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Daily Archives: January 16, 2023

Crash Detection false alerts from skiers stresses 911 centers.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Park City gets 3-5 false alerts a day. I could never enable this feature.

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Switzerland’s ski industry is dying: “warming at more than double the rate of the global mean and its glaciers lost 6 percent of their volume in the last year alone”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. In the US many XC ski resorts have closed. Emily and I finally surrendered to snowshoes.

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Experian security disaster: “until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number.”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The identity theft market suffers from a glut of potential victims.

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1887 ‘Children’s Blizzard’: between 250 and 500 people died in the blizzard.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Casualties of Krakatoa, 5 years late.

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“Kennedy controller, also urgently: Delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance! Delta 1943, CANCEL TAKEOFF CLEARANCE!”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Damn.

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Hacking (good way) Mastodon: Steampipe relationship graphs.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Udell is having fun.

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More reasons why we need an App Store other than from Apple.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Apple really sucks at managing the App Store.

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“By default, when Apple does something new these days, I fully and quietly expect it to be broken.”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. They could never ever do anything like Aperture again.

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Stills from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Tron — as imagined by Midjourney.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “If, as Mr. Gurdjieff taught, creation leads to the development of one’s soul, whose soul is being developed here?”

The last days of humanity.

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MLK and gay rights: neutral leaning towards acceptance?

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Not bad for his day.

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Red states attack their own Blue cities.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. If you live in a Red state you should look at moving to a Blue state.

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BOA Lifetime warranty: independent of shoe warranty

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I just learned Boa does it’s own warranty. I have Boa on mountain bike and snowshoe. They send a repair kit.

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Twitter via RSS

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I use Feedbin.

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Amazon selling cheap 16 Terabyte Portable SSD: “micro SD card slotted into a circuit board acting as a USB-C adapter”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Amazon is scammy.

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Managerial Positions Created to Avoid Mandated Overtime Pay.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Had not occurred to me but seems inevitable. “businesses are not required to pay overtime to salaried managers who make more than $455 per week or $23,660 per year”. Need to make that 40K/y.

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FCC broadband coverage maps lie: “dependent on self-reported data from ISPs”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Not a surprise.

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Ocean heat: “This year’s record surpasses the ones set previously in 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2017”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. 2018 disappoints.

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Changing section 230: making services liable for user content.

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jgordon

Link. It’s hard to see how Mastodon would survive — liability insurance, legal costs…

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