Link. Some use GBs of DNS data. Must kill phone battery.
Monthly Archives: January 2017
iOS 10 DNS Services using large amounts of data.
Link. 100s of MBs. On daughter 6s 148MB, dwarfing all other data use.
iOS settings:cellular:system services:DNS services 148MB.
WTF? Daughter’s phone. How is that possible?
Weak and Incompetent Leaders act like Strong Leaders.
Link. Alternative to coup fears.
“privacy rights of non-US citizens with respect to data residing in the US”
Link. Don’t let your data visit either.
Trumperica to inspect visitors social media.
Link. Visit Canada. Europe is nice. Not here for at least 2 years.
Gruber finally loses iPad faith.
Link. Long lifespans, phone eating it, Mac hanging on. I blame iBooks too.
Connie Willis – resolutions for crisis-T
Link. Talking Points Memo should be doing pretty well just about now.
This moment of danger: a calm and persuasive analysis of how our freedom may go.
Link. Hungary, not Germany. Corruption.
iPad shrinks again.
Link. iPhone ate it.
Bannon: “It will be as exciting as the 1930s”.
Link. Alfred Pennyworth: “Some men just like to watch the world burn”
A Fortnight of Trump: Scalzi’s analysis.
Link. Malign … but stupid. Must read.
“Activation Lock website was a vital part of a bypass hack”
Link. Stealing valid identifiers to unbrick stolen phones.
LG 5K Display and Wi-Fi Interference.
Link. Apple made poor choice.
It Just Works. Not.
Link. Cook must go.
Trump and GOP primaries.
Link. Dems need to vote in GOP primaries.
Lawyers become heroes.
Link. Different! Journalists too.
GOP changing electoral college to shift power away from cities and majority vote.
Link. How to end American democracy.
Betsy DeVos sideline scam business.
Link. Amway scam to neuroscience scam.
“Trump administration is not a Republican administration; it is an ethnic nationalist administration.”
Link. GOP intellectuals speak.
Ransomware: prepare to be locked in to your hotel room.
Link. Internet of Things. Have foood.
President Bannon welcomed to NYT editorial.
Link. Thiel and Bannon for white nationalism.
Obama speaks: team America doing good.
Link. Muslim ban is beyond the pale.
Trump can defy any court.
Link. Only real check is impeachment.
NYT sober analysis of T immigration order.
Link. Extreme and incompetent, possibly illegal, DHS actions scary.
WH and house legal staff conspiracy.
Link. Did Ryan know?
US factory work now requires advanced training.
Link. What fraction of non-college can learn this?
Facebook Accepts Slightly Mis-typed Passwords
Link. Hell.
Jeff Atwood joins the resistance.
Link. I like his action list.
NYT on fall of Flynn and rise of Bannon.
Link. Reads like Bannon leaked it.
Flynn may be wraithed.
Link. Less-bad news.
Gassée enlists in the resistance.
Link. Jobs would be handy right now.
Marshall on exactly how T really is worse than Cruz-Rubio-Pence.
Link. My weak hopes and grim conclusions too.
GOP leadership committed to Trump.
Link. Not holding back or objecting.
DHS is effectively T’s militia.
It occurs to us.
How bad things happen
“… it occurs to me, however, that in a biased adaptive system malevolent incompetence may be indistinguishable from strategy.”
From a tweet of mine.
NYT details on Trump Muslim ban order.
Link. Bannon play, ready for weeks. What else did they do this way?
Crisis-T: the worst case analysis.
Link. I still favor malevolent incompetence but disturbingly plausible.
Guardian: state department was purge, not resignations.
Link. In advance of what?
“Peter Thiel Is a Fucking Fool”
Link. No, Thiel is a closeted neo-nazi. He lied.
In Pratchett’s “Making Money” the narcissistic villain aspires to be Vetinari …
Link. Imagines himself a perfect Machiavelli.
For those who claim T’s refugee policy is nothing new.
Link. Fact checkers essential.
Google Chrome enables remote smartphone of special needs smartphone user.
Link. Identity switching is key.
NYT on when the president is psychotic.
Link. Fixed beliefs are delusions, a hallmark of psychosis.
Stross cancels US visits: “act of wanton national self-destruction “
Link. Crisis-T.
Crisis-T: what to do about the delusions and the lies.
Link. List them on “page 2”, like the weather.
Crisis-T: Subscribing to the NYT (and a few others).
Link. NYT digital rates vary from $52 to $143 a year.
Sputnik news: Remember Honecker! T must be protected.
Link. Also, why pipeline resisters are useless now.
Sputnik news: required reading in crisis-T.
Link. A guide to thinking of the troika: Putin, Bannon, and Flynn.
Donnelly forbids Trump from “further acts and misconduct in violation of the Constitution.”
Link. We have a constitution?