Does anyone have any experience with helping older adults transition from passwords to passkeys? (Apple devices in this situation)

1. MKBHD is splitting revenues from his app with the app’s content creators, 50/50. Yet he has a problem with Apple’s 30/70 split with developers?
2. I learned about how Bear Blog does analytics by watching a particular attribute of CSS to see if an actual human is visiting.
3. Meta Orion Glasses I have not listened to the interview or seen the keynote spoken so highly about in this post, but AR glasses to me are the next frontier. Looks like Meta may be on to something. P.S. I will never buy anything from Meta.
4. “Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console” via Dan Gillmor
5. The mayor of NYC has been indicted on allegations of bribery and illegal campaign contributions from foreign governments. When people tell you “all politicians are bad” they are wrong. When they tell you all political parties are bad, they are disingenuous. The Democratic Party will turn on Eric Adams. The GOP has just circled their wagons around their criminal candidate since 2016, illegal actions be damned.(Disclosure, I have never been a member of any political party)

For 3 & 4: Surveillance capitalism sucks and we need government to get involved. No one (or organization) should be able to follow you around and keep tabs on you. Not advertisers, not social networks, not household appliances, not personal vehicles, not ISPs.

I’d really like to do daily recaps of things like these I’ve come across and shared through out the day. But I never do because it’s too much effort to curate.

I just spent 5 minutes watching LinkedIn’s version of TikTok. Most of the content is not good. Save yourself.

I’ve played the drums for ~25 years, it took me until tonight to actually record at home for someone else’s track. Feels good. I would love to do more of this.

While I was picking up groceries, I saw a Sprinter van drive by me labeled “Andover Mobile Town Hall”—which was a thing I’ve never heard of before. Apparently it’s funded by a state grant.

Spitting rain, breezy, chilly. A positively English setting for my daughter’s soccer match this morning. (Plus I have the BBC Newcastle play by play in one year. Hopefully her team won’t be as rubbish as NUFC are playing so far)

Could we capture carbon dioxide in the ocean (at a much larger scale than the ocean does naturally)? Yes, and it seems a “free” byproduct is “green hydrogen” (hydrogen produced as a fuel without carbon combustion) Let’s hope this is a breakthrough.

Today the middle school play cast list is revealed. Will my daughters return home happy or distraught?

Trying Apple’s focus radio station (which I think is customized to each member?) this afternoon. So far, it’s playing the type of music I would work to.

iOS 18: I didn’t think there was something more frustrating than the icon rearrangement algorithm on the homepage, but iOS 18’s new customizable control center hollers “hold my beer”🤯

Updated my iPhone and iPad Pro (2018) to their new OSs, this afternoon. So far, so good.

It’s September 15. I do not understand the Halloween decorations I’m seeing at a few houses around town…

Parents and spectators on the sidelines of youth soccer: the worst thing you can do for the development of a player is shouting instructions. They need to learn via experience and thinking on their own. The worst thing you can yell is “kick it!” Kicking the ball without intent is useless—cheer only!

I stopped using Messages on Mac about 10yrs ago. Started again recently with my new MacBook Air. Is it just me, or is the Mac client really bad at staying in sync with what you do on iOS?

Today is the 6th anniversary of the Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions. What a crazy time that was here.

Hey, ABC News, you should be embarrassed by how you allowed that man to yell about anything he wanted. One person said he got 9 extra minutes by butting in, and they wouldn’t cut his mic.

MUTE HIM.

Not quite sure what’s happening at my kid’s school today…?

Who had “Simone Biles’ husband scores a touchdown before NFL #1 pick QB Caleb Williams does for the Bears” on their NFL week 1 bingo card today?

When Dick “Shotgun” Cheney thinks you’re too dangerous to vote for… that says something.

Did the media learn nothing from its disastrous coverage of Trump and Clinton in 2016? | Rebecca Solnit theguardian.com

As much as I love my New York Times subscription (although getting a reasonable subscription price is like dealing with the cable company, constantly threatening to cancel) the obsession on Biden’s age, while minimizing Trump’s threat, gave me a bit of PTSD about “Hilary’s emails”. While I was never a big Hilary fan myself, (and the email server was a stupid thing she shouldn’t have done) she was clearly capable and the only reasonable choice, and the outcome of her Electoral College defeat—aided no doubt by “but her emails”—was disastrous for the country. Perhaps the news media needs to be done with the profit motive.

Apparently I’m not the only only person making a lot of use of their public library’s ebook lending…

The Surprisingly Big Business of Library Ebooks

BTW, if you’re not using Libby you’re missing out.

Conditions were very ripe for a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, so where are the storms? (PS-we are just getting to the peak of the season now in September) Why The Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Been So Quiet Recently

Spouse: “Smell my hands”
Me: “This never ends well”
(She had just harvested Lemon Balm and they smelled like a citronella candle.)