Link. Takes pressure off Apple at least
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VanMoof eBike Commercial Banned from French TV
Link. June. France is just weird.
“Apple acquires a company every two to three weeks on average”
Link. Built to flip.
“when you redeem an Apple Gift Card, it’s added to what’s called your Apple Account Balance (tied to your Apple ID) and can be used across the App Store & iTunes Store”
Link. Took eons to get this.
“Measures not implemented were cloth masks for campers and opening windows and doors for increased ventilation in buildings”
Link. Ventilation matters most.
Epstein blackmail: “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders.”
Link. Too stupid to have a deadman switch.
“Making Republican voters distrust mail voting could negatively affect not just Mr. Trump, but a host of down-ballot candidates.”
Link. Trump’s attack on USPS could give Dems the Senate.
“CMR revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%), independent of preexisting conditions”
Link. We will find viruses play a much bigger role in strokes and heart attacks than we once thought.
How high end bikes blew past $10K.
Link. Big price leap was 15y ago.
“She recorded herself destroying a mask display in early July – something she now says she regrets and is in treatment for mental illness”
Link. These videos entertain many, but they exploit the mentally ill andthe cognitively disadvantaged.
Oculus Quest Review: VR works.
Link. The VR chat rooms are as bad as you’d expect.
Vaccine races: “Pfizer/BioNTech, J&J > Moderna, Oxford”
Link. We will have several options.
“You must also study and learn the lessons of history because humanity has been involved in this soul-wrenching, existential struggle for a very long time.”
Link. We all die, but very few die old with such grace and meaning.
“Mr. Trump didn’t hijack the Republican Party. He is the logical conclusion of what the party became over the past 50 or so years”
Link. A Republican repents.
“People with Alzheimer’s had seven times more of the tau protein, called p-tau217, that the test measured than people without any dementia or those with other neurological disorders”
Link. Test in two years primarily for research purposes. We have no treatment.
AT&T Purchase Blocker – free.
Link. I’ve added this to all our devices.
iOS messages only filters unrecognized iCloud messages, not SMS.
Link. That’s stupid Apple.
Black African immigrant vs Black descendants of slavery in Minnesota.
Link. Michelle Obama was latter, Barack of multiple worlds.
Paleogenomics: plagues of the neolithic.
Link. At this time we can’t research new world peoples.
Apple Music With a Local Music Library
Link. I am afraid of this.
Minneapolis riots incited by “an associate of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, a small white supremacist prison and street gang based primarily in Minnesota and Kentucky”
Link. “Umbrella man”
“Trump shared the video — which claims that face masks and lockdowns are not needed to stop the disease — as he shared 14 tweets over a half-hour span defending the use of hydroxychloroquine”
Link. He is a bit old for new onset Pick disease (frontotemporal dementia).
“spacecraft powered by dark matter.”
Link. Ok, that sounds fun.
How Trump Could Win Reelection.
Link. He can easily win.
“QuarkXPress is the most bug-ridden application I have used in 36 years of working with the Mac”
Link. I wish Adobe had some competition.
Debugging Time Machine: a modern guide
Link. Bookmark this.
Gov E-Verify’s security is incompetent.
Link. That is just so bad.
Surprise! Fujitsu Releases 64-Bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners
Link. Catalina support
64-bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners
Link. Surprise!
HIV/AIDS denialism – Wikipedia
Link. Before Ioannidis there was Duesberg. HIV. Smoking. Seat belts. Climate. COVID. There are always egomaniacal academics seduced by denialism. Sometimes for money, sometimes fame, not often to feel relevant.
1619 Controversy: slavery and motivated secession.
Link. Mixed seems right.
Xfinity Comcast Data Usage Center
Link. $25 for unlimited – if use their gear
How to Plan Your Week.
Link. Short and mostly practical. I’ll put some of this into my own routine.
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash.
Link. I lived through it so mostly familar. They don’t expain why the security issues were so severe and unfixable.
iOS 13.6: “app-specific controls to disable cellular data seem to be broken yet again.”
Link. Apple doesn’t have automated regression testing?
Lipo: “there couldn’t really have been a clearer sign that Apple Silicon and Universal Binaries were just around the corner”
Link. Apple even documented it.
“DeSantis relies primarily on the advice of his wife, Casey, a former television reporter and host, and his chief of staff, Shane Strum, a former hospital executive”
Link. Idiocracy.
macOS accessibility bug: “dictation is duplicating what I say”
Link. Broken for years, easy to replicate, Apple won’t fix. ADA lawsuit?
“What the Canadian example does show, however, is what the United States could have looked like if the U.S. effort had not been led by malicious, self-seeking incompetents.”
Link. Canada is a very good control case. Remember, our problem is not just Trump,
Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
Link. Maybe next time
“Busy Beaver function: the staggeringly quickly-growing function that probably encodes a huge portion of all interesting mathematical truth in its first hundred values”
Link.
“Wi-Fi 6e will be the most significant upgrade since Wi-Fi was created”
Link. I’ve heard this before.
Windows 10X As a Web-first OS.
Link. Mac client too? I’d love a virtualized mac running Aperture.
Velominati – Keepers of the Cog
Link. How did I not know of this?
Most “Free” VPN Apps Secretly Owned by China
Link. 2019. Beloved by high schoolers.
“if Google has lost interest in Android generally it’s going to lose interest in Pixels specifically”
Link. Didn’t see that one coming.
Apple’s app store defense: “Hey, at least we’re better than Ticketmaster.”
Link. Apple should cut its losses.
“As many as a third of patients who were never sick enough to be hospitalized are not back to their usual health up to three weeks after their diagnosis”
Link. Virology is making a year’s progress every month.
Trump Commits Two More Impeachable Offenses This Week Alone
Link. The historical record commission will document at least 20 impeachable offenses.
Minneapolis walking tours
Link. Wonderful gift.