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.
Daily Archives: August 20, 2019
“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”