Link. Recommended by Adam Engst. I’ve tried several and been unhappy, but I’ll give this another look.
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Apple buying advice for the rest of us.
Link. Simple recommendations on which products to buy.
Changing store Apple ID on a phone – is there an alternative to reinstalling every app?
Link. I think when you change “Media & Purchases” Apple ID you have to delete and reinstall every app.
Network TM: “easiest way is to use Share as a Time Machine backup destination with an old Mac.”
Link. Shoot me now.
It’s not just you – streaming apps are awful.
Link. We are in a bleak time for software. Seems to happen every 15y or so.
Paul Farmer, Pioneer of Global Health, Dies at 62.
Link. That’s awfully young for a healthy active person. In his sleep apparently, presumably cardiac.
ID.me and federal contracts
Link. ID.me was a Trump-era commitment. I suspect there’s more to this story than journalists are saying out loud.
eWorld – Apple’s metaverse 1994
Link. Good to refresh my memory. I remember AppleLink and eWorld before “.mac” and MobileMe. eWorld was a cross between today’s Apple Discussions and Facebook Groups. Try https://bit.ly/3sfRhON.
Hideaways, Escapes, and Secret Spots in the Twin Cities
Link. Via Twitter. Love idea.
Nov 2021 NYT editorial explains why MPLS reelected Frey and want better police, not fewer police.
Link. Basically want MPLS PD to be more like St Paul PD. But can’t say that.
Putin – evil yes, stupid and delusional probably.
Link. The west is in terminal decline but Russia is rising.
Credit Suisse – banker for scum of the earth.
Link. Switzerland doesn’t enforce laws against serving the very bad people.
500 lb obese pizza snarfing bear invades homes: “He just sits there and eats,” she said. “He doesn’t attack them. He doesn’t growl. He doesn’t make rude faces.”
Link. Nobody wants to take him and sooner or later he will swat someone.
“they are usually male, they are always intelligent, they are almost always charming, and they generally get through several spouses and many children in a lifetime. They are, in a word, sociopaths.”
Link. Dyer thinks we are getting wiser.
“Only when I see their massed tanks rolling across the Ukrainian border will I accept that Putin is that stupid.”
Link. Dyer stand his ground. No invasion. I have not seen any persuasive story of why a sane Putin would invade. I think he may be stupid though.
1Password WiFi broke with my new iPhone – how I fixed it (for now)
Link. Nasty bug, but they don’t care.
CDC and complexity of publishing data
Link. They are right that untrained civilians can’t interpret data.
NYT Baquet: ““I don’t have regrets about the Hillary Clinton e-mail stories,” he tells Malone. “It was a running news story.”
Link. Fallows slowly builds to putting a knife into Baquet. Well deserved, he’s the main reason I may drop the NYT this year. (WaPo is better.)
“The two most important classes of bonds are “general obligation” and “revenue.” General obligation bonds are issued to fund investments such as roads, bridges, state higher-ed buildings”
Link. Great tutorial on how state budgets work, esp. MN. The real work legislators do. Also, this is a great line: “Oklahoma, in contrast, has been clawing its way to the bottom over the last 20 years by cutting education funding.”
Boing Boing Controversies
Link. Useful context about a piece of net geek culture. Doctorow is solo now.
The rejection of Bidenomics
Link. “climate way, way down the list of America’s most pressing issues, often coming in in the low single digits”
“For years, several American models in Paris had accused Brunel of sexual misconduct”
Link. Hanged.
Tandem Diabetes Care app will manage insulin delivery.
Link. Huge. So hard to get FDA approval.
Streaming Apps Suck.
Link. Explains why.
“Email can be “free” because they mine it for data – gmail is why amazon no longer includes order details in email. Android is “free” because they get to harvest all their user’s data.”
Link. Microsoft is least evil tech company. So funny.
“The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust.”
Link. Indisputable. The modern web is mostly crap. We need to return to a hand curated search engine. Yahoo 1997.
Kim Potter Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Killing Daunte Wright
Link. I expect even this will be overturned on appeal.
“21 vehicles had been towed … The truckers who remained, many of whom have been holding out for weeks, began to grow weary on Friday as the police closed in on them.”
Link. Ottawa thing over.
MN Rep: “Mr. Hagedorn wrote a blog called “Mr. Conservative,” which has since been deleted. His posts took aim at Native Americans, gay people and women, among others.”
Link. Presumed died of COVID. Was he vaccinated?
Chrome OS Flex
Link. My 2011 MacBook Air
iCloud Data Recovery Service – Set a recovery key
Link. “For certain sensitive information, such as your Keychain, Screen Time, and Health data, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This data is not accessible via the iCloud Data Recovery Service.”
iPhone identifiers: The new EID and the old SEID
Link. Apple has improved the About screen that shows these identifiers. The EID is new, it permanently identifies the eSIM. The SEID uniquely identifies the iPhone by security element chip and is a part of how Apple Pay works. I assume access to SEID is limited. UDID can’t be seen easily any more.
CYME (Avalanche) Peakto: what is this?
Link. Are they doing a Digital Asset Management solution? Maybe I’ll hold off on my Aperture migration.
CYME (Avalanche) Peakto: what is this?
Link. Are they doing a Digital Asset Management solution? Maybe I’ll hold off on my Aperture migration.
“Immigration, even at reduced levels, is for the first time making up a majority of population growth”
Link. Immigration again growing.
“2000-21 is the driest 22-year period since 800 A.D., which is as far back as the data goes.”
Link. CO2.
“2020, a newly discovered mystery object turned out to be part of a rocket launched in 1966 for NASA’s robotic Surveyor missions to the moon.”
Link. It’s crowded out there.
“It could arrive at the delta by late May or early June. Ingenuity will try to stay ahead of Perseverance.”
Link. Extreme success. Looking for life.
iPhone backup excludes “Apple Pay information and settings”
Link. Nasty surprise if you don’t carry credit cards any more.
Parasitic wasp: “… 16 genetically distinct species that, essentially, are indistinguishable to the eye.”
Link. Mutually infertile?
Biden admin removes Amazon from list of counterfeit-friendly retailers.
Link. Hope they at least got a campaign donation.
“Medical supplies the government promised to deliver — such as thermometers, oximeters, hand sanitizer and other pandemic necessities — have failed to arrive on time.”
Link. Even SK has limits.
“Passware is now offering an add-on module that can defeat Macs with the T2 chip, apparently by bypassing the features designed to prevent multiple guesses.”
Link.
Michael Tsai summarizes Apple App Store issues.
Link. “the problem of the bad incentives that come from getting 30% of each scam sale”.
Irresistible corruption. Especially effective because Apple thinks it can’t be corrupted.
“Roger said he has filed more than 30 complaints about unruly passengers and never received a response from the airline.”
Link. Airlines are hiding. They fear attack from GOP.
SF school board: “vice president, Alison Collins … said Asian Americans were like slaves who benefited from working inside a slave owner’s house.”
Link. It’s good to have some left wing crackpots for a change.
Permissions and ACLs: “Now that macOS sets ACLs on user Home folders, they’re something every Mac user needs to know about”
Link. Reset Home is key.
iOS 15.4: “If you create a new password, but Safari isn’t sure which user name that password belongs to, you’ll see a popup asking you to enter the user name for your account on that specific website.”
Link. Apple Password is best product in years. But need to address weak iOS passcode problem.
Data Sheets on chemicals are lousy.
Link. Similar case could be made for medical drug information, esp side-effects.
Negotiations with Russia: missile defense in Poland.
Link. Obvious room for negotiation, which can be a face saving option for Putin.