Chris Johnson

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Retired airline pilot (UPS 1990-2020), cryptography (not to be confused with cryptocurrency) enthusiast.
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It’d be interesting to know what Jeffery Goldberg lists as his own name in his Signal profile. He sees his own membership in the group as “You,” but other members of the group would see whatever name he has in his profile.

Jeffery Goldberg said in his article that he was shown in the group only as JG, but it shows JG in the circle because he doesn’t have a profile picture, and Signal uses your initials as a default profile picture. The other members of the group would see the name in his profile, which could be Jeffery Goldberg, Jeff G., J.G., or anything else with the initials J and G.

The point is that the article says he was identified only as JG, which led people to speculate as to who the other participants thought this mysterious JG was. But we actually don’t know what the other participants saw on their end. Was it just JG? Or was it his full name that somehow nobody noticed?

#signal #signalgate

This massive moth has been hanging on to my window all day.
I just came across this CAPTCHA. I must be a robot, because I have no idea what to make of it. Which is the sample image? What the fuck does any of this mean? Is it just me?

After four years, I finally lost my COVID virginity. I started noticing symptoms Tuesday evening, and by Wednesday morning I had a positive test.

It’s been interesting watching my vitals, as tracked by my Apple Watch. I have an Apple Watch on 24 hours a day.

In red is my resting heart rate, which was 47 the day before I noticed symptoms and is 60 three days later. In blue is my average sleeping respiratory rate, which increased from 12.3 breaths per minute to 14.3. And in purple is my sleeping wrist temperature, which was 1.3F above baseline last night. I really don’t have much of a fever—my forehead thermometer says 98.6—but there was a measurable increase.

My heart rate variability has increased over the last few days, which is the opposite of what I would have expected. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’ve been participating in the Scripps DETECT study for several years (https://detect.scripps.edu). You give them permission to see your vital stat history and report symptoms and diagnoses to them, and they use that to find correlations between the data and COVID and other respiratory diseases. It works with Apple Watch and Fitbit data.

I like how every article telling you not to be an idiot and look directly at the sun during the eclipse uses this picture.
Four years ago today I landed in Shenzhen, China. Almost every Chinese person I saw was wearing full head-to-toe protective gear, including the guy who delivered room service to my hotel room.
Oh boy! Signal’s long-awaited implementation of usernames has arrived. Now you can communicate using Signal without giving out your phone number.
I’m posting this picture I took ages ago in Lima, Peru, just to test @IceCubesApp’s new AI-powered alt text generator. It did better than I would have done!
A hawk visited my balcony this morning. That’s a first.
I did some bird watching at Trader Joe’s the other day.