Link. “mdutil -E / erases the indexes on your startup volume”
Daily Archives: January 29, 2021
“Big Sur has dumbed down the Finder’s Search window … there’s no way of saving a default search window, so each use has to be built from scratch”
Link. WTF Apple.
“When I spot-checked what a couple dozen apps claim about privacy in the App Store, I found more than a dozen that were either misleading or flat-out inaccurate”
Link. Apple is not entirely honest.
“Skylum did not provide a way to open a Luminar 4 catalog in Luminar AI, making it impossible to smoothly transition from Luminar 4 (to be discontinued) to Luminar AI.”
Link. Great Avalanche has a fix, but who the hell would buy Skylum products?
“Aira’s creators aim to put charging surfaces everywhere: built into furniture, integrated into vehicle cabins, fused onto coffee shop counters, and so on.”
Link.
Why federal grants may set rural broadband in some areas of Minnesota back for years
Link. Federal contracting rules mandate disastrous choices. They break government.
Robinhood “… exist to allow hedge funds to make money by giving them access to what Robinhood customers are buying and selling a fraction of a second in advance.”
Link. “Free”
“That activity has put a strain on Robinhood, which has to pay customers who are owed money from trades while posting additional cash to its clearing facility to insulate its trading partners from potential losses.”
Link. They aren’t big enough to handle this.
J&J vaccine and the variants.
Link. This is the time for voters to *scream* at GOP legislators to free up funds. We need to ring fence the variants so we need base control urgently.
“On the day of the vote, Lee — who had to escape the Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001 in high heels — decided to wear tennis shoes, just in case.”
Link. Dem reps realizing the GOP legislators are insane.