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MN Rep: “Mr. Hagedorn wrote a blog called “Mr. Conservative,” which has since been deleted. His posts took aim at Native Americans, gay people and women, among others.”
Link. Presumed died of COVID. Was he vaccinated?
Chrome OS Flex
Link. My 2011 MacBook Air
iCloud Data Recovery Service – Set a recovery key
Link. “For certain sensitive information, such as your Keychain, Screen Time, and Health data, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This data is not accessible via the iCloud Data Recovery Service.”
iPhone identifiers: The new EID and the old SEID
Link. Apple has improved the About screen that shows these identifiers. The EID is new, it permanently identifies the eSIM. The SEID uniquely identifies the iPhone by security element chip and is a part of how Apple Pay works. I assume access to SEID is limited. UDID can’t be seen easily any more.
CYME (Avalanche) Peakto: what is this?
Link. Are they doing a Digital Asset Management solution? Maybe I’ll hold off on my Aperture migration.
CYME (Avalanche) Peakto: what is this?
Link. Are they doing a Digital Asset Management solution? Maybe I’ll hold off on my Aperture migration.
“Immigration, even at reduced levels, is for the first time making up a majority of population growth”
Link. Immigration again growing.
“2000-21 is the driest 22-year period since 800 A.D., which is as far back as the data goes.”
Link. CO2.
“2020, a newly discovered mystery object turned out to be part of a rocket launched in 1966 for NASA’s robotic Surveyor missions to the moon.”
Link. It’s crowded out there.
“It could arrive at the delta by late May or early June. Ingenuity will try to stay ahead of Perseverance.”
Link. Extreme success. Looking for life.
iPhone backup excludes “Apple Pay information and settings”
Link. Nasty surprise if you don’t carry credit cards any more.
Parasitic wasp: “… 16 genetically distinct species that, essentially, are indistinguishable to the eye.”
Link. Mutually infertile?
Biden admin removes Amazon from list of counterfeit-friendly retailers.
Link. Hope they at least got a campaign donation.
“Medical supplies the government promised to deliver — such as thermometers, oximeters, hand sanitizer and other pandemic necessities — have failed to arrive on time.”
Link. Even SK has limits.
“Passware is now offering an add-on module that can defeat Macs with the T2 chip, apparently by bypassing the features designed to prevent multiple guesses.”
Link.
Michael Tsai summarizes Apple App Store issues.
Link. “the problem of the bad incentives that come from getting 30% of each scam sale”.
Irresistible corruption. Especially effective because Apple thinks it can’t be corrupted.
“Roger said he has filed more than 30 complaints about unruly passengers and never received a response from the airline.”
Link. Airlines are hiding. They fear attack from GOP.
SF school board: “vice president, Alison Collins … said Asian Americans were like slaves who benefited from working inside a slave owner’s house.”
Link. It’s good to have some left wing crackpots for a change.
Permissions and ACLs: “Now that macOS sets ACLs on user Home folders, they’re something every Mac user needs to know about”
Link. Reset Home is key.
iOS 15.4: “If you create a new password, but Safari isn’t sure which user name that password belongs to, you’ll see a popup asking you to enter the user name for your account on that specific website.”
Link. Apple Password is best product in years. But need to address weak iOS passcode problem.
Data Sheets on chemicals are lousy.
Link. Similar case could be made for medical drug information, esp side-effects.
Negotiations with Russia: missile defense in Poland.
Link. Obvious room for negotiation, which can be a face saving option for Putin.
“the “Secret Congress” theory of modern DC policymaking, which says that the issues most likely to gain traction are often the ones that get talked about the least on cable news and stay off the front page of newspapers.”
Link. Not true of gay marriage though.
“People are frustrated and angry, and those feelings are fueling increases in viole crime, customer abuse of workers, student misbehavior in school and vehicle crashes.”
Link. “In 2020, overall U.S. traffic deaths rose 7.2 percent. Among Black Americans, the increase was 23 percent.”
Chrome OS Flex Will Rescue Your Old PC or Mac
Link. I might try it.
HIV resistance: “mutation has been identified in only about 20,000 donors, most of whom are of Northern European descent”
Link. Marrow donors are almost all white. That’s a problem for non-white patients who need bone marrow donations.
Canadian whackos meet: “a room that echoed with the constant coughing of dozens of maskless supporters.”
Link. Ideal conditions.
“Christiansen skied alone out in front coolly around the closing turns as Norwegians often do, and then he skied across the line well in first as Norwegians often do.”
Link. “country of 5.5 million”
Crypto Wealth: “… a very big iceberg”
Link. Humanity needs a legal guardian. Also, we have too much money in the wrong places.
On rebutting the antivaxx: “… having to sit down and watch rows of batshit YouTube stuff and listen to hours of Joe Rogan. Life’s too short.”
Link. Indeed. Time to let them be.
Surprising things in my upgrade from an iPhone 8 to an iPhone 13 Pro.
Link. Apple included a free bug.
Russian flu, prior coronavirae, and predicting pandemics.
Link. Several interesting bits in this article.
Supposed Dem spam blacklist registration.
Link. I have not gotten confirmation email however. So not working for me.
Bike Inn, Bentonville.
Link. Need more like this.
“Because certificates could be so easily forged, they’d insist on seeing the vaccine scar,” says Willrich. “Vaccine scars readily served as a physical form of certification.”
Link. This comics history post is marvelous. (Ok, DeliCious)
Life with COVID (and optional masks): “if you are a normal, healthy 30-year-old person with no underlying conditions, you might need a booster only every four or five years.”
Link. Fauci based on latest CDC findings. For 60+ I’m guessing at least yearly.
SSD wear and IORegistry: gaps in Mac diagnostics
Link. The complexity is staggering.
COVID death 18-49: “0.9 per 100,000 people among the unvaccinated, and plummeted to 0.03 among people who were vaccinated. With the addition of a booster, deaths were too low to measure.”
Link. Hospitalization typically 10 times higher than death. Boosters give real benefit at 50+, and benefit increases with age.
Dems fail on free community college.
Link. NYT fails to say why.
“within three years of receiving a diagnosis of diabetes, people were six to eight times more likely than the general population to have pancreatic cancer.”
Link. Late onset DM in non-obese non-familial might justify CT.
new old bugs: “manufacturing defects are tied to these so-called silent errors that cannot be easily caught”
Link. New issues at limits of computing.
How do Facebook Message Link scams work?
Link. It deserves a better answer than what I’ve gotten so far — but this might be the best there is.
Rogan’s Malone interview really was nonstop bullshit.
Link. We quit Spotify family plan.
“Our bodies are starting to go. Our bladders have been put to the test. And no exercise. We end up with all types of heart and other health ailments.”
Link. “The average trucking company has a turnover rate of roughly 95 percent”
Sleep problems too. Truck driving is very unhealthy.
“historically, stimulant epidemics follow opioid crises”
Link. Boredom?
How does the Facebook Messenger click link scam work?
Link. It’s a sign of the decay of the web that I could not find a good answer to a question millions ask every single day.
Late Middle Ages: “many people went to sleep around sundown and woke three to four hours later. They socialized, read books, had small meals and tried to conceive children”
Link. Curious.
“people who exercised for 90 minutes right after their shot subsequently produced more antibodies than people who did not”
Link. I did CrossFit the same day …
“Ottawa is a small city, with about one million residents, and has a police force to match, with fewer than 1,500 officers”
Link. Canada does not have equivalent of “national guard”