this article hit pretty close to home this weekend when the TED radio hour came on and i had to ask alexa to shut it down because i couldn’t take the breathless delivery of the presenter spouting TED cliches. the tl;dr - TED’s about to become as vacuous as any other religion; titillating the senses and delivering pablum. the author doesn’t call it out in this manner. but they do a nice job of pointing out that TED’s veered into the trivializatin of things and the presentation of real problems as “puzzles to be solved....

20190528 - update as of the latest stable release (4.0.42.10433) the steps described here are no longer applicable. further, the desired behavior does appear to be supported out of the box. this information should be considered historical in nature. overview by default the ubiquity APs have a number of rules in place that prevent airprint and bonjour operation from working together nicely. the following is necessary to enable guest networks to reach airprint, etc....

interesting paper re: the mechanisms being used to discover whether or not someone’s using an adblocker. (link)

used record cleanliness invariably, when i clean a used jazz or classical record i don’t end up with a needle full of gunk. the record will invariably play nicely from start to finish. however, when i clean a used rock, folk or pop record, i end up with a needle full of fuzz. ...