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Bats odd immune system means high viral load without illness.
Link. Coexist. Bats also live a long time for their size.
“the average price of a domestic flight changes 17 times in just two days”
Link. Dynamic pricing is everywhere. Im sure it will find ways to discriminate by gender, race, age.
“if I could go back to the pre-split-screen, pre-drag-and-drop interface I would”
Link. I’m not sure if it even works on mine. My iPad is mosly a photo frame. It’s not that useful.
Are You Good Enough at Paperwork to Be a Poor American?
Link. We have a disabled child. We are not poor but we do this. The emergent system is cruel, perverse, ugly and basically America at its worst. I am impressed any poor person can navigate it.
Private equity sucks: retail edition.
Link. If your company is sold to PE you should find another job. If you can.
“Given the scale of subsidies we give to fossil fuels, the industry as a whole should be regarded as a gigantic grift”
Link. Exxon uses tax dollars to pay Senators to give them our money
“Avast antivirus program installed on a person’s computer collects data, and that Jumpshot repackages it into various different products that are then sold to many of the largest companies in the world”
Link. Would not be surprised to learn they fund malware development.
VA health care removes racial disparity in prostate cancer outcomes.
Link. Kudos due VA. This is more than access. Low income VA patients get respect. Not true elsewhere.
[toread] Fallows Dec 2018 article on Trump corruption vs attraction is worth a re-read.
Link. Now the corruption is even deeper. There is no more resistance in the GOP. McMaster May be only tragic character.
“To win power, Democrats don’t just need to appeal to the voter in the middle. They need to appeal to voters to the right of the middle. When Democrats compete for the Senate, they are forced to appeal to an electorate that is far more conservative than
Link. Wisconsin. Biden and Sanders have the best odds.
Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787. Aug 2019.
Link. By now nobody believes Boeing about anything.
JMAP: a candidate IMAP replacement.
Link. Would Apple adopt?
Rural opioid management: not simple, nothing easy.
Link. She had to close to new opioid users. Too many draws state attention.
Russia: “Since 2014, the percentage of those between ages 15 and 29 who want to leave permanently has more than tripled to 44 percent”
Link. Good at sabotaging America, but that doesn’t help Russia.
How Microsoft used government corruption to disable the IRS
Link. Child’s play for them.
“Mr. Pompeo has aspirations to run for president in 2024, his associates say, and he ties his political future to Mr. Trump’s support.”
Link. Pence v Pompeo for the end of days.
Iran jet tragedy: “hoped that the presence of passenger jets could act as a deterrent against an American attack on the airport or the nearby military base”
Link. A deeply fissured society under severe economic stress. Some incompetence, but mostly division.
Catalina security architecture and Little Snitch
Link. Snitch needs an update, but Apple has a complexity problem
Fake flash mac malware succeeds because the web is dying.
Link. Shlayer pays a cut to malware distributors who embed links in sites they control. There are lots of decrepit corners of the modern web to hide in.
“top party bosses in Beijing with little direct power over what happens in the provinces — policy proclamations are sometimes ignored or defied”
Link. Modern China reminds me of a large federal bureaucracy.
“The implant has access to all the database files (on the victim’s phone) used by popular end-to-end encryption apps like Whatsapp, Telegram and iMessage”
Link. Wonder if this was Bezos hack.
Root causes of ios hacks: “we’ll see cases of code which seems to have never worked, code that likely skipped QA or likely had little testing or review before being shipped to users.”
Link. Imagine how much cruft macos or windows has accumulated.
In-the-wild iOS Exploit Chain 5: Apple left a partly implemented system call lying around
Link. Not a deliberate back door, but acted like one.
The Base was infiltrated by just about everyone.
Link. FBI, vigilantes, more — all monitoring race war hobbyists, including teenage boys with mental health issues.
Preventing external displays from sleep
Link. “any device acting as a USB-C hub should shut down power to connected devices when the display merely goes to sleep:”
“Every elected official in the Republican party today exists at the sufferance of Donald Trump. That means having to go along with literally anything he does.”
Link. Their outrage makes them pathetic.
Lancet Coronavirus article required medical reading
Link. Work is going to be about this.
“If Beijing built a hospital in a few short days, in other words, Wuhan can do it too.”
Link. NYT is updating this URL in real time.
Half of identified autism genes found in other developmental disorders
Link. I don’t think “autism” is a medically useful concept
“Amazon and Walmart.com by holding them liable for fake or illicit products that are sold by third-party sellers on their websites.
Link. Trump’s Bezos hatred has upside
Logitech Limits Harmony Hub Resets
Link. “get you to buy the hub that supports more devices, instead of rotating them on the smaller hub.”
Cringely lives.
Link. He has had his share of tragedy and disaster. Still endures. His feed lit up today.
“China’s online paid knowledge (OPK) pantheon that has dramatically expanded in recent years”
Link. Micropayments at long last?
2018 MacBook Air review: “size of the Force Touch trackpad on the 13 inch MacBook Pro is ridiculous.”
Link. Sure hope we get new kb this year
“Ulbow puts access to the unified log within the reach of all Mac users”
Link. macOS log has enormous volume
FEDERICO VITICCI must have app list 2019.
Link. Instapapered.
“Facebook will work together to re-elect Trump and Trump will work to protect Facebook.”
Link. Transactional. Zuck best pray Warren doesn’t win. He’s all in now and will rise or fall with Trump.
“patient who received a bone marrow transplant from his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia, also developed schizophrenia a few weeks after the transplant”
Link. Sometimes 1 case report is really big. Lots in this article.
Swatting grows
Link. Tech companies will develop own cyber-police force to id assailants.
Stress makes mice go gray.
Link. “acute stress depleted the entire melanocyte stem cell population in mice in just five days” Humans look similar. I can vouch personally.
“The ancient Shum Laka people have a substantial amount of Ghost Modern ancestry. So does the ancient Mota man from Ethiopia”
Link. A lineage of modern humans who vanished in the last 10K years.
“only 9 percent of men say a woman could not win the presidency. Among women, that figure more than doubles, to 20 percent.”
Link. White women voted Trump.
“An architect of the C.I.A. interrogation program testified that to persuade his superiors to let him stop torturing a captive, he had them stand in the cell and watch.”
Link. Cheney. Bush. GOP.
Time Machine: tmutil utility
Link. Ref
Apple isn’t lying when they say your iCloud data is encrypted.
Link. The catch is they have a key. Which they will surrender to authorities on demand. Feds want them so do same for your phone.
Saudi attack: “illicitly gain compromising information on various public people to control criticism of the Saudi government and exert some influence or control over The Washington Post”
Link. Prince better pray Dems don’t win.
MindNode 7: “Tags are a great way to categorize and add more context to your thoughts. You can use them to prioritize ideas and bring focus to a related group of ideas that are otherwise not connected”
Link. A smart approach to reasonable subscription licensing
[toread] “Bezos’ phone had an average of 430KB of egress per day, fairly typical of an iPhone. Within hours of the WhatsApp video, egress jumped to 126MB.”
Link. Bezos forgot his iTunes encryption password. He is human.
Macintouch to discontinue its forums.
Link. Ric refers participants to TidBITS Talk. The good news is that the wordpress redesign is working well and he plans to continue the main site.