My car goes faster after a car wash. I’m sure if it. 🚙
What a frightening accident. But listen to the pilot in the ATC recording. She is so calm even when saying things like part of the plane is missing and someone went out the window/hole.
1 Dead After Southwest Airlines Flight From LaGuardia to Dallas Makes Emergency Landing
Today’s “the app matters” lesson: I was offered a free book, To the Edges of the Earth, but it requires using the BookShout app. Every time I open the app to read the book I abandon it. Piss poor typography and annoying “daily progress” complications.
Sunday project: Exporting everything from Evernote and moving the notes into Apple’s Notes.
Manhattan , Poke and steak 🍸 🐟 🥩
A little light reading this morning. I’ve forgotten more than I remember about this.
Chinese Facial Recognition Recognizes Wanted Man in Crowd of 60,000 - Popular Mechanics
This line of storms is no joke. Also h/t to @radarscope and @rosskimes for helping keep us all safe.
There are several things I’d like to see fixed & improved in Micro.blog. Still waiting 😁 I’m not a podcaster and won’t use that feature. In spite of that I think the release of Wavelength is a good thing for me as it helps make the platform more viable. A win-win. @manton
Elliott Management has nearly 5% of Micro Focus (MFGP) stock now and is pushing the company into private equity hands. Looks like the spin-merge shenanigans just postponed the inevitable. SUSE Linux to be spun out.
Hedge fund Elliott Management wants Micro Focus to go private
Went to the dentist to have a tooth prepped for a crown. Now I’m enjoying the “have a sip of water and watch it run down my chin” effect.
What’s your favorite 8 minute song in your library? 🎶 Mine is Led Zepplin’s Stairway to Heaven.
The premise of Netflix’s series Fastest Car (home built cars racing super cars) wasn’t that interesting to me but heard it was “binge worthy” so checked it out. The show is actually focused on the people more than the cars and it’s fascinating. 📺
My Feedbin revelation
I recently adopted Feedbin to read RSS feeds as well as for reading posts from people/companies I follow on Twitter. That latter feature has been a revelation and showed how messed up Twitter’s “timeline” approach is. The accounts I follow on Twitter fall into a few broad categories: people I know well (family, friends, close colleagues), finance & investing professionals, and news accounts (mostly tech news). The way the Twitter timeline blindly mashes a bunch of completely unrelated posts together was quite jarring to me (though I didn’t realize it until now) and always put me in the “scan through quickly” mode that really hampered any real engagement or absorption of what people were saying.
Using Feedbin each account’s posts are separated. So a couple of times a day I put on my “money hat” and delve into the feeds on finance and investing where I can deep drive right away (browser-based) on anything of interest. The same for my feeds (Twitter and RSS) in the other categories. It probably sounds like such a simple (or obvious?) thing but I really am getting much more out of the info being posted.
Twitter lists could have been used to group categories like this together but the UI would still be very cluttered and there is no integration with RSS feeds. Plus I always found managing the lists so much trouble I never maintained them.
Just saying…
How to leave Facebook and Twitter while staying social | Cult of Mac
Who knew Coffee had a Belt? ☕️
This would be a “good thing”.
Web standard brings password-free sign-ins to virtually any site
Proud of my friends for avoiding this trap re: Cambridge Analytics.
“Based on our available records, neither you nor your friends logged into “This Is Your Digital Life.”
I’ve made good progress in achieving a better ‘social’ approach. I’m using Mirco.blog+self-hosted Wordpress for posting & community aspects. I adopted Feedbin for RSS & following a few folks on Twitter so I can delete Twitter apps. FaceBook still an issue tho.
PSA re those polls asking about what you like etc. Also, this is part of why I never use real answers to security questions like “where were you born”.Too easy for the black hats to social engineer.
Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself — Krebs on Security
This description of what led up to the sinking of the El Faro is gripping and a good mix of the details of the events and narrative about the people involved.
“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades | Vanity Fair
This cure for cold legs is the funniest thing I’ve seen today
So after the local EAS interrupted the TV weather covering the storm, we were left with a Fedora Linux login prompt on screen (TWCPlanoEAS). That’s not very useful…
Welp, I consider it officially Spring - we have our first tornado warning of the season. I saw it developing on @RadarScope (thanks @rosskimes) first. Then got emergency warning. And now the outdoor sirens are going off. Lasts a half hour!
Easy Access: How the Availability Heuristic Hurts Our Judgments