Link. Apple needs to make this a support article.
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“Articles come in, and NetNewsWire sorts by time, and that’s it. That’s solid.”
Link. Feedbin same
Ive design team: “family that worked long days and socialized after work at bars and clubs—a partying culture that continued for years.”
Link. Not woke.
Jones bikes for gravel, road, moderate mountain biking.
Link. Relatively affordable.
“uniformed officers who were present for much of the day near the Legco mysteriously retreated around 9:00 p.m., when the crowds swelled most visibly around its premises.”
Link. Watch Hong Kong.
“algorithms — driven by the all-consuming need for engagement in order to sell ads — are part of what’s destroying western liberal democracy”
Link. Plausible.
A $30/month pixel-tracker email app is “hot” in SV.
Link. I just live here.
“October 2018, for example, a Soyuz rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague experienced a booster failure about two minutes into launch, triggering an abort sequence that saved their lives.”
Link. Did that get any press?
Huawei no longer a security threat
Link. Also, NK now a helpful ally.
“people in the design studio rarely saw Mr. Cook, who they say showed little interest in the product development process”
Link. Cook doesn’t use computers.
Russo brothers quash bad Cap time travel theory.
Link. In the alt reality he has to defeat Thanos before he gets the gems. Probably using Captain Marvel.
“Geobacter can deploy its wires in different ways to make a living. Not only can it plug directly into rust, it can also plug into other species of microbes.”
Link. Low oxygen acteria use biowires to shunt electrons. Implications for Martian methane.
Trump’s nixon-in-china moment
Link. Only total domination of GOP could enable acceptance of NK as a nuclear power.
“Apple had finally managed to subvert its own efforts to clean up the firmware in Macs”
Link. non-Apple drive sub can break firmware updating
Mac malware: “sites claiming to offer free versions of movies, TV shows, music and books are an extremely common source of malware.”
Link. Forgot to mention porn sites.
Pages.app TOC has bookstore aspect
Link. EPUB good, otherwise adding yet another ancient Word feature
“trying to make changes directly in a preferences file is often doomed to failure, as any changes you make are likely to be overwritten by cfprefsd”
Link. Even when app isn’t running?
Video and images sent by SMS are lossy compressed
Link. Severely
macOS 10.15 Catalina Frequently Asked Questions FAQ
Link. Useful list of questions, many yet to be answered.
macOS 10.15 Catalina – notes from Macintouch
Link. Sigh.
Aperture Exporter updated for Mojave 10.14.x
Link. It’s no longer in App store, so not quite sure how I update now.
“5G (n) – The next generation of mobile internet, which promises to enable digital surveillance at blindingly fast speeds.”
Link. SV glossary.
How to create a macOS virtual machine in VmWare Fusion on Mac.
Link. May need this to run Aperture after Catalina.
Mojave retrospect: a good release.
Link. I’ll stay on it into 2022.
Student debt: state education support isn’t main cause
Link. Global loan fogiveness is dumb.
Ive’s legacy: “the train wreck that is the butterfly keyboard”
Link. He needed a balance.
Terminology.app: review
Link. iOS $2, Mac free, uses Princeton’s WordNet. I got it.
Terminology.app is free for Mac.
Link. “Terminology for iOS is based on WordNet, a great semantic lexical reference”. You add data file as a new dictionary.
Publishers surprised “Apple News Plus seemed to be unfinished”
Link. They must all be Windows users.
Apple’s Catalyst Apps will still suck in Catalina.
Link. Catalina will be one of the bad ones.
Airbnb: “More than 31,000 homes across the country were rented out so often on Airbnb in 2018 that they were likely removed from the long-term rental supply”
Link. We need a new version of WTF.
The return of video piracy.
Link. We are ever more on the pirate side.
Bicycle maps tech lags.
Link. Jobs and Ive both car guys.
Dog foods and canine cardiomyopathy: “FDA said that reports were largely linked to grain-free formulations or those containing peas, lentils, or both, and in some cases potatoes”
Link. I wonder if my dog died of this. How the heck are they making the diagnoses?
Trump Japan comments set new idiocy record.
Link. A majority of white American males support him.
Trump shreds security justification for Huawei ban
Link. Genius.
Chrome: Default pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia quit unexpectedly
Link. My mac chrome apps have finally died.
iOS App installation controls: 3 methods.
Link. I think using method 2 together with method 3 can break iOS 12 Screen Time app install management. Would love someone with iOS 13 beta to test.
Scalzi’s Dem candidate ranking.
Link. I’m all about WWCW of Wisconsin (WWCWW). So for me it’s Biden/Booker or Booker/Biden.
Fixing Sign In with Apple ID – letter from OpenID.
Link. I think Apple is listening a bit these days. Hope this works.
“combined symmetries of C, P, and T, all together, must be conserved under our present laws of physics”
Link. A claim that our best guess at Quantum gravity limits scope of Noether‘s law.
Boeing’s engineering outsourcing.
Link. The rot is always deeper.
SV disease: the problem of Evernote.
Link. Why we can’t have nice things. Except for Pinboard.
Biden: “I think he did fairly well for what he was trying to achieve, for the race he’s running”
Link. Biden critics may not be your friend.
Falwell and Trump: “it simply doesn’t seem credible to me that the sex-related secret and the endorsement aren’t connected”
Link. Sucks to be Evangelical
Apple has site for US health systems to register for medical records download to iPhone.
Link. This is a hard road. Glad they are persisting. Will take years of hard work.
Raspberry Pi is a $35 Desktop Computer
Link. Google client
Fermi paradox illustration: “GTOC X entries saw their settlers sweep across the galaxy over timescales no longer than 90 million years”
Link. Apologetics should make use.
“if we saw something like America’s Republicans in another country, we’d classify them as white nationalist extremists”
Link.
“I don’t worry that Apple is in trouble because Jony Ive is leaving; I worry that Apple is in trouble because he’s not being replaced.”
Link. Persuasive.