Link. The mob was aimed.
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Getting photos from iPhone to Lightroom, Aperture and other non-Photos products.
Link. I treat iCloud Photos as a queue.
“As the months went on, the claims she was seeing grew more outlandish. There were slickly produced videos of cannibalism and Satanism within the Democratic Party.”
Link. Who made those videos?
Trump dispenses with unnecessary impeachment lawyers.
Link. The GOP has promised acquittal.
“changes are probably very close to the best that could’ve been done given the need for backwards compatibility, and they should have a significant impact on the security of iMessage and the platform as a whole”
Link. Google’s Project Zero reviews new iMessage security features.
“Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States”
Link. “… there is reflected the note of pride that the Negro has found himself. that he has ‘fought back’…” Just learned of this.
Taiwan is a civilization
Link. “Taiwan’s rivers contained detectable amounts of the drug MDMA”. I spent a month in Taipei and Puli in 1981.
“Ripoff Report offered “arbitration services,” which cost up to $2,000, to get rid of “substantially false” information.”
Link. A business model based on extortion.
Fact-Checking Biden’s First Week.
Link. No surprise — he’s well within the range of an above average president with good intentions.
Historical perspective: the filibuster must die.
Link. Kill it now.
“You might not consider all of your weak ties friends, at least in the common use of the word, but they’re often people with whom you’re friendly”
Link. English needs a word here.
With GOP support Trump admin blocked investigation of violent right extremists.
Link. “Justice Department officials began shifting federal prosecutors and F.B.I. agents from investigations into violent white supremacists to focus on cases involving rioters or anarchists, including those who might be associated with the antifa movement”
“Fitness+ is an okay start, but really needs a lot of work… mostly support of third party devices like bike sensors.”
Link. Feels half-assed.
Tsai grades Apple 2020.
Link. macOS continues to deteriorate. He finds Rosetta 2 less reliable than 1. My most trusted Apple guru.
Fermi paradox: the expanding bubble solution.
Link. With some mixed-in Bayesian priors, but requires some heroic coincidences to work. The best explanation is still that advanced tech cultures don’t travel.
MN Bike Trail Navigator: Winter Fatbiking Tips for a Better Ride
Link. Essential reference. A sport made for a changing climate. MN is the epicenter.
“ now a wealth of evidence that the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine did not work against Covid. And yet there are still 179 clinical trials with 169,370 patients in which at least some are receiving the drugs”
Link. Never ever vote GOP.
Spotlight – “A few years ago, it seemed to search everything (apart from system files), but now it can’t even find your Mail messages, and the whole data for apps like Notes are invisible to it.”
Link. “mdutil -E / erases the indexes on your startup volume”
“Big Sur has dumbed down the Finder’s Search window … there’s no way of saving a default search window, so each use has to be built from scratch”
Link. WTF Apple.
“When I spot-checked what a couple dozen apps claim about privacy in the App Store, I found more than a dozen that were either misleading or flat-out inaccurate”
Link. Apple is not entirely honest.
“Skylum did not provide a way to open a Luminar 4 catalog in Luminar AI, making it impossible to smoothly transition from Luminar 4 (to be discontinued) to Luminar AI.”
Link. Great Avalanche has a fix, but who the hell would buy Skylum products?
“Aira’s creators aim to put charging surfaces everywhere: built into furniture, integrated into vehicle cabins, fused onto coffee shop counters, and so on.”
Link.
Why federal grants may set rural broadband in some areas of Minnesota back for years
Link. Federal contracting rules mandate disastrous choices. They break government.
Robinhood “… exist to allow hedge funds to make money by giving them access to what Robinhood customers are buying and selling a fraction of a second in advance.”
Link. “Free”
“That activity has put a strain on Robinhood, which has to pay customers who are owed money from trades while posting additional cash to its clearing facility to insulate its trading partners from potential losses.”
Link. They aren’t big enough to handle this.
J&J vaccine and the variants.
Link. This is the time for voters to *scream* at GOP legislators to free up funds. We need to ring fence the variants so we need base control urgently.
“On the day of the vote, Lee — who had to escape the Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001 in high heels — decided to wear tennis shoes, just in case.”
Link. Dem reps realizing the GOP legislators are insane.
“the editorial board was making a busy work editorial, and it was foolish.”
Link. Dissing the EOs. WaPo is less stupid and a cheaper subscription.
“A party starts out complaining that taxes are too high; after a while it begins claiming that climate change is a giant hoax; it ends up believing that all Democrats are Satanist pedophiles.”
Link. Where has this happened before?
Game. Stop. – Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk
Link. Must read.
“don’t force people to subsidize Fox News by including it in basic packages.”
Link. Cable packages that is. The word is getting out. Get rid of your cable TV service now.
“that this is a strain more transmissible but not more severe — that’s not what is happening in Manaus”
Link. Manaus is the laboratory for what happens when you follow Denialist advice.
Google maps adds smart routing for EVs with charge stop plans
Link. High value if works.
Filibuster “win”.
Link. “It is critical to find a way to structure a lot of votes, and work press coverage of them, to make Republicans own their opposition to popular legislation.”
Black nursing home staff in Maryland initially refuse vaccine.
Link. Many respond to patient and individual counseling. Patients often vaccinated. Question is how long to wait before mandate.
The minimum wage pushback – Noahpinion
Link. Keep as a reference. Federal gov interesting case since spans states.
“B.1.351 seems to evade the Lilly monoclonal outright, although the two-antibody Regeneron cocktail still seems effective as that mixture.”
Link. In some situations we will need to type specific patients.
“GameStop looks less like a speculative bubble and more like a contemporary, internet-mediated version of the “bull raids” that were characteristic of the stock market in the early 20th century”
Link. Bryson’s 1927 book mentions these. I think has happened in China for years. Good to see private equity get hurt.
23kya humans and wolves were isolated in Siberia – and dogs were a result.
Link. A hypothesis for the start of a good relationship.
“M1 MacBook Pro could not provide enough power through the two T3 ports to power both SSDs”
Link.
“Many users have reported a worrisome issue with the M1 chip devices. The computers crash suddenly and restart randomly.”
Link. Yep, seeing that. Waiting to decide whether return or not. Do not buy.
“For just $596, an online fraud-protection company that Giuliani called “the only folks to trust that I know of” was selling four years of online defense from home-stealing “cyber thieves.”
Link.
“Pentagon essentially took that power and other authorities away from him ahead of a pro-Trump protest on Jan. 6.”
Link. Lots of murkiness but not yet conspiracy.
The GOP Dem Senators: “Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona”
Link. Winning Ohio seems unlikely – but would be very helpful. Also, we need these two even if we don’t love them.
Portrait of a cultist: Navy SEAL Trumpist.
Link. I wonder if even Trump could deprogram him. Non-college (enlisted).
Analysis of remote work by a digital nomad.
Link. He concludes there are still big advantages to urban clusters. I agree. I’d add developing friendships snd alliances within a company is much easier in person.
Big Sur bug: turn off iCloud syncing for Apple News or burn your data plan.
Link. Nasty.
Publishing code as HTML in WordPress articles.
Link. For both viewing and copy/paste. I think would work on any web page?
Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera.
Link. I was shocked to see the Brownie picture — because I think my father might have had the real thing. I remember touching it.
How to Use Your iPhone as a Webcam
Link. Ani6 gives better results than almost any webcam.