Link. Always wrong but never admit it. Several end up in extreme right.
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Slow iOS 11: “rogue system process that somehow persisted through upgrades and restarts”
Link. Technical debt grows exponentially.
Pinterest rant.
Link. The death spiral of a female-only site is noteworthy.
30,000 devices searched at border, passwords taken by agents
Link. Extremely offensive
US “child-poverty rate reached an all time low, dropping to 15.6%”
Link. Outside US/UK 2017 was a great year.
Tsai judges Apple’s covert iPhone throttling.
Link. Great quotes for the jury. Guilty.
“most of the energy consumed in free apps is related to third-party advertisement modules”
Link. Dump ads, extend battery life
Simplenote.mac: “matched up the behavior of searching your notes to the iOS app.”
Link. I’m crying tears of joy now. Web version also was correct.
US cabinet groveling: “They were basically pleading for their own lives, with praise for Saddam.”
Link. “Your majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss”
Battery Life.app: utility now #11 im downloads
Link. Apple is goingvto be deluged with battery replacement requests
“The blood of the filthy proletariat will flow in the streets”
Link. Trump base lines up for ceremony.
Apple leaves HomeKit vulnerable until bad press
Link. This is them.
“Politics can be a nasty line of work, and Kirsten Gillibrand is good at politics.”
Link. Seeking presidency
How to delay the inevitable failure of your fitness resolutions.
Link. Last few years bigger focus on social exercise.
Managing anxiety – a pop NYT review.
Link. Pretty good really.
“Don’t play the piano part, I am playing that. Don’t listen to me, I am supposed to be accompanying you!”
Link. Thelonious Monk.
Worst Gadgets of 2017 is good read
Link.
“8 percent of … British adults said that they had cut off a family member”
Link. “Estrangement” is technical term
A comprehensive guide to the GOP tax bill of 2017
Link. Keep as reference
#MeToo excess: Gillibrand is wrong.
Link. Very American trajectory.
Gruber’s defense of Apple covert device slowdowns is weak.
Link. The dishonesty is key.
“nature of authoritarian government’s to secure lockstep alliances with major corporate entities seeking favor and preferment.”
Link. History.
45 is the end time: Facebook job ads.
Link. Human life is much shorter than we typically admit
“showing nearly all of the technical components of bitcoin originated in the academic literature of the 1980s and 1990s”
Link. Gordon Dickson’s 1984 The Final Encyclopedia ( Dorsai) had discovery of lost digital knowledge I think.
More evidence Apple slowed iPhone to avoid battery replacements.
Link. Infuriating for people on battery replacement program.
Archival Treasures Digitized 2017.
Link. Not everything online is horrid.
“atmospheric trace gases are the primary energy sources of two Antarctic surface soil communities”
Link. “open the possibility that atmospheric gases support life on other planets”
The Best Lightweight Windbreaker: “Outdoor Research Tantrum Hooded Jacket”
Link. Great warranty. $100
VA: “Democratic challenger defeated a Republican incumbent by a single vote”
Link. Remember that
“Organized looting”
Link. The GOP is depraved now.
Major update to Micro.blog
Link. RSS rules.
How Extended Validation Certificates Can Be Used to Scam
Link. Thank you researchers
GOP resistor perspective on shaming the Trumpista.
Link. The Republicans who didn’t vote made the difference in Alabama.
How to fix a Google knowledge graph error: write a NYT story.
Link. We need them to mess up a US senator.
Andrew Mellon pioneered tax cuts for wealthy scam
Link. Paid for themselves he said.
Popular passwords: qazwsx and more
Link. Letmein new this year.
“electric vehicles in the United States will be cheaper than their traditional counterparts by 2024.”
Link. Battery prices falling faster than expected
Wealthy pissed about transferring income to billionaires.
Link. Me too.
Internal strife in World Coal Association
Link. Ironic if GOP denialism accelerated desth of industry
Soon your AI will select your best photos
Link. Next it will take them.
Windows 10 jscript vulnerabilities
Link. Hard to fully mitigate
“strings of the strong nuclear force are gluon flux-tubes”
Link. Good party line.
FDA moves on Homeopathy scams.
Link. First good thing from this administration.
Omarosa on Trump as “racialist” rather than “racist”
Link. Nice dagger move.
James Sherk, whack-right hitman to reduce fed pay and benefits
Link. Resistance is a boring grind that must be done
Carroll had great pushback on “new” BP guidelines
Link. Unnnatural measurement, high risk group, overmarketed
A pragmatic and readable review of modern web platform.
Link. I loved this, especially comment on SVG support. Now 20y old.
Gassée: Apple’s padtop future
Link. What did Palm Inc call their brief laptop like thing?
Sending multiple Contacts to an iOS user from iCloud Contacts.
Link. iOS will handle multi-contact .VCF file.
Russia’s Internet Research Agency exploits Instagram to manipulate US
Link. IRA used to have different meaning.