Link. No kidding. Aperture still vastly superior
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Google Maps knows UK better than Apple
Link. Bicycle routes are Google only.
Criticism of HEIC image quality
Link. No user control of compression parameters
Payola in literature has noble tradition
Link. Buy those Amazon reviews
Chalk remote support: AR promise appears.
Link. Virtual finger guides user on any remote task.
NYT describes 50 ways Tillerson is toast.
Link. Overengineered his departure.
Russia Worked the GOP Primaries Too
Link. We so underestimated Putin
Blogger tries to justify $1000 chromebook
Link. I don’t see it
Ten Safari.app long-press shortcuts
Link. Try everywhere. “view Recently Closed Tabs”, close all tabs …
San Francisco 1945 and the peak of Red America
Link. Great story
Google and Facebook totally fail the Vegas test
Link. Still unsafe at any speed
Brooks desperate pleas for miraculous new GOP leader to usurp Trump
Link. Sounds like Obama
Tax cuts increae inequality, in our world likely decrease growth.
Link. “putting every decision at the service of increasing their pay.”
“What does Trump and his family stand to lose or gain on Puerto Rican debt?”
Link. Indeed
Russia’s Facebook attack focused on surprise seing states
Link. Cheapest devastation of a nation in history
PR “Thank God half my house was cement. I still have that wall.”
Link. Article implies she was sincere.
Rex is a bad dog.
Link. We have nothing but satire now.
“60 percent of households between the 80th and 90th percentiles of the income distribution would face tax increases”
Link.
Scalzi: “feeling like I felt when Katrina hit every single fucking month of this year”
Link. The unrelenting awful stench of Trump’s America.
Singapore’s Health Care System explained
Link. No panacea. Few lessons
Making beaks: “line of evolution from a Tyrannosaurus rex to a pigeon”
Link. Pigeons far more successful.
High Sierra’s Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks
Link. Of course it doesn’t. “Disk Utility has been a disaster since it was rewritten”
Russia’s Facebook ads: guns, dogs, gays
Link. Must read. Facebook a loaded gun Russia understood best
“Ungrateful is the new uppity.”
Link. True.
Fixing the Print to PDF Trick for High Sierra
Link. Great tip!
Good news: it’s a white guy
Link. Voters chose this.
Gaming of FDA adverse event database by anti-vaxxers
There is something especially horrible about this. From Politico health newsletter:
“In recent decades, lawyers alleging that their clients became autistic as a result of childhood vaccines were known to post reports in the related Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Anti-vaccine activists then cited the reports as evidence that the vaccines were harmful.”
Worrying about your IQ.
Link. Feynman story amusing
High Sierra not ready: encrypting external drives
Link. Wait.
GOP tax fabulous for wealthy and super-wealthy.
Link. Gravity still works. Still needs to be said.
“Minnesota … has fallen far behind other states on police discipline.”
Link. I’m impressed by SPPD. Minneapolis seems more troubled.
Best Tabletop Radio – Sangean. With analog dial.
Link. We have the Tivoli. Thought I’d use the aux in, just use radio.
“strong correlation between how unpredictable a society was and the likelihood they would consider smiling unintelligent.”
Link. Japan?!
How Google developed an OTA hack for iPhones: Part I.
Link. Is the NSA better than Google Project Zero?
Google (finally) introduces some parental restrictions for Android devices.
Link. Very late, but remote config is better than default iOS restriction control.
Another try at changing coding.
Link. What was the widget based Mac DBMS toolset of the early 90s?
PR: DoD, FEMA, bureaucracy without presidency.
Link. Suspect (slight inside knowledge) Feb bureaucracy doing a lot – despite dotard at top.
Europeans can learn all Tinder knows.
Link. Cached Instagram and Facebook data from linking accounts.
Guide to recreational mating terms 2017.
Link. Useful for parents and olds. Not comprehensive.