Link. Shockingly they think it’s all good.
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‘That’s My Kind of Guy,’ Trump Says of Republican Lawmaker Who Body-Slammed a Reporter
Link. Is it worth commenting on Trump’s obscenities? Or do we accept the new normal?
CLOs are the new CDOs.
Link. “Maybe this would be just a bad recession when this collapses, not the Great Depression”
Jamal Khashoggi’s last writing.
Link. When a journalist is tortured and murdered the least we can do is read their last work. So read it.
Apple deprecates printers
Link. The ideal Apple customer doesn’t print.
Safari 12.0 can’t open a local Home page
Link. Sounds like a bug
MindNode 5.2 – healthy updates.
Link. I’d stll like “hoist/focus”
TechSoup: Get Deep Discounts on Technology for Your Nonprofit
Link.
“large portion of the cells in healthy people carry far more mutations than expected, including some mutations thought to be the prime drivers of cancer”
Link. “mutant clones colonize more than half of your esophagus by middle age,” Why we die.
“General Assiri did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.”
Link. How much will his family get?
DramaFever killed.
Link. Amazon/Netflix moving in. No warning. My family upset with series dangling.
Advocates for armed dementia.
Link. First they came for the suicidal. Then they came for the demented. Finally they came for NRA leadership.
Attack of the IoT.
Link. You can’t buy an IoT-free TV.
20-60 ng/ml vit D: “no evidence that you get any benefit from taking vitamin D.”
Link. Can contribute to kidney stones though.
Cats “are utterly ineffective in controlling urban rat populations.”
Link. Urban rats are too big for domestic cats.
“falling revenues were a far larger contributor to the rising deficit than higher spending”
Link. Some things are reassuringly predictable.
A rant on gadget fever
Link. I sympathize. Ironically ios 12 is pretty much what Ricardo is asking for
“M.B.S.’s violent and impulsive character were visible early on”
Link. Trump encouraged his homicidal instincts
Trump covers up Saudi torture-murder.
Link. “Trump’s hotels in New York and Chicago have had a rush of visitors from Saudi Arabia in recent months.” Trump is pathetic evil.
GOP shifts from denying CO2 to saying it can’t be changed.
Link. Despicables.
A play about being a middle-aged woman. Menopause & “the reckoning”. I liked it.
Link. The male Reckoning is different. Serious injury or a cardiac event. Violent and sudden.
macOS Spaces explained.
Link. I love them.
Bayes theorem – statistical status.
Link. Wish this wasn’t a PDF!
“bought small and midsized television-station operators and then circumvented regulations by setting up shell companies that on paper appear to be separate entities but over which Sinclair exerts almost total control.”
Link. Delivering the vulnerable to Trump.
Florida rejects tens of thousands of mail ballots.
Link. Guess who gets rejected most.
“Do Not Personalize Ads from Amazon for this Internet Browser”
Link. Maybe will stop things I bought from chasing me around the web?
“progressive activists, traditional liberals, passive liberals, the politically disengaged, moderates, traditional conservatives, and devoted conservatives.”
Link. Tribes. Omits religion?
MTB ride essentials.
Link. Master links are an unfortunate chain design. Pain to carry that tool.
Apple Maps Tips.
Link. For Google Map users, turn off highway here makes Apple Maps a ‘scenic route’ alternative. (Of course driving a Google Maps bike nav is probably better. Apple has SO much work to do.)
Post-Mojave a Mac may run very slowly for 12-24 hours.
Link. Ideally turn off all backups and let it run overnight. Then when things are stable turn backups back on.
Time Machine backups of APFS volumes are significantly improved.
Link. The APFS version of TM is probably 2020 though.
Mojave System Information’s Legacy Software list is very incomplete.
Link. Run 23-bitcheck instead.
Busting 7 myths (lies) about Mojave.
Link. “Time Machine hasn’t changed significantly in Mojave: it still relies on directory hard links in its backups. Those are not supported by APFS”. Otherwise mostly reassuring.
“in Mojave, the SSD part of the fusion drive is just a cache”
Link. So reduces total available drive space. Does seem a smart use of SSD though.
Mojave install warnings…
Link. Simply downloading installer makes changes to High Sierra.
The Su Bin affair and how China does espionage.
Link. When caught China simply picks a western victim to use as a hostage for exchange. NK does similar but demands disproportionate payment.
Transunion’s TLO database is why you don’t need to worry about yahoo security breeches.
Link. Bad guys already have everything they could possible need.
Zika disappearing – “Zika cases in South America have done nothing but fall steeply from their 2016 peak”
Link. Remember SARS?
“The U.S. just surpassed Russia as the world’s top oil producer”
Link. I predicted this. Ok, so exactly the opposite of what I predicted.
Sunlight And the Brain: including sunbathing addiction.
Link. So weird
Microsoft licensing explained
Link. If you do corporate licensing you need this.
“The Republican Party is in disarray. If it still has a leader, it is Bush”
Link. That’s a curious position. Sept 2018. Just started following this old blog, one of two I added today.
Smart Traveler Enrollment Program: “allow U.S. citizens and nationals traveling and living abroad to enroll their trip with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate”
Link. FWIW. Never heard of it before.
Bostromism rediscovered.
Link. Every 5 years I must write a post about “The Truth”, Iain M Banks theology of the simulation.
“In 2016, Uber started charging passengers on some rides more than drivers were paid, without notifying them”
Link. Price hiding is corporate meth. Healthcare is completely hooked.
ProtonMail on securing digital phone data across borders.
Link. Interesting point on airplane mode. Mostly I want to secure my passwords. iOS keychain is a problem.
“raw soldier quantities have a relatively small effect compared to other factors such as terrain or technology”
Link. I like that conclusion.
Workarounds for iPhoto Cloud and other iCloud bugs.
Link. Even Gruber can get irritated by Apple’s weird omissions and bugs.
The Math Behind Project Scheduling, Bug Tracking, and Triage
Link. Presentation, so need to view video. Would love written version
We need gov regulation of net connected devices now
Link. Classic market failure.