Link. A side-effect of the recent TidBITS system migration meant that Google resurfaced this when I searched on their new forum. Those were the days my friend.
Category Archives: share
How to reconcile two Apple IDs – migration.
Link. I’m going to have to bite the (antimatter) bullet on this one.
Workaround for Apple’s inability to merge Apple ID (2013)
Link. Things are probably worse today. One reason why I dislike Apple.
Trump’s threats.
Link. What a mess he is.
Mobster on Trump: “You don’t need a Harvard graduate to deal with these people. These guys are real gangsters. You need a f—king gangster to deal with these people.”
Link. Seriously, I think Trump has advantages over Obama in dealing with Kim. They understand one another.
AI prediction of chaotic system behavior: “stretching and compressing in the different dimensions correspond to a system’s positive and negative “Lyapunov exponents,” respectively”
Link. Fun summary of state of the art; many potential applications. Work builds on decades of research.
NYT exposes Pruitt’s history of deep corruption.
Link. Trumpian sleaze. Evangelical quality.
Health care techie rants on patient facing IT and phone systems.
Link. Market failure vs perverse incentives. Does anyone do this well anywhere?
Yeast genetic code studies show redundant systems, complex interactions.
Link. Why “personalized medicine” was spectacular failure in 00s.
The Danbury Trashers. A hockey story.
Link. Being Wayne Gretzky’s brother must have sucked.
Mori fears macARM.
Link. Me too. Apple’s Aperture fiasco ominous sign.
Wat Umong in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Link. Sounds agreeable. I remember when Chiang Mai was small.
DeLong’s Kevin Williamson correspondence.
Link. Maybe Williamson’s problem is that he isn’t very clever.
“Universe with … about 1-or-2 billion photons for every proton”
Link. This short essay answered several old questions of mine.
Uwe Reinhardt: “lived in a rural toolshed without electricity or water and often went hungry. Heavy physical work started at a young age … . Uwe always said he had the best and happiest childhood in the world.”
Link. A giant.
“With white nationalists, you’re never white enough”
Link. After Charlottesville the alt-right melted. Angry parents and Internet blocks. Trump’s affection only triggered a harder smack down.
Why you should change your router DNS to Cloudflare and Quad9
Link. Fewer dumb ads
DNS leak test – check privacy of your DNS
Link. I switched to 1.0.0.1 and 9.9.9.9. Until now comcast new everything.
Geeks upset with RCS encryption lack.
Link. The lack of encryption is a feature; RCS is the future (alas). Also it wasn’t “secret” dev — geeks ignored it. I have followed for years.
“modern populations almost everywhere in the world experienced massive genetic turnovers during the last 30,000 years,”
Link. Hard to keep up with all this.
Mike Pompeo Defects To North Korea After Learning About Kim Jong-Un’s Torture Program
Link. “finally, at long last, come home”
WP security tips
Link. WordPress great weakness is its attack surface.
Family Sharing: what you can’t share.
Link. If you share an Apple Store ID you can share subscriptions (incl. app sub) and in-app purchases. Not with Family Sharing though.
Obama’s United States Digital Service is now part of Trump’s Executive Office.
Link. Obama admin brought in SV to rescue healthcare.gov. The startup is still around, now run by Matt Cutts. How have they survived Trump?
“She wondered what division they were talking about, because she could not have possibly come in second over all”
Link. Funny. She did get a free meal out of it.
Facebook Data Policy.
Link. Shorter summary: We own you.
VerizATT collude to keep carrier lock in eSIM era.
Link. Scoundrels: “practice helps cuts down on theft and fraud”.
“Cloudflare and Quad9 offer public DNS servers that provide a combination of verification, privacy-focused protocols, and encryption ”
Link. God review.
“evidence that Apple is doing more merging, just that it isn’t getting rid of the Mac”
Link. I don’t think Cook uses much software on any platform.
Bluetooth needs surfaces: why it cuts out in some settings.
Link. I miss headhone jack.
Trump has consistently lied about his “pee tape” trip
Link. I’m starting to think it happened.
Guns Fade As An Issue With Voters In 2018.
Link. As expected. Also, young will not vote.
“Ritonavir’s case, a more stable (and less desirable!) polymorph appeared and threatened to disrupt the entire supply of the drug”
Link. Wow.
RCS messaging finally arriving
Link. Eventually Apple will need to support. No encryption.
“Now, any email that contains the word unsubscribe—which will cover the majority of the newsletters and marketing emails you receive—will be automatically sent to your trash folder.”
Link. Didn’t think of that one
Korean gender relations are seriously screwed-up.
Link. Wow. I thought we were bad.
Read TidBITS in Apple News
Link. Probably using same WP plugin Tsai uses.
Prince died of counterfeit vicodin.
Link. Fentanyl in reality, probably Chinese.
Evangelicals give Trump 75% approval rating.
Link. Americans who despise Evangelicals reaches new heights.
Bajau peoples have genetic adaptations for underwater work?
Link. It has long been noted that humans are oddly aquatic for a land animal.
iPad stand review (iMac style)
Link. Good ref.
Lost your 2nd factor: Apple account recovery.
Link. This is SO not ready for humans.
Allegations Hans Asperger was an active Nazi eugenicist.
Link. His name is not part of current classifications of autism.
Treaty to Formally End Korean War Is Being Discussed
Link. Trump has concentrated minds.
Treaty to Formally End Korean War Is Being Discussed
Link. Trump has concentrated minds.
“Citigroup said it would restrict the sale of firearms by its business partners”
Link. I missed that one
Great Barrier Reef dying as predicted.
Link. I saw Hawaii reefs in 1982 and 2018. A world is gone.
US attack on Syria: “The Russians didn’t turn their system on”
Link. That’s an interesting claim.
Dyer on the 21st century crisis of mass unemployment.
Link. “Trump may not know a lot, but he knows One Big Thing”
Converting from shared store ID to Family Sharing.
Link. Surprisingly this seems to work. Apple’s two databases for DRM device tracking remain discordant.