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How to back up your iCloud Keychain

Posted on September 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Ugh. This is really bad.

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Saving files in macOS: HPFS vs APFS

Posted on September 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. APFS isn’t finished. Also, Apple should have keptbold function working.

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Scrub 1.0 for macOS – reduce data leakage

Posted on September 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Patching an OS and app failure.

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Clark Goble, RIP

Posted on September 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Michael Tsai knew him too

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App Store scams: buying legit apps and going evil

Posted on September 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Apple can’t keep up

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Gut microbiome research: obesity fix unlikely.

Posted on September 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Early results are “meh”

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“sending fingers from three neighboring Republican districts deep into Austin and giving the party a lock on all but one of the House seats in heavily Democratic Travis Count”

Posted on September 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The GOP is amoral and utterly ruthless.

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“Morocco, for example, early Homo sapiens had a very Neanderthal-like appearance”

Posted on September 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Africans 300kya had many different bodies

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Whacko WH climate denialist “blocked by other senior White House and administration officials, including members of the military and intelligence communities.”

Posted on September 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Bolton was a supporter because nobody is stupider than Bolton.

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NOAA head, Jacobs, caved to Ross threats.

Posted on September 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. His job was on the line. He caved.

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What’s the Best Medicine?

Posted on September 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Rabies answer was most interesting by a mile.

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Bolton: “back to the American Enterprise Institute, the neocon think tank whence he came and from which, one can reliably predict, he will never roam far again”

Posted on September 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A good day for civilization.

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“Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving Justice on the Supreme Court. “

Posted on September 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. This is fascinating. Must read.

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Bicycling North Dakota’s Maah Daah Hey trail with Western Spirit.

Posted on September 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. What I did to mark my 60th birthday. Some travel notes for others.

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US spy was source on Putin’s role in hack of US election.

Posted on September 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. That’s buried deep in the article. CIA thought Trump would want that spy exposed … and terminated

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Charlie Stross update.

Posted on September 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Has had rocky years with parental passings.

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“as much as I love the functionality that iCloud provides, I cannot put my valuable data at risk.”

Posted on September 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Maybe 13 really is unlucky.

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Apple screws up notarization: “For those of us who now realise that we’ve been suckered for the last year”

Posted on September 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Lots of fail.

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“It’s the end of the world as we know it. The world is disintegrating, and much of the highly-visible noise and chaos is a symptom of a much deeper problem.”

Posted on September 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I guess if you made me pick one cause, I’d say wealth concentration. Has happened many times in history.

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Anatomic variation in canine brains

Posted on September 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. These breeds aren’t that old! How have human brains changed since mass reading began?

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“MacOS 10.14 Mojave last year, some idiot at Apple changed the shortcut for “Make Alias” from ⌘L to ⌤⌘A and the shortcut for “Show Original” to ⌤⌥⌘A”

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Dumb. Fixable in control panel.

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“the lineup of iPhones Apple itself sells online and in its own retail stores is not the full lineup of iPhones they continue to manufacture and sell through other channel partners”

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Carriers and big box stores. iPhone X still manufactured!

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As web decays Google gets shady with search results

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. If they were honest their search revenue would be falling. That would horrify investors

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Reflections on photography and cratering camera sales.

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Two hits: smartphones AND sensor progress hit a wall. Glut of great used cameras and lenses. I hate the loss of memory change. It is as though the past is too painful to contemplate.

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How to tell if an app will run in Catalina

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Wait for 2021.

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Zipcar may fail if cell signal dies

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hell of a product defect.

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Meshcom: “Bridgefy for Android and iOS seems to be the most reliable and the one that’s most actively developed right now”

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. MUST be open source to trust. USENET rediscovered.

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Car Talk Eulogy

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Tom passed at 77. Ray is 65. I loved the details in this long story

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Handedness and brain diversity.

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Our similar appearances mask our diverse minds running on radically different hardware mods

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Tsai eviscerates Apple’s disgusting response to Project Zero defect pub.

Posted on September 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I want Cook to celebrate success and retire.

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Google to stop stem cell clinic ads.

Posted on September 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. They are shameful scams by physicians who should know better.

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America’s disgrace: failure to manage our guns

Posted on September 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. GOP voters are enablers.

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Gillibrand wasn’t going to win, but being a GOP pawn did her in

Posted on September 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Led the GOP directed attack on Franken.

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Preventing psychosis: “healthy eating and exercise and spending more time outdoors”

Posted on September 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I want to believe, but seems anecdote only.

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Caring for SSDs: TRIM, wear levelling and APFS

Posted on September 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. APFS probably doesn’t need TRIM enabled

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An informed take on the burning Brazilian Amazon

Posted on September 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Best I’ve read.

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Europe has its own CO2 dysfunction.

Posted on September 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Even so, some good actions dedpite the despair

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“Vice President Mike Pence wears his faith like a fluorescent orange vest.”

Posted on September 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. American Evangelicals are in so deep they’ll never dig out.

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Wait But Why decides to explain why we wrecked.

Posted on August 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Did I think I’d follow some sick-ass rabbit down a hole for three years …?” A bit crazy.

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Audiobooks are Catalina casualties

Posted on August 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Can’t be backed up and restored.

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macOS Mojave Boot Volume Layout

Posted on August 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Ref.

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NetNewsWire 5 Feature Requests.

Posted on August 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Pinboard share sounds close. I need that.

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“a third of U.S. marriages between 2005 and 2012 started online—and that online couples have longer, happier marriages”

Posted on August 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Big selection bias.

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“Sunscreen is not a problem,” Matz said. “Actually, you can kill corals much more efficiently if you pee on them,” he joked.”

Posted on August 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hawaii really really doesn’t want to think about CO2. For many reasons.

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“US Magistrate Judge Virginia Demarchi is the latest to rule against forced use of biometrics by law enforcement,”

Posted on August 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Good.

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Insurance Companies Fund Ransomware Attacks.

Posted on August 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Historically I believe they’ve followed same policy with corporate hacking blackmail. Cheaper to pay and profitable over time.

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“you are like me, and store your credit card in an iPhone case, say goodbye to the ability to charge wirelessly.”

Posted on August 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Will Apple pay also be RF blocked?

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Apple blesses iPhone Repair Shops: “non-iPhone devices are excluded.”

Posted on August 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. iPhone theft is funded by non-Aplle repair. Perhaps this will help a bit.

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Stross explains UK constitutional crisis.

Posted on August 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Putin is either phenomenally lucky or the greatest military mind in human history

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Imagining life within the oceans of Enceladus.

Posted on August 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. If any, likely unicellular.

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