China’s Economy Slows Sharply (NY Times)

Very interesting article.  The impact of tariff’s is affecting both American businesses, but also hammering manufacturers in China.

The NY Times article : China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping

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Flushing DNS cache on MacOS Mojave

Something I need to do every now and then.  Open a terminal, paste the command below and hit enter.  You’ll need to enter your administrator password.

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; sleep 2;

Once control returns, you’re all set.

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How Tampa Turned Around

Here’s hoping this all comes off as planned.  It was sad seeing Riverwalk be mostly closed businesses the last time we were down there…

https://urbanland.uli.org/development-business/how-tampa-turned-around/

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Phishers and scammers are getting very clever

Everyone should read this.  No matter how good you are, there are people out there who’s “job” it is, is to rip you off.  They are very good at it.  Be careful, and be suspicious.  Never give out anything to an unexpected caller, no matter how well informed they seem.  When in doubt, you can always call the bank or credit card company and ask them if they were trying to get in touch with you.

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Quick SQL Cheatsheet (on GitHub)

https://github.com/enochtangg/quick-SQL-cheatsheet

Keeping it handy to refer people to!

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Facebook uses 2 factor authentication phone numbers for marketing

There really is no bottom to how low these advertising companies will go.

 

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Downloading Google Hangouts Chat for a desktop

This is just impossible to find, but super obvious once you do.  Of all ‘people’, you’d think Google would be able to find their own product.

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Adjusting mouse scroll wheel speed in Linux Mint

I occasionally install and mess around with different flavors of Linux. Linux Mint is a very interesting one, but something that made it darn near impossible to use was the crazy high scrolling rate when using a mouse wheel.

This link has a solution. One thing to note – after you download the .sh file, make sure to either use CHMOD to make it executable, or just use the file browser, go to properties, and check the allow to run as an executable flag.

I ended up using 4 as the scroll speed and it is pretty usable now.

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Link to EFF article on adjusting Facebook settings for app privacy

Keeping this handy!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-change-your-facebook-settings-opt-out-platform-api-sharing

 

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Wired article on Facebook and the changes the 2016 election wrought

A lot of people complain that with the algorithmic changes to the Facebook news feed, they don’t see what their friends are doing (which is all many of us want). In fact, those changes let to a tremendous amount of gaming the system. At first, Mark Zuckerberg denied anything was amiss, but over time, he has changed his tune.

Wired has a great article about the transformations that Facebook is undertaking to mitigate this problem. It’s a long read, but it is a very one.

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