Notices by Eric Phelps (ericphelps@mastodon.social)

@Infoseepage Well, heck. At least I have nothing planned for the next week. Come to think of it the next 3 weeks. Thanks for the advice.

Yay, I finally tested negative for COVID! Two weeks of no fun. I still have a residual cough, but I had that darned cough weeks before I caught COVID. Pretty sure it's a mold allergy because I seem to get it every year when we get warm weather rain.
Maybe if I quit hiking it wouldn't affect me as much? Naaah, that's crazy talk.

#covid

@sj Systemd? How's that?

I'd just set cron to start it hourly and have the script check the UTC time on each run. If it's the wrong time, it shuts down. That way you can keep it as a simple cron job for future maintenance.

But knowing another way might be useful one day.

Remember that iPhone update that cut down on the phone battery life? Well it looks like Android is doing the same thing. Probably restricting the crazy fast charging and enforcing max and min battery levels to extend battery life and prevent battery "mishaps".

The difference is Google learned from Apple's fumble and is offering free battery replacements, $50, or a $100 credit against a new phone.

Well, if you have a Pixel. No idea what other phones get.

@Infoseepage No, mine is an ordinary (well, extraordinary) conventional filter. It won't filter out sea salt, metal salts, or dissolved poisons. As long as I stay away from hazardous waste dumps and the ocean, I should be good.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019ERWU66

The long walk. Mile 19.5. Well, my wife finished what she was doing and insisted on picking me up on her way home. So the last 2 miles didn't happen. That's okay, I was in my home territory, so I didn't miss anything new. And I wasn't thrilled about walking the last hour in the dark 😉.

I did the whole trip on 3 liters. Can't do that in the summer! I did stop to refill when I got down to one liter remaining – playing safe because I knew the final stretch was away from water.

#hiking

@jake I've been wondering about it as a bookmarking tool, but haven't really done any research. Can you share a screenshot and your overall strategy?

@smurthys I remember reading a study about how people act in a store. For example, they're most likely to turn right when they get off an escalator.

But now you have me wondering if maybe all that might be affected by which side of the road people drive on. And temples! Wow. I never considered how social/religious factors might influence how we do the things we don't even think about.

Out for a pre-dawn walk around the neighborhood lake. Funny, I walked up to the lake and turned right (as humans are prone to doing), resulting in me going counter-clockwise around the lake. Just like 99.9% of everyone there. Lots of walkers, a few joggers, and many people "exercising" by themselves or in groups. Most of the exercise was just arm-flapping. I think mostly people just wanted an excuse to get out of the house and move around some.

After hearing how Meta disclosed the identity of a mother and daughter discussing what they thought were private things, I'm less happy about centralized (or federated) messaging.

Real privacy has to avoid using a predictable central server. I'd like to suggest these peer-to-peer based messaging systems:
https://jami.net/download/
https://cwtch.im/
https://getsession.org/
https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/

Read. Learn. Convince your friends.