Chris Hodges

@ruari My sole public-facing website is a GPX file visualiser. When I made it public I added a privacy statement: "Privacy: I don't set any cookies, or store any data. All processing is done in your browser so I have no access to your routes " It's easy, unless you come from the position that screwing fractional cents out of every page load is a business model

@rndeon @pluralistic Now I wonder if anyone has ever assessed the emissions savings from script- and ad-blocking

@nerdbear@masto.ai @mclare@recurse.social The (Android-only) bike computer app I use was a one-off payment costing around 1-2 coffees, to a real human. I was happy to pay that, but don't do subscriptions, and especially not for apps (I mean at all - my only recurring payments are taxes and necessary bills)

@nerdbear@masto.ai @mclare@recurse.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Yes, I wasted far too long trying to extract data from an old fitbit. When I gave up I bought a cheap bluetooth heart rate sensor and use that with an Android bike computer app that doesn't want to invade your privacy. It was developed by one guy, an engineer, who built the sort of thing he wanted to use, and runs totally offline if you want. Sadly I think he might have retired from updating it; it might be a reason to keep my old phone un-updated and offline

@itsfoss I thought it was bad last year. Then they found something worse than Teams.

@marcel@waldvogel.family @tris@namtao.com @dinandmentink@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr @TechConnectify@mas.to crappy encapsulants now mainly found on mini panels for things like garden lighting. But this post has made me think about second-lifing even some of those mini panels to charge stuff by connecting them all in series and hooking up a cheap buck converter circuit

@qbe @csepp @beecycling @TheBreadmonkey Have you seen the typical "professional" taxi or delivery van driver in most places? The ones round here are bringing the average standard down.

@marcel@waldvogel.family @tris@namtao.com @dinandmentink@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr @TechConnectify@mas.to Meanwhile my rooftop panels should reach their 10th MWh in a few weeks (25 months after installation)

@nerdbear@masto.ai @mclare@recurse.social My only experience of Polar was with analogue chest strap HR monitors that you could only read on the watch that came with them, and I've resisted any form of smartwatch. With Garmin I suspect you could download a .FIT and pass it through GPSbabel, but only after setting up the device via an account. But I've been using my phone to navigate long-distance cycling for years now; OSMand looks like it would do the job if my current choice stops

@Oldfartrant@mstdn.ca @eric@social.coop Well, @pluralistic@mamot.fr certainly told them so. The article says they laid off their graybeards* - exactly those people with the process knowledge AI can't capture., and what Cory has been cautioning us about for quite a while.

• We clearly need a better, non-sexist term

@ildiavolorosso@sfba.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr We had something similar here in the UK with Karrimor. I've still got two (an expedition backpack and a large daysack) from the 90s/early 2000s going strong, and all their stuff was that solid then. A more recent one is far less well made, and a bit cheaper. Basically useless for hiking from new - I've had really cheap no-name stuff from eBay that's better - and even just used for trips to the shops it's suffered. Being bought by Sports Direct was a big factor

@eric@social.coop @Oldfartrant@mstdn.ca @pluralistic@mamot.fr Nice idea, but for me it doesn't work here. It's possible to be a specialist but not very experienced, and experience is what counts. But more importantly, "specialist" implies a narrowness when often it's precisely the breadth of knowledge that counts. So much of this crucial knowledge is at the interface between specialities that we need a specialist in knowing a bit of everything (and often, knowing exactly who to talk to for more depth)