I'm taking a mail-order sleep study and tonight I unpacked all the gear and read the instructions. Hardware-wise everything seems fine; a few instructions could use clarification but overall it seems like a decent piece of diagnostic medical telemetry kit.

And there's an app.

I so want every MBA and app developer who voluntarily adds Facebook pixels and Google Analytics trash to every fucking product to be dragged up the side of an active volcano behind a Land Rover and unceremoniously chucked into the crater. Could I just get medical diagnostics without you sharing everything with your 867 closest personal affiliates? Is there one single thing you won't enshittify?

Why do we suffer you to live?

I imagine a team of biomedical engineers, physicians, and researchers developing amazing medical hardware that can do a lot of good, hardware that is immediately siezed and handed to their baboon and remora masters. Another press to squeeze out the last drop of blood from this turnip.

This is the most uplifting news I have read all week:

Czech has found — hold the phone — 800,000 artillery shells to send to Ukraine. This is more than the entire EU shell delivery the last 12 months.

Spring is coming!!!

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/17/7442341/

#cybersecurity zealots often shame humans for writing down their passwords, but as someone who just had to excavate the digital remains of a loved one who died suddenly:

*please* write down your credentials somewhere a trusted human can find them, especially your phone passcode and any primary passwords (like for email accounts, password manager, etc.)

the humans who care about you will need that access for many reasons; a "badass" threat model will only add helplessness to their grief