Link. Surprisingly readable.
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“I’m approaching the conclusion that Face ID should be scrapped. It’s so slow, doesn’t work with winter gear on (even with an Apple Watch), and now it’s less secure.”
Link. Apple Pay with Face ID is awkward.
Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver.
Link. High integrity and perhaps too much idealism. A good read.
China: “imagine the whole country is one giant Qanon”
Link. It was like that in the 1960s. Russia to follow.
“GOP leaders don’t care about reality; their audience doesn’t care about the truth, and their political media apparatus always stays on message.”
Link. “If that sounds cynical, I would ask: Have you met my former party?”
Google’s low profile support page for uses of free Google Apps pre-transition
Link. “If you have 10 or fewer users in your group and do not use your G Suite legacy free edition for business, please sign in to your administrator account to provide more information.”
“The support page detailing the shutdown has quietly been updated (for some reason, Google is not making a big deal of the changes yet). First, if (and only if) you’re signed in with a free G Suite account, you’ll see a link to this survey”
Link. Damn. This has been quiet.
App Bundles As Upgrades: “Who in their right mind designed this system?”
Link. Another Apple cluster.
“Would you have wanted to be a health official telling Xi Jinping that his vaunted vaccines were seriously inferior to Western alternatives?”
Link. Lee Kuan Yew was a dictator who dodge this trap. Few do.
Repaired M1 Macs bricked by Monterey 12.3 update.
Link. I have never regretted waiting to apply a macos update.
Russia’s end-game is a lose-lose scenario.
Link. Germany pays a high price, US far less. Ukraine beyond measure. Russia catastrophic.
Putin assassination: “May couldn’t do much because Brexit had isolated England and then-president Trump refused to back her. He promptly fired Tillerson”
Link. She could have done more. Trump of course covered for Putin.
Rural Georgia elections return to the 1960s.
Link. Easy to see why GOP blocks voting rights.
Weigh lifting progression for punies: The Step Loading Method
Link. I’m too Old and small to add weight, this approach focuses on adding stops and sets.
China COVID quarantine is hellish.
Link. “China uses the PCR tests continuously to detect for the presence of the virus in your nose.” The iodine was is insane. Medicine without science.
A $24 Thunderbolt 4 Cable from OWC.
Link. MacBook “USB-C” is charging only, extremely slow USB data transfer. WTF Apple.
“the technique of targeting children and civilians he developed in Chechnya and Syria”
Link. It’s an ancient tactic.
Russia’s honorable journalists resign.
Link. Putin will make resignation illegal.
“it is time to recognize the problem of international kleptocracy as a matter not just for the Treasury, but for those who make American foreign policy”
Link. We enable them. We can stop.
Syria’s al-Assad did the crimes but not the time.
Link. Putin is a war criminal but he won’t face justice. (Neither, of course, did Kissinger and friends.)
“under high-density conditions, cannibalism is likely to evolve. They’re basically working out a way to eliminate future competitors.”
Link. Cane toads are hungry.
“six suicide quadcopter drones exploded into the Iranian facility near Kermanshah, Iran, on Feb. 12”
Link. Israel attacks a drone site.
Duolingo praise.
Link. I might try for an Italy trip.
“The administration’s coalition against Putin is extraordinarily delicately balanced, and that balance will collapse if the U.S. heads off on its own in a resurrection of the unilateral action”
Link. Putin should encourage direct US action.
Fall “booster” for 50+?
Link. I’m planning on it with my flu shot.
“ultranationalist view of Russia’s destiny as a conservative empire in perpetual conflict with the liberal Western world.”
Link. Owning the libs.
The Dictator Traps.
Link. Well understood thousands of years ago. Singapore’s ruler escaped but few do.
Automattic: “Five percent of the 2,000 employees work full-time contributing to open-source.”
Link. My favorite large tech company by far.
Mariupol: “estimated that the actual total could be as high as 20,000.”
Link. Russian army has a well deserved reputation for absolute brutality.
“the authors of an SPLC report published in December struggled to find a prominent American far-right figure without a cryptocurrency presence.”
Link. Deplatformed.
System settings in macOS found in Apple’s apps.
Link. Mail has always been weird this way.
“system-wide OCR capability, so that translation is directly available from any app. Anytime text is on the screen, there should be a way to select it for OCR.”
Link. Probably hard to do but great goal.
Unfixed: “gaping memory leak in the Finder’s Find command, which has made this major feature next to useless since the first release of Monterey”
Link. That’s not good.
“Apple: Don’t Attach Your iPhone to Motorcycles, Mopeds, or Scooters if You Want the Camera to Last”
Link. Bikes too? Newer cameras have optical stabilization damaged by vibration.
New Brunswick dementia “cluster”: “The oversight committee has unanimously agreed that these 48 people should never have been identified as having a neurological syndrome of unknown cause, and that based on the evidence reviewed, no such syndrome ex
Link. Phew. The known dementia syndromes are bad enough.
“Adjusting your clocks to match the sun makes far more sense when your solar day changes by 6+ hours around the year than when it changes by just over 2 hours.”
Link. Minnesotans don’t need 5am sunrise.
When iCloud Keychain stops working (No more Safari passwords) – Mojave edition.
Link. I got them back, not quite sure how. If you want to use Apple Passwords as a password manager you need an automated local backup.
“Despotism creates the circumstances of its own undermining. The information gets worse.”
Link. Stalin scholar, but also Hoover fellow. Not entirely trustworthy.
“China cannot be tied to Putin and needs to be cut off as soon as possible.”
Link. A Chinese voice, but not necessarily a Xi voice.
Anocracy: “full democracies almost never have civil wars. Full autocracies rarely have civil wars. All of the instability and violence is happening in this middle zone.”
Link. “populations in these partial democracies began to organize politically, not around ideology” Civil war. Must read.
All the Covid-19 blunders.
Link. For America fomite obsession was worst. Outdoor masking was mostly unnecessary and a distraction from indoor ventilation needs.
“Otto Von Bismark once described politics as the art of the possible, which only sounds optimistic until you think about it.”
Link. What a great line. 1/6.
“Conservatives do not approve of systemic racism. They do not condone it. They do not even ignore it, any more than skeptics ignore the ghosts they never see. They simply do not believe in it.”
Link. Religion.
China redefines zero-COVID: “zero tolerance for slow responses”
Link. Climbing down.
Convicting Nazis – the long slow trial of Hermine Braunsteiner.
Link. A Wiesenthal win. Remarkable for federal disinterest.
“A confessed courier for Al Qaeda whose tale of torture by the C.I.A. disgusted a U.S. military jury has completed his prison sentence,”
Link. The Bush/Cheney torture program is a key part of modern American history. It was quite popular.
BA.2: “It is not yet causing a new surge in the United States, and probably won’t. Existing vaccines work against the BA.2 variant, and it’s vulnerable to antibodies made by the immune system after an earlier Omicron infection.”
Link. More contagious than BA.1.
Purported FSB analyst letter.
Link. Legitimacy inside, it’s an oddly persuasive portrayal of a Russian mindset. They really could be this stupid.
“The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they’ve kept their heads during a very emotional time.”
Link. Essential read.
Apple corruption: “Yesterdays “Game of the Day” has a 2022 biz model of $120/year”
Link. Have Apple’s employees decided it’s fine to work for the bad guy?