Link. Pre-COVID. Some might be better insurance. Paywalled so can’t see details. Deserves better coverage and I hate medical journal paywalls.
Daily Archives: May 3, 2023
Multiple Apple ID Accounts – the issue finally rises to the surface.
Link. Thank you MJ Tsai! This has been a problem for me for over 10 years, but I thought it was uncommon. Turns out it’s common amongst Mac geeks. So many problems. Most recently … https://bit.ly/422Wskf
BAND: advertising based group coordination, app only
Link. No web views, calendar has a feed. Our mountain bike trail group is using it.
Siri fights at Apple are weirdly detached from what user’s care about.
Link. Why can’t Siri give me the Apple Music playlist I created? Like Tsai’s correspondents I just want Siri to do the simple things it weirdly can’t do. I don’t need Siri to be ChatGPT.
Brave Search no usingTailcat rather than Bing.
Link. “Their own index, based on Tailcat, is working better than DuckDuckGo/Bing for me now. Hopefully, Apple will add built-in support to Safari.”
I wonder if Apple will buy them.
Bugs related to having different iCloud service and media accounts – Gruber example.
Link. I’ve had LOTS of issues over years from having split accounts. Interesting that many Apple insiders have had the same problems and that some kind of fix is pending. (But not purchase transfer).
“I can’t imagine anybody ever even thinking of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge,” Trump said.
Link. The guy has said everything but this one was particularly funny.
Lilly’s Donanemab for Alzheimer – early trial results: “47% of patients “had no clinical progression” on the CDR-SB after one year, which sounds quite interesting, but has to be compared to 29% of the patients in the placebo group who had no progressi
Link. This is at best a mediocre drug for people with Alzheimer’s and probably it’s useless. But maybe there’s a subtype of the dementia where it’s a good drug (albeit with very dangerous side effects).
You can now use passkeys to sign into your Google Account
Link. “Passkeys place a great deal of emphasis on your device password.”
That’s the fatal flaw.