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“2016, Singapore police reported 135 total days without any crimes including snatch-theft, house break-ins and robbery”
Link. Ok, that seems important.
12 Siri tips.
Link. And links to more. Like learning novel Unix commands.
Fujitsu ScanSnap 64-bit Software Update.
Link. A new app.
“APFS has introduced deferred repairs, which remain undocumented, but appear to be minor fixes which are left to the next opportunity.”
Link.
“Dole in his prime and in the White House would have put up more of a fight against the malignant forces of moral rot within the Party than Bush did”
Link. Could the GOP have been salvaged?
Apple blocking parental control apps?!
Link. This needs an explanation. It is true that none of them worked well, but a web alternative to Screen Time Remote would be welcome.
“iOS is an 11-year-old platform that is still floundering to establish consistent conventions for some basic features, let alone complex ones, that are simple and obvious on the Mac.”
Link. iPad is not a terribly useful device. For me.
Humans infest Tibetan plateau at least 40ky
Link. Probably longer. Australia similar. Time for altitude adaptations.
George HW – a mixed bag
Link. I thought his rhetoric was worse than his actions
Raqqa, former capitol of ISIS, one year later.
Link.
Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
Link. They are a marker for corrupt government.
DelightEd 1.0, a rich text editor
Link.
“Sometimes we forget things and have to relearn them. This is one of those things.”
Link. RSS by any other name.
Inventing an Apple TV strategy.
Link. They make no sense.
Clark Goble restarts blog
Link. RSS accomodates any posting frequency.
Samsung Used a Stock DSLR Photo to Fake Their Phone’s ‘Portrait Mode’
Link. Offered faculty position Trump U.
Why Excel for iOS Doesn’t Support VB Macros
Link. Apple is quite confused about ipads
“In Louisville, the Mega Cavern features 320,000 square feet of jump lines, pump tracks, and cross-country trails”
Link. I am a great tourist. Love this.
Riding snow.
Link. New for me.
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years… Five Years Ago
Link. Autonomous vehicle fail is much bigger deal.
“Bush very much, perhaps in spite of himself, laid the groundwork for the performative politics of rightwing extremism and the valorization of hostility to all compromise which was ushered in with Newt Gingrich”
Link. Trump was inevitable.
Anaconda vs Komodo Dragon: the biology of interspecies conflict
Link. Microbiome implications.
“researchers were surprised that millennials weren’t more egalitarian”
Link. Millennials only surprise in this survey.
“Minneapolis-St. Paul is also ranked the healthiest urban region in the country”
Link. Winter kills the weak. (or move to Florida)
“Overall, if you want a desktop for the home, the current Mac mini is the best Mac to buy.”
Link. An updated tb-free MB Pro would be interesting, otherwise Apple makes two machines that are a reasonable value. Air and Mini.
“if you are trying to work out how to do something, Apple’s new documentation is next to useless”
Link. Why wastge original Mac OS documentation so good?
Another Economist encounters the horror of healthcare economics
Link. Infomation asymmetry everywhere.
Exporting 1Password licenses
Link. Replacing 1PW with Apple’s pw management
Amazon Fire TV Recast DVR – Deep dive.
Link. Lots to learn.
The reengineering of three California lakes
Link. Two solid wins.
Why passwords will persist.
Link. Both Google and Apple are automating password stores secured by 2FA. (Weak 2FA in Apple’s case)
“By making their malware public, the US is forcing them to continually find and use new vulnerabilities.”
Link. This sounds clever and good.
Mature open-source projects are vulnerable to admin-attack.
Link.
Zoom videoconferencing tips
Link. We’re stick with Skype. Just awful.
“most apps would be better off as websites rather than apps”
Link. Old AOL was an interesting mixture of online and offline
“selling readers to aggressive Medium self-advertising so that Medium could make laughably small money from a miserable fraction of them”
Link. Why is blogger not good?
“Affordable” 8K by 2020?
Link. I suspect will take longer to be useful for most of us. Suggests 5K is going nowhere.
Trump’s tariffs full of holes for the favored.
Link. Blame the GOP and especially their voters.
Journalist: “I’ve been detained more times than I can count. I’ve received death threats. I’ve been beaten by soldiers, punched in the face and shot with rubber bullets”
Link. A mad and glorious kind of moral courage.
Hydroxyurea for SSD reaches Africa
Link. US trials were slowed by suspicion of medical research.
“Mr. Trump looks for people who share his disregard for the truth and are willing to parrot him, “even if it’s a lie, even if they know it’s a lie”
Link. Anyone who works for him is a liar. Must be a liar.
A good death.
Link. About as well as we can do.
Quicken for Mac — why vendors are going to screw-up subscription pricing for software services.
Link. Irresistible temptations.
GOP in WI shows its true nature – nasty and brutish.
Link. GOP really is the worst aspect of America.
Medical YouTube: “greater the number of views, “likes” and “thumbs up” ratings a video received, the poorer the quality of the information provided tended to be.”
Link. “Wisdom of crowds” is a really dumb idea.
Measles returns.
Link. You won’t like it. Thank your anti-vaxxer neighbor.
Cambodia, mirror of humanity.
Link. If you don’t fear humans you are a fool.
Whitaker is an unindicted con man: “played a central role in its marketing scheme”
Link. He is a lot like his boss.
Hatch Act vs free speech.
Link. NYT should talk about restrictions that apply *outside* of work.