Link. Considered decision.
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Apple Studio display: “Thankfully, I’ve not been getting this buzzing, but I’ve had problems with the display’s camera, audio, and USB.”
Link. Other than that Mrs Lincoln…
“floppy disks—along with other dated tech like CDs and MiniDiscs —are still required for around 1,900 government procedures.”
Link. This has got to be culture.
I Have Nothing to Hide: contemplating the end of the personal life.
Link. The vast majority of human life was lived with no expectation of privacy at all. It’s a fragile thing.
Living with the potential Nazi: “And the best thing you can do – maybe the only thing you can do – is to stay in these people’s lives if you can, if it’s safe. As a living refutation of all that nonsense.”
Link. A small minority of humans are naturally Nazi, but a majority are capable of Nazi. Basically, humans are horrible. But capable is not inevitable.
“… Russian economy performed during the Boris Yeltsin years. … worse than America’s decline during the worst of the Great Depression”
Link. I read newspapers then and had no idea.
“Getting a Kindle Kids was a huge mistake. Do not buy this product for your children or grandchildren.”
Link. Damn.
SMS antispam: Truecaller freemium or $30/y.
Link. I never heard of it. Our advertising infrastructure is broken.
Mints utility provides user info on macos malware.
Link.
WaPo suffers a Trump deficit.
Link. We will never be rid of him.
Paxlovid valuable for over 65 and probably unvaccinated 50-65.
Link. Vaccinated under 65 do so well it’s hard to measure improvement.
“a lost arm of the Nile once cut through this stretch of desert, and would have greatly simplified transporting the giant slabs to the pyramid complex”
Link. Expected but good to confirm.
“Twice a day, he replaces the depleted lithium-ion batteries in his sky-blue Piaggio electric rickshaw with fully charged ones at swapping stations around New Delhi”
Link. Cheaper than gas. Science can save us.
Autism in South Korea.
Link. We know very little.
“The areas of the brain traditionally attributed to language have lots of other functions”
Link. A neuroscience of language update by a science writer missing her left temporal lobe.
“humpback songs easily spread from one population to another across the Pacific Ocean. It can take just a couple of years for a song to move several thousand miles.”
Link.
“life expectancy for Native Americans and Alaska Natives fell by six and a half years
Link. Vs 3y fall for non-native. Some COVID directly, but also alcohol, etc.
Failed GOP fund raising was so sleazy even GOP balked.
Link. Rick Scott’s fiasco.
“reporters scrambled after the nearest bottle of weak sauce to draw equivalence between Biden’s commentary and a movement that’s currently calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals.”
Link. What do advertisers want?
“For minimal to low risk, the researchers concluded that men and women shouldn’t exceed two drinks per week.”
Link. Never more than two a day. Alcohol has no virtues.
Biden made the right choice on Afghanistan.
Link. The generals have no credibility. They aren’t that bright.
“the middle seat gets both armrests”
Link. If you don’t like it the middle seat would be happy to switch with you.
“Gingrich was part of the effort to overturn the 2020 election”
Link. Of course he was.
“Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server,”
Link. Do you believe what Apple says or do you look at what they do?
Filtering RSS: “In olden times, I might have used Yahoo Pipes to do the filtering”
Link. London after the Fall of the West. That’s the web we live in now.
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Link. Looking back at “Primary Colors”. We’ve come a long way baby.
macOS active malware scans.
Link. We need bigger engines. Our 2020 8 GB Air is dying beneath Monterey; this must contribute.