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Author: hoakley

Has someone been reading your emails?

Seven years ago, I compared rising surveillance to the vile practices of the Stasi. Now it is happening: email, webcam, and more private communications are being scanned in bulk.

October 6, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Henry Tonks, surgeon, painter, professor

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Uniquely, he worked as a surgeon before becoming a full-time painter. He eventually became Slade Professor too.

October 5, 2016 General, Painting

A Bluetooth storm on the Magic Trackpad 2

A Trackpad which disconnects and reconnects incessantly is diagnosed using a log capture.

October 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Cecilia Beaux’s perceptive portraits, 2 – from 1898

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From success to success, she painted the President’s family, and France’s elder statesman and a good friend of Monet.

October 4, 2016 General, Painting

Bugs in the logs: Sierra’s new logs are far from perfect

If you can’t use Console, use the log command in Terminal – except that has some major bugs which will hide log entries from you.

October 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

FlexiTime Machine: how Sierra changes backups

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Backups are no longer made every hour, but their frequency depends on the likely amount needing to be backed up. A hidden if not secret feature.

October 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Cecilia Beaux’s perceptive portraits, 1 – to 1898

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Her portraits are of the New Woman: well-educated, thoughtful, and increasingly in control of their own destiny.

October 3, 2016 General, Painting

Has Sierra’s Time Machine changed to backup on demand?

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Are your backups made every hour? Are you sure? Sierra might have become smarter as to how often it backs up.

October 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Prizes, performance and still life: Chase’s fish speciality

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Why did he paint so many still lifes? And why did so many of them feature fresh fish?

October 2, 2016 General, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: changing diagnostics

Traditional logs occupy too much space, contain unstructured information, impose overhead on all processes, and are badly cluttered.

October 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

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