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“a more open approach works just fine. macOS’s anti-malware features have never been better.”
Link. Tsai is persuading me that the Apple App Store has failed and may be unfixable.
“Big Sur’s built-in Spotlight importer for Rich Text files has a bug, in which it can fail to index the contents of RTF files correctly”
Link. It’s not a simple bug though.
Undoing Apple device locks.
Link. Good to see more options.
“The wind chill hit 60 degrees below in Langdon, N.D., early Friday morning.”
Link. I would totally go ourside to experience that.
“If you put $1000 into Bitcoin the day Covert’s article came out and held on, you are now a millionaire.”
Link. I did not do that.
hematology – Why are red blood cells considered to be cells?
Link. Platelets are even more dubious.
Minnesota clinic shooting suspect latest in long line who raised red flags before attack – The Washington Post
Link. Gun restrictions are good, but as a society we don’t have an answer for high risk people who effectively need full-time monitoring.
“Republican politicians have lost all credibility on fiscal matters.”
Link. Also no credibility on cultural or moral or scientific matters or anything really. They got nothing. That matters.
“The vaccine program was in much, much worse shape than my team and I anticipated,” Mr. Biden said.”
Link. Much of government is crawling out of the wreckage.
“Prohibiting outdoor activity is unlikely to reduce the spread of the virus, nor is urging people always to wear a mask outdoors.”
Link. Things aren’t too crazy in MN thankfully.
Black Diamond Guide Finger Mitten
Link. For winter ski and fat bike
Fully vaccinated people can skip Covid quarantines, CDC says – CNN
Link. I missed this.
“It is the first interplanetary mission undertaken by an Arab country.”
Link. I didn’t know it until a few weeks ago.
“SolarWinds increased its profits by increasing its cybersecurity risk, and then transferred that risk to its customers without their knowledge or consent.”
Link. Private equity and software are oil and water.
“oil production peaked in 2019”
Link. This did not play out the way we imagined it would.
Brain organoid experiment hints at neanderthal vs modern brain differences.
Link. Fairly dramatic difference.
“At 2:24 p.m., two minutes before Pence is seen being evacuated in this video, former president Donald Trump tweeted, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done”
Link. Biden could grant Pence amnesty so he talks.
“A Big Sur installer comes in only one form, that’s a full installer, as there’s no such beast as a standalone Big Sur updater.”
Link. Serious broadband required.
Houston Doctor Fired for Giving Away Doses of Covid Vaccine
Link. The district attorrney serms a bit off.
Millions of Counterfeit N95 Masks Were Bought in 5 States.
Link. “Law enforcement officials have seized more than 10 million counterfeit respirators and hundreds of shipments of prohibited drugs and medical supplies, according to 3M and Homeland Security Investigations.” Now fake vaccines.
“it’s actually easier for scams and malware to proliferate if they aren’t caught by App Review.”
Link. In some ways Apple App Store facilitates scamware.
“The mean change in body weight from baseline to week 68 was −14.9% in the semaglutide group as compared with −2.4% with placebo”
Link. Whoa. Hell of an effect. Lifestyle intervention for both – for what that is worth.
“President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order to create a Civilian Climate Corps.”
Link. “work restoring public lands and waters, planting trees, improving access to parks” I hope open to special needs adults.
“Sullivan was in the middle of patting Chauvin down when he was interrupted and told to stop by Steve Lydon, the jail’s superintendent who replaced him with White officers.”
Link. My county. Sounds like a strong case.
University: “online instruction, no matter how you slice it, is less efficient than in-person instruction”
Link. I am surprised this is controversial.
ITP after COVID vaccination.
Link. Apparently this happens with MMR! Some cases are likely pure coincidence, some vaccine could be a trigger.
“The soaring prices may be accelerating the shift to electric cars, analysts said, noting that catalytic converters now make up a much larger proportion of a gasoline-powered vehicle’s cost than they did even just a year ago.”
Link. Lots stolen in St Paul MN
“I saw more kernel panics in a couple months of using Catalina than in probably the entire previous decade.”
Link. Tsai lists many Catalina bugs. Staying on Mojave was one of my best decisions. Worst ever macOS version?
iOS web content filter is stupid.
Link. Apple does a surprising amount of bad work.
“anyone who can’t wipe their M1 Mac and restore it in DFU mode would be wisest not to install any further updates to macOS.”
Link. Apple users in a pickle.
“macOS Big Sur upgrade is not checking to make sure enough free HD space is available. The upgrade will start, then run out of space and fail. If FV2 encryption is enabled, you will be locked out of your data.”
Link.
Developer exposes multiple scam apps on the App Store, some bringing in millions of dollars in revenue
Link. Apple needs to be made legally liable with fines a fraction of earnings.
“XciteOSA device is the first of its kind cleared to treat snoring and mild obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that involves a person’s airway routinely getting blocked while they sleep, by stimulating a person’s tongue muscle.”
Link. Skinny adult OSA is hard to treat. This might help.
Masks in the legislature – Republicans own the asshole brand.
Link. Is asshole really a good brand?
Tamsulosin: “Chronic receptor blockade could lead to iris vascular dysregulation, subsequent secondary atrophy of the iris dilator muscle and, ultimately, the erratic iris behavior seen in [floppy iris syndrome]”
Link. This is a weird drug effect. I wonder how Tamsulosin affects night vision.
“Apple Card can be shared with family members who are 13 or older, and there will be dedicated options for parents to control their children’s spending”
Link. Greenlight does this.
Add AirPlay to Your Classic Stereo with an Old Apple TV
Link. Less old stereos have digital input. I miss AirPort Express.
“Some of those who updated successfully, so they thought, to 11.2 have since discovered that it’s incompatible with the latest release of SoftRAID”
Link. This got too complicated years ago.
“I updated my Watch Series 3 to watchOS 7.3. It was, as many Series 3 owners would have predicted, a nightmare. “
Link.
FBI unit investigating child porn: “they get about 1,000 tips a month”
Link. Humans are horrible.
Biden dumps pro-torture intelligence briefer.
Link. NYT article takes a long time to get to the problem.
“How the organ recipient gets the donor to agree to the procedure is not the hospital’s concern, the doctors say.”
Link. A hard place in a hard world.
“Apple also issued a Safari 14.0.3 security update that reportedly fixes a file-upload bug, as well.”
Link. Hallelujah! That was such an annoying bug.
Fixing the Mojave Mail split view in full screen bug.
Link. Maybe. I’ll see if it stays fixed.
“The hack of Sheika Moza’s emails with Mrs. Obama has never been reported.”
Link. “Everything worth taking has already been intercepted: Our personal data, intellectual property, voter rolls, medical records, even our own cyberweaponry.” Don’t miss this article.
“republicans accused New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thursday of not being anywhere near the place they told the Capitol mob she would be”
Link. Unsporting.
xkcd: Tower of Babel
Link. Reminds me what a great story the original is. Very Greek mythic, very know-your-placeish.
“pushing through a version of Mr. Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure reform plan could become difficult if it does not happen this year”
Link. These timeline constraints are a deep structural problem with government.
“Production of these bubbles was a cottage industry before the pandemic. A small Austrian firm, Polymun Scientific, is one of just a handful that can make them.”
Link. It is a miracle of genius and effort and markets that we have what we have.