Link. Finally.
Monthly Archives: January 2021
#Jan25: Arab Spring 10 years Later
Link. Not forgotten.
From 2005: Creating a reference (inetloc) to an network share (smb, afp) that works with keychain (OS X 10.3 – macOS 10.14)
Link. Frustrated with Mojave refusing to remember my slide share folder I dimly recalled a solution from 2005 using inetloc files. Written for OS X 10.3 it works on Mojave.
“no evidence that Mr. Black had participated in any of Mr. Epstein’s criminal activities, or that Mr. Epstein had ever introduced Mr. Black to any underage girl”
Link. Epstein gave great advice on avoiding taxes and Mr Black was terribly grateful so he gave Epstein lots of millions.
NYT Firing of Lauren Wolfe.
Link. “we didn’t end someone’s employment over a single tweet” Article says she had a contingent employment arrangement, not full employee.
Adjusting to a $15 minimim wage.
Link. Reasonable precautions.
ICYMI: “A U.S. carrier group entered the South China Sea, immediately after China mounted a large aerial incursion of Taiwan’s air defense zone.”
Link. I have always thought Taiwan had secret nuclear weapons.
Lockdowns and COVID: fiendishly hard to study.
Link. Sometimes we have to go with expert advice amd extrapolation.
Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen.
Link. Teachers over 45 should be immunized alongside general population over 65.
Saving democracy: A Dem alliance.
Link. I didn’t think we were this smart. No more “defund the police”. They were ready to flood the streets if Trump succeeded in his coup.
Put display to sleep on Mac with Touch ID: ctrl-shift-power replaced by hot corner
Link. I sleep display when I go to bed.
Fauci: “It isn’t like I took any pleasure in contradicting the president of the United States. I have a great deal of respect for the office. But I made a decision that I just had to. Otherwise I would be compromising my own integrity, and be giving a f
Link. Birx was the good soldier who didn’t contradict the commander. Sadly.
macOS: “UserDefaults doesn’t help the user here, and can’t even restore defaults. That must be why it bears its name.”
Link. There’s always a temptation to start over. It’s rarely a good idea.
Birx: “I was not going to go outside of the chain of command”
Link. A good soldier, even when her nation needed something better.
mRNA Vaccines: What Happens.
Link. Way more complicated than the cartoon version.
“36,000 pertussis deaths from 1926 to 1930 in the United States, most in young infants; from 1970 to 1974, there were 52”
Link. Now I know why we call it “acellular”.
Atrial fibrillation and alcohol.
Link. If you have intermittent afib try stopping alcohol. I’m a bit skeptical though. More research.
Don’t blame your hub when your USB Flash (thumb) drive disconnects from your Mac
Link. But let me know if you have one that passes this test!
Hush: free content blocker for Safari.
Link. I will get.
“ informed Mr. Rosen midday on Sunday that the president intended to replace him with Mr. Clark, who could then try to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College results.”
Link. So many impeaxhable acts.
OWC Thunderbolt 4 Hub
Link. “it’s taking forever to get USB-C to where USB-A hubs are—and were 20+ years ago—in terms of price or number of ports, but this is progress.”
Fake GOP rage over Biden’s ‘unity’ speech is a sucker’s game.
Link. The NYT is pathetically eager to play the sucker.
The FBI seems to have a lot of evidence on the Oath Keeper attackers.
Link. They are not cognitively gifted.
“More than 400 teachers and other staff members couldn’t report to school, he said, because they were infected or quarantined, and there weren’t enough substitutes to fill in”
Link. Atlanta suburb with a high comcentration of stupid. (70% Trump)
Wrongful life suits.
Link. There was a lot of optimism about terminal care guidance documents in 90s. Did not work out well. Harder problem than you think.
Feedbin makes it easy to follow YouTube channels.
Link. Great new feature. I’ve used Feedbin for years, so pleased with it.
No one knows how much the government can borrow.
Link. “Our lack of knowledge about borrowing constraints represents a deep, profound ignorance”. Must read.
Vaccine supply: current status
Link. Overall encouraging.
Scientific computing: ten advances
Link. Many familiar. They should have included Medlne/Pubmed though.
darktable: open source photo management
Link. In a just world Apple would support as penance for the Aperture disaster.
Trump Is the Worst President in History.
Link. A well researched case. We have had some horrendous stinkers, but Trump’s record may never be surpassed.
Unles Hawley wins.
“turnout, as a percentage of the voting age population, jumped from 54.8 percent to 62.0. That’s the highest in well over a century.”
Link. Immense struggle.
Convert Tweets to SVG Images – Tweetpik
Link. For attachment, instead of screenshots.
“the cyberpunk writers of the 80s were just too good at predicting the future”
Link. Gibson kind of ruined the revolution for me. Nothing was terribly surprising – except tech regressions.
The Apple charger morass.
Link. Buy Anker.
General relativity was work of many minds.
Link. Rich collaborations. 2015
“In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims”
Link. A record that may never be broken.
“Some Proud Boys became furious that Mr. Trump did not appear interested in issuing presidential pardons for their members who were arrested.”
Link. Betrayed. Not only violent misogynistic racists, also gullible fools.
QAnon crumbles.
Link. Q jumps ship. Grifters moving on.
The Unlamented Man.
Link. Like the rhythm of this one.
To the end Redfield defends Trump – by omission
Link. What did Trump have on him? Why this bizarre loyalty?
Fox moves even further to the chaos fringe.
Link. Lining up with Trump’s Patriot Party — because their advertisers need gullible viewers.
Thomas Tempelmann – Prefs Editor GUI for defaults command.
Link. Recommended by Eclectic Light. Free.
OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock: “three 40Gbps downstream Thunderbolt ports, three 10Gbps USB (Type A) ports, a USB 2 port (e.g. for keyboard, mouse, or iPhone), a Gigabit Ethernet jack, an SD card slot (312 MB/s), a 3.5mm audio jack”
Link. One port will connect via adapter to my trust elgato T2 dock which has firewire 800/400 connections.
TNC writes again.
Link. Short and not remarkable — except it’s the first I have seen from him in ages.
“commission produced its report just four months after it was created and less than a month after Mr. Trump publicly announced its members.”
Link. Written by interns.
Gene therapy cures for sickle-cell anemia and beta-thalassemia. (Dec 2020)
Link. Autologous BMT required, but still.
The modified MOG-epitope mRNA treatment “was capable of blocking all clinical signs of EAE in mice”
Link. Treating mouse model of MS by inducing immune tolerance to mRNA produced antigen. Early days, etc etc.
“he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.”
Link. Hah hah. Caligula of course.
“since the emergence of the new coronavirus, some scientists have revisited a theory that a pandemic in 1890, which killed about one million people worldwide, may have been caused by OC-43, one of the four common cold coronaviruses.”
Link. For today’s population that would be 5 million, and the population in 1890 skewed much younger. So today maybe 6-9 million dead from OC-43 were it to appear today. Now it causes a runny nose.