Trump is literally the big city hotshot who thinks he could do your job better than you despite no relevant experience and only the shallowest idea of what it involves. https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-fires-woolsey-hill-camp-trump-claims-bad-forest-management-1541863722-htmlstory.html
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Wi-Fi features I would like to see on Android
Wi-Fi features I would like to see on Android:
1. Always connect to my chosen VPN as soon as I’ve connected to any Wi-Fi network that’s not on a trusted list.
2. Auto-update apps when connected to *specific* Wi-Fi networks (not just any).
@kellerfuchs@vulpine.club points out that updaters should be using TLS and signatures.
Good point – updating over (for example) coffee shop wifi *feels* like it should be more dangerous than it actually *is* with proper encryption.
@sohkamyung WOW!My Pixel 2 already takes better low-light photos than I would have expected, …
@sohkamyung WOW!
My Pixel 2 already takes better low-light photos than I would have expected, and this looks incredible!
It’s not clear from the article, but it looks like the updated Camera app is rolling out to the older Pixel phones starting today. It hasn’t shown up in the Play store yet on my phone, though – I guess I’ll have to keep checking.
@andrhia Yeah. I get them too, and it’s just annoying that I have to stop …
@andrhia Yeah. I get them too, and it’s just annoying that I have to stop everything even though I’m not otherwise physically blocked at the time.
That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/high-tech-farmers-are-using-led-lights-in-ways-that-seem-to-border-on-science-fiction/2018/11/06/d965021a-e15b-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_graphic.html
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, …
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, with an added “creep-o-meter” for just how creepy readers rate them.
This is cool: “A.I. turns 57 million crop fields into stunning abstract art”
This is cool:
A.I. turns 57 million crop fields into stunning abstract art
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Watched Prisoner of Azkaban and Incredibles 2 this weekend….
Watched Prisoner of Azkaban and Incredibles 2 this weekend.
I know PoA is maligned by a lot of people because they changed things, but IMO it’s one of the best *adaptations* from book to movie in the series. The later ones start feeling like checklists to me.
As for Incredibles 2, this was the first time any of us had seen it. Us parents liked it, but the kiddo was freaked out by the screen-hypnosis villain & wouldn’t watch the rest of the movie.
#movie monday
Winter sun + time change + wildfire smoke + slightly yellow-tinted sunglasses makes it feel …
Winter sun + time change + wildfire smoke + slightly yellow-tinted sunglasses makes it feel a lot later in the day than 1:00.
spiders, creepy (re-post since I realized I probably should’ve CWed it)
Link: The Hair Sprouting From This Building Is Actually Thousands of Tiny Legs https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-daddy-longlegs-cluster-together
For some reason I’m reminded of this German workplace safety video I once found …
For some reason I’m reminded of this German workplace safety video I once found on YouTube called something like “Forklift Driver Klaus” about a driver who broke all the safety rules, and all the injuries and damage that he caused. It was so over-the-top as to be funny, but it made an impression, which I imagine was the goal.
Two years ago today, I tried to beat the stress by driving around the coast …
Two years ago today, I tried to beat the stress by driving around the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and found myself at Point Vicente. I posted this video the following Tuesday morning, captioned, “Because we can all use 18 seconds of calm today.”
It seems like a good time to post it again.
#calm #ocean #pointvicente
uspol/campaign mailings oddity (followup)
…and here we are, the day before the election, and we’ve been getting around 4 or 5 flyers daily for the past week and a half. (Yeah, just a few days after I remarked about the lack of cardboard campaign ads.)
Mostly for the one state office I mentioned, but now several of the ballot propositions and, interestingly enough, the state secretary of education.
“You keep dismissing these notifications. Do you want to stop showing them?”
“You keep dismissing these notifications. Do you want to stop showing them?”
At least it asks.
Sometimes I dismiss notifications on sight because I don’t need them, and it would be extremely useful to stop them from interrupting me.
Sometimes I dismiss notifications because I do need them, but I don’t need to follow up (at least not on the phone), and the notification is all I need.
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to …
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to those?”
First page of search results turns up: What happened to web intents?
I’m still getting used to having reading glasses, but it’s starting to be automatic that …
I’m still getting used to having reading glasses, but it’s starting to be automatic that when I sit down at my computer, I pick them up.
I picked up my sunglasses by accident.
This LCD monitor is polarized horizontally.
That’s a little extreme for “Dark Mode!” 😎
Well, that’s kind of meta.
Took the laptop home. It’s still going. And because the time estimate keeps swinging back …
Took the laptop home. It’s still going. And because the time estimate keeps swinging back and forth, the only way I can tell it’s actually working is sticking a Post-It on the screen to see if the progress bar has moved in the past hour.
Would it kill someone at Apple to show a percentage? Or break the bar into segments?
WTF? “Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books”
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books
A Russian scientist working in Antarctica is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing a colleague for telling him the endings of books he wanted to read.Sergey Savitsky, an engineer, is accused of stabbing welder Oleg Beloguzov in the chest, the Sun reports.