22july2013

I don't even trust Uber because I have no way to validate that the driver has purchased the right level of vehicle insurance (i.e., business, instead of personal.) Therefore I certainly wouldn't trust crypto, yet.

At this point the only crypto I would trust is one that is run by a government that I trust. But the only "governmental crypto" I'm aware of right now are in Venezuela and China. The only thing I trust those countries to be is malicious.

I'm not entirely sure that it should be legal for someone to track other people like this and then post the tracking data online, especially when the person being tracked may be guilty of nothing. I'm fairly good at geo-locating places/people and I think there's a better than even chance I could find the name of the person who was handed the bag using this data. But I wouldn't want to post the name of a potentially innocent person on the Internet, because it just doesn't seem right.

A good news article has a title with a bad news feel to it.

Al Gore invented META = Made Entirely Through Al.

jony0 said:

Pages still lacks Find & Replace of special characters and both could use macros among other things.

Pages allows me to use the Find & Replace window to replace either emojis or special characters like Tab using "\t" escape sequences. If you are trying to edit other special characters like the low end of the ASCII table, then perhaps your document is a text document rather than a Pages document and in that case the macOS "tr" command is your best friend, like it is mine.

But you are right about missing macros. So many years ago I purchased Keyboard Maestro to be able to write macros for all of Apple's apps. So for example, if I need to combine/merge all lines in Pages that end in a dash, and remove the dash, (which is just a random example that comes to my mind right now) I can write a macro in KM that selects the current line, copies it to a clipboard, checks if the clipboard ends in a dash, and then performs the necessary keystrokes depending on the result. I can even put that in a loop. And my loop could end when the selection is blank for, say, 5 times in a row, which probably means end of file. So I just took the challenge to write this macro (it detects the end of the loop differently from how I imagined, above) and I'm pasting the code here for your viewing pleasure.


Keyboard Maestro is a really great way to write macros for Pages. The app is so powerful and sophisticated I would probably still use it even if Apple introduced its own macro language for its own apps.