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Photos.app bug: Export creates invisible files with some Title edits.

Posted on June 3, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Hell of a bug.

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Migrating an iPhoto Library to Photos.app – advice.

Posted on June 3, 2016 by jgordon

Link. True for Aperture as well. I’m going to buy a hard drive to keep my original library.

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léonie’s tips and fixes for Photos.app, iPhoto, and Aperture – Apple Discussions.

Posted on June 3, 2016 by jgordon

Link. In a decent world Apple would pay léonie.

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AppleScript to generate “Titles” for Photos.app images from filenames.

Posted on June 3, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Scripting is one way Apple could make Photos.app less awful.

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Some Aperture bugs on El Capitan May 2016

Posted on June 3, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Relatively minor, but omits bug with import that requires redoing edits.

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Aperture to Photos: “many of the Aperture adjustments did not migrate correctly”

Posted on June 3, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Revert to originals and reedit.

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Apple on track to 7% of the smartphone market.

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Google already decided iOS not worth much trouble?

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Facebook changed how to act as a specified “Page”.

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Facebook would be unusable without Google to document it.

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Wolves domesticated twice by humans.

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I bet several times of which two have dog descendants.

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My Dreamhost site has a backdoor.list file

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Dated 2013 in my case. I don’t remember getting a notice that they’d cleaned spamware. WordPress themes. Ugh.

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Crystal Nights by Greg Egan. 2007 SF short.

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. First class Egan. Free.

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Controlling Windows 10 work destroying update process.

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Win10 makes me feel happier about Apple’s incompetence.

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Medicaid programs can’t withhold a Hep C cure.

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Law is very clear.

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Patient view of how screwed up basic US healthcare is

Posted on June 2, 2016 by jgordon

Link. With special needs kids managing system is 10-20h a week.

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Verge tries to make sense of Android messaging. Fails.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Apple, Google, and Microsoft hit by same stupid-virus.

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NYT photo management advice shows what a mess we are in.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. His advice is awful, but good options are gone.

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Aperture crashing on “Write IPTC metadata to Originals” – the change everything fix.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I have a test library if anyone wants to narrow this down further.

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Trump University — and T’s mysterious wealth.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. He may be more of a classic con man than most imagine.

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New Orleans: politics means subsidize flood zone living. Again.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Climate change adaptation fail.

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Coke, Microsoft and HP cannot abide Trump.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. What corporations will fund convention?

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Sanders lost. Fairly.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. His media coverage was horrible – but Clinton’s coverage even worse.

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“people will always get sick with VR displays UNLESS the content is kept further than around 3 meters from them”

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Up to 10h nausea. Screen emulation, no fun games. Need lasers painting retina? 10y more.

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1500 TSA agents assigned to campaign security.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. GOP has indeed starved the beast.

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Scramble crosswalks reduce pedestrian injury.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Slowly recovering from 90 years of pedestrian abuse.

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Amazon vs Apple: the battle heats up.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I like to see the behemoths go at one another.

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Nation-State vs the Frightful Five: 19th century redux.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. East India Company? US Steel? We have been here before.

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Map Age Guide: learn history with xkcd.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Should be poster in every middle school in world.

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History will be unkind to Troika ruling Greece.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. History is mystery.

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#NeverTrump is over.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by jgordon

Link. As predicted.

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Samsung’s new SSDs are amazing tech.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Maybe too cutting edge?

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Clean up Mac file debris.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Email attachments may accumulate.

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NATO tired and Russia insane.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Russia thought to have tactical nukes near border.

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Introducing HyperDev

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Student platform node.js. Beta.

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“Few cases show more vividly how dangerous a person Trump is”

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Curious silence of US media.

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Why an Olympic ban on Russia is essential.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. At this point failure to ban is surrender. Which would at least be honest.

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Lessons from Weimar.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. “Mr Trump is not Hitler”. But do read this.

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There is lot of cave art to be discovered…

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Cavers have a special duty.

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Reflections on history lost: Untold culture of the Neandertal.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Comparison to modernity is telling. Such small populations…

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Chromium Supplements: useless, probably toxic.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Supplements not FDA regulated.

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Feasible alternatives to universal basic income.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Study what nations do for adults with cognitive disabilities.

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700 million credentials are public.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Deluge of Facebook account hacks inevitable.

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1PasswordAnywhere No Longer Works With Dropbox

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Functional regression.

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Smart TV subsidy price: new Samsung ad injection.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Trojan hardware.

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Thiel still a dangerous louse.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. His Trump alignment may be real. McCardle disappoints again.

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Why Americans no longer move for work.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Multifactorial, but in part because labor demand is weak.

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Beware passport process post-guardianship.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Undocumented, even passport office doesn’t understand. Court order + letter + ?

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“churning cavalcade of cars, motorcycles, pedal and electric bikes, scooters, skateboarders, battery-powered microcars, Segway-like transporters and pedestrians”

Posted on May 30, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Beijing roads.

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Journalists as modern heroes: Russia’s info-war against Finland’s democrats.

Posted on May 30, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Russia is a dark and nasty country.

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Venezuala rescues neo-liberalism.

Posted on May 30, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Markets and regulation in balance.

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Why No Byzantine Road to Modernity?

Posted on May 30, 2016 by jgordon

Link. European modernity still baffling.

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