Link. Anecdotes common, data hard to get. I would be surprised if hate levels were not increasing.
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“Trump and his domestic allies were beginning to adopt the same tactics of information warfare that have kept the world’s demagogues and strongmen in power.”
Link. Hungary is our future.
Congenitally blind people do not get schizophrenia.
Link. A lot of neural tissue repurposed to compensate for problems elsewhere?
LeBron James Is the New Hero of Bike Shares.
Link. Now my fave sport celebrity. Also, that congress guy is kinda dumb.
“evidence affirming the central lateral thalamus as an NCC”
Link. Organ of conciousness
A review of American luxury primary care.
Link. The evolution of primary care. Meanwhile, where I work, there are fewer physicians, more NPs and PAs. The concierge-care lifestyle is very appealing to physicians.
Amazon fakes: “Birkenstock won’t sell on Amazon anymore. Nike announced that it is also pulling out of Amazon”
Link. Bezos doesn’t care.
Time Machine in Catalina 10.15.3 has serious bugs
Link. Catalina officially worst macOS release ever.
iOS 13 Cursor Placement and Text Selection
Link. I need to practice this. Doing it wrong.
Barr’s justice department induces principled resignation of career prosecutors.
Link. They passed their test. America is dying.
Hazel fail.
Link.
“There’s no amount of will-of-the-people that will move Republican senators. All of the policy we talk about is just fantasy.”
Link. Same reality Obama faced.
Murus, Vallum: Mac tools for controlling native firewall tech
Link. Inexpensive.
Mac Catalyst Version of Swift Playgrounds
Link. No longer ipad only.
“SwiftUI is plain broken on macOS.”
Link. Years away.
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades.
Link. Saudi … “participants’ “favorite pastime was to visit the brothels, which the company also financed.”
Another Alzheimer’s anti-amyloid med fails
Link. Surprised they were surprised. Focus shifting to microglia.
RawTherapee: open source RAW processing.
Link. We are getting closer to an open source emulation of Aperture.
Avalanche for Lightroom 1.0.5 – Tsai roundup
Link. I am VERY interested in this team
Avalanche: migrate Aperture to Lightroom
Link. $60. If it works I’d pay more.
English version of Norwegian government research on Adtech industry (technical document)
Link. Lots of details on how Adtech works: “Amazon Advertisement, AppLovin, AppMonet, AreaMetrics, Chocolate (Vdopia), Facebook Ads, Flurry, Fysical, Google Ads, Google Crashlytics, Google Firebase, Integral Ad Science, Kin Ecosystem, Moat, MoPub, Ogury Presage, OneAudience, Receptiv (Verve), Sense360, SerServ, Tap Research, Tencent, Unacast, Unity3d, Vungle”
North Korea’s state cybercrime expands
Link. Ransomware a state industry.
Lens Rental place also has pro reviews of lenses
Link. The reviews impressed me.
To add a missing bike trail to Google Maps you have to Report a Missing Road.
Link. According to “Platinum Product Expert”. Feature NOT available on iOS. See http://bit.ly/31DW1yJ.
Finance advice
Link. Among best I have read. Index funds for the savings btw.
“number of infections over all in China now far exceeds that of SARS, rising above 40,100, compared with 8,000 then”
Link. A certain amount of preparation is indicated.
Bitcoin success story!
Link. Ok, so fentanyl too
Revealing Dead Lies Dreaming, available October 27, 2020 from Tor.com Publishing. Stross.
Link. Big lead on this announce. Reminder: Tor is DRM free so good eBook choice.
“several weeks, he was stable and able to get out of bed and eat, she said, adding that only in the last two days did his condition deteriorate”
Link. The delayed crash is weird. Don’t recall that from other infections.
“iCloud Drive servers recently started reverting all 0 byte files to the last non-empty version.”
Link. iCloud is not a robust storage solution.
YouTube: strip Audio to Overcast
Link. Ref.
James Carville is pissed at state of Dem primary
Link. Most of all angry Biden entered.
“number of online photos and videos of child sexual abuse reported to the authorities grew by more than 50 percent last year,”
Link. Male humans will not be much missed
Ulbow in action: debugging a nocturnal Mac issue
Link. Walks through the process
APFS: “Time Machine has no way of informing the user that it hasn’t been able to thin old snapshots”
Link. If your free storage is shrinking …
Data on the fading of winter snow
Link. Even if it falls, it doesn’t stay skiable. All nordic skiers know this
Feedbin integrates newsletter subscriptions with RSS feeds
Link. If I ever did a newsletter I’d use this.
Trump Unbound: “no holds barred use of executive power as a weapon against political opponents”
Link. Senate GOP (but one) and American Evangelicals have lost whatever respect they once had. Utterly despicable.
Diagrams: structured flow charts. $20
Link. Simple, useful, no subscription.
BetterZip: “WinZip-compatible AES-256 encrypted archives”
Link. I need that feature.
“I’d give hardware a B and software an F — not one thing about Mac software got better in 2019 and everything that did change made it worse”
Link. Apple reads Gruber. I’m staying on Mojave and avoiding new Mac.
Daring Fireball: Who Buys Big SUVs?
Link. Some also hate bicycles.
American rot: “complexity pervades the American style of governance, a phenomenon that political scientist Steven M. Teles calls “kludgeocracy.”
Link. Maintaining SS support for our disabled child is full time insanity. Only wealthy people can do it.
“That’s something Rush and Trump have in common. Talent. Both can bloviate endlessly and do so in what might be called an entertaining way.”
Link. Al Franken on the SOTU. He understands.
GOP Senators are cowards (save one)
Link. How did they get like this? They are largely wealthy.
“compared with those in the lowest one-fifth for flavonol intake, those in the highest one-fifth had a 48 percent reduced risk for Alzheimer’s disease.”
Link. Animal models also suggestive.
Keto diets may promote osteoporosis
Link. Looks true, mechanism unknown
Romney passes his test.
Link. Earning a place in history.
Another H.I.V. Vaccine Fails.
Link. Epidemic controlled by antivirals
“more than a dozen statues of Gandhi’s killer have been erected. Several Hindu temples are being converted into Godse temples”
Link. You thought Trump worship was bad.