Assorted ramblings
Recently I've been backing up some iPhone photos. These photos have been in the HEIC format and that was not supported by Image Viewer and this made it hard to review them.
It was possible to get this to work by installing a missing package:
$ sudo apt install heif-gdk-pixbuf
After installing this I could see these photos in the Gnome Image Viewer application.
Seeing how a population shops can tell you a lot about that population.
Travel mode as a feature on dating apps is just a clear cut example of a tragedy of the commons situation mixed with straight up fraud. Overall this has degraded the experience on these apps enormously, we just don't see the fraction of overseas accounts easily because the algorithms that run the stack of profiles do a good job of hiding this ugly reality.
There's a big solar eclipse today, many people will be focused on this event so expect psychological changes to pop up.
Don't pay for dating apps, if you aren't getting matches you need to improve your profile first before you consider spending any money.
AI image manipulations will fundamentally change the online dating landscape when they go mainstream. I predict that the swipe-left/swipe-right based dating platforms will be hit the hardest. This change is coming soon since companies are starting to aggressively target their AI image augmentation services on social media advertisements right now, with some AI companies explicitly targeting people making dating profiles in their advertising.
The state of "educational" offerings in Australia gets more and more dismal by the year. A recent development in this race to the bottom is the emergence of targeted advertisements on social media that are encouraging and manipulating unsuspecting people to enroll in courses that will never provide a positive return on investment to those who enrol.
How should we think about accounting for commodities? While pricing things in dollars is often taken for granted should it be? Should we be thinking about value in terms of volume or tonnage of commodities instead?
Lately I've seen a huge rise in the number of people getting pets. I wonder if this is in part because people are not in relationships. I also wonder if this is becoming an impediment to people entering into relationships.
Here's a command I've been using to find the temperature of some of the hardware I've bene running from the command line.