Link. About 150 now. Free to use. Via Tsai.
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Trump Vows ‘A Plus Treatment’ for Alabama
Link. We are obliged to take note.
“Facebook might change its practices if its top executives were to spend a day in the shoes of a content moderator.”
Link. Come the revolution.
“Mail’s Preferences > General pane and toggle Prefer opening messages in Split View when in full screen.”
Link. Great tip.
Face ID is better tham Touch ID for Olds
Link. True for me!
“PICT is a long-dead graphics file format for Classic Mac OS QuickDraw graphics, but lives on in Clippings.”
Link. I remember
Amazon: “over 5 billion product listing updates every day”
Link. What pct are legit? How many listings per product?
Bookmarklet: Archive Page to Wayback Machine.
Link. Sweet. Via Tsai.
The sensitivity zealots turn on themselves.
Link. I want a Twitter filter that screens all of them.
Moral collapse of GOP strands Team Liberal.
Link. There is only a howling void to the right of us.
The limited value of business videoconferencing
Link. I do like it for my 1:1 meetings.
“avoid trusting any secrets or other sensitive information to PDF.”
Link. Explains why gov docs often distributed as PDF scans.
“1Password7 where secrets, including the master password and its associated secret key, were present in both a locked and unlocked state.”
Link. Schneier doesn’t bother with evaluating cloud-based 1PW, this is about disk based.
Mojave has brought back one of my least favorite macOS behaviors – screen saver bug.
Link. Not sure this is a bug, but it’s very annoying.
Trump remains popular with GOP base
Link. Try thinking of him as a (much) dumber and less compassionate version of Bill Clinton.
Remote Screen Time shows erased device – cannot be removed.
Link. I think this is a bug but 12.2 is taking forever so asked on Apple Discussions.
Is remote screen time compatible with shared iTunes credentials?
Link. I resort to Ask Different. Takes some courage as this can be scary place to visit. (And I actually have some modest status rank there.)
Sharing Photo.app libraries is a cluster.
Link. Sh*t, Photos.app can’t even merge $/!@ Libraries. Aperture did that. This is why I hate Apple on even numbered days.
Notes on ice dams – 1997 web page.
Link. Last time MN had these conditions. My late 90s “snippets” were kind of a proto-blog.
Bugs reveal much: “App Shortcuts feature unusable in Mojave 10.14.3”
Link. Pride goeth.
15 Claims From Trump’s Speech to CPAC – mostly false, some misleading.
Link. This is the GOP.
Mojave’s Time Machine 1.5
Link. We still need a way to restore files from TM to a different drive.
Michael Tsai – “I ended up liking the iPhone XR much more than I expected to”
Link. I have an XR for work, I was also surprised. It’s a very good phone. I’d be happy to buy it if I needed a phone.
Foldable tablets are boring and maybe silly.
Link. I don’t get it either.
Utilities for recovering versions of a document that cannot be opened
Link. macOS versioning has never been useful to me
Otto Warmbier, a theory of his death.
Link. Psychological torture, an asphyxic brain event. Possible suicide attempt.
Automatically save to Internet Archive
Link. I need to save a bunch of stuff
iPhone gift: “number of pedestrians killed by cars increased between 2009 and 2017 by an incredible 45 percent.”
Link. It is the phone. I think Maps in particular, but everything.
The GOP’s slow pivot to accepting CO2 reality.
Link. Trump’s bizarre denialist panel has become embarrassing to GOP.
The world of reddit and what it says about humanity and outrage
Link. Cognitive glut meets screen addiction meets outrage culture. A perfect stench.
Aaronson backs away from his peculiar social media addiction.
Link. Even a genuine genius can have issues. Aaronson fans pray he can stay off that vice.
Cringely predicts Apple will become a very big hedge fund.
Link. Persuasive.
America’s pathology exposed: funding schools by property taxes
Link. It is a crime.
Trump was very worried his academic records would leak.
Link. Surely a classmate would know?
The 2018 MacBook Keyboards Have the Same Old Problems
Link. Air also impacted. If you can wait for new MBP then wait.
FastScripts and Compulsive Command-S Savers
Link. My cmd-S twitch still saves me.
Mistitled article is really about how much harder it is to contact anyone.
Link. In retrospect White Pages was amazingly public. Personal communication now is way harder than it was 30y ago.
HIIT exercise (CrossFit etc) effective for fat burning.
Link. Even with CF I still need to eat thoughtfully. Only a few endurance athletes can eat whatever.
Twin Cities Metro Ski Trails.
Link. One of the better collections. I prefer woodsy single track classic, but that’s hard to find.
GOP Rep To Michael Cohen: ‘Do Your Wife & Father-In-Law Know About Your Girlfriends?’ – Talking Points Memo
Link. Twitter makes stupidity faster.
Primary care 2019 vs. 1989.
Link. Far more complex, tools disappoint.
“British people committed to building a submarine out of cheese. And then Parliament had to set about doing that impossible thing.”
Link. Voters are a problem everywhere.
Entitlements in macOS.
Link. Again, Apple doesn’t document
“Reparations, along with abolishing ICE, are very unpopular.”
Link. Media really really want Dems to support reparations.
Taxation favors robotic over human workers.
Link. Rethinking taxation in the AI era.
Baumol’s cost disease – the US version.
Link. Inevitable.
Prison medical care is the hardest problem.
Link. Psychiatric burden, complex diseases, cognitive disabilities, for profit business, prison industry corruption, primary care shortage, recruiting issues,adversarial patient relationships, security problems …
Dementia patients and the need to not know.
Link. Without denial life sentient is impossible.
Japan’s anti-vaxxers: “after some members became infected, the group apologized and said it was changing its practices.”
Link. Meanwhile in US Arizona GOP is pro-measles.
Drafting Only Men for the Military Is Unconstitutional
Link. Obviously. Crazy this took so long.