacker”
Link. American banks rely on SMS because they hate us.
Report: The FBI recently unlocked an iPhone 11 Pro with GrayKey, raising more doubts about the Pensacola case
Link. It smells