Link. I think NYT is saying there was likely legal cause for a search but the judge erred in nature of search and police were incompetent at best.
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“no one seems to have considered the problems which can be caused by orphaned snapshots, so they’re a key macOS feature which is essentially unmaintainable”
Link. Too complex for humans.
“RealFarmacy, which according to Avaaz is on track to become one of the largest health misinformation networks in the world, received an astonishing 581 million views in a year.”
Link. Money for Facebook.
“Canada increased its maximum payment to about $4,800 per child per year (in American dollars), and quickly reduced child poverty by a third”
Link. Canada has had this for at least 50 years, a kind of guaranteed income. Helped feed me.
Replacing a Time Capsule with a Synology NAS for multiple users
Link. I wrote the original article in 2015 and updated it in 2020 when an OS update killed one of my machine backups. This kind of end-user “how to” article is hard to find in the twilight of the web.
“Some apps legitimately need location access, and once that’s granted there’s little that can be done to protect you”
Link. Don’t give location data to anyone but Apple?
“Trying to get a job at a legitimate tech company after staying at Facebook through 2020 will be like trying to get a job at a legitimate news publication after a stint at Fox News.”
Link. I wish that were true.
Intimidating math theorem’s elegant proof.
Link. I loved Huang’s description of how he plugged away at it as a secret hobby for many years. Helped falling asleep at night, solved when writing grant application.
China’s concentration camps mapped.
Link. Xi will go down in history with Stalin, Mao, and Hitler.
“Changes in Spotlight Search on iOS and iPadOS 14 beta, a significant update to its Applebot support page, and an increase in crawling from AppleBot signify that Apple may be launching a search engine soon.”
Link. Google search results lousy in many domains. They are vulnerable.
“administration officials have suddenly started referring to the pandemic in the past tense”
Link. Of course.
Kyle Rittenhouse profile.
Link. Almost certainly cognitive disabilities, could be my special needs son. Insane that he had a weapon.
“Almost 10% of patients with COVID-19 infection have a prolonged QTc interval on admission”
Link. Explains why HCQ was unexpectedly toxic. It’s generally a safe medication…
“University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy director Michael Osterholm told Stat. “The two foundational organizations in this country for public health really have been the CDC and the FDA and the credibility of both has
Link. The Party of Trump will destroy all science.
Abbott’s $5 Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test Gets Emergency-Use Status From FDA – WSJ
Link. “Abbott said Wednesday it plans to ship tens of millions of the newly authorized tests in September, with plans to increase production to 50 million tests in October.” I will buy.
“The FDA can no longer call itself an independent and science-based regulatory agency,” Luciana Borio, former acting FDA chief scientist, told BioCentury.”
Link. FDA down. CDC down. HHS down. NIH?
“presenting oneself as a Black activist is the most effective disinformation tactic for driving online engagement”
Link. Russia and Iran.
CDC testing guidelines not written by CDC.
Link. The CDC has fallen.
HIV “cure” without immune system transplant
Link. Mechanism too complex for article to describe
“you should definitely not be in an indoor area where you’d be taking your mask off, not even for eating. Movie theaters have all of that.”
Link. Almost as bad as churches. Seriously, once we opened churches hard to reatrict anything.
“organizations stay ahead of malware operations — a truly rare sight in today’s cyber-security field.”
Link. Ummm. ok, how bad are things really?
“Some predatory bacteria are amenable to eating dozens, if not hundreds, of bacterial species, enabling them to thrive in most habitats.”
Link. What else don’t I know? Discovered 50y ago.
COVID infection risk: a multifactor model.
Link. Outdoors takes care of just about every risk.
“if a thief (or law enforcement, or any adversary) has the device passcode, and your iCloud password is in your keychain, they can get your iCloud password from your keychain.”
Link. OOPS.
“Why didn’t Apple just make the repair program available to all the affected models?”
Link. Greed?
Yelp! sucks
Link. Apple enabled them.
Protest violence will reelect Trump
Link. Putin will do everything possible to increase violemce
“Falwell knew that Cohen (and almost certainly Trump) knew information that could destroy Falwell’s life.”
Link. The Evangelical’s Antichrist came with screaming sirens and flashing lights. They fell for Trump anyway. They can’t plead ignorance come the Judgement.
“Why Manaus will be the first Brazilian city to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic,”
Link. A curious epidemic. High deaths then it passed.
“What makes Trump truly extraordinary is not just that he acts so unethically. It is that he is so open about it, because he can’t conceive there would be anything wrong with anything he does to help himself.”
Link. Solipsism as a form of madness.
Stephen Hahn screwed up his plasma numbers.
Link. To his credit he corrected himself. Stress of the moment, and eagerness to please Trump.
Anti-obesity programs vs fat-shaming guilt.
Link. There are many many ways to reduce obesity, but public health has to say diabetes and steatohepatitis are not desirable diseases and physicians have to tell people when they are at risk.
Russia: “The chairman of the ethics committee in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Aleksandr Chuchalin, quit as the ministry was in the process of approving the vaccine.”
Link. Only 1/4 Russian physicians willing to take it
“The search engines were better in the 90s than google is now. Alta Vista was better than google is now.”
Link. Yes. I used 90s Alta Vista. Google crushed it, but even as #2 it was better than what we have now.
“Clear concepts like permissions have become so heavily embroidered and encumbered that they’re barely recognisable.”
Link. There’s no-one in charge.
Free tool: “takes Google [photo]’s directory structure and all their duplicated files, merges, sorts, and deduplicates your photos and videos into a sane folder structure”
Link. We need open source media management data standards.
“People who carried the most fat around their midsections — a major risk factor for metabolic disease — had significantly less weight gain when they switched from sugary drinks to diet beverages or water.”
Link. A bit of revival for the sweetemers.
“nonchalant attitude toward what were once thought to be major breaking points reflects an evolution in the way investors, economists and central bankers think about government debt.”
Link. We were wrong.
Iran’s true struggle manifest in torture of one geek
Link. The war is between the cognitive elite and the non-college fundamentalists. Sound familiar?
Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?
Link. Climate change, population, accumulated fuel.
“P-Best, for Pooling-Based Efficient SARS-CoV-2 Testing — successfully detected positives in pools of as many as 48 samples”
Link. Algorithm works best with low positivity rate.
“allegations were a cynical attempt to manipulate the powerful emotions surrounding sexual misconduct and assault.”
Link. Shock.
Kenya: “Covid-19 has so far infected 700 health workers and killed more than 10″
Link. Lots of disease, worse IFR.
Regenerating cartilage in mice: “the method of awakening the dormant cells is relatively simple, and the drugs required are already on the market.”
Link. Orthopedic surgeons are sure to try this.
Managing the demented driver: use a fake key fob.
Link. Doctors need this one. Has to match the real fob.
“News Feed Preferences are absolutely worth exploring if you want even the slightest bit of curation in what you see on Facebook”
Link. Great overview of latest reboot.
“It was very clear that people who were donating were donating for rebuilding efforts,”
Link. Definitely. The racial justice pivot is wrong.
“If the whole Earth were broken up into pebbles, and each of those pebbles smashed into tens of thousands of specks of grit, you would still have fewer pieces of grit than the world has virions.”
Link. Gray goo.
“a fifth of single-celled plankton are killed by viruses every day”
Link. Bloody hell.
Unicode: “You may be surprised to learn that some code comparisons, such as Swift’s NSString.isEqual(), don’t work properly across normalised forms, but others such as == do”
Link. Gets deep.