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.

Link. It’s easy to remove the password timing controls on anything older than an iPhone 11, but supposedly there’s no hack on the secure enclave itself. So a good quality alphanumeric password will block decryption.

Link. Authenticated personae registration services can enable safe and validated conversation

Link. Grim.

Link. It will take another monster crisis to fix.

Link. Authoritarian regimes have to keep a few credible people around for crisis like this.

Link. Russia or China most like. May explain why no time to patch before public.

Link. “Mostly service industry jobs of either taking people up mountains or carrying their corpses down mountains”. A good one.

Link. Bike tech geekery.

Link. Mixes deeply evil with the relatively principled (Cloudflare, Apple, Disney) but overall remarkably thoughtful. A useful reference for historians.

Link. FBI involvement in particular. GOP was in bad shape then, but it got worse.

Link. I read this as murky. Basic problem is that “autism” is a messy diagnostic classification.

Link. Minimal progress post triptans.

Link. The “nonwhite” modifier is probably extraneous.

Link. It also increases dementia risk

Link. Cambriun is home of immune system

Link. Improvement guaranteed.

Link. Trump is not without precedent.

Link. Article omits gender skew (selective female abortion) as contributor. Was that censored?

Link. Does Vanguard offer one?

Link. I read this as mostly good news. Texas favors guns and business and dislikes birth control, California includes gay/trans stories. I expected TX to be worse.

Link. Whatever the outcome, Trump’s cover story was a lie.

Link. Not enough to elect a Sanders, but does shift Dem strategy.

Link. “United States had last labeled China a currency manipulator in 1994. The designation, while seen as a type of public shaming, is largely symbolic”

Link. Surveillance cameras didn’t work. I believe her, but also believe impossible to file charges.

Link. Much of this I knew only vaguely.

Link. The GOP is making this simple for the historians. The party and their Evangelicals became increasingly corrupt, white non-elite saw doom, Trump’s acquittal was the final judgment.

Link. Errant translation but terrific nickname. Hope it sticks

Link. Maybe theiir business isn’t as good as people think.

Link. I wonder what the legislators thought they were doing and how the newspapers wrote about it. Before civil war, clearly inflienced by culture of black enslavement.

Link. Photos.app feature.

Link. Power to the cow. Buy the shirt.

Link. Satanic.

Link. Google sucks.

Link. The feedback loops, delivery velocity, and evolution are all novel.

Link. Where it came from. How it fell from grace.

Link. Lots of bike paths before the car.

Link. Feel the hate.

Link. Hell yes.

Link. why not?

Link. Clever.

Link. Pre-eukaryote?

Link. Shock.

Link. What the FBI wants

Link. Awesome work

Link. Planting “evidence” more likely.

Link. RSS is the best

Link. The engineers should get a special award

Link. American banks rely on SMS because they hate us.

Link. It smells