Link. My wife’s family among them.
Monthly Archives: May 2017
iOS swipe action configuration for Mail.app gmail account is nuts.
First, change Gmail advanced settings from archive to delete.
Then, in mail swipe settings, correctly interpret these baroque directions: “Accounts that include Archive as a default action for swiping left will offer Trash for swiping right.”
Then in Swipe Left settings chose Move Message.
Then in Mail.app when browsing swipe right archives and swipe left deletes.
There’s more broken stuff like this in iOS. Articles on “new features in iOS 11” irritate me. There’s a lot of unfinished work in iOS 10.3.
Apple’s short term memory
Link. Corporate ADHD. Google is more persistent.
Chrome on iOS switches user profiles by changing sync settings.
Link. Not like Chrome on macOS managed users. Also, help file on mac/win Chrome sync switch is nuts.
Something is broken in my iTunes purchased movies.
Link. 135 available in iTunes, 24 show on my new iPad Purchased Item list.
Apple family sharing and device limit
I think apple’s 10 device limit for one account applies with family sharing.
So the limit is 6 family members or 10 devices, whichever is less. Not 10 devices per family member!
I tried adding a family member and exceeded 10 device limit. Got purchase notice of invalid payment when I tried to download an item. I think that error message is a bug. Real issue was device limit.
Black Americans are voting less.
Link. A bad trend in many ways.
Google AMP infrastructure support phishing attacks.
Link. Expect more like this.
Photos.app for Mac can use referenced files.
Link. Part of my strategy for sharing to photo streams and google
“standing firm with predatory autocrats. And one of them is the President of the United States”
Link.
The Ferrara hockey legend.
Link. Hockey has the best people.
Work: downhill after 45.
Link. Retirement age still real.
MOOCs, Baumol, and university costs.
Link. Health care vs education
iCloud backups still unencrypted.
Link.
“Bekenstein-Hawking entropy …. number of elementary areas of size Planck-length squared.”
Link. Suggestion spacetime quantum.
GOP modeled as 6 blocks
Link. T showed I don’t understand US politics.
eBooks: someone notices the DRM.
Link. Very annoying.
Google is crushing Apple on Maps.
Link. Apple appears to have given up.
High-Fiber Diet & Knee Arthritis
Link. Skeptical I am
Air Travel always sucked.
Link. Smoking on planes was more awful than you can imagine.
The progressive agenda and sympathy for the deplorables.
Link. There is always someone smarter.
Airlines suck and it’s your employer’s fault.
Link. Business travelers must buy on price alone.
Gmail adds Inbox’s Smart Reply.
Link. Inbox isn’t replacing Gmail very quickly.
Using neural nets to enhance neural nets.
Link. Pretty sure Vernor Vinge wrote about this feedback loop.
Disability before the ADA.
Link. Still early in understanding the contextual relativity of disability.
Kushner’s secure Russian communications: “We shouldn’t assume they didn’t succeed.”
Link. Indeed.
In memorium: Frank Faughnan
Link. 1922-2017. My father.
There are no good digital picture frame (slideshow) apps for iPad
This is mind boggling. Water water everywhere — and not a drop to drink. With the demise of picmatic (now a squatter app) there’s no longer a digital picture frame app for iPad.
The original lock screen app from Apple is long gone. The Photos.app slideshow has very obscure settings and no randomizer. LiveFrame.app was flaky in my testing.
That’s it. There’s nothing left.
The iPad has the smell of week old fish these days.
iPad Photos.app slideshow feature settings: extremely obscure.
Link. Wow. Also, no random. WTF Apple.
Resolving Modern Mac Alias Files
Link. I love this stuff.
What care looks like for America’s poor.
Link. Nightmarish — GOP wants to make it worse. How do those monsters live?
“Mom, you don’t bring flowers to infantry graduation.”
Link. Her expression in photo is marvelous.
How to upload images to a specific album in Google Photos
Link. Not obvious.
PIcasa Web Albums – Google’s archival strategy
Link. Google is far better at preserving my data than Apple is.
West Virginians are Trump Chumps.
Link. Vulnerable and now lost.
Trump executing on Putin’s plan for NATO
Link. Not subtle.
ShadowSpawn push a fake news conspiracy.
Link. Hannity, InfoWars, usual vermin.
CBO scores TrumpCare. No surprises.
Link. “costs could soar for consumers who are sick or have pre-existing conditions, while premiums would fall for the healthy”
Russia may have deceived Comey into HRC investigation.
Link. Played?
Trump non-screwup interval ends with nuke sub reveal.
Link. How many hours did he go?
Uber will price based on your willingness to pay.
Link. When don’t need ride check price and quit.
Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
Link. Worth reading.
Review of Trump admin attack on net.
Link. As expected. GOP bad news.
1Password Travel Mode keeps passwords from US border search.
Link. Only with subscription.
Canadian citizenship is not inherited by adoption.
I’m a Canadian citizen. A birth child inherits that citizenship that but my adopted children do not.
Surprising.
I wonder if US citizenship is any different.
AMP invades.
Link. Surprises me.
“AlphaGo is improving too fast”
Link. China surprisingly upset by human obsolescence.
Feedbin Supports JSON Feed.
Link. And Reeder uses Feedbin.
Stalin. A brief review.
Link. It is good to know who his fans are.
Thousands of gemes determine IQ, 52 candidates found.
Link. Very hard to find.