Author’s note: This post is a deviation from my standard posts which have historically been mostly technology-related. I have been a Christian for effectively my entire life, though I rarely talk about it in depth on my website. However, I like to use my website as a way to link others to my thoughts on various topics, and this post felt like one I both needed to write, and that I may want to share.
Continue readingRandomly found out that NetBSD and DragonflyBSD now have COVID-19… as in, they both now have the “covid” utility that prints out the well-known COVID-19 genome to the terminal…
…which made me curious if Arch has it. I shouldn’t have questioned… of course, it’s in the AUR already! And, being the geek I am, it’s now also installed on my PC 🙂
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/covid
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Happy Memorial Day!
Wow, the month of May (and 2021 in general) has flown by! It’s really hard to believe that tomorrow is already the first day of June.
First of all, website updates! I’ve not taken time to do any major work on my website as of late, but over the past few months I’ve made the following small enhancements and/or changes:
My reading time has also been somewhat limited, but in May I also managed to complete the book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Waltar Isaacson, which turned out to be a fascinating look on RNA, CRISPR, and the use of mRNA technologies in SARS-CoV-2 testing and vaccines.
Continue readingiOS 14.5 was released yesterday (2021/04/26), bringing a whole host of changes that have been heavily covered on all of the major tech news outlets. Two of the changes, App Tracking Transparency and Apple Watch unlock for iPhone, caught my eye.
I’ve read the details on App Tracking Transparency, and I like what Apple is doing, though I’ve not actually experienced any of the changes myself yet. The TL;DR version is that companies are now blocked from tracking you across other apps by default, and you have to explicitly give them permission to do so, whereas before it was enabled by default, and you had to manually disable tracking. I don’t use many apps that this would apply to personally (from what I’ve seen at least), but I think this is a win for privacy-conscious individuals everywhere. For more details of the changes, see Why Apple’s new privacy feature is such a big deal by The Verge.
Continue readingAnyone else here on Fosstodon use Nextcloud News as their RSS feed reader? Been running into a few weird issues of late where a feed will suddenly show 10+ new articles, when only the latest post is new. It’s starting to get aggravating enough that I’m wondering if it’s time for me to look at other solutions…
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I normally operate all of my devices/apps in light mode, unless it’s after dusk (I use auto switching where possible). However, every once in a while, I use dark mode during the day too, for specific circumstances where for some reason the normal mode is hurting my head.
Today is one of those days. And I’m VERY thankful for the desktop environments and applications that make it easy to switch back and forth (esp. XFCE, Sublime Text/Merge, Firefox w/Dark Reader, Todoist, & Slack today 🙂 )
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I first got the idea for this blog post from Kev Quirk, and have since sought out other examples online to satiate my own curiosity on how people spend their days. While the following shift some, this is my mental plan for each weekday, and (with some minor exceptions) is also how I design my weekends as well. As you can see, I’m definitely a creature of habit, and like my daily routines.
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