Lockdown Apps

March 31, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Found via Hacker News – free and open source tracker and ad blocker, works on-device using VPN hooks. That means that it’ll block in apps as well as Safari. I’m trying it now.Note – they pay their bills with the subscription-billed VPN but you can decline that and just use the blocker. That’s what I’m […]

More hovering and circling

March 30, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Police helicopter. I always wonder.

You Probably Should Be Wearing a Face Mask if You Can

March 30, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What he said.

Random ADS-B today

March 28, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

You see odd things on ADS-B sometimes when you view traces. Googled and it was an acrobatic plane. Guess they were doing a routine?

(29) Fugue on ‘Donald Trump is a Wanker’ – YouTube

March 27, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Melody from “Seven Nation Army” and rewrite it as a vocal fugue. Genius!

Timely humor

March 25, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Forwarded on a local Slack from a former co-worker, whose wife found it on Facebook. I’m looking for the author and will update if I find him/her.

What’s the Evidence on Face Masks? What You Heard Was Probably Wrong

March 24, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Although most of the studies in the Cochrane Review were on medical workers in a hospital setting, one study followed community transmission of SARS in Beijing. It found that consistently wearing a mask in public was associated with a 70% reduction in risk of catching SARS. Additionally, the authors of the paper noted that most […]