Link. NSO is basically an Israeli state agency at arm’s length. Similar to Lockheed.
Author Archives: jgordon
Monterey: “typing one character in and leaving the search to run: do that once, and the Finder’s memory use could readily rise into several GB”
Link. Force quit Finder. Apple not fixing this is so annoying.
The Speed Limit in Every City Should be 20 MPH
Link. “narrower lanes, new and more pedestrian crossings, wider sidewalks, more priority to cyclists, and removing center lines in 20 mph zones, among many other changes.”
“either Apple doesn’t have automated monitoring systems that actually work or that someone has decided that their results should not be published on the status page”
Link. Potemkin status.
“Export whole mailboxes from Webmail to mbox format and then import the mbox files to EagleFiler. For example, with Gmail you can export mailboxes using the Takeout feature”
Link. Useful when leaving Google Apps.
Block protocol explainer. Spolsky.
Link. Beauty of RSS is a feed can lie fallow for years and suddenly it lives.
Block Protocol – an open standard for data-driven blocks
Link. I like the idea. Maybe we’ll get tables in blogs?
Crypto investors: “55 percent don’t have a college degree.”
Link. Prey.
“as Peter Turchin’s theory of unrest stresses, the biggest factor suppressing unrest is when moderates believe that society will fragment unless they bestir themselves to restore order.”
Link. Rise all ye boring, the trumpets call us.
Omicron’s Radical Evolution: epistasis in action.
Link. Changed cell entry mode so targets airway, not lung. Less dangerous for adult.
Long Covid: 4 related factors.
Link. “reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus”
Putin’s puppy gave Russia power over Germany.
Link. Trump.
Thirst sensors in petal veins liver.
Link. Liver disease effect? ESP cirrhosis.
K-pop: “of dozens of Swedish musicians who make a living exclusively from writing tracks for the genre”
Link. Unexpected.
Amazon pays 50 cent fine for price fixing.
Link. 10 million is nothing for them. These fines are hilarious.
Vaccine myocarditis hospitalizations: 1/12,000 boys 12-15.
Link. Must be many more that are not hospitalized.
“There were 344 things that could have gone wrong during that month — what NASA calls “single point failures” — that would have doomed the mission.”
Link. I’m still holding my breath.
Google Drops Support for 3y phone.
Link. We still have two 6s in active use.
Bizarre POP email bugs and ISP weirdness.
Link. I can’t summarize this. Just use IMAP. (I used POP for decades…)
Monterey 12.2: “Finder still leaks memory badly when its Find feature is used”
Link. That’s an impressive bug.
“Across Africa, Facebook is the internet. Businesses and consumers depend heavily on it because access to the app and site are free on many African telecoms networks, meaning you don’t need any phone credit to use it.”
Link. Smart investment.
“Republicans, should they want to, can sink this nominee. And if history is predictive, that’s exactly what they’ll do.”
Link. “McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to a power-sharing plan in February” Gives McConnell method to block nominee.
“Ever since I turned ten, I’ve ceaselessly wondered: Where did the time go? How did I get so old, so fast?”
Link. Not just me. Inspired by Justice Breyer.
Increased iCloud Errors.
Link. “issue, affecting essentially the entire platform, unfolded and was eventually resolved with no official communications from Apple”
“Malone, who got a huge response to the tweet but did not take it down, even though many noted that the study had been retracted.”
Link. Antivaxx former scientist, now bitter, vengeful, and deranged.
Why Quantum Mechanics?
Link. A book is promised. “An exponentially larger state space for all of reality, plus the end of Newtonian determinism, just to overcome the technical problem that accelerating charges radiate energy in classical electrodynamics, thereby rendering atoms unstable?”
Ukraine backgrounder: remember Manafort?
Link. If Trump had been re-elected the invasion would be complete.
“measles virus quietly destroys the patient’s acquired protection against other, more deadly, infections.”
Link. Could we modify the virus to manage autoimmune disorders?
Google Drive Incorrectly Flags File for Copyright Infringement
Link. I’ve switched to OneDrive.
iCloud Errors Increasing.
Link. No response from Apple. Microsoft OneDrive better.
“Copyleft trolls target people who correctly believe that they are allowed to use a work, but who make minor administrative errors.”
Link. Satan adding new circle to hell.
Eclectic light blog: “6 million visitors have viewed articles 10.8 million times”
Link. A labor of love. One of the very best geek oriented Mac information sources. Once we had many.
A lifters guide to Cholesterol: Myths & Misconceptions.
Link. It can be very hard to get CrossFitters and lifters to start statins. You can hit them over the head with this dense article.
“COVID-19, rhinovirus, adenovirus and pneumonia to his initial diagnosis of asthma”
Link. Relatively new multi-virus panels have changed how we understand infection. The 3yo is improving on a vent.
“Omicron has appreciably compromised the ability of two doses of vaccine to slow transmission. But that third dose ratchets it back up there. In other words, the booster shots work to significantly reduce the chances of being infected by Omicron!”
Link. No doubt about huge benefits for hospitalization and death, but good to see reduced transmission too.
“Democrats operate on the basis of reasonably factual premises and usually accept the authority of science, law and history, while Republicans uninhibitedly push whatever’s most convenient for their goals and incendiary for their base.”
Link. Radically different.
A DeFi crash course for normies: Crypto markets since 2017.
Link. Obligatory read. Sigh.
“S. economy apparently can’t sustainably produce as much as we expected.”
Link. Great retirement v
“browser plugin that blocks people who use Twitter’s NFT integration.”
Link. Thank you.
“browser plugin that blocks people who use Twitter’s NFT integration.”
Link. Thank you.
“Trump campaign was behind the effort to create the fake electoral slates”
Link. Giuliani.
Free course: “Differential Equations in 10 Hours or Fewer with the Wolfram Language”
Link. Kids these days.
“phages can be used in sync with antibiotics to treat otherwise incurable infections”
Link. Very cool case report.
Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed
Link. “only one major step remains: the fuel burn to insert the telescope at L2”
“The (14) men Heydrich invited were senior civil servants and party officials. Most of them were in their 30s, nine of them had law degrees, more than half had Ph.D.s.”
Link. “Only one of 30 copies of his 15-page protocol, marked in red as “secret” on the first page, survived.”
“someone in New York City may have had the Omicron variant as early as Nov. 21, four days before South African scientists first announced cases”
Link.
“immune activation and inflammation within the CNS is the primary driver of neurologic disease in acute COVID-19”
Link. Not unique to COVID, also other viral infections. Relative risk not known.
Fix Iliotibial Band Syndrome.
Link. Worth considering.
“Had older Americans, aged 55 and up, continued to work at their pre-pandemic level, the country would have nearly 2m additional workers today.”
Link. Stocks and real estate state good. Be real nice to your Olds.
“Two-thirds of Nigerian-born Black immigrants age 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher, while about half of immigrants from Cameroon and Kenya have a college degree.”
Link. Special visa program facilitates.