Link. Nice to see Apple squeezing the banks.
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“Authoritarian messages influence people on two separable levels, the affective level, lowering positive and enhancing negative affect. and the existential level, enhancing meaning in life.”
Link. Trumpist evangelicals have lost their religious faith. They need a replacement.
Joe Huie’s Café – Duluth.
Link. Written by the fifth child. A story of immigrant Chinese.
MIT uninvites physicist: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives should aim for equality for opportunity rather than equality of outcomes, a Twitter-mob decided to go after him in retaliation, and they succeeded”
Link. Princeton stands up. MIT, really?!
“possibility of defining a general model to describe how people respond to a deadline”
Link. “consider the extrapolation of the initial linear behaviour and multiply it by three”. Later came Nobel work.
Apple settles for refurb practices: “lawsuit covers any U.S. residents who received a refurbished replacement device”
Link. When Apple tech trashed my i8 I got a replacement device. The “new” device has a screen defect.
Political text spam.
Link. STOP is supposed to work. So frustrating Apple hasn’t provided better spam management.
Political text spam.
Link. STOP is supposed to work. So frustrating Apple hasn’t provided better spam management.
Recovery post COVID – a Downs story.
Link. Indomitable parenting.
“at approximately 11:39 a.m. ET today (15:39 UTC), someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records”
Link. Best summary.
United Airlines to use Apple Health integration for verifiable COVID-19 vaccination records.
Link. My federal vaccine records are not in state database. This needs a fix.
iOS 15 Shortcuts: “… a variety of severe UI and performance bugs that have made this update the least stable and reliable one in recent memory”
Link. Maybe 15.2?
iOS 15 Messages Bug: “If you save a photo from a Messages thread and then go on to delete that thread, the next time an iCloud Backup is performed, the photo will disappear.”
Link. I’m waiting for iOS 15.1.
Safari Monterey: “Something designed not by UI designers but by graphic designers.”
Link. I dislike tabbed interfaces. So I’m perversely ok with degrading tabs.
Coal-Rolling Texas 16yo Truck Driver Severely Injures Six Cyclists.
Link. Low down on a juvenile idiot. Presumably lousy parenting involved.
“one command tool which can prove useful, as it’s designed to test the App Transport Security (ATS) built into macOS.”
Link. Diagnosing certificate problems.
“The old COVID wasn’t really that bad, even though they told us it was, and back then I wouldn’t have done it either. But this new delta, it’s hitting young people hard.”
Link. I’ll give it a try. Face-saving is good. Also, the southern inferiority-complex thing is plausible.
“Most Afghans have preferred to wash their clothing by hand and hang it out to dry on lines, which the military quickly erected.”
Link. I am impressed by what the military has achieved so far.
“Air pollution deaths from the added sulfur in the air would be more than offset by declines in the number of deaths from extreme heat, which would be 10 to 100 times larger.”
Link. You thought antivaxxers were hard to manage.
“Molnupiravir looks like it could keep a lot of vulnerable patients out of the hospitals and out of the cemeteries”
Link. Discovered at Emory years ago. These numbers are pre-Delta however.
Dollar Stores: “Walmart was offering $16 an hour and her store was paying $12.”
Link. If they excelled at accommodations they could find workers, but that would take extraordinary managers.
Macroeconomics problems.
Link. It’s like the weather. We can forecast up to 5 days and we can do decades but we can’t do in between and it may be impossible.
Merck antiviral: “their risk of being hospitalized or dying fell 50 percent”
Link. Similar to influenza antivirals. Not great but helpful.
Apple ‘Still Investigating’ Unpatched and Public iPhone Vulnerabilities
Link. I’m not a Tim Cook fan.
“multiple Siri commands that are no longer working after the iOS 15 update”
Link. 14.8 too.
“abandon the word “men” in favour of “prostate-havers”, “ejaculators” or “bodies with testicles”
Link. BWT for short.
The End of AMP?
Link. Jobs would have made Safari bypass amp and render directly.
OWC “turn one Thunderbolt port on your Mac into two DisplayPort connections for external monitors”
Link. I think Air still limited to 1 external though.
Cuyuna crash makes National news: trailside trach.
Link. Last time I rode the Kettle EMTs were bundling the guy ahead of me for transport. It’s one of my favorite trails but it has real risks.
The 6 Stages of Cycling Enlightenment
Link. I think I started at Enlightenment:-).
“I have little doubt that the justices are so full of self-regard as to believe that they are impartial, but the public is under no obligation to take this seriously.”
Link. Their pomposity beggars belief.
“use folders and file-naming conventions to create a clear version path that doesn’t depend on local or cloud-based archiving systems.”
Link. Versioning is too complex and risky. OTOH his example of data loss was quite modest.
HDL booster meds failed at enormous cost. (CETP inhibitors)
Link. “showing us that we don’t know as much about human lipoproteins as we thought we did”
“In several federal cases, health care workers are demanding that the state allow religious exemptions, and have won the right to keep working for now.”
Link. The religious exemption is a vast loophole. I’m surprised more don’t claim it.
Eclectic Light tools for working with macOS log.
Link. One day you may need this.
“In 15 generations of iPhones, Apple has changed the connector once. And that one time was a clear win in every single regard. Changing from Lightning to USB-C is not so clearly an upgrade at all.”
Link. For once I agree with DF.
“this level of politically-driven brainwashing terrifying. It’s basically a full break from reality, driven in large part by rage and distrust toward establishment systems.”
Link. Murdoch’s minions.
What’s the Newest Language?
Link. “the opposite of English, which has by far the largest vocabulary of any language in the world”
Fascinating. Any isolated group of infants seem able to create a kind of language.
iOS 15 to Add Verifiable Covid-19 Vaccination Records to Wallet
Link. Later this year .. “built on the SMART Health Cards framework, an international specification”
“You can also set up your AirTag in the Find My app. Tap the Items tab, then tap Add Item.”
Link. On my i8 iOS 14 the auto Connect briefly appeared, died, and I could never get it to show again. Add Item in Find My worked.
Apple’s best value: the cheap iPad.
Link. They last at least five years.
The Proliferation of Zero-days: “China alone is suspected to be responsible for nine zero-days this year.”
Link. Security has gotten good enough that Zero-days are high value.
“secret societies” are implanting vaccines in a plot to connect Black people to a master computer for “a plan of Satan.”
Link. They’ve almost got it. Closer than 5G anyway. #borgvid
“The more I look back at Catalina, the more grateful I am that we’ll soon be upgrading to Monterey.”
Link. Mojave was ok.
iOS Safari Extension 1Password: “doesn’t work with standalone vaults”
Link.
iOS Vulnerabilities: Unfixed or Uncredited.
Link. I am not a fan of Tom Cook.
iOS Safari Extension: Amplosion
Link. Die AMP die. Needs to be built into browser.
“Apple has apparently dropped AirPort Utility from the App Store, its last version being 6.3.9”
Link.
Minnesota – mountain biking capital of America.
Link. Almost. We call em singletrack because we don’t, you know, have any mountains.
Debt default: “Congress often waits to see market panic before acting.”
Link. Pressure from donors.