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FoxGOP threat: “Facebook could lose its Communications Decency Act section 230 protections, which shield it from liability from user-generated content”

Posted on May 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Trump is good at this game. So now we have to like Facebook? (Twitter is more despicable now.)

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“The way he designed it, it was persistently putting out a 315 megahertz signal,” Mr. Glassburn said. That is the frequency many car fobs and garage door openers rely on.”

Posted on May 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hobbyist havoc. Impressive!

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ViTLXML (View iTunes Library XML) App

Posted on May 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. For old school folk

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Painted bike lanes and auto passing distances

Posted on May 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A small minority of idiots pass significantly closer with painted bike lanes than no paint. (OTOH average is 6 feet, which is decent.)

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“We somehow got away with our plan to kill IE6 without facing any meaningful corrective action.”

Posted on May 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. When Chrome was great.

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Otto bike lock has a support page for when it forgets your combination.

Posted on May 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I needed this page when combo switched from 0920 to 0919. Returning the $70 lock to my LBS. They had one job …

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Intensive parenting.

Posted on May 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I don’t think this is economic anxiety alone. Or even mostly. Parenting has been getting more intensive for hundreds of years. Maybe thousands.

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“what if the things people desire don’t bring them happiness?”

Posted on May 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Facebook and other addictive substances. No different from television or sugar soda. We make poor choices.

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“troubling patterns, unanswered questions, and tantalizing leads suggest that Russia relied on human sources to interfere in the 2016 election”

Posted on May 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Was one HELL of a successful operation.

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Gordon’s platform 2020.

Posted on May 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’m running for the Presidency of the United States of America. Really, you could do worse. Actually, you have done far worse.

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iTunes Match bug – 1,500 lost tunes

Posted on May 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Cloud stores decrease risk for most, increase risk for people like me.

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FBI saves us from another terrorist wannabe.

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Losers. They are always users, usually dim. Also, thank you FBI.

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How Larry Nassar abused hundreds of girls in plain site.

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It’s not the shady awkward volunteer you need to worry about. It’s the charming star.

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Another go at making Alzheimer’s a prion disease.

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We’re kind of stuck. So back to the 90s.

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Adobe being scummy to LR users: dynamic price test.

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Why we all hate Adobe. Which is where Apple exiled their Aperture users. Without a viable conversion strategy. So photo geeks kinda hate Apple too.

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Cycling routes in Apple Maps.

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’ve never seen a feature poll where 95% say “yes, absolutely”. This is why I don’t take Apple Maps seriously.

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macOS document quarantine flags: a bad design has bugs.

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A lovely example of software entropy and technical debt. Apple could spend next five years just paying off that debt.

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Endgame Thor and the humor of fat depressed people with substance abuse

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Yep. The Russo bros screwed this me up

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AppleCare: “I never seem to get the request for feedback when my issue wasn’t resolved.”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Meeting metrics

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High testosterone women “overrepresented by about 1,700-fold on the podium”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Maybe sports should be divided by testosterone rather than gender.

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Special needs dentistry: “We need to train dental students to stop throwing their hands up and to start embracing them.”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Progress.

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“Sacculina carcini castrates crabs, roots itself into their bodies and brains and transforms them into walking zombie slaves”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Barnacle from hell.

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Wages rising, more enter labor market

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Still weaker than even adjusted predictions.

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Employing the non-college: infrastructure beats manufacturing.

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Manufacturing too automated now.

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“state of West Virginia reached a $37 million settlement in a lawsuit against the McKesson Corporation”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Opioid distribution. That was quiet. Small fine.

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“Bill Barr committed a crime when he lied to Congress. Lying to Congress carries a jail sentence.”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Barr miscalculated. Pardon time?

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“the part of your future which is not already determined is due to random chance. It therefore makes no sense to say that humans have free will.”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Alternatively you are genetics and environment, so no free will. Theists would say free will in in soul, so supernatural.

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Good jobs for non-college: move to dying cities.

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We are learning nothing from Trump’s election.

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“why it took so long for Apple to release the new MacBook Air. Their one-word answer: “Intel.”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Apple doesn’t do partnerships well.

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“iPhone revenue stunk”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Good overview

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PDF Annotations: not standard

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Also iCloud drive still sucks

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When will automation end work for another million non-college?

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Anywhere from 5-15 years. Pelosi doesn’t want to think about this.

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Barr – “… he’s been marinating in the Fox/GOP soup for the last two decades and is thoroughly part of the corruption Trump and his version of the GOP represents.”

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. FoxGOP will burn America.

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Vendor scam led to NASA mission failures.

Posted on May 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Puny fine. Why no prison?

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“Biden had 50 percent of nonwhite voters in the CNN poll, well ahead of Sanders’s 14 percent.”

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Huge.

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Trump admin follows the path of Russian political language.

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Orwell was a genius.

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“Barr’s reputation is in shreds. Damaged goods like most others Trump has used up”

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Wraithed.

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Apple’s excuse for banning parental control apps is kind of BS.

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. MDM was Apple’s solution for schools. Parental control apps used it for years. Don’t let Apple slither off too fast. (These apps also suck, but that’s another story. Apple MDM is bad tech.)

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“people from the nearby town of Xiahe used to grind the “holy bones” collected from this cave to produce medicines.”

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Presumably destroying Denisovan fossils of immense value to science.

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Murder conviction for officer.

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I expect will be reversed on appeal. Manslaughter may stay. He should never have been in police work.

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Microbots using nanotech.

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Light powered.

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MMR revax: “health care workers, adults about to travel overseas, college students, and anyone living in a neighborhood or community now experiencing a measles outbreak.”

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I expect my employer will shot me.

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The eScooter helmet thing

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Similar risks to inline skating, which is higher than bicycling on paved trail. Would need to attach helmet to scooter and buy huge numbers of them.

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“Barr fundamentally overruled Mueller on the essential question of whether a prosecutorial decision should be made at all”

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Barr tricked many. Hope learning experience.

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MindNode 6 features

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Scales to much bigger maps now. Next: shared editing

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ACLU claims US border officials are abusing powers to search smartphones and laptops

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Donate to ACLU today.

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Quarterly iPhone sales drop 30% YoY.

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Huawei was one of the few manufacturers to see growth”. China and Apple design errors.

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“TextEdit has gone steadily downhill and is now too embarrassing to release in source form.”

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Apple’s post-iOS techincal debt is vast.

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‘Vampire Facials’ and HIV.

Posted on May 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Gwyneth Paltrow a fan. Of course. “Going Gwyneth” could be a catchphrase.

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