Link. Will Google incorporate it?
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Apple ignores security researchers findings until headlines hit.
Link. They suck at this.
Mac App store hosts popular Chinese spyware app.
Link. Do you think it’s the only one?
Putin’s assasinations: Russian mafia in Spain.
Link. Where else does Putin’s mafia operate?
Kavanaugh “personally spent years obsessively pursuing crazy conspiracy theories about the suicide of Vince Foster.”
Link. Only the worst.
Jones SWB Complete bike review.
Link. So many great bikes in our world.
Probiotic supplements have significant microbiome effects
Link. For good AND bad. We don’t know how to use them.
Apple Notes can import Evernote archives
Link. No exit from Notes however.
Douthat, NYT Republican, has good take on GOP quiet resistance.
Link. Republicans quietly praying for a Dem House win.
How England’s surveillance society caught Putin’s hit men
Link. 1 camera for 11 citizens.
The Republican Resistance.
Link. The Deep State … in the tradition of China’s mad Emperor bureaucracies.
Facebook US usage crisis.
Link. Fits my experience. Feels like 1999.
Diclofenac (voltaren) not looking great
Link. Would love to know the pharmacology here.
Novichok Killers identified
Link. High quality images. Will need extensive plastic surgery now.
It is almost impossible to find an AT&T mobile service description for current use
Best I could do was navigate to https://www.att.com/my/#/mmdflanding?selectedCtn=555-555-1212 (fake number) then look to bottom for “See your Customer Service Summary”.
I don’t think it could get more obscure.
Medium users should prepare exit strategy now.
Link. Winter is coming.
Evernote users should test exit strategies now.
Link. I stuck with Simplenote because of nvAlt exit strategy — and because it is so cheap to run.
“these days, most macOS malware is signed.”
Link. Disable automatic unzip.
“Amazon is another story entirely: each dollar of profit it makes is valued by the market at an eye-popping $208.”
Link. Pets.com.
“He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown,”
Link. You know who. Alleged Kelly quote.
“anti-vaccination groups have thrived on Facebook”
Link. Private Groups must die
Engineering commensal bacteria to extend human capabilities.
Link. Animal models, replace PKU clearance. Old SF trope.
“an iPhone retains up to 80 percent of its original capacity after 500 cycles”
Link. At 1700 cycles per Apple diagnostics my son’s battery showed as “good” in Settings. (I was not. Replaced, $30.)
“Tape is also exceedingly reliable, with error rates that are four to five orders of magnitude lower than those of hard drives.”
Link. I once did backups with a SCSI tape drive. Was my best backup strategy.
Finder “Quick Actions appear to be macOS Services”
Link. Almost forgotten.
“Academic freedom risks becoming a farce if we continue to reward researchers for working on what is popular”
Link. Not a new critique, but validation from theoretical physics.
“Republicans are coming for your health care”
Link. I wouldn’t despise them if they didn’t try to hide their intent.
The Best Mobile Scanning and OCR Apps
Link. Zapier’s reviews are excellent. I use Scanner Pro for iOS.
“Shelf” Apps on iOS: no money in it
Link. Perfect win-win fit for subscription pricing. Stop the hating on subscriptions.
Western intelligence agencies hope to block encryption of Apple’s iCloud backups.
Link. How secure can 1Password cloud stores be?
Red Sparrow Butina’s world: GOP operators and white collar criminals.
Link. Dems have crooks too, but 2018 GOP is all criminal all the time.
Congo vs Ebola: “4,000 doses of vaccine have been given”
Link. I get the caution but, damnit, science won.
An economic profile of Minnesota 2018.
Link. We worry things are too good.
“combination of Apple’s and Mozilla’s prioritization of user privacy is a formidable one”
Link. Chrome can’t go there.
VMware Fusion user reviews Parallels 14.
Link. If I need VM again I’ll do Parallels.
“two-photon decay … is primarily responsible” for atom based universe.
Link. Expansion redshifted photons and thus cooled universe.
Bell Sixer MIPS Mountain Bike Helmet
Link. Would love an industry standard light mount
DC: “The city is much more bipartisan, in some respects, than it has ever been, more united than it may currently seem in its hatred of Donald Trump.”
Link. The Resistance is deeper and broader than it sometimes seems
NYT reviews “retire early” movement.
Link. Skips over how they manage healthcare. In US that is the fatal flaw.
CA net neutrality law: “prohibit promotions of free streaming for apps”
Link. I thought NN was dead.
Microwaves new suspect – “team was increasingly sure the diplomats had suffered brain injury.”
Link. Motive unknown. Weird historical context
“HCQ exposure did not increase the cancer risk.”
Link. Despite inhibiting autophagy.
“our Solar System is moving relative to the CMB at 368 ± 2 km/s.”
Link. More than 800,000 miles an hour.
“India’s system (the “Academic Performance Indicator”) is basically set up to weigh scientific publications by the kilo (a problem China has had, too)”
Link. Inane local policies that have damaged worldwide science. I now ignore anything from Indian and Chinese institutions!
UBI and “bullshit jobs”.
Link. Cognitive surplus. Tokyo retail employment in 1980. Monopsony effects. Keynes predictions. Automation. Gig economy. Complex and fascinating.
Trump new legal fave a specialist in “prepublication negotiations” over defamatory media reports.”
Link. So did everyone know there was a legal extortion industry?
Reality, math, and computing with electrons and physical systems.
Link. Dethroning mathematics.
UK National Cyber Security Centre: Let them paste passwords.
Link. I like their style.
U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is ending.
Link. Technically Korean war is still ongoing
MSP housing: not Seattle yet, but heading there
Link. Several multi-unit projects near us.