Notices by Douglas (douglasvb@mastodon.social)

@ai6yr I just assume all digital comms (and these days any audio or video via a computer or telephone) is constantly being monitored in any corporate or government space. I remember reading white papers and slick sheets from various companies selling monitoring tech to do this 15+ years ago. I guess the difference now is someone put the AI buzzword into the mix.

@rustoleumlove @ai6yr whoever can build a service that restores privacy could make a killing on the monthly subscription fee.

@rustoleumlove @ai6yr it's pretty quaint thinking about how before about 2000 an average person could actually be anonymous. Now that's impossible. The best chance someone has is to be incredibly boring today. Those who stand out for some reason will come to the attention of the algorithms first.

@rustoleumlove @ai6yr I'm interested in how much other tracking and whatnot beyond the workplace is now being used in workplace monitoring. Like can a corporation buy location data for individual employees from Flock (vehicle tracking) or any of the many data brokers that get data from cell phones? Do they track family members and acquaintances? And what decisions are made with this information?

@rustoleumlove if you're in California or can pretend to be, this is useful: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

We have very summer-like weather in #Monterey #california this morning. The morning fog is here. It's currently 52f.

#CaWx

@camless @MsMerope @ai6yr I've been wondering if the fire is already crowning before it gets to your defensible space with the ladder fules removed, does it make much difference? 🤔

I'm thinking about how the Creek Fire blew through the crowns for several miles when it came out of Jose Basin and ran over the top of Pineridge with a multi hundred foot tall wall of flames.

The house of a friend survived in that area because his water storage tank melted and deluged around the house 😬

@skinnylatte that's a surprisingly low salary 🤔

@ai6yr I wonder what the diversion airport is for all of those planes.

A whole bunch of people won't be getting their packages on time tomorrow.

@Fragglemuppet tie a stick to a long string and toss the stick through. Wait a minute and then pull the stick back and see what comes back with it.

@ai6yr why is he suddenly becoming conservative 🤔

@rustoleumlove @ai6yr @CStamp 🤢🤢🤢

@skinnylatte I feel everything immediately considering who I work for. 😬😬

Y'all are losing something like $12m in grants so soon you'll feel it, too. 😬😬

@skinnylatte @nirak omg it was such a battle to get tested for sleep apnea and then get the doctors to give me a damn CPAP! They wanted me to lose weight first and it's like hello I'm falling asleep talking to you and the test shows I have one of the most severe cases you've ever seen! 🙄

Anyway you can get a pivoting hook thingy like I've got which makes tossing and turning like I do not a problem.

I've been trying to convince my wife to get tested but she's resistant 🙄🙄

@skinnylatte you might be interested in https://hamahamaoysters.com/collections/events/products/farm-day

They used to do the Oysterama but I don't think they've restarted it since the pandemic.

I've also heard about this although I haven't gone:

https://www.shellfishtrail.org/events/Allyn

Pretty much everything here looks great: https://www.shellfishtrail.org/events

Are there any particularly good #mastodon servers local to #NewZealand that anyone can #recommend ? I've got a kiwi friend who I'm trying to convince to come over to the 🐘 side of social media but I'm not sure where to point her.

@rustoleumlove @ai6yr there is a huge cost of ownership with grand pianos. Often times when someone dies it's easier to give it away than get it repaired to sell.

My mother is going through this with her father's baby grand. It needs a few grand (haha!) of work and then it'll be worth $10-15k to the right buyer but it'll have to go on consignment at the regional piano emporium possibly for years until that buyer arrives.

Plus the cost of transport is very high.

@skinnylatte are you going to blow their minds by taking them to Big Sur where there are no noodles?

@sarae @skinnylatte to be fair there are agricultural inspection stations on the way into California. And also along the southern border there are plenty of immigration checkpoints.

I could see how someone could equate that with border crossings between states.

Very heavy rain and high wind in #Monterey #California now that the #atmosphericRiver has reached us.

I expect the peninsula will lose power soon.

#CaWx