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“highest death rates were seen in parts of Latin America, as well as Central Europe and Southern sub-Saharan Africa, though similar rates were seen in some Southern U.S. states as well.”
Link.
‘Bennett wants Ukraine to surrender’: Ukraine senior official says Israel’s mediation is useless.
Link. Israel has been compromised.
“American army doctrine says that to face down an insurgency—in this case, one backed by nato—occupiers need 20 to 25 soldiers per 1,000 people; Russia has a little over four.”
Link. Putin goes neo-Stalin to keep power.
Bioweapon conspiracy: “been circulated in recent weeks by far-right American political figures and groups, including Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host; and QAnon acolytes. Glenn Greenwald,”
Link. Xi needs distraction from surging COVID.
“This season’s flu vaccine has offered little to no protection against getting a mild or moderate case of influenza.”
Link. Might still help for severe disease but was a miss.
“the oversized trackpad on the 16-inch (Intel) MacBook Pro drives me crazy with its accidental input and misclassified clicks. There’s no way I’m buying another one of those, so 14-inch it is.”
Link. MacBook Air or Pro are still choices for most of us.
“Any of the NAS systems I reviewed would make an excellent replacement for a Time Capsule.”
Link. I use Synology.
Omicron spreads across China.
Link. As expected.
Texas anti-trans story.
Link. Mr Younger quite the character: “marriage was annulled by a court on the grounds of fraud by Mr. Younger, who had misrepresented his employment and marital history.”
“Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine.”
Link. Like Trump they accuse others of their own intent.
Xkcd: Qua qua qua.
Link. Today I needed the explainer.
“You can drive up to five displays, including four 6K Pro Display XDRs over Thunderbolt and a 4K display over HDMI.”
Link. Mac Studio is nice.
Raspberry Pi: “goal was simply to sell enough to increase the number of CS applicants by — this is true — 100 students.”
Link. They want to go public. So that’s over then.
“In Selma, a judge stopped voter registration meetings by prohibiting public gatherings of more than two people.”
Link. Must read. I didn’t know how many were murdered. We have evil judges now.
“sheriff’s deputies, and Alabama state troopers, beat and shot an unarmed 26-year-old, Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was marching for voting rights at a demonstration in his hometown of Marion, Alabama”
Goodreads Data Loss.
Link. The Cloud dissolves data we want and preserves what we don’t want.
Never Change Your Password.
Link. Good reference for a practice most of us follow. NIST was supposed to update its guidance. Omits problem that passwords must be tappable. That’s a big one.
“A recent study revealed that Russian money has corrupted British politics; now we are beginning to learn just how much of it has done the same in the U.S.”
Link. Britain has been template for Russian corruption of US.
“Most displays sold are 27”. 4k 27” displays force you to choose between crisp, but oversized text or appropriately sized, but slightly blurry text.”
Link. Hope fixed by time I get to 4K.
Why is modern software a pale shadow of what it could be? Why are so many paths lost to us?
Link. I don’t think Winer has the full answer, but “local minima trap” is part of the answer.
“There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring.”
Link. “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
1/3 in my children’s lifetime. Near enough for stock market speculations?
Will everyone get COVID?
Link. They kind of dodge (we don’t know) that question but hint at “yes”. So this is about choosing when.
Self-Censorship in college.
Link. Is it primarily women censoring or is it gender neutral?
“Some 6,283 pedestrians died on U.S streets and roads in 2018, 42% more than a decade ago, while cyclist deaths rose 38%”
Link. “Euro NCAP added cyclist detection as an evaluation criteria in 2018, and program officials say that within a year over 80% of new automobiles were equipped to avoid striking bike riders”
“Inversion is building earth-orbiting capsules to deliver goods anywhere in the world from outer space.”
Link. Seems premature.
“Microsoft has helped, turning out patches in hours to kill off malware it detects in unclassified systems.”
Link. “cyberoperations underway, which have been moved in recent days from an operations center in Kyiv to one outside the country, are some of the most classified elements of the conflict”
Ukraine: Mud, Cold, and War.
Link. “it’s what I spent much of my professional career treating, studying and researching. I too served ashore during the Falklands War forty years ago, and have suffered cold injury of the hands and feet.”
“It’s funny how we always complained that iTunes had become a bloated, mastodontic piece of software”
Link. I knew iTunes’ heirs would be much worse.
EagleFiler 1.9.7: “$40 new with a 20% discount for TidBITS members”
Link. Protect email archives from the vagaries of cloud transitions.
“Douglas Macgregor, whom Trump nominated for ambassador to Germany and then appointed as senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, telling a Fox News Channel host that Russian forces have been “too gentle” and “I don’t see anything heroic” a
Link.
“Tamerlane is always over the horizon, waiting to strike.”
Link. Old and topical. Keeping civilization intact takes great effort by the 20%.
Sean Carroll to Johns Hopkins as Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy.
Link. Excellent news. One of the best science communicators – and researchers in quantum physics fundamentals.
Police and the Alternatives: addressing America’s crime surge.
Link. I like this summary.
3,000 really brave Russians arrested in protests.
Link.
What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)
Link. Enter the chaotic realm of Apple IDs, entangled identifiers, iCloud, MobileMe and more.
“the faint halos of the galaxies that indeed appear to have started to touch one another. Thus, in a manner of speaking, the collision between our two galaxies has already started.”
Link. Our galaxies will be old when they meet.
The bug-free windshield.
Link. “modern single-crop farms simply lack the diverse plant life necessary to support an insect community.”
The AT&T / Apple eSIM activation fee scam: $30 “discount” and a $30 activation fee
Link. Apple likely gets a kickback.
“NATO had mobilized its rapid response force, a kind of military SWAT team, for the first time in history to deter an enemy.”
Link. Murdoch’s media empire, from Fox to the WSJ, persuaded Putin that Biden was demented and NATO was broken.
Putin: “if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood”
Link. A comically weak threat. Doesn’t even make sense in context of Russian propaganda.
“Chinese companies, determined to regain their market share, began exporting masks below cost, the customers disappeared.”
Link. Supply chain resilience will require tariffs.
“despite the public rhetoric ahead of the invasion that the United States was overstating the threat, Mr. Zelensky privately took the warning more seriously and realized the Russians were intent on capturing or killing him”
Link. Establishing the long term resistance. Article uses “allies” rather like 1942. (iOS autocorrect does not yet recognize “allies”)
“The United States has delivered nearly 70 percent of the $350 million package to Ukraine’s military”
Link. Huge effort.
Not lab leak, wet market.
Link. I had leaned to lab leak but now I’m wet.
“Central Bank increased its reserves from $368 billion seven years ago to $630 billion today. With this war chest, Russia would be well prepared to withstand the inevitable sanctions that would come with the invasion of Ukraine.”
Link. Context.
“Where lions have acquired a taste for the experience, and conditions exist allowing them to climb, they have taken to tree climbing with the leopard-like zeal of converts.”
Link. Like humans they lost tree climbing powers of their ancestors.
COVID anosmia is collateral damage.
Link. No direct nerve infection.
“they’re not only running out of gas, but they are running out of food.”
Link.
Alexander Vindman: “what is amazing, what is shocking is the flawed assumptions of the Russian government. The Russian military is not incompetent….”
Link. “Marco Rubio frankly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s kind of frustrating to watch him spout off. What we would call as, you know, like secret squirrel.”
“Russian authorities have started to crack down and refuse to let people leave.”
Link. Leave Russia that is.