Link. “Roku-equipped streaming media boxes are a good budget alternative to the Apple TV”
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Nalaprop 1.1: free utility exercises macos language analysis tools.
Link.
“when you sign up for an Internet account, you would create only a username; Passkeys would create the passkey and store it in your keychain.”
Link. Similar to Apple password generation.
The story of Nauru.
Link. One day it will be beautiful again.
“Realistically — which is a golden word in the savvy style — Senate Republicans will not consider any action that protects the right to vote or encourages more people to vote”
Link. Why journalism is failing America.
Grammarly: “I doubt that most customers realize that the contents of nearly every text field on their Mac is being uploaded and stored in the cloud.”
Link. Sigh.
“24 states are likely to ban abortion if they are allowed”
Link. Don’t live there, don’t go to college there.
Venomics harvests evolution: “Captopril … was created in the 1970s from the venom of a Brazilian jararaca pit viper..”
Link. New tech means lots of great new drugs. Awesome science.
Pediatric Hepatitis: “public health measures implemented over the past two years may have left fewer children exposed to common adenoviruses. That, in turn, might have made them more susceptible now,”
Link. I like this theory. Is rare. We might be seeing 2y worth of cases compressed into months.
“reminiscent of AOL’s disastrous takeover of Time Warner”
Link. Musk is nuts.
Mental Health Apps often sell user information.
Link. NYT said same recently. Only VA (gov) apps are definitely trustworthy.
Canon Camera Museum
Link. Canon Camera History from our first camera to the latest one. (Via @mjtsai)
Why we lost the human Lyme vaccine. 2019.
Link. Might COVID make many Americans more vaccine savvy?
“During breaks in the shelling, they would find damaged or destroyed Russian vehicles and smelt down plates with gold wiring. One plate would get them 15,000 rubles, or about $200, back home.”
Link. Russia is a failed state.
“improvement in American schooling during the 1990s and early 2000s was a cause for celebration”
Link. Stop funding schools by local taxation.
“Until Apple updates Activity Monitor to give reasonable figures for M1 chips, don’t use or trust its CPU % or energy values: they’re nonsense.”
Link.
“Between 1501 and 1650, prices of everyday goods across Europe rose six-fold before leveling off and remaining more or less stable on a new level for the next hundred years.”
Link. The Price Revolution.
“there is no precedent for highly ethnically and religiously diverse democracies that actually treat all of their members as equals”
Link. Egypt was stable and static for a long time (by human standards).
Bloodworm fang assembler: “the protein catalyzes a reaction to create melanin and recruits copper ions. Then, it links melanin into polymers, assembles itself and melanin into a structure and uses the copper to seal the whole thing together”
Link. Mostly two amino acids. Evolution is terrifying.
Ive “revoked engineers’ access to the design wing if they talked too loudly or mentioned costs”
Link. Apple is scary place. Ives was hardware, Cook services, but software had no champion. App score scams and Aperture’s failure are today’s problems.
Tsai review of Apple Watch SE – the first review I can trust.
Link. He likes it well enough but lots of flakiness. Confirmed my decision not to buy.
When America pushed back against the the Thiels, the Musks, and the Murdochs.
Link. Democracy worked that time. Imperfect but better than the alternative.
Special needs weight and fitness training.
Link. This is a great mission and org. Joined it with one of my guys but wasn’t for him at the time.