Link. I still use old Apple TV.
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Prepping Preschoolers for AI world.
Link. Edible bug training?
NotPetya hurt Merck bad.
Link. If board worked CEO would be at risk.
iOS 11 setup enhancements.
Link. Best ios 11 feature to date.
Apple leads in smartphone computational photography?
Link. Samsung is Google frenemy.
“supply-side economics” was the GOP’s original sin.
Link. Downhill to the gutter ever since.
EagleFiler 1.8 – uses APFS cloning
Link. First APFS friendly app I know of.
Black and White in Photos.app
Link. Many options
“Biking has become part of New York’s commuting culture”
Link. Anything is possible.
Anker vs. Apple lightning cables
Apple lightning cables fray at the insertion end — where my kids pull on them.
Standard Anker cables don’t fray, but the contacts fail.
Anker PowerLine+ cables haven’t failed yet. Early days though.
Omarosa – Trump aide and Mooch ally.
Link. Must close my open mouth now.
Quickly verify a news site is real.
Link. Search Google News.
Information Underload: bigness doesn’ beat badness.
Link. Yes.
On healthcare “Heritage Foundation in the 1980s was a leftist institution”
Link. GOP unrecognizable now.
Murdoch’s London paper publishes anti-semitic extreme right editorial.
Link. Damnit America, pay attention to Murdoch you fools!
iPhones and the end of backup
Writing my Smarthones for All section on backup and suddenly realized it’s not all that important. The book’s target users just won’t have critical data that’s not in iCloud Photos or iCloud Calendar or streamed from an Apple source. Sure, games data will be lost, but that’s manageable. The big hit is to setup data; that can be pain to redo given all the work needed to make an iPhone special needs friendly. (Note to Apple – you should read the book.)
Weird moment. We old dudes are so used to backup being critical.
Turns out if you don’t own anything, you have nothing to backup. Just a password written on paper.
Duh. So obvious. Sucks to be old.
Halamka on future of medical records.
Link. Alas, it all depends on this: “ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS would no longer be necessary”
Altor 560G Bike Lock – Grade 5 titanium.
Link. Much lighter. I’m watching.
NK: “A fierce belief in the power of money”
Link. Such a relief to have Obama leading US now.
Xi, the 2nd coming of Mao, strengthens his grip.
Link. 65, so expect 25y more.
Listening to ios podcasts without using cellular data
I had to create an iTunes playlist called “On Device” and drag from iTunes Library to Playlist, then set old school iTunes sync to include that playlist in podcasts. Then in Podcasts.app I could safely choose items that wouldn’t use data.
In several iOS apps there’s a (generally poorly implemented) way to restrict pick lists to on-device content, but I couldn’t figure that out for Podcasts.app.
Apple DRM crisis coming — Apple ID for Store vs. iCloud
So does Apple want the Apple ID that owns all these purchases, or the Apple ID associated with my iCloud documents? [1]
I’ve been waiting for things like this to happen. For years Apple allowed us to have a separate Apple ID for purchases and iCloud service — but it’s clearly not their preference.
Meanwhile there is no way to merge Apple IDs (though it may be possible to do this with customer service).
This is going to go badly…
[1] In this case they wanted my iCloud Drive/Documents ID, not the Apple ID for DRMd content. I don’t have any DRMd eBooks fortunately — all purchased books are from Google Play store and any DRM is stripped.
Update: Via Twitter, @dfjdejulio suggested:
Partial workaround is to have iCloud account be head of family and store account be family member. Use iCloud account, access all content.
Clever! I may do this. Need to think it over a bit.
“eradication therapy for H. pylori prevents gastric cancer”
Link. Fits expectations.
Google Custom Search Engine still exists.
Link. All but forgotten.
Google: improving work for the elite.
Link. Won’t help the 60%.
Sabine takes on Heartland Institute’s lies.
Link. All oil must be sold.
“expanding space between non-expanding galaxies.”
Link. Our expansion is purely caloric.
The Best Dog Collar
Link. Embroidered name.
NSA had 4 old but effective 0 days against windows.
Link.
Best Domain Name Registrars
Link. Google Domains.
Britain to Ban New Diesel and Gas Cars by 2040.
Link. California too.
Google’s Family Link parental control app is insane.
Link. WTF, WTF, WTF.
NYT digital strategy working.
Link. Subscribe if you like civilization.
United proves service is irrelevant.
Link. Biz flyers don’t get choices.
NK gov hackers focus on theft.
Link. GovCrime is century 21.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Gore fights on
Link. Few things annoy me more than the claim he hurt GOP feelings.
Russian demographics still bleak, but life expectancy sets new record.
Link. Sanctions hurt.
Schumer, prince of schmooze.
Link. Need this.
Many police officers condemn Trump’s brutish stupidity.
Link. Blue Lives Matter are despicable.
Scalzi: McConnell’s defeat was essentisl in itself.
Link. He is a turd.
“nobody’s going to test string theory with Bose-Einstein-Condensates”
Link. Sob.
Buying 2017 – the cost of too cheap
Amazon sells (direct listing) elegant slender simple "Casio" watches for $10 each. I bought a few.
After a few weeks one of them rattles.
So I lost out on that deal.
It might be counterfeit. Amazon is a shady place.
Or maybe it is just another race to the bottom. Maybe $10 is the only viable price, and that isn't enough to make a watch worth owning.
A "toaster problem" in other words.
Apple’s DRMd music and the end of the iPod.
For a few years Apple sold FairPlay DRMd music. Now that they no longer sell iPods that music can't be used on a portable music player.
Worthy of note c
Moving the body – how much is too much?
Link. It’s an open research question.
NYT was only big name source for Mooch uncensored.
Link. Gray no more.
Minneapolis shooting of dogs fits a bad training pattern.
Link. They have been misprogrammed by an insane educational program to shoot first, think later.
Facebook power exceeds predictions.
Link. Amazon too.
Reminder: US military can’t save world from Trump.
Link. Is Putin still happy?
Police applaud Trump calls to abuse suspects.
Link. Really. Need to note these things.
FDA adopts tobacco industry e-cigarette policies.
Link. Pure GOP.