Link. Command was never prosecuted. Many still live.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Micro.blog – @jgordon – my stream.
Link. Same as my Twitter stream input, but 280c so less truncation.
Astronaut and black scientist Leland Melvin writes Trump.
Link. Not a fan.
“the gray market for iPhone X is going to be insane”
Link. Scalping the X.
“Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t back up the drive using Time Machine”
Link. WTF Apple.
Puerto Rico 101
Link. GOP will never support statehood.
And now exercise increases will power
Link. I crush cans with my will.
Trump on tax: “it’s not good for me, believe me.”
Link. NYT non-believer.
Guwande in Trumpland – is healthcare a right?
Link. Wonder what they think of their famous homie.
Fixing Twitter With Reputation Systems
Link. I like idea of paying for longer tweets
iOS 11 Smart Punctuation and Null Characters
Link. That is a scary bug
You aren’t only person who finds video content annoying.
Link. Media sites discover we prefer reading.
“Cloud Drive does not allow you to share a folder with another user”
Link. I miss this in Notes all the time
Apple Communities has good discussion on loss of iOS11 Podcast iTunes playlist sync
Link. Good to see somebody else noticed.
Inital reports show Aperture working on High Sierra with APFS
Link. Means I could use Aperture through 2020. Photos still puny.
Life with Apple: Podcasts move to streaming only.
Link. “We’re moving fast into the DRMd hard data-lock rental-only future”
Apple’s Two-Step Auth Replaced by Two-Factor Auth
Link. Is vulnerable 2FA truly better than robust pw?
macOS 10.13 High Sierra Released with bugs and VMWare issues
Link. Waiting
Mac Keychain Vulnerability and Apple’s disingenuous response
Link. Won’t fly
Apple: “syncing text replacements is a complete mess”
Link. Via Tsai.
Detailed NYT reporting on Twin Falls, Idaho debacle.
Link. Rise of the Breitbart idiocracy.
“Sessions and Trump moderate white supremacists and Duke a white supremacist extremist”
Link. 1970 was 50 years ago. Standards change.
Apple removed playlists from iOS 11 podcasts and nobody friggin noticed.
Link. Giant regression for me, no review noted this.
MacOS Reportedly Vulnerable to Keychain Exfiltration Bug
Link. WTF
China Blocks WhatsApp, leaving only gov controlled WeChat.
Link. In China WeChat is operating system.
Obama on ACA: “The solution to the lack of coverage, he said, was a public fallback plan.”
Link. The logical fix.
America’s minority rule: “white, provincial and culturally revanchist”
Link. France similar I think.
iPhone 8 manufacturing cost up $8, price up $50 to $100.
Link. Because they can.
OmniDiskSweeper has a new test build for High Sierra
Link. When I update all will be ready.
2nd year of violent crime growth.
Link. Focus on gulf between police and black America.
Collins: “a fourth version of the Graham-Cassidy proposal, which is as deeply flawed as the previous iterations”
Link. Seems genuinely disgusted.
Flow whacko.
Link. One born every minute.
“little or no flow of genes between Africans and non-Africans for tens of thousands of years”
Link. Weird.
Winning war on cervical cancer: HPV vaccination rates grow nicely.
Link. Celebrate!
Pharma coupons sabotage insurer copay strategies.
Link. Insurers could abandon copays.
The decline of marriage.
Link. For all classes, but esp non-college. Married minority.
“There’s nothing really wrong with tvOS 11, but it sure is disappointing”
Link. TIDBits reviews are the best.
Apple’s iOS networking controls are smarter than we are.
Link. Only the beginning.
Yes, equifax and peers are despicable.
Link. No sign of change.
“third stanza of that anthem”
Link. Things I didn’t know.
Tax rate induced work hour changes: “workers are paid their marginal product”
Link. Why it can be ignored.
Puerto Rico: “the federal government is, to a large extent, doing its job”
Link. Don’t tell the dotard.
Why repeal returned: “Campaign fund-raising was drying up”
Link. Billionaires angry about Medicaid expansion.
“Apple Safari is a clear outlier in the experiment with significantly higher number of bugs found”
Link. Chrome > Mozilla, MSFT >> Apple.
Apple ID and credit cards.
Link. Headache! Keep as ref.
Graham and Cassidy mystery: why screw up so badly?
Link. Better was expected.
Fallows: Trump unsurprising but “objectively shocking”
Link. Technically Trump may be “shocking”, but few are shocked.
New knowledge of Neandertal development
Link. Brains so different. Hybrid worked how?
Novel derivation of mass-energy equivalence.
Link. Noether consequence?
Monopolies in action: Verizon and rural mobile.
Link. Antitrust needed.