Link. RSS feed. Mirrored to kateva.org/sh. I think my share stream is interesting.
Category Archives: share
In iOS 10 “you can’t password-protect notes that you share with someone else”
Link. So parent/child shouldn’t share a Note of passwords for example. Fixed in iOS 11?
Blow argues we should still be outraged that Trump lies.
Link. Does outrage alter Trump voter behavior?
“Before 1928, countries had the legal right to wage war.”
Link. Strange shifts.
NK: What if Kim Jong-un is truly as crazy as Trump?
Link. Secondary sanctions not necessarily worst option, despite severe US recession.
The long hand of bad history.
Link. Mao similar.
Hillbilly elegy dismantled.
Link. Poverty isn’t simple.
Photos.app is as stupid about JPEG Export as iPhoto and Aperture.
Link. Unlike the rest of Photos, not a regression from Aperture.
“Yakhchāls, ancient evaporation coolers, came into being around 400 BC”
Link. Persian.
Google Maps: find parking on Android. Not iOS.
Link. Confident Apple Maps defeated.
Google Flights enhancements.
Link. Mobile only until “later this year”.
Google pushes Assistant to everyone’s gadget.
Link. Nothing to worry about.
Explore your college campus with Google Maps
Link. Handy for tourists too.
Old obscure mathematician finds simple proof of important theorem.
Link. Out of a million crackpots one is not. Amazing his proof got initial attention.
Sweden moved secret data to cloud. And lost it.
Link. Humans can’t do this stuff.
Kaspersky publishes WhiteBear Russian hack tool.
Link. Political puzzle.
Annals of iOS inconsistency: Contacts vs Notes vs Reminders – backup and sharing.
Link. Why I’m still on Simplenote and nvAlt.
Douthat on Dinesh D’Souza – a journey into lunacy. Or just evil.
Link. So many like him. Why?
Elite janitors 1980 and 2017: how we broke.
Link. Must read.
Minocycline and microglia.
Link. Article on MS, but reminds us how many weird effects common meds have.
Apple Photo JPEG export and compression.
Link. I think this goes back to iPhoto.
Apple deprecated iTunes scripting in Sierra.
Link. I missed this. Writing on the wall.
Working women had it best in 90s.
Link. Majority of white women chose Trump.
China bike-sharing culture struggles.
Link. So much energy – and hope.
Maybe Trump is the real Vulcan.
Link. Not the beloved Obama-Spock, but a true alien.
“AMP allows website owners a quick and relatively easy way to juice their search rankings”
Link. Monopoly power.
Does Trump know his handlers disabled Safari on his iPhone?
Link. Don’t tell him.
Vanguard and Blackrock attack Exxon’s denial of climate risks.
Link. Squeeze on.
“There is a downward trend in deaths from prescription opioids alone”
Link. Rise is now black market synthetics.
Living in the singularity: “… 1990s, Denmark began adopting what has been called “flexicurity”
Link. Drives me crazy how insular Americans are.
Trump-Kelly love cools.
Link. Trump has no friends.
ISIS convoy to nowhere: “ISIS now has nearly every faction in Syria lined up against it”
Link. They earned the world’s disgust.
Unreliable Scheduled Tasks in MacOS Sierra
Link. Apple.
Anne-Marie Slaughter – Google ally, Clinton insider.
Link. Caught between power and principle.
Wells Fargo Review Finds 1.4 Million More Suspect Accounts
Link. and “customers who were signed up for its online bill payment service without their knowledge.”
Russia: “the hacking of electoral systems was more extensive than previously disclosed”
Link. Oookkaaayyy.
Mori on end of home button.
Link. I wouldn’t buy 8 if it were cheaper than 7s.
Amazon: “They’re not evil. They just don’t care.”
Link. We are too small to be seen.
“those with AppleCare+ can get service for iPhones with catastrophic damage”
Link. Used to be more generous.
How CFPB has survived so far.
Link. Longer than I expected. Prognosis murky.
McCain on responding to Trump in the Senate.
Link. He is focused and free of conventional concerns.
The nature of Google’s regime.
Link. Corporations obey the laws of power.
FCC was running a malware distribution center.
Link. Let’s do a root cause analysis! Oh … shit.
“Trumpism isn’t limited to, or even (mostly) about, Trump.”
Link. He is the product of our crisis, not the cause.
Trump vs America: starving ACA.
Link. Hell to work for HHS now.
Kushner family: “desperate hunt for money which basically has to come from abroad”
Link. Usual buyers fear scrutiny.
Sierra scheduling: “only way currently known to restore normal dispatching services is to restart the Mac”
Link. So many critical bugs unfixed.
Rule 1 of reality: “the action takes on the smallest value”
Link. Path integral for quanta.
Politics über alles: the evacuation of Houston.
Link. Our times. GOP attacks also distract from CO2 role.
On Progress and Historical Change.
Link. A professional historian takes on a radioactive topic. I like this one. Via Tim Bray.