Link. Companies succeed because they give no thought to security.
Monthly Archives: December 2019
US national security in slomo collapse.
Link. Putin is a military genius.
Bodies are weird, episode 26.
Link. The disease is not unfolding as expected.
There’s little money in antibiotic invention.
Link. US is getting by with current meds, so no market for expensive newcomers
“would be better if SwiftUI makes the difference and Catalyst is, in the future, a sad and largely-forgotten experiment”
Link. Catalyst is a mistake.
“Child care is so expensive, and yet a child-care provider makes no money.”
Link. So who is capturing the money?
“The dream of some administrators is a university where every student is a model student, adhering to disciplined patterns of behavior that are intimately quantified, surveilled and analyzed.”
Link. China in the university.
“the iPad feels like a cautionary tale for what happens when you’re too enmeshed in the Apple ecosystem”
Link. Mine is a fancy photo frame mostly. I could easily do without.
“Many of Apple’s services now detect SSL Inspection and, because they could themselves be offensive in purpose, they will fail such connections,”
Link. SSL inspection breaks https using MitM attacks.
SONY cameras recall glory days.
Link. SONY engineers should be pleased
TikTok violates EU privacy laws.
Link. Does Apple now have to pull the app?
A Conversation With Rudy Giuliani Over Bloody Marys
Link. “Over a sweater, he wore a navy-blue suit, the fly of the pants unzipped”
“Project Catalyst”, the adaptation of iOS and UIKit unto macOS, is an unmitigated disaster.”
Link. Podcasts.app. I am skipping Catalina.
AirPods Pro Bluetooth Latency: “any modern platform compensates for this latency by starting a video a little later than the audio”
Link. Video is so complicated.
Durham tests Trump’s ability to corrupt.
Link. Beginning to wonder if some Russian drug is involved.
Aging: new focus on dysfunctional immune systems.
Link. Immune system doesn’t deactivate Metformin is in fashion.
Putin über alles.
Link. He understands the proletariat.
“China is an unreliable business partner that does not hesitate to sacrifice profitable deals if political need dictates otherwise”
Link. Needs or whims. Similar to Trump, maybe worse.
More on post-mortem pig brain in vat research. 2019
Link. Not new, but better summary than I’d seen earlier. “it’s very interesting to think about what kind of consciousness, in the absence of organs and peripheral stimulation.”
How did ToTok make it into the app store?
Link. Incompence or worse?
[toread] Preparing your Mac for disposal (Catalina edition) – The Eclectic Light Company
Link. Don’t forget to unpair. Very similar to ios now. omitted doing this for each user account.
“Virginia law allows those with deep pockets to bulldoze targets with frivolous, protracted and expensive litigation they couldn’t pursue in many other states.”
Link. Fight Nunes every chance you get.
[toread] Private Wojtek: Poland’s WW II warrior bear.
Link. A survivor.
Kalyazin Bell Tower
Link. Stalin’s dam submerged all but the now scenic bell tower.
“DarkMatter, an Abu Dhabi-based cyberintelligence and hacking firm where Emirati intelligence officials, former National Security Agency employees and former Israeli military intelligence operatives work”
Link. Retire from NSA and become an extremely well paid mercenary.
The five most promising ways to quantize gravity
Link. The last two seem most interesting
How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?
Link. “The problem of black hole “information loss” really has nothing to do with just exactly what you mean by information”
“Hey Siri, show me my passwords”
Link. Shortcut to Settings:Passwords & Accounts:Website & App Passwords.
Head of China research integrity effort likely a scammer.
Link. Maybe we should assign positions of power by random lottery
Aducanumab for Alzheimers is probably junk.
Link. The demand is extreme.
NotPetya fallout: Merck vs Insurers.
Link. Funny – recovery businesses as de facto accomplices
Hans Rosling died 2 years ago and I didn’t know.
Link. Weird what gets missed. Maybe I was traveling? He was ill much of his later life, though the pancreatic cancer was presumably unrelated to his Hep C cirrhosis and liver failure.
“Brain boost” supplements may contain high doses of piracetam.
Link. Or none, labels inaccurate. Not much hope for reform.
“Higher education is in the midst of an enrollment crisis, with declining birth rates and other factors contributing to fewer high school graduates attending American colleges and universities. “
Link. WHAT other factors?
Russia’sc“Unit 29155 — had for years been assigned to carry out killings and political disruption campaigns in Europe”
Link. McConnell is fine with Trump’s fealty to Putin.
“The F.A.A. is aware of more potentially damaging messages from Boeing employees that the company has not turned over to the agency”
Link. Hidden deep in the Boeing article
“clean re-installing macOS is a fragile process which can fail, and must be carried out to the letter”
Link. Vista. Do not install.
Pan-American Highway: 30,000 Miles on a Motorcycle
Link. Relatively recent gap closure c
Five Lessons from History.
Link. Mostly persuasive.
“urban nursing homes had been able to remain relatively stable even as care disappeared from disproportionately older, poorer and rural areas of the country,”
Link. We live too long past our ability to do self-care. Urban LTC facilities survice for now by using self-pay clients to subsidize medicaid patients.
Colleges have been colluding to reduce applicant advantages.
Link. Expect surprising consequences.
“Trump has touched the nerve of my conservative base like no person in my lifetime.”
Link. His genius is seduction and corruption.
Share Sheet crash in iOS 13.3 – try removing apps that have associated share sheet actions.
Link. I don’t know how to tell which app contributed which share sheet action but picked Pinner and Opener to start
Disappointing results from use of ski helmets
Link. New designs needed
What to do when a macOS update goes wrong (Catalina edition)
Link. Ref
Two years later, every promise made about the GOP tax cuts has been broken – The Washington Post
Link. For the record.
“vitamin E acetate, reporting that it was found in lung fluid from 48 of 51 people with the vaping illness”
Link. Epidemic easing, presumably decreased use Vit E
When should you test yourself for an untreatable and unpredictable disease like Alzheimer’s?
Link. AFTER you get longterm care insurance. Then give your money away and start smoking and base jumping.
“Bing served up much more bullshit than Google.”
Link. Kill it.
SeaMonkey is suffering.
Link. It is my HTML editor for macOS. Nothing else comparable