Enter new password once and characters hidden. Better be sure you know what you typed/pasted. How can they screw up the basics like this?
Category Archives: t
What is so confusing about EXIF orientation tags?
Another sideways photo in my screensaver. Suspect there were two “standards”.
Microsoft Family allows web control of xbox screen time.
account.microsoft.com/family — but only for children. Need this for special needs adults.
Yahoo wants $50 a year to remove ads from email.
Exiting the email business.
WaPo now requires spam acceptance for free access.
Disability frontier: imagine experiencing world with IQ of 80.
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Need a “disability suit” for brain to understand how frustrating world would be.
Net trolls and special needs adults
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What percent of “troll” traffic is from IQ 70-85 adults who have been historically invisible?
Facebook mobile hides Page feed.
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Things we have lost – calendar history
A recent job application wanted start and stop dates for work I did over 20 years ago. I knew the years roughly, but not the months or days. Once I would have pulled out paper planners and paged through them. Once, if there was room in the attic, we had continuously accessible records.
I doubt even one geek in a million has an electronic calendar with a continuous record through the 90s. It’s been too hard to move historic data between systems. Perhaps someone who used a DOS based Microsoft calendaring project then migrated to Outlook.
There are some things we have lost.
Reeder 3.app lives!
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A minor update today gives hope it will get to iOS 10.
Why Facebook ads may be weird — uploaded list of “contacts”
Twitter abuse: “I matter.”
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For the powerless and unimportant a way to feel meaningful.
Amazon exits earbud business.
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Know something?
AT&T increases cost of its international mobile “Passport” by 33%.
Used to be $30, now $40. Because they can.
Peak Trump.
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Apple has set iPhone 7 expectations very low.
Carefully calibrated leaks. Standing ovation if it powers up.
My “legal” spam volume is rising sharply. Why?
I wonder if tech companies are more pressured than we realize …
Apple once again forces creation of yet another new iCloud security code.
Their backend system must be a mess.
Google is still better than Facebook search at finding useful Facebook Pages.
Facebook search is weirdly useless.
MSFT Word formatting has been broken for 20 years.
Broke @ 1997? Inline and block (style) format rules still inconsistent.
Apple was so delusional they thought Maps 1.0 was good.
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Per recent exec interview. Secrecy obsession has a price. Gruber et al reinforce, as with aWatch, Photos, MacBook, etc.
“Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys…”
Cheap Moto e pixel: 540×960. My first graphic PC: 640×480.
I just missed the CGA standard – that maxed out at 640×200. Before that we had character displays, higher resolution but ascii only.
Facebook killing iPhone battery past few weeks.
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Worse than ever. Trying reinstall.
If Amazon cared about counterfeit listings, there would be an easy way to report them.
It’s a part of their value proposition.
iOS 9 Contact updating surprisingly elegant.
The process and UI for ‘information found in email’ integration is old-Apple style.
Why did my Mac App store review vanish?
Best guess: I compared the Mac version of an app to the Android version of the app. Must be against the law.
Mindnode: drag and drop URL ref inserts page title.
Drag & drop page title link insert should be a universal law.
Pinner.app share sheet extension crashy post 9.3.3
Crashes after entering a few characters on half of first use, better on retry.
Browsing OS X with Chrome — see the hidden files.
Playing around with macOS proxy icons (what else don’t I know?) I dropped the Finder desktop atop Chrome. And discovered two hidden files from 2005…
NYT Maureen Dowd: why does she still have a job?
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Do pundits have tenure? Blackmail?
Facebook “you have an offer” notification spam.
Seen 1st time today. Notifications off.
Verizon bets billions net neutrality is dead.
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Google and Facebook have common enemy.
HRC’s hidden ace: younger women are going to notice the gender attacks.
They’ll learn about patriarchy. Will stimulate enthusiasm.
Cmd-Opt-C: Copy as pathname (macos)
New in El Capitan. Among best features of the release. Undocumented.
Forget China, France and Germany are going to hack and release RNC emails.
The world has a lot at stake here. Russia is for Trump, China unclear. France and Germany though…
Relationship guides don’t pay enough attention to humor.
Shared sense of humor helps.
Russia wants T. Who does China want?
If RNC email released we’ll know.
If Trump’s security briefings include fake intel…
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… That Moscow acts on a day later …
Does iOS 10 support Google CalDAV sync select?
Mountain Lion supported it, but iOS never has.
BRIC was IC.
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Or C. Brazil. Russia. India. China. Because acronyms.
iOS 10 and contact groups..
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Bet I still can’t assign a contact to a group on an ignore.
Photos.app 1.5 STILL has the 1.1 export originals bug
Exported count exceeds expectations because it exports most recently deleted images as well as those selected. Unbelievable that this isn’t fixed. WTF is wrong with Apple?!
Remind me never to buy a cheap smoke detector that lacks a low battery light.
One of our 10 detectors is beeping…
Why the Obamas particularly irritate the white working class…
… Michelle and Barack both cognitively gifted. Violates tribal meme.
The net has done for psychosis what air travel did for infectious disease.
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Sentiments need denial, but denial blurs into delusion.
Google Drive: life without backups
Went looking for a Google Doc. After much search I found it in Google Drive trash. Accident. Reminded me how vulnerable my Google Docs are. No real backup. (I do use CloudPull, and found it also in that archive.)
Facebook’s stolen email address problem
It’s been a month since I submitted reports to Facebook that one of my wife’s email addresses was associated with someone else’s account. I locked the illegal account, but the email is still tied up.
A class action lawsuit would be nice…
Ransomwared? Keep the drive.
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In 10 years the encryption may be breakable.
Mac: Synology assistant: fails randomly in El Capitan.
I though moving to non-admin folder helped, but really it just fails randomly.