Link. Mojave was pretty good. I miss it.
Daily Archives: August 23, 2022
“Artemis 3, in which NASA seeks to land a man and the first woman on the Moon by late 2025.”
Link. Not long.
“43 percent in the 19-30 age group had used cannabis 20 or more times over the previous month”
Link. Vaping and rapid-release edibles make cannabis more attractive.
macOS Mints utility gets even more features.
Link. Becoming essential.
Traveling with AirTags: location exclusion, traveling with pause.
Link.
Too much security: diminishing returns.
Link. “Safari is more annoying than other browsers because the “Remember me” checkbox on so many sites doesn’t work.”
So it’s not just me.
Apple’s unbranded Self Service Repair Store
Link. My Air needs a new battery….
Twitter security has ‘extreme, egregious deficiencies’: “half the company’s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software and that executives withheld dire facts about the number of breaches and lack of protection for user data”
Link.
“In June, in Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court expanded the voucher system to include religious schools”
Link. How to destroy public education. No dangerous minds.
“Chinese weakness is actually good for the rest of us: Falling Chinese demand is putting a lid on the prices of oil and other commodities, reducing global inflationary pressure.”
Link. In past I felt economists treated US economy as thought the world did not exist.
Von Braun: ” … has a growing fan base among American evangelicals who are heaping praise on him as a recovering sinner, born-again brother and, above all, groundbreaking creationist…”
Link. Doesn’t even move the lib owning dial these days. (His “Christianity” was exactly as sincere as Trump’s.)
Move Apple Mail to New Mac with migration assistant.
Link. 1. Make sure keychain syncs
2. Copy library\mail files
3. Copy com.apple.mail.plist
Consider run mail rebuild (can take a long time)
How to Deadlift: 9 Coaching Tips.
Link. I like deadlift but it doesn’t like me. So in old age I hex when heavy. By experience I can vouch for these tips.
Barre Seid, Tripp Lite billionaire, gives 1.6 billion to Federalist Society tax free.
Link. Similar to 1930s response to FDR. Federalist society will try to block CO2 control.
Occupied Zaporizhzhia plant: “Russians have been seen drinking, looting and detaining anyone for expressing even a whiff of protest”
Link. If the Ukrainian workers fail their families get irradiated.
“forward-collision warning systems with automatic braking cut rear-end crashes by 50 percent, and rear cross-traffic alerts reduce accidents by 33 percent.”
Link. As bad as smartphones are the native car systems may be much worse.
The Crikey article that Lachlan sued for.
Link. This is SOOO mild and absolutely true. New Zealand’s libel laws are almost as insane as Lachlan himself.
Lachlan Murdoch Sues Australian News Site Crikey for libel: “Murdochs and “poisonous” Fox News commentators had contributed to the assault on American democracy.”
Link. This is undeniably true. Please sue me Lachlan.