Link. Doesn’t explain how controls failed. We thought SK was on top of this thing.
Monthly Archives: December 2020
FFmpeg FOSS video editing toolkit.
Link. Are there similar projects now?
SolarWinds was good at selling to government.
Link. The disaster analysis should focus on why SolarWinds won government contracts. I suspect this will highlight regulations and laws that confound gov software buys.
Save America, move to Austin.
Link. It could work.
Ad Tech bubble.
Link. The tech is camouflage, the real story is monopoly rent.
“Some of them are also less afraid of contracting Covid-19 because the pandemic appears to have been mostly stamped out in China, he said.”
Link. Easier decision here.
Spike model: “… an innovation that was rejected for publication by scientific journals five times because reviewers questioned its relevance.”
Link. Genius needs persistence.
Pfizer anaphylaxis – PEG or not.
Link. Good review of the analyses.
“Trump’s unofficial election advisory council now includes a felon, adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a White House trade adviser and a Russian agent’s former lover”
Link. In the movie this kind of team always wins in the end.
“Case studies on these immunocompromised people have shown that the virus can accumulate a large number of mutations as it replicates in their bodies for a long period of time.”
Link. Grim news.
“Mr. Trump was tweeting out anti-mask claims minutes after Mr. Pence received his vaccine.”
Link. Pence v Trump will be fun to watch.
Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive.
Link. Mass delusions are common in every culture and history. Sometimes they destroy societies, most often they collapse. What do experts say about engagement with the deluded?
“The Republican Party has been radicalized, with countless Republican lawmakers and other prominent figures within the party having revealed themselves to be moral cowards”
Link. No moral credibility at Federal level.
A little more clarity on the latest fail of US cybersecurity.
Link. That we know of.
“skepticism of science, impatience with health restrictions, prioritization of personal politics over public safety, undisciplined communications, chaotic management style, indulgence of conspiracies, proclivity toward magical thinking, allowance of tur
Link.
“If you disable SIP on an Apple Silicon Mac, you lose support for the Apple DRM. (FairPlay)”
Link. Follow the money.
“AppTrackingTransparency is a great step forward for Apple. When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it”
Link. Suck it Facebook.
“An arrangement brokered by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will deliver cheap vaccines throughout most of Latin America.”
Link. Credit.
My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy.
Link. I didn’t actually say a *President* Trump was good for democracy.
Monitoring the patient with chronic kidney disease — my ABFM QI project criteria.
Link. I like my new personal CKD monitoring checklist.
“police killings went from about 4% of violent U.S. deaths at the turn of the century to about 9% in the 2010s”
Link. We need so much more social science research.
“My experience has been that Google’s results are much better than Bing’s, which are better than DuckDuckGo’s”
Link. True, but Google results were much better 10 years ago.
“LG 27UK850-W is a good monitor for the price”
Link. More than a review, also a tutorial on modern PC displays. I usually just buy the mid-range Dell but my eyes suck.
“Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because it might hurt pawn shops”
Link. Facebook hasn’t got a tentacle to slither on.
“be surprised if Zoom’s source code and server infrastructure was not riddled with backdoors and eavesdropping features.”
Link. Yeah.
Redfield gestures Trump towards the bus.
Link. “CDC head said one thing that has disappointed him is the inconsistent messaging and politicization over mask wearing.”
“since 2015, Defense Department training accidents have exceeded combat deaths worldwide.”
Link. Must read.
MAGAts call for Insurrection Act.
Link. Owning the Libs gets even more expensive.
COVID-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome, raising calls for early vaccination | Science | AAAS
Link. Germany doing early vaccination.
HIV vaccine fails, but better ones coming.
Link. We got lucky with COVID.
COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity: at worst a manageable annoyance.
Link. Even if we don’t drive R < 1 we can get to reasonable normal. (He doesn’t mention animal reservoirs)
Gmail Click-time Link Protections
Link. The Evil is strong.
NeoFinder – “Affinity Photo DAM”
Link. I like the theory. Still on Aperture.
Texas vs. Google: “how Google convinced so many employees that AMP was good with such transparently bad reasons.”
Link. Motivated reasoning. I’m surprised HOW evil Google is.
Where Is End-to-End Encryption for iCloud?
Link. Your iCloud backups are available on demand.
Republican “shock”: “my pledge is I won’t engage these discussions or treat them as meaningful or serious.”
Link. Laughter or silence are our options.
“we are adding outlining to MindNode”
Link. Next few months.
“anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarwinds123”
Link. Russians not necessarily genius?
Podcasts in Big Sur.
Link. Abandon hope.
Preview in Big Sur Destroying PDFs Again
Link. “I don’t think it’s yet recovered from the rewrite five or so years ago.”
Facebook seeking politicians.
Link. Go Apple.
“his swipe at Mitch McConnell today was really barely a swipe at all.”
Link. I noticed. He is more controlled than he seems.
“corrupt Democrat politicians and election officials who support Black Lives Matter and who use voter fraud and voter suppression”
Link. BLM enraged Trump’s base like nothing else. it was his great hope. Team Biden won despite that.
“Reagan and his officials spent years denying the threat from acid rain while insisting that evolution was just a theory and promoting the teaching of creationism in schools.”
Link. Evangelical dominance and shift of base to white non-college began in 70s, likely reaction to civil rights movement. The feedback loop reinforced over last 50 years. (Carter was religious but very stong on science.)
Squeezing the CDC.
Link. This summary is less alarming than I expected. Damage done, but also resistance. It can be built back better.
Squeezing the CDC.
Link. This summary is less alarming than I expected. Damage done, but also resistance. It can be built back better.
COVID anosmia from the inside.
Link. A hard blow deserving of sympathy.
“Although the M1-based Macs have only two Thunderbolt ports, they each have their own bus and support the Thunderbolt 4 option that enables the use of Thunderbolt hubs.”
Link. That is a big enhancement.
“Each kit, which tests a single swab sample, is expected to cost about $30 or less”
Link. Home antigen test. Expensive for most, gov subsidy would be wise.
COVID associated Autoantibody Problems
Link. Some preexisting. Immune responses are crazy idiosyncratic and remarkably chaotic.