For fans of COVID Contact Tracing App pre-history.

Shortly before it all kicked-off, I mentored at a health hackathon. One of the teams designed a prototype app which used BLE to measure distance, then K-Anonymity to report infections.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/bluetooth-mac-k-anonymity-and-population-privacy/

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A few of the last things I did before everything shuttered were related to the launch of a new #LPFM #radio station in Long Beach, KLBP-LP. I spoke at a ribboncutting and went to a launch party with music

(That's not me speaking, but sitting waiting to speak or having just spoken, March 1, 2020)

Have really, really avoided crowds since, to the degree I can

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@robin Five years ago I was arguing with my employer after them trying to vastly change the terms of my employment, they were trying to force me to work from the office even as that became illegal to do so.

Ended up accepting a severance agreement after involving an employment lawyer because I had an airtight case.

Spent the next few months trying to start a company, my previous employer tried to renege on my severance agreement and I reminded them I'd be happy to take them to court.

Also around this time I collected together a care package for the professional Mistress whom I'd later go on to become friends with (and a customer)

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I still don’t think I’ve caught COVID-19 in the last 5 years.

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It’s breaking my conception of time that the lockdown started five years ago in the UK.

I saw Onward in the cinema on the 29th February 2020. It was 29th August 2020 before I was in the cinema again. For TENET. And the seating was restricted to have empty seats separating people.

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