Link. Hell of a bug.
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Migrating an iPhoto Library to Photos.app – advice.
Link. True for Aperture as well. I’m going to buy a hard drive to keep my original library.
léonie’s tips and fixes for Photos.app, iPhoto, and Aperture – Apple Discussions.
Link. In a decent world Apple would pay léonie.
AppleScript to generate “Titles” for Photos.app images from filenames.
Link. Scripting is one way Apple could make Photos.app less awful.
Some Aperture bugs on El Capitan May 2016
Link. Relatively minor, but omits bug with import that requires redoing edits.
Aperture to Photos: “many of the Aperture adjustments did not migrate correctly”
Link. Revert to originals and reedit.
Apple on track to 7% of the smartphone market.
Link. Google already decided iOS not worth much trouble?
Facebook changed how to act as a specified “Page”.
Link. Facebook would be unusable without Google to document it.
Wolves domesticated twice by humans.
Link. I bet several times of which two have dog descendants.
My Dreamhost site has a backdoor.list file
Link. Dated 2013 in my case. I don’t remember getting a notice that they’d cleaned spamware. WordPress themes. Ugh.
Crystal Nights by Greg Egan. 2007 SF short.
Link. First class Egan. Free.
Controlling Windows 10 work destroying update process.
Link. Win10 makes me feel happier about Apple’s incompetence.
Medicaid programs can’t withhold a Hep C cure.
Link. Law is very clear.
Patient view of how screwed up basic US healthcare is
Link. With special needs kids managing system is 10-20h a week.
Verge tries to make sense of Android messaging. Fails.
Link. Apple, Google, and Microsoft hit by same stupid-virus.
NYT photo management advice shows what a mess we are in.
Link. His advice is awful, but good options are gone.
Aperture crashing on “Write IPTC metadata to Originals” – the change everything fix.
Link. I have a test library if anyone wants to narrow this down further.
Trump University — and T’s mysterious wealth.
Link. He may be more of a classic con man than most imagine.
New Orleans: politics means subsidize flood zone living. Again.
Link. Climate change adaptation fail.
Coke, Microsoft and HP cannot abide Trump.
Link. What corporations will fund convention?
Sanders lost. Fairly.
Link. His media coverage was horrible – but Clinton’s coverage even worse.
“people will always get sick with VR displays UNLESS the content is kept further than around 3 meters from them”
Link. Up to 10h nausea. Screen emulation, no fun games. Need lasers painting retina? 10y more.
1500 TSA agents assigned to campaign security.
Link. GOP has indeed starved the beast.
Scramble crosswalks reduce pedestrian injury.
Link. Slowly recovering from 90 years of pedestrian abuse.
Amazon vs Apple: the battle heats up.
Link. I like to see the behemoths go at one another.
Nation-State vs the Frightful Five: 19th century redux.
Link. East India Company? US Steel? We have been here before.
Map Age Guide: learn history with xkcd.
Link. Should be poster in every middle school in world.
History will be unkind to Troika ruling Greece.
Link. History is mystery.
#NeverTrump is over.
Link. As predicted.
Samsung’s new SSDs are amazing tech.
Link. Maybe too cutting edge?
Clean up Mac file debris.
Link. Email attachments may accumulate.
NATO tired and Russia insane.
Link. Russia thought to have tactical nukes near border.
Introducing HyperDev
Link. Student platform node.js. Beta.
“Few cases show more vividly how dangerous a person Trump is”
Link. Curious silence of US media.
Why an Olympic ban on Russia is essential.
Link. At this point failure to ban is surrender. Which would at least be honest.
Lessons from Weimar.
Link. “Mr Trump is not Hitler”. But do read this.
There is lot of cave art to be discovered…
Link. Cavers have a special duty.
Reflections on history lost: Untold culture of the Neandertal.
Link. Comparison to modernity is telling. Such small populations…
Chromium Supplements: useless, probably toxic.
Link. Supplements not FDA regulated.
Feasible alternatives to universal basic income.
Link. Study what nations do for adults with cognitive disabilities.
700 million credentials are public.
Link. Deluge of Facebook account hacks inevitable.
1PasswordAnywhere No Longer Works With Dropbox
Link. Functional regression.
Smart TV subsidy price: new Samsung ad injection.
Link. Trojan hardware.
Thiel still a dangerous louse.
Link. His Trump alignment may be real. McCardle disappoints again.
Why Americans no longer move for work.
Link. Multifactorial, but in part because labor demand is weak.
Beware passport process post-guardianship.
Link. Undocumented, even passport office doesn’t understand. Court order + letter + ?
“churning cavalcade of cars, motorcycles, pedal and electric bikes, scooters, skateboarders, battery-powered microcars, Segway-like transporters and pedestrians”
Link. Beijing roads.
Journalists as modern heroes: Russia’s info-war against Finland’s democrats.
Link. Russia is a dark and nasty country.
Venezuala rescues neo-liberalism.
Link. Markets and regulation in balance.
Why No Byzantine Road to Modernity?
Link. European modernity still baffling.