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“Omnipaedista” editing wikipedia article on 1977 French legislation favored by pedophiles. Not so good for Wikipedia fund raising. Image [photos.app.net]
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Google is now an AI company, an advertising service and Google Apps. Web search is legacy and will die sooner than expected.
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TheEconomist on America’s police violence: “It’s the guns, stupid”. Duh. Took them to point out obvious.
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SafeSport, sports video training to reduce abusive and criminal adult behavior, is agonizing. Shoot me now.
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Reeder 2.app now has a five star rating. Well deserved now that it crashes no more often than other iOS apps. Big relief. Late, but good.
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iOS Devs behaving poorly: unwanted data collection [brooksreview.net] Crash reports shade into usage, marketing, tracking. #panopticon
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Finished Gibson, The Peripheral. Library. Thinking staccato now. Neuromancer style. Good.
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Reorganize transfer power and resources from those who work to those who reorg. Easy to see why this can yield a corporate death spiral.
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I would like to see an animation from the perspective of a proton at timescale of electron revolution. In various molecules and substances. Light, neutrinos, cosmic rays, etc
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Thinking of root cause of Yahoo’s dysfunction. I think it’s bigger than Mayer, bigger than the board, bigger than one company. I think it’s a game-theoretic-inevitable outcome of winner-take-all compensation… #b //@oluseyi @clarkgoble
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The web published version of Google Docs is now remarkable ugly. I don’t remember it being so bad before. Google is really not interested.
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Facebook Group Suggest knows whether you’ve been naughty or nice.
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Facebook suggests 18+ groups to under 18 teens. I don’t think they take this stuff too seriously…
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… Parallel between GOP response to Climate & US torture. First didn’t happen. Then happened but “not big deal”. Then … I think … acceptance. Sooner with climate than torture.
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NAVIGON’s only competitive advantage was it worked without data. Good for remote travel. New version hangs on favorites if no data. Idiots.
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… On poverty and guaranteed annual income – Sisyphus needs his rock [www.nyu.edu].
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… Denial is why Sisyphus felt good about his work and life. He is my new Hero.
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My new intellectual hobby: Human Denial. Every sentient needs it, but the spectrum is wide.
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What OS X needs: better management of flawed hardware. Better management of TB+ storage.
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I can reliably lock up Aperture with iCloud stream share under certain conditions (album drawing from many projects). Somehow I think this bug won’t get fixed …
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When a block scan of a $130 drive takes 2 days, we know storage has gotten ahead of our personal computing infrastructure. I gotta do a rethink.
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Anyone know of a super-simple digital picture frame that does a random slideshow with very plain transitions? Most products are gimmicky mess with non-random slideshow. Desperately bad product category …
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… Slavery + Lenin + Terror + Disillusion -> Putinism.
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Once I wondered what we’d do in post-Warming Minnesota winter. Now the Fat Bike. Kudos metamind.
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On OS X parental control time limit school nights are sun-thur. On airport is mon-fri. Os x had it right.
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@martinsteiger I’m perseverating on this topic :-). I think mass storage is the first time hardware progress has outstripped software capabilities. Storage stayed on exponential even when processing and memory flattened…
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Anyone else notice Apple deprecated Favorites/Bookmarks in Maps.app for iOS 8? I miss them. Were nice little markers of places I’d visited. Happily I never trust Apple with any data I love.
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Just tried Google Docs “research” tool (cmd-opt-shift-I) with a school assignment of my son’s. Wow, it’s like a super power. Much more interesting than usual Google search results. Wonder how they’re doing this…
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@martinsteiger Yeah, that fits OS X’s well known problem with sparsebundle delete [tech.kateva.org]. The storage layer hasn’t kept up with modern mass storage devices – lack of diagnostics is just one sign. Given Apple’s Cloud strategy this may not be an Apple priority.
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I may know why I’ve been having so many iTunes sync issues lately. Disk Utility and Smart Status were fine, but after 18 hours of TechTools Pro Surface Scan I got 398 bad blocks. This is a dead drive. — http://bit.ly/1zayIc4
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…. Record masked ISIL guy. Sample voices over region. Match.
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Used iPhoto on Mavericks for my sisters iPhone photo stream. I can see why Apple’s Photos.app strategy would make sense for her. If they are still capable of great software. I fear they are past that.
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The word PowerPoint has become Kleenex. Kids use it for Google Present.
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From perspective of bacteria humans are factory farm chickens. Makes one wonder…
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I explained corporate acquisitions to Emily in terms of meth addicted zombie reindeer ravaged by wolves and forced into rehab.
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Airport Utility for Windows supports my 2014 AirPort Extrement AND my 802.11g AirPort Express. Airport Utility for iOS/Mac dropped the 802.11g. Apple’s Windows dev team are the best team in Cupertino (or wherever).
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So my wife’s alumni mag has a feel-good story on wealthy alumni scavenging streptomycin to save woman dying of endocarditis. Next up: zombie apocalypse. I mean, W.T.F.
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Friedman and Brooks survive because they own the upper income white feel good cohort.
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Panorama mode works great for whiteboard photo. Adjusts for focus and lighting.
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I dislike Google Maps because it keeps talking during phone calls and over Podcasts. I dislike Apple Maps because directions are mediocre and I can’t swipe to look ahead. Both could improve.
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My grumpy old person tech problem – way too much video in the world. I’m too old to watch four videos at one time and parse realtime sound streams and I don’t have the lifespan to waste on single stream. I can still read, gosh darnit.
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After digital video got cheap training programs went from 10 minutes of reading to 1 hour of waiting for the #$@$! video to end (with audio disabled).
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iTunes podcast settings reverted to delete after listen. Not what I wanted. Nasty bug. (Fixed in attached photo.) — http://bit.ly/1CmYvSe
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My Apple Support Profile lists 18 products and 16 repairs….
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Thinking about the months of increasingly severe sync errors on daughter’s 4s, I wonder if hardware flaw is in Flash memory or subsystem that remaps bad memory…
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Apple sent me email confirmation of repair status. With the wrong problem listed. #secularstagnation
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Pinboard: Lately Pinner.app has been much faster at retrieving posts than Pushpin.app.
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When I want to learn new behavioral skills I put change notes in SimpleNote, then tag them “regular_review” then create a ToDo task to review them every few months. #fwiw
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During prohibition alcohol was legal … By prescription. For specific disorders. Which became very common. Hah-hah. That would never happen today.
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