Link. Lawyers of America, your nation needs you.
Gov contractor injected white supremacist articles into DOJ press clipping service.
Link. “Dade City, Florida–based company called TechMIS, also compiles newsletters for other agencies, including the Department of Labor, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Office of Housing and Urban Development.”
The (many) Problems with Apple’s HomePods
Link. Wow
Amazon is an Alibaba front. WSJ exposé.
Link. You live in China now. A 100 billion dollar fine would be a nice start.
Why everyone but me is wrong – a readable catalog of cognitive bias.
Link. More useful than most. I’d add essential denialism – we really shouldn’t try to face reality.
Sign In with Apple.
Link. Apple known to terminate Store accounts without appeal. You could be locked out of your bank.
Keyboards – including Belkin QODE Ultimate Pro for iPad.
Link. Ref.
WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy.
Link. I switched from Chrome to Safari recently.
StarTech USB 3.1 housing for two or more SATA SSDs. Fewer cables.
Link. I have used single StarTech enclosure for years. Very inexpensive. Reliable.
“AMP team has not yet confirmed a date at which it expects to entirely replicate HTML”
Link. Remember when
“In 2017, however, Cuba accounted for 98 percent of the travel-associated Zika cases in Florida.”
Link. Cuba outbreak missed. Exposed up to 1 million Canadians.
Working safely and effectively with preferences in Mojave
Link. Ref
Catalina: “music and videos stored in easily accessible folders, and audiobooks and podcasts hidden”
Link. Harder to use an external media drive. Backup and restore impoosible for audiobooks?!
Ukraine: The Third Revolution.
Link. “most Ukrainians currently believe that Zelensky is the real thing – and actually, so do I. Of course, I have been wrong a couple of times in the past.”
“The Apple Card is a “World Elite” Mastercard, which carries the highest possible interchange fee in all circumstances”
Link. Why is is Felix Salmon only person to mention this?
Red flag laws: “Many of these mass shootings are angry suicides,”
Link. Removing guns from high suicide risk (white male) Americans.
“When something like the INF goes down the drain almost like nothing, it shows you the degree to which people have forgotten the power of these weapons.”
Link. Russia cheated but China was the reason.
Opting Out of Binding Arbitration
Link. Its basically impossible. Before Trump there was hope to fix this
Kodak Digitizing Service
Link. Do they do noise reduction on video prior to compression? Probably not.
Republicans: “2015 to 2019, the share saying colleges have a negative effect on the country went from 37% to 59% among this group”
Link. Yes, FoxGOP scam. But half the world is non-academic. They are lost, angry, and afraid.
Black Diamond Spot headlamp – why you should not trust Wirecutter reviews.
Link. Their top pick has NINE lighting modes based taps, press, holds. WTF. How did Wirecutter pick this monstrosity? It probably runs Tor and streams video to the dark web.
“Google+ UI designer Morgan Knutson called it in a postmortem tweetstorm, a ”god forsaken piece of shit.”
Link. They squandered a huge amount of goodwill
“Apple’s own documentation of the GUID partition table was last updated in 2006, and refers the reader to the UEFI specification, which proves yet another wild goose chase.”
Link. Did Apple purge its tech writers?
Apple Card Account Information Is Only Accessible Via iOS Wallet App
Link. I’ll give it a year or two.
PRC attacks HK via Twitter: “larger, spammy network of approximately 200,000 accounts — many created following our initial suspensions — were proactively suspended before they were substantially active on the service.”
Link. Cyberwar.
Home Sharing in macOS Catalina
Link. Better?! I’m surprised.
iCloud calendar spam.
Link. Not a problem for me, so far, on gCal.
Feedbin adds a “Read Later” service.
Link. Cross platform, RSS reader friendly, share sheet. I will so use this.
“Amazon’s vast virtual bookstore, a place where copyright laws hold remarkably little sway.”
Link. Amazon is Trumpian in its norm violations. Turns out we have no laws for them.
Catalina: “if a user has an Apple Music account, they won’t see the iTunes Store”
Link. Gradual sunset.
Why Is The Sky Dark At Night?
Link. It’s only dark in visible spectrum.
Why we underestimate speed of CO2 warming.
Link. “push for univocality, the belief that conservatism is socially and politically protective, and the reluctance to make estimates at all when the available data are contradictory”
Trump’s asinine parade: “Some $2.5 million of the total cost of the unprecedented event, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, had been diverted directly from National Park funding.”
Link. I missed that obscenity. The GOP is despicable.
Feedbin for iOS
Link. I like Reeder but I’ll take a look.
Transableism, apotemnophilia, and body choices
Link. The human mind is a hack job assembed at astounding speed.
“Pompeo, an evangelical Christian who keeps an open Bible on his desk, now says it’s possible that God raised up Trump as a modern Queen Esther”
Link. We are ruled by the Evangelicals.
macOS – usr/share/file/magic.
Link. There’s one in there called “uterus” with variable “slut size”. Another os2, with “OS/2 URL object text”. Plan9. c64 – Power 64 C64 Emulator Snapshot. amiga …adventure…
“Trump is a being of pure reaction and grievance and avarice, and as such is never really very difficult to parse”
Link. He really is transparent. The “Sir” tell, and accusing enemies of his own vices. Once he says something, even by accident, it is truer than mere truth.
1619 Project: list of articles.
Link. It only took us 400 years to face our history.
“Mr. Trump also repeated a number of inaccurate claims that The New York Times has previously fact-checked”
Link. At this point simply keeping a running total will suffice.
Data labeling for AI dev is new form of work: “In India, it is a ticket to the middle class. In New Orleans, it’s a decent enough job.”
Link. Initially I thought option for low IQ US adults but sounds more cognitively demanding.
Managing web access on iOS for Explorers (and for younger children) – Smartphones for All.
Link. TLDR: Turn off all web access and block installing all Apps. Really, Apple, you aren’t even trying.
No progress on iOS 12 screen time bug – persistence of old (erased) devices
Link. Still around, been around all through iOS 12. Have read reports that Apple knows about it. No idea if fixed in iOS 13.
“as ancestral whales grew, numerous alterations to their tumour-suppressor genes hopped on board”
Link. Via Clark Goble. Brilliant work.
Trump v Johnson: “questions of style aside, the two men are almost identical.”
Link. How a nation commits suicide.
Dyer on Hong Kong demos: “it’s probably time to stop.”
Link. Xi will kill thousands if pushed too far.
Gruber on Siri analysis: “This is a privacy fiasco, and a betrayal of Siri users’ trust.”
Link. Hubris.
“agoodmovietowatch suggests “highly-rated, but little-known” movies. This website is your gateway to great titles on Netflix and Amazon Prime.”
Link. Wish it wasn’t limited to Amazon/Netflix but I do plan to use it.
OneLook Reverse Dictionary and Thesaurus
Link. “describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be anything at all: a single word, a few words, or even a whole sentence”. When Google doesn’t find the word you seek.
Windows has ransomware protrction built-in
Link. Not default alas. Wonder how macOS does.